Cop a Load of This

That be Swishy's new trailer they're dropping the loco on! And he's updated the prime mover too.

eye cood B a reel fan of them thar solid rubber tyres
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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That's them new-fangled 'run flat' tyres. They never let the air out.

Not Only

Butt

also

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SMore



Big John was a special built heavy hauling unit. Big John refers to John Manlowe owner of United Truck Lines



Mount Graham International Observatory



Moving a house using horses. San Francisco, 1908



House, Building & Barn Movers - Heavy Hauling - Ohio & Western Pennsylvania - Stein House Movers



Old school, either coming off the rail or going onto it, either way this was work



Murphy Rigging Heavy Haul Boiler



Hitler's big banger

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Kangaroo Flat Bendigo 1962





Paul

gr8 pic Mrs ............................ n in color tooo
:lol:



On this day (July 28) in 1943, Bigge hauled ship sections from Independent Iron Works to Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, CA. More than 747 vessels were built here in the 4 Kaiser Shipyards during World War II. Kaiser Shipyards shut down at the end of the war.



On this day (September 28) in 1939 Bigge hauled equipment for the Avon Refinery located in Avon, California. The refinery was first built in 1913 and has continuously expanded since. It is now knows as the Golden Eagle refinery and is owned by Tesoro Petroleum Co. The refinery refines oil into gasoline and other petroleum based products, and has a crude oil capacity of 166,000 barrels per day. It is the fourth largest refinery in California.




Transportation of Gun Tube No. 87 to Battery Townsley on August 28, 1939



On this day (October 22) in 1938 Bigge hauled the barrels of two 16-in. coast defense guns, weighing 150 ton apiece, across the mountains to Fort Cronkite. The moving of these guns was one of the heaviest truck operations ever performed in the San Francisco Bay area.



Hume Highway Duplication - South West NSW



1974 - Loco #4 being moved to Richmond, CA

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Second last photo on the Hume.

This would have been widening as duplication didn't happen until well into the 2000's.

Additionally The Hume is in the South East of New South Wales.

Otherwise accurate

Zuffen,With google as My witness..
It's at Bass Hill in 1952.(photo #6)
www.rms.nsw.gov.au/projects/south-wester...storical-photos.html

May B reworded
South East of Sydney New South Wales

RE th@ above pic
az the §wish thinx n nose it ...... az a Skimmer bucket where the bucket slides along the boom in the horizontal position
to grab a load

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