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Tightening haul truck lug nuts.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...900#post171488
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...509#post132112
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...134#post211012
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...913#post198740
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...103#post180156
Michelin could make a trucks worth of those tires and take the rest of the year off...
Going to need a new rattle gun by the time he gets all four wheels done
The guy turning the wheel is going to be tired out.
Ya missed one.....
Then they gotta chain it up...
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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 derbyQuote:
Originally Posted by cubcouper
a much smaller truck than is normally used today
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after many hours of making and or straightening panels
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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 itQuote:
Originally Posted by Hoosiersmoker
Some places, standard cribbing translates into cinder blocks. WT and any of several third letters.
Last fall, a pick up on blocks 3 high, all 4 corners (!), no tires. Some kind of project, perched that way whole 3 months I was there. Maybe no one ever under it, but still. Should have snagged a pic, a bit too much traffic.
Steel on steel, often an accident waiting to happen, such as plain cup of a floor jack on giant K member of a full size front wheel drive.
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...jack-pad-74890
