Tightening haul truck lug nuts - GIF

[Altair]

Tightening haul truck lug nuts.




Previously:

Haul truck wheel hub - photo
Hood ladder on Volvo haul truck - GIF
Hoisting a haul truck engine - GIF
Haul truck tires being transported - GIF
Assembling a giant haul truck bucket - GIF and video

[IntheGroove]

Michelin could make a trucks worth of those tires and take the rest of the year off...

[Frank S]

Going to need a new rattle gun by the time he gets all four wheels done

[Gadgeteer]

The guy turning the wheel is going to be tired out.

[Toolmaker51]

Ya missed one.....

[IntheGroove]

Then they gotta chain it up...

[cubcouper]

I've written a bunch of software for a couple of the coal mines here in Wyoming that use these trucks.

Fun fact... each tire has its own built in website. The mine Tire Manager gets alerts from the tires whenever the operators do anything that might shorten the tire life... like going around a corner too fast (10mph instead of 7!). Loading coal on the front vs the back of the haul truck change change the tire temperature a bunch, so they monitor that to manager the shovel operators that load the trucks.

[Frank S]

I've written a bunch of software for a couple of the coal mines here in Wyoming that use these trucks.

Fun fact... each tire has its own built in website. The mine Tire Manager gets alerts from the tires whenever the operators do anything that might shorten the tire life... like going around a corner too fast (10mph instead of 7!). Loading coal on the front vs the back of the haul truck change change the tire temperature a bunch, so they monitor that to manager the shovel operators that load the trucks.

And when the trucks were sent to a rebuild shop like the one I used to work at every one of them looked like they had been used as battering rams or were the losers of a demolition derby
a much smaller truck than is normally used today

after many hours of making and or straightening panels

[Hoosiersmoker]

I want to see the jack holding that thing up.

[Frank S]

I want to see the jack holding that thing up.

Most likely a 100 ton Enerpac ram with either electric or air powered pump then sat on 12x12x24 oak blocks stacked in a 24x24 square pattern as a cribbing safety stand. A place I worked at had 100 ton safety stands but they were only used in conjunction with blocking. Our practice was never support steel on steel unless it is welded in place and never 2 block high unless you make a cribbing stack out of it