Have driven one of these...a couple of times.
Had to replace the seals in the wheels as they didn't do so good at 30C as they did in Antarctica..got a couple of test runs out of it. Back when I was in transmission.
And one very similar to this
When I started in generation.
Actually, it was amazing the latter that they'd let a 26 year old engineer drive a single contingency vehicle that was intended to take 100% of the ash from the power station.
(That whole idea ended up being ridiculous, and they ended up with smaller capacity articulated off the shelf mine vehicles, with a reduced density higher volume tray (ash is lighter than dirt). Three of them, 2.2 required 24/7 which allowed diversions and downtime.
Had to replace the seals in the wheels as they didn't do so good at 30C as they did in Antarctica..got a couple of test runs out of it. Back when I was in transmission.
And one very similar to this
When I started in generation.
Actually, it was amazing the latter that they'd let a 26 year old engineer drive a single contingency vehicle that was intended to take 100% of the ash from the power station.
(That whole idea ended up being ridiculous, and they ended up with smaller capacity articulated off the shelf mine vehicles, with a reduced density higher volume tray (ash is lighter than dirt). Three of them, 2.2 required 24/7 which allowed diversions and downtime.