Truckers, lets see your rigs!

[biggy238]

Originally Posted by SmokinCAT

While the 24M is a big bastard the C18 in it is only listed at 533hp. It seems that the equipment engines are never really rated as high as the plain industrial engines, take the D10 dozer, at 610hp it could have a C15 or a C18 in it yet they choose to use a C27.

I think the ratings are greatly affected by the necessity for the engine to rev VS constant RPM.

Both "my" 836g's are ~500hp. I figured the 24m was close.

I dunno what the logic is on the paint. I've had 31 33 3400's in white. No c32 or c27 though.

My very first industrial job was a 3126a in a track drill. White as CAT made it.

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[SmokinCAT]

Just going by what cat has them listed as. Haven't seen and C18 rated over 800hp outside of the boat engines.

[1-5-3-6-2-4]

The drilling rig was for sure over that. Might have been 938 or something. Had a 6000 series Allison behind it. Oilfield applications are always high. Engines on frac units. Rate a 3516 at 2250hp. And they don't run emergency shutdowns. It's more cost effective to run the engines to destruction than have one shutdown during a job and lose the well.

[biggy238]

Originally Posted by Mr.T

I got the chance to play in a 24M and a D10T once, its a feeling no normal human can comprehend, all that raw power at your fingertips

Its sexy as hell to have 100k plus move under its own power, let alone tear through other stuff at your control.

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[1-5-3-6-2-4]

D11T are 230,000lbs. In our mine spec.

[1-5-3-6-2-4]

I love sitting on a ball of power as blasting through stuff in the mine......... I get to call it "testing"

[Lamont_24]

Hate to say this but everyone who's out there driving make sure you're paying attention, today a guy I knew was driving a hopper bottom for my friends farm and blew a tire and never tried to stop and somehow flipped and slid into a tree. Driver wasn't able to make it. They're also saying he might have had a heart attack and passed out too. But the motor is 100 feet from the truck

[biggy238]

Originally Posted by 1-5-3-6-2-4

D11T are 230,000lbs. In our mine spec.

Seems like our last R wasnt real far from that.

Highest rated engine I have gotten to touch was top end overhauls on 3612's at 5200hp per engine.

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[Mr.T]

Sorry to hear about your friend, that **** can happen to anyone, no matter how much experience you have or don't have....this is a personal friend of mine, a car drifted into his lane and caused this one

[Mr.T]

The herd bumper on that truck saved both the 4 Wheeler's life, as well as my Buddy's, without that bumper the car would have gone under the truck and probably killed em both

[1-5-3-6-2-4]

Originally Posted by biggy238

Seems like our last R wasnt real far from that.

Highest rated engine I have gotten to touch was top end overhauls on 3612's at 5200hp per engine.

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Ya the 3600 series are big boy prime power. Our haul trucks are now running C175s at 4500hp.

[1-5-3-6-2-4]

Originally Posted by Mr.T

The herd bumper on that truck saved both the 4 Wheeler's life, as well as my Buddy's, without that bumper the car would have gone under the truck and probably killed em both

Sorry to hear about the wrecks boys.

Hate to hear stories like that.

[Lamont_24]

It sucks but there's nothing you can do about it

[Lamont_24]

Originally Posted by Mr.T

Sorry to hear about your friend, that **** can happen to anyone, no matter how much experience you have or don't have....this is a personal friend of mine, a car drifted into his lane and caused this one

Yeah, that truck looks like it would've been in a lot worse condition if it wasn't for that bumper

[biggy238]

Originally Posted by 1-5-3-6-2-4

Ya the 3600 series are big boy prime power. Our haul trucks are now running C175s at 4500hp.

Are they mono block or two structures mated? I know I saw the CAD rendering of the two V8 engine structures combined back in 08/09

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[1-5-3-6-2-4]

The c175? Is a monoblock. It replaces the 3524 dual block engine in all new 797 haul trucks. An some older trucks are being repowered with them as well.

[mpeters0991]

Originally Posted by Mr.T

Sorry to hear about your friend, that **** can happen to anyone, no matter how much experience you have or don't have....this is a personal friend of mine, a car drifted into his lane and caused this one

Since we are talking about wrecks, please also make sure you stop at railroad crossings and make sure trains aren't coming and please for the love of God don't try and beat the train. I'm a locomotive engineer and 4 days ago the train ahead of me had a truck try and beat them and they hit him at 45mph, last I knew the guy was in really bad shape. I can speak from experience its not fun to hit someone whether you end up killing them or just really hurting them. I can tell you everyone I have come close to hitting or have hit I can remember the last look on their face.

[Mr.T]

Trains are never a joke, just the locomotive alone weighs more than I do loaded.

[Lamont_24]

Literally just read about that tonight in the CDL manual. Just weird ha

[revolutiondsl]

Originally Posted by 1-5-3-6-2-4

Ya the 3600 series are big boy prime power. Our haul trucks are now running C175s at 4500hp.

I worked at cat and built the 3600s they are impressive. We had a 16 cylinder front mount turbo with the big napier turbos on it make over 9000 hp and 50,000 lb ft of torque at 950 rpm. They don't make that much usually but it was getting having some programming issues and dumping fuel early. They use 300+ gallons per hour under load.