Moved a few of these in my day. Your chaining will definitely pass DOT inspection. At first I’d say overkill, but you just cannot assume anything nowadays. You’re doing a good safe job and I’d hire you.
Hey Uncle Sergei, back in the old Wild West days on Staten Island N.Y. Before weight permits and scales, we would move our company's Caterpillar 245D with attached extra counterweight, weighing in at about 140,000 lbs on six axles. The machine on the trailer was so tall we had to boom down with the dipper and bucket extended out over the back of the trailer not chained down, with a man in the cab of the machine, which was running, to make adjustments to height and direction of the arm as we went down the road. We did disconnect some telephone wires from time to time, but pretty much trouble free local moves of less than 20 miles. I liked the "tail gunner " job.
I am amazed how clever human beings are. We are always designing tools and equipment to solve problems ; and then haulers like you come along and figure out how to safely move the massive thing to the next job. Good work Captain...as always. Be safe!
Thank you for sharing your securement techniques. I am a 1 year Flatbed driver with Maverick Transportation and it was my first time hauling a piece of machinery yesterday; 28,000lb JLG boom lift and because of your videos I watch,I had no trouble by God's Grace. Thx again.
I'm waiting to see how it is to drive with a jeep and a stinger. This seems to be one of the widest possible loads for that trailer. Any wider and you'd need a wider trailer just to be able to tie it down.
I saw a heavy hauler use wide hooks with short chains about 3 feet long for trailer side. I started doing it, it works great and is cheap and no one borrows or steals them cause there worthless for anything but chaining down mine are half inch with 10000 rating.
Was hoping to see the scale ticket to see how close your estimation was yesterday. Interested how it compares to the crane that was your previous heaviest load.
1/2" transport chains, I think '70'. all in know it's useless to go too high on the grade, because Fontaine refuses to rate their D-rings at more than 10K Lb WLL.
That load can certainly be called "Behemoth"..Will you be traveling at a much slower speed than your normal (57).. and how long have you anticipated it will take?????.. Just please be safe
@@jojawh Yes, I forgot about his story about digging moats around contaminated sites to fill them with concrete. Those tracks must've slogged through some horrible stuff, and the post-exposure chemical track washdowns must have been really toxic to the paint also. That machine has seen action on a trench warfare level including the mustard gas.
Moved a few of these in my day. Your chaining will definitely pass DOT inspection. At first I’d say overkill, but you just cannot assume anything nowadays. You’re doing a good safe job and I’d hire you.
Hey Uncle Sergei, back in the old Wild West days on Staten Island N.Y. Before weight permits and scales, we would move our company's Caterpillar 245D with attached extra counterweight, weighing in at about 140,000 lbs on six axles. The machine on the trailer was so tall we had to boom down with the dipper and bucket extended out over the back of the trailer not chained down, with a man in the cab of the machine, which was running, to make adjustments to height and direction of the arm as we went down the road. We did disconnect some telephone wires from time to time, but pretty much trouble free local moves of less than 20 miles. I liked the "tail gunner " job.
those were the days ;)
I am amazed how clever human beings are. We are always designing tools and equipment to solve problems ; and then haulers like you come along and figure out how to safely move the massive thing to the next job. Good work Captain...as always. Be safe!
Thanks for showing the tie down job!
Glad that you showed us the chaining process...impressive
Thank you for sharing your securement techniques. I am a 1 year Flatbed driver with Maverick Transportation and it was my first time hauling a piece of machinery yesterday; 28,000lb JLG boom lift and because of your videos I watch,I had no trouble by God's Grace. Thx again.
@David Drake I will have to look into ATS I appreciate the info 😉
@David Drake Absolutely bro thanks again
Wow ! Looks like 2/3 of the tracks are hanging off trailer. Great job in securing the load. Whips and chains are definitely an art form :-)
I'm waiting to see how it is to drive with a jeep and a stinger.
This seems to be one of the widest possible loads for that trailer. Any wider and you'd need a wider trailer just to be able to tie it down.
Been waiting for a video like this forever. Thank you.
This is why I love beam float trailers; lift and chain
they seem dangerous to me. if you don't properly center the load, off you go into the ditch!
I saw a heavy hauler use wide hooks with short chains about 3 feet long for trailer side. I started doing it, it works great and is cheap and no one borrows or steals them cause there worthless for anything but chaining down mine are half inch with 10000 rating.
Was hoping to see the scale ticket to see how close your estimation was yesterday. Interested how it compares to the crane that was your previous heaviest load.
Cool movie Sergei 👍👍
Thankyou as always.
Been there done that got the tee shirt.
Please be safe .
Them loads aint no joke.
Awesome job as always Captain! =)
Thanks. I have never lost a load, so I intend to keep it that way. The more chains the merrier ;)
@@HHTV60 100% agree ... the more the merrier and much safer! Plus, it is that time of year of giving. =)
@@HHTV60 I agree. I have used every chain I have on some stuff. One ounce prevention equals one pound cure right 👍
@George Vinson ahh, yes. Good thinking.
When i chain the neck down with long chain put binder on each side chain will stay tight
Nice job explaining and chaining down... thanks for video..👍👍👍🍺
Gd job captain years ago I spent too much time guessing weights pull toy here.
Cool.Thanks for the tips.
"The size of a small baby..." Lol
well explained sergei where is this one heading to ?
a mine in northern ontario.
Good job on chaining Serguei. What grade chains are you using?
1/2" transport chains, I think '70'. all in know it's useless to go too high on the grade, because Fontaine refuses to rate their D-rings at more than 10K Lb WLL.
That load can certainly be called "Behemoth"..Will you be traveling at a much slower speed than your normal (57).. and how long have you anticipated it will take?????.. Just please be safe
on a level road the 2,050 lf-ft 605 HP Cummins has no problems with this load; driving in 8H (18).
Do u ever work for stone trucking
no. probably because stones are called 'rocks' in USA and Canada ;)
When you have the Jeep and stinger what are you going to load on the deck that's bigger than that... LOL👍👍
something in the 60 ton range... that pays better than average, I hope... :)
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When i was a baby I was massive to (no no I was messy lol 😂
I wish I was that excavator! ;)
Is this a “super load“ ?
Depends on whether I have breakfast before starting to drive!
@@HHTV60 hahaha
on a serious note, each state is different. some consider any load with the gross over 120K a 'super load'.
live very close to where you loader excavator welcome to pa.
That’s a big a__machine . No problem , you got the motor. Pedal to the medal, hammer that throttle “ 👍😎
2 years old? How could modern-day painting fail so miserably? Isn't there supposed to be some rust-resistance built into these machines?
Also he said it was used in contaminated sites, might be some pretty nasty stuff that is hard on paint.
@@jojawh Yes, I forgot about his story about digging moats around contaminated sites to fill them with concrete. Those tracks must've slogged through some horrible stuff, and the post-exposure chemical track washdowns must have been really toxic to the paint also. That machine has seen action on a trench warfare level including the mustard gas.