FAIL: When A 400 Ton-Haul Truck Tries To Carry 600 Tons
A Caterpillar 797 Mining Truck costs $3.4 million, weighs 1.38 million lbs., has a 3,370 HP engine and can carry 363 tons. What happens when one tries to carry 600 tons?
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That’s pretty scary. I wonder how the handle this situation? Truck to rather large to service ‘in the field’ and it might be a loss anyway. Also wonder how a truck this large cannot handled the weight of a load of gravel, for which this was designed? Surely the engineers that designed this vehicle anticipated the maximum weight capacities of a full load of gravel/earth. Its not as if this was trying to carry blocks of heavy lead and collapsed.
In that last image, -is that diesel fuel leaking out? Opps!
I work on CAT equipment for a living and can say that it probably broke due to repeated stress. The frames in those trucks can sometimes develop cracks and if not caught early on you get a failure like this. Im sure it was also overloaded many times over, if you do that it makes the chances of cracks even more. I cant say if it is a loss or not. I have seen some pretty amazing repairs on these trucks. The is probably either engine oil, hydraulic oil or engine coolant in the last two pics. The engine sits right behind the struts and im sure they pinched or broke something when they came off. Also could have easily busted the radiator when it slammed on its nose.
Actually they are ONLY serviced in the field, they are to big to transport. They put them together on site from several large pieces. They’ll be able to fix it fairly easy. Those wheels house the electric motors, what ever holds the wheels on the truck just snapped.
I think it’s hydraulic fluid actually.
@Joel: “Its not as if this was trying to carry blocks of heavy lead and collapsed.” 600 tons of lead weighs the same as 600 tons of gravel, which is 200 more tons than this truck could carry. You are Sofa King Re: Todd Ed.
Talk bout negative camber!
Joel: are you a fucking retard? First off, your comment is barely legible. Please look over this thing called “grammar”.
Secondly, did you actually read the text at the top? You know, that little piece of information about how the truck was rated at 400 tons but some jackass tried loading it with 600 tons? I’m guessing you didn’t read it, and instead just pulled out your great big idiocy and commented anyway.
Well you dont see that every day!! O.o
That is a huge truck! I just hope no one got hurt from this miscalculation.