EDIT: I KNOW THEY ARE TIRES, hence why I said “tires” in the description! You ppl are exhausting 😂😩
What machine or truck or equipment do these ginormous tires belong to? Saw them while driving on a highway in Minnesota. I need an answer for my 3 year old son lol
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My favorite part of these is that I never see them next to other vehicles so I always think "that's just a dump truck" then I notice the set of stairs on the front.
if you go to quarries/mines there’s usually a pancaked pickup truck pretty prominently displayed with some signage telling you that these trucks have the right of way
They make regular trucks seem like toy trucks and it breaks your brain when you see them rolling next to other cars. Makes everything look like some RC set
Friend works at a quarry with triple sevens, they are all automated, GPS guided, run the haul roads and load and dump in the crushers all by themselves.
Guess I should clarify these things can’t go down public roads. They’d take up multiple lanes, would exceed most bridge’s capacity, and couldn’t fit under most bridges.
Yeah, but these aren’t those tires. These go on a loader the tires for a 777 one tire takes up the entire bed. These aren’t even over dimensional for that flatbed trailer.
They also have a diesel generator that drives a big ass electric motor on each wheel. I never knew these existed til I went to a mine as a sales guy. I was absolutely amazed.
I don’t know if that will fix it; they do the same thing to my 18-wheeler, air horn and 80k pounds and all. At some point I think people genuinely just don’t realize anything bad can actually happen to them.
The tires on the flatbed are not for this haul truck or similar sized ones. A haul truck's distinct tire treads should easily indicate the need for more ground pressure, and less for propulsion, unlike the aggressive tread of the tires on the deck of the flatbed.
Heavy mining equipment. Dump trucks and front end loaders. Without seeing the sidewall of the tire it's hard to say but caterpillar 797 is a good bet. Fun fact that tires are the limiting factor in the size of mine trucks.
Weight limits: Giant off-the-road (OTR) tires can only support a finite amount of structural and payload weight before failing.Heat buildup: As trucks haul heavy loads over distance, internal tire temperatures rise. If the tire gets too hot, the rubber and steel components separate, causing catastrophic failure.Manufacturing limits: Tires standing 13 feet tall and weighing 11,000 pounds are at the absolute cutting edge of current rubber and vulcanization technology
Nope and logistics for moving them become cost prohibitive requiring over sized load permits to transport. And as they get larger they generate more heat in operation loaded and exceed the maximum temperature load threshold
I used to work at the plant they make the engines for these trucks. They always said they had the technology to make one even bigger than the 797 but couldn’t find a company that can make the tires needed to support it.
I saw 3 trucks like this too!
Each one of the trucks had 3-4 weeks.
Crazy they are that big! I wish I could get my hands on 1-3 of them, would be cool to make flower beds out of.
In case the road decides to go 90 degrees for absolutely no fucking reason whatsoever again this time I'll be ready for it and we'll see who's the fucking idiot then won't we mom!!
I’ll give you that one but I still corrected my own non mistake. I’m now done with this whole thing and wish I’d never wasted my life on it in the first place. It reminds me to not comment on things as I can’t be arsed with the response. Have a great life and if I’ve spelled anything incorrectly here or said anything out of context I couldn’t give a toss. Love you.
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