@ke6gwf You use both engine to get up to speed then you just use the front engine. We have 637 were I'm working. We need to fuel them twice a day but we move a shit load of dirt.
Here in the states, the most common I see on jobsites are single-engine, but that's because there are more small jobs that don't need a dual.
There are a lot of CAT 637 and 657 twin-engine scrapers around, but you usually see them on the jobs with more dirt to move. And then you have them chaining up for Push-Pull.
I am guessing you have mostly that type of job up north there, eh?
Remember that if you are hauling a long distance, having 2 engines doubles your cost for the haul!
@FUCKINROCKIT this is quite odd. the only buggies I've ever seen, or at least the ones we have here in Saskatchewan have dual engines. one for the front drive axle, and another engine for the rear drive axle.
@ke6gwf You use both engine to get up to speed then you just use the front engine. We have 637 were I'm working. We need to fuel them twice a day but we move a shit load of dirt.
toutnu 9 months ago
@ke6gwf yea, i am up here in Saskatchewan. where we have less than a million people, and huge GRADERS (lol saskatchewan roads gravel roads)
DevinL16 1 year ago
@DevinL16
Here in the states, the most common I see on jobsites are single-engine, but that's because there are more small jobs that don't need a dual.
There are a lot of CAT 637 and 657 twin-engine scrapers around, but you usually see them on the jobs with more dirt to move. And then you have them chaining up for Push-Pull.
I am guessing you have mostly that type of job up north there, eh?
Remember that if you are hauling a long distance, having 2 engines doubles your cost for the haul!
ke6gwf 1 year ago
@quiksilverjd
From the looks of the surroundings, I am going to guess that is a Scraper stock pile.
In other words, a long narrow pile dumped there by scrapers, and now they are using scrapers to place it where it's needed.
Since the pile would be higher in the middle, you are going to be going uphill either way you go.
If you notice the foreground, it looks like a flat farm field, implying there are no natural hills!
ke6gwf 1 year ago 2
@FUCKINROCKIT this is quite odd. the only buggies I've ever seen, or at least the ones we have here in Saskatchewan have dual engines. one for the front drive axle, and another engine for the rear drive axle.
DevinL16 2 years ago
No traction I guess.
mhlpn 3 years ago
why would that dozer run his cut up hill?
quiksilverjd 3 years ago