Large Haul job: TD Ram not good enough

[David Oxland]

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This is one of a few photos of a haul job in Alberta. If I get it to post I'll get the rest posted

David

 

[rkressg]

Can you try and re-post, the image did not attach

-Rich

 

[David Oxland]

Ok; Dumb Canuck finally got head around attachment methodology.

There are three more photos I'll try them in next post

I can't affirm the claims for the #'s or words but this note was attached.







David





"Suncor coker enroute to FtMcmurray (Largest load ever transported in North

America)

You may need to brighten the photos in the editing to see more clearly.

The largest load ever transported in North America. This load was just

outside of Ft. Mac Sunday evening and Tuesday at 6:30am it was about 20/km

from the Suncore site.

It most likely will not make it there today.

On Saturday it was between Wandering River and Mariana Lakes. - travels

10 - 15 KMH - seven Premax tractors - three pulling and four pushing -

most tractors were tri-axle - 1. 7 million

pounds. "

 

[David Oxland]

Also I got this reply from another friend who was flying in the area relating the this haul job











"I was in Fort McMurray on an overnight when this operation was going on. Saw the whole thing live. Man it was huge. I believe the tractors for this job were one of a kind. One of the foremen on the job told me just the trailer and jacking equipment cost 1 million. Very impressive operation. You would not believe the money being spent in that town. One Friday, about three weeks ago they had a huge crew change take place. We were flying our butts off trying to keep up. There were four or five different airlines chartering that day. Just on Jazz my airline, we lifted over 600 passengers between 06:00 and 10:00 using only dash eights. The only problem was trying not to hit each other taxiing on the ramp. It was a nightmare. At one point we had 4 dash 300’s, 2 737’s, an MD80, several jetstreams and all sorts of small stuff crammed in together.

Regards

Andre"

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

AH JEEZE - where's Sledpuller when ya need him...



HEY GENE!

 

[fkovalski]

Are the tractors in the back "stacked" in series to push the load?

 

[David Oxland]

Sorry, don't know any more about the job at all

 

[Fireman]

WOW! There is an outfit near me that specializes in oversize hauling, but I aint ever seen anything that BIG being hauled.



Fireman

 

[knewman]

look what i found

hey guys go to this site to get some details on that load

http://www.mullen-trans.com/

 

[Turbo Thom]

I'd like to see the new plane that carrys that bomb. 8 C-130s flying in formation. WOW.



. . Preston. .

 

[HeavyHauler]

I don't want to sound too ignorant here, but can anyone tell me exactly what that is?

 

[David Oxland]

There is a bit of a write up about it here. This is part of the machinery used for separation, I believe.



http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/102spring2002_Web_projects/M.Sexton/



and



http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/t/ta/tar_sands.htm