Mohacsy's Safe Portfolio Member Forum

[elena_murooni]

These are expensive little (?) guys. We had 4 Euclids operating in an underground mine in the early '80's (limestone: mine was 122 acres, 147 feet below ground, floor to ceiling depth of 47 feet). We blasted daily @ 4:00pm. & the Euclids carried out the limestone on a semi-curved road & brought it to the crusher on the surface. Our tire bills were horrendous. We all looked "height challenged" when we stood next to the tires.

An engineer worked on the curves in the road & straigtened them out only fractional degrees. The result? We cut our tire bills 92%. Amazing, but the quantity of material these units move is incredible & the more curves in the route, the higher the cost of operation.

I wonder how much money (in weight) they would hold? Even more so--> how many tires would we use finding out???