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Rowan, you chose the right word - sensational!. Hopefully redredred will indeed fill in the details because I'd love to know the weight of the load etc. Thanks to you both. 
Scania V8. The best sounding truck in the world.
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very smart even though i'm not a fan of bonneted trucks 
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Nice... I'd like to see a video of that.
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The 2 x KW are 501 brutes both 610hp Cat powered both 18 speed with the one on the trailer a 2 speed joey and the 2nd one a 4 speed joey.. The Mack Titan is a new one 11.000 k on the clock.Powered by a 600 Cummins 18 x2 gears and a big Volvo rear end.On the back there was an older Titan(on the front in the 3rdpic helping to pull over a very steep pinch in the road)) and another KW cummins powered with a MAN rear end.The trailers were Nicholas and the beams were built by Rex Andrews in Sydney.The Blue Mack is a local tow operator .It says 375 hp on the truck but it is a 525hp V8 Mack motor(the way it gos it probably more). The other trucks dwarf it in size but not in style.
The load is a 250 tonne transformer ex Brisbane.The pics were taken West of Sydney over the Blue Mountains on the last day of their week long trip over 1100 ks.All up weight about 550 tonne.
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bruce2 wrote:very smart even though i'm not a fan of bonneted trucks There is a cab over for you there.The KW B Double coming up the in side in the last one.
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DPD1 wrote:Nice... I'd like to see a video of that. I was luck this time .The girlfriend came for a drive and part of the deal that she comes is that she has to work her passage.And that is make videos.She shot about an hour for me.Good Girl. I shot a couple with my camera.Like you do .One was a video of the V8 pulling up the hill towards us .I got the vision but I was standing beside my car while making it and all the I got in the sound was the Diesel noise from my Jeep.
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TFS, I know the C501's are big but boy looking at these pics the Muswellbrook Cranes Titan seems to dwarf the big Bradshaws Kenny's. Wouldve loved to have heard these pull up those hills. Excelent pics as always Red.
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It was a big day.That will be the last big trannie going in there for a year or two but there is a lot coming up around your way with the new freeway const starting up (lotsa beams)and a new coal loader at Kooragang.
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Red last year when Rex Andrews moved that huge conveyor section from Kurri to Kooragang did you happen to get pics of it being lifted into position?
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I got pics of the move from Kurri to Koragang but never got back for the lift.
Found some pics the other day of Melrose 450 and Gillespies 400 lifting a 165 t vessel off a barge. They are cool.Forgot I had em.
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They'd be some nice pics to see. The reason I asked is because they used a the 750 tonne Lampson Crane to install it across the road to feed the bin that the company I work for fabricated and installed. A mate of mine was working there but not when the section was lifted.
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I got a pic of the crane the day before sitting there.There was a lot of Lampson cranes of that sire.Blue booms everywhere.
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Robert Heuston wrote:They'd be some nice pics to see. The reason I asked is because they used a the 750 tonne Lampson Crane to install it across the road to feed the bin that the company I work for fabricated and installed. A mate of mine was working there but not when the section was lifted. They will probably appear in Truckin life early next year.
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Yeah it's huge, I was there when they were putting the counterweight on the dolly on the morning after the move, I also spotted the section at kooragang wen they pulled for the day
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that is awesome boys ... 
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Im thinking these would've heading to Mangoola Coal west of Muswellbrook.
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Yep, that would be it, still 2 93,s in Parra and a 24M to go.
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WOW these are some of the best pics i have ever seen fantastic i just love those big aussie rigs im a cab over man myself but the bonneted australian monsters are the buisness thanks for the most exciting post in a long time
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