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Hey guys,

I started my new job not to long ago at Thomson Metals + Disposal. Its not a bad job I get to inspect trucks, work lots of overtime and best of all............ run this bad boy ;)



That there is 126,000lbs of pure steel loaded with A/C, 50 foot reach, a magnet strong enough to lift just about anything and a Cat Acert Technology C13 pushing 345hp and over 500ft/lbs of torque under the hood ;). Boo yeah, top speed is a whooping 6mph too ;)
I was just assigned this machine this week and had the need to express :lol:

Any other heavy equipment junkies on this site?

i knew it was something like this or a camaro!! :lol:

Looks like lots of fun

Burnin21,Jul 10 2007, 07:01 PM Wrote:Any other heavy equipment junkies on this site?
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I work in Purchasing at a Mining Contractor. We buy stuff like these:

Sandvik Tamrock Jumbo Drills


Sure is cool to see how big these suckers are in person.

I like big toys like that.

I'd like to try the magnet on track thing.. that must be cool to swing stuff around...

Yeah, I get to operate some cool stuff in the military, but nothing like that...looks like fun :)

The 345 is a blast I must say. You know whats funny? Sandvik Tamrock is right around the corner from my work and we receive TONNES of scrap from them. I've had a tour of their plant, its pretty cool actually :)
With this thing you can toss stuff every where, a 4000lb Pickup doesnt even make the hydralics flinch.

That's a sweet piece of machinery. I'll email you a list of people I want flung far, far away with that :D

does it have a lot of buttons and switches!?!? :lol:

lol wow & congrats on the new job lol.

Spinal,Jul 12 2007, 02:03 PM Wrote:does it have a lot of buttons and switches!?!? :lol:
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Yes there are nothing BUT tonnes of buttons and switches :P