Transporting a tracked excavator on dollies - GIF

[ToolTalkBot]

Transporting a tracked excavator on dollies.




Previously:

Excavator chimney demolition gone wrong - GIF
Excavator helping elephant out of ditch - GIF
Excavator packs up its own attachments - GIF
Guy lifts up excavator with one hand - GIF
Komatsu micro excavator - GIF
Loading posts with an excavator - GIF

[Frank S]

On large mine sites these dollies are a must. For saving time and wear on the on the excavator. They used similar dollies in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for moving their oil drill rigs Saving weeks of tear down and re assembly when moving from one bore site to the next. Back in the 1980s we moved drilling rigs after skidding the rig away from the hole, two gin pole trucks would be driven or backed two under the center of the substructure laying the derrick down with the crown resting on a structure mounted on a 3rd truck, then we drove the couple 100 yards or few miles to the next place we were going to drill another well.

[desbromilow]

There is another thread on this site talking about these Sleipner systems.

[hemmjo]

Interesting stuff..

I searched for "Sleipner" The first result is about... " In Norse mythology, Sleipnir is an eight-legged horse ridden by Odin, a widely revered god in Germanic paganism."

Then a little further down the list there is this. https://sleipner.com/about-us/. You can see where they got their name.