Guess the mileage?

[Daox]

You pickup drivers got nothing on this guy. This recently pulled into our parking lot at work. The trailer is 200 ft (61 meters) long. A standard semi trailer is 75 feet long. It was shipped from New York to Milwaukee and took a week to get here. Good speed for reducing aero drag I guess.

[Lazarus]

What was he hauling?

[Daox]

A metal ring for a rock crusher. It acts as a roller on a huge drum that crushes rock. The other end of the drum gets a gear the same size. We had it shipped to us to turn it on a lathe. The place that cast it didn't have one big enough.

[xAguy]

Good lord...that thing is HUGE!!

[Lazarus]

5 mpg

[DifferentPointofView]

mm, big yes

[zjrog]

We see trailers like this from time ot time, only they have a puller and a pusher truck. If I know of one arriving beforehand, I'll take some pics. Not supposed to have cameras at work.

[Ryland]

I'm going to guess 2mpg, each axle can carry something like 10 tons or so right? and that trailer has 18 axles it looks like, and the last trailer that I saw like that had a pusher engine in the rear, pretty impressive, I would love to see the lath that part is turned on.

[Daox]

I'm not sure of the specifics on the trailer. In fact, I don't know what kinda mileage it got either. I just wanted to post the images haha.

Can do Ryland. Its a two story tall vertical lathe. It takes cuts of about 1 inch per rev. Cuts better than 40 foot diameters. Its very impressive. We actually hold the world record for largest gear made at 43 feet in diameter.

[johnpr]

wow, that is all so awesome, i have worked on a lathe at the school shop and couldnt imagine working with something that awesome.