'Shut it you Slag!' Yells Biglorryblog whilst skidding to a halt in his err... KAMAG 'Slag Pot Carrier' and what a fine beast it is. With a 90-tonne tare weight and 100-tonne payload this is obviously no lightweight (as you can see from this picture of it here being craned onto its transport ready to be shipped to a steel mill in Seoul in Korea. (Sdorty of a Korea progression you might say...?) Anyroad up, it will be used for the disposal of liquid slag which as we all know is a by-product within a steel producing plant. Unfortunately, the slag is rather 'warm' (i.e. up to 1,300°C) and very aggressive. 'Oii! Are you looking at my bird?' Therefore, the slag pot transporter must (in the words of KAMAG) 'Be extremely reliable in order to manage the challenging mission of carrying the liquid slag in special slag pots to the dumpsite.'
Now click through here for more mighty KAMAG machines on their way to Korea!
Not, as you might think, a new low flying 'lifting body' but it's one of KAMAG's ship transporters, used to carry built-up section of ships and also bound for a Korean shipyard. With a load deck measuring 23.3 x 6.6 m it's got a bigger footprint than your average family home (or mine at least) and if that's not enough he can carry a section of ship weighing up to 518 tons. With its tare weight of 96.5 tons it grosses out at a massive 614.5 tons 'road ready.' Which is probably why it needs 64 wheels mounted to 16 pendulum axle wheel sets.
The good news is that, according to KAMAG, 'The electronic multiway steering makes the platform transporter maneuverable like a compact vehicle. It can turn around within its own length under full load - or shift diagonally, sideways or crossways whatever you fancy. A steering electronic unit controls each single pendulum axle wheel set with the hydrostatic drive system keeping things nice and smooth. Especially when two ship sections are being put together and precision is the key. A 518hp diesel engine drives the hydraulic pumps, which supply the wheel motors in the pendulum axles with pressured oil." So now you know and for the record together both vehicles tipped the scales at 186 tons.
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