Having recently featured the pictures of Pacific logging trucks working in New Zealand from Mariusz I thought it was about time Biglorryblog featured another couple of Pacifics--this time from Dennis Child, general manager at ROTRAN Multi-Axle, who works for the "extreme" heavy-haulage specialist in South Africa. As I've said before, Dennis has the best toy box in the world but he does look after his toys--of that there's no doubt. For example he's been slowly breathing life back into a couple of his venerable 'Ultra' Pacific heavy haulage tractors adding new engines and other drive line bits to them before putting everything back together with refurbished cabs and chassis (that's probably a gross understatement of all the work that's actually gone on but you get the picture). And here's the latest Phoenix from the ashes above--and that's what it looked like below just a short while ago.
And Dennis is not a man to hang around tiehr for no sooner was his baby finished he put it to work--in this case hauling a 153-ton transformer! Which it naturally handled with ease....
And for good measure here's a shot from Dennis of a herd of his beloved ROTRAN Ultra Pacifics wortking together on another job.
Now click through here for some REAL monsters from ROTRAN..and news of the some soon-to-be new arrivals..
FULL STEAM AHEAD CEM 265ton STATOR ON BOARD
They don't make them like they used to.
FULL STEAM AHEAD! Dennis tells me: " Here's 5,898hp roaring around South Africa! What you have here is seven (yes 7) Tractomas units in motion transporting some heavy loads over vast distances." The Tractomas tractors are built by Nicolas in France and Dennis signs of by saying: "Another five (5) Tractomas D75 (970hp) 8x8’s are in the manufacturing facility due for SA end August ’08, with another three (3) units on order with delivery planned at the end October ’09." And here's a shot of one of them in build already!
Dennis concludes: "By the end of 2010 – Tractomas units totally twenty-three (23) units will be part of the ROTRANS fleet with 21,418hp on tap! " See what I mean about having the best toy set in the world? And thanks Dennis!
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