Cop a Load of This

Thanks Paul....that looks sweet as. Imagine how awesome this'd be comin' along the road!!!!

Yes Fred,
It would look awesome on the road but I do not think any road authority would be happy with three crawler tractors on their road :whistle:

Morris, l actually posted for the wrong one.....l meant the Mecho Atkinstien that Paul put up, but if they could get away with the Bell one, that'd be good as well!!!

https://www.atomicheritage.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Jumbo%20on%20trailer%20at%20Pope.%20Loading%20crew%20standing%20by..jpg?itok=lBfy20GL

The "Gadget" device detonated at the Trinity site involved two explosions: first a conventional TNT explosion and then a nuclear explosion, if the chain reaction started by the first explosion was maintained. The Jumbo device was designed by the X2-A section of the Los Alamos laboratory to act as a failsafe device for the Trinity test explosion. General Groves spent $12 million on Jumbo, a steel cylinder 10 feet in diameter and 25 feet long. Its walls were 14 inches thick and the entire device weighed 200 tons.
Jumbo was designed to contain the Gadget and prevent the loss of the precious plutonium in the case that the conventional explosion succeeded, but the nuclear explosion failed. It took a combination of rail and a specially constructed 64-wheel trailer to deliver Jumbo to Trinity. However, by the time of the actual Trinity test, Manhattan Project officials were confident enough in the plutonium bomb and secure enough in the stream of plutonium coming from Hanford, that Jumbo was deemed unnecessary. Jumbo was suspended from a tower during the test, but it survived the nuclear explosion.
General Groves was concerned that Congress would criticize him for spending $12 million on what was essentially a white elephant, so he ordered Jumbo destroyed. However, eight 500-pound bombs only succeeded in blowing the ends of it. The remains of Jumbo can still be seen at the Trinity site.



















200 ton ....... not a bad effort for way back when

cya

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cya

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The 43rd U.S. Army Engineers crossing the Girua River in New Guinea with a Corbitt 50SD6 Series B prime mover, on June 6, 1944.





Paul

Gr8 pic Mrs

1st glance is just a big truck n tailer with a big crawler crane/dragline - wotevr

further looksee the load is stradlin 2 'A' frame drawn low loaders from a HD beam
talk n bout 'git n er dun'

Yes tiz a gr8 pic

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cya

I think the dragline is a Koehring 604......bit over 55 tons complete,and that ones without the boom,and probably has counterweights removed.........still a load for soft sand.

not sure wots a 604 or 605






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