Inside a Euclid R-75
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- čas přidán 3. 02. 2011
- Inside the cab of a 1976 Euclid R75 off-road truck as I show the control setup and take you for a drive. Like our videos? Then join the PAmining Channel today!
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Nice video. The 30 ton Euclids with tandem duals I drove were from the late '40s and very early '50s and didn't have the whistles and bells I see in the video. Ours had 2 engines; mostly 2 - 6 cylinder Cummins engines, but a couple had 2 - 6 cylinder Detroits all coupled with an automatic transmissions and 2 exhaust stacks through the plate steel hoods. The only A-C was to wire the doors open 180 degrees and leave them that way all day. The bigger 45 ton single axle Euclids all had V-16 Detroits. Our Quarry bought them all used from the iron ore mining companies in Minnesota.
Thanks! This truck is Cummins powered- VTA1710.
Good traction on dry surfaces, but as soon as you get on ice or frost, you can break traction pretty quickly. A loaded truck is more stable than an empy truck, but even so, you can still break traction at any time.
Nice place to work!
Very Cool haven't been in a Rock Truck in a long time
Thanks for that video. Fondly remember driving Euclids years ago, in retrospect the job I enjoyed most.
Nice! I like watching you actually driving the truck.
Sounds Powerful!
Justin a great video loved every minute
Thanks. I will have a walk around coming up of an R75. Depends on how long the hill is, then you kick it on and off. The oil will always get hot, when the retarder is kicked on, but the transmission is designed for that. As soon as you kick the retarder off, then oil temp drops right back down in a second.
Hi,
And thanks for all the detailed explanation. Just a little different to a car eh? !!
Have a wonderful holiday,
mrbluenun
@PAmining Thanks for the info! Some I guess you have to feather the controls (so to speak) when your on snow and ice (like in the vid). I cant imagine what those trucks do in a slide with there weight!!
hey PAmining i just got me a new account i closed my other one(44selfdestruct) but just wanted to say your videos are very informative ive had the pleasure of driving a few haul trucks .loaders and motor graders basically just to move them around so i can do tire work on them i work in and around rock quarries and marble/limestone mines here in north Georgia go under ground a good bit too love working around heavy equipment
Thank you sir for this vid I just found !! 👍👍
beautiful
@PAmining Oooo nice.
Yes
Euclid power!
Working on getting on a new machine this summer. Boss is talking about putting me on either a dragline or excavator.
Great videos, how much work hours is it on theese machines..about..Thanks againg for great videos.
Thanks. I think my video quality is excellent compared to some out there and honestly, l don't see where HD is so much better. But I already got an HD camera so eventually I will switch over...only if l like it though.
If I get put back on a truck I will. The 85 is very similar but it's actually a little noiser with the Detroit engine.
Awsome could you do a walkaround of the truck??
Cool 😎
I have never heard of that in my life and I know for a fact it is not an MSHA regulation. U ARE supposed to sound your horn before you leave the hitching post, but not while leaving after being loaded or backing up at the dump site.
Excellent vid Justin!!! Man that looks like a blast to drive!! What diesel engine again??
How it that truck traction wise? Like fully load on snow and ice does it spin or fish tail at all at full power climbing a hill? Or does it not matter what the road condition, because of the trucks extreme weight? Does the extreme weight keep the tires crushed into the road surface thus keeping traction in any road condition?
You don't feather lol! If you start to slide on a level grade, let off the gas and dont hit the brakes! If you break traction while climbing a steep hill and start to slide backward, you turn the truck so the back end crashs into a burn...then hope you don't spin around. If you start to slide with a empty truck going downhill, up upshift. Looks easy, but there's lots of stuff to know.
Can you drive that truck on a road or is it over the weight limit
No I haven't filmed anything in HD with the new camera yet.
Yes, but I'm getting off the truck and going on another machine soon.
can you do more vids of your truck? this is nice truck
Cummins 1710, V12, 700hp
Nice vid, a walkaround will be greeat! thats my job too on 100tons trucks
Instead of a retarder lever we have it on a pedal (left side, like a clutch)
we have to "pump" the retarder as soon as we go down the pit, to prevent transmission oil to get too hot (transmission overheat). about 7 or 8 minutes of going down on a 10% grade slope
do you use the retarder lever all the way and givin' throttle to push the truck down all the time! doesn't overheat the transmission?
What engine, make, model, no. of cylinders, hp etc?
Experience around equipment. Driving truck is easy, then you can work your way to get on bigger machines.
this was my school bus back in grade school(86)
Why does it low key sound an EMD GP40 locomotive?
Can you do a video like this on the R-85?
So how did you get into driving these trucks, or what does a guy need to do or know to get into this kind of profession
No idea. When engines blow, they rebuild or install a new one
Haven't you moved on to other machines by now? Or was this a temporary arrangement?
Thanks!
do u go to school full time and work full time??
@PAmining we are used to go down the hill in 4th speed (6 speed transmission Allyson 8000)
slower we go down, the lower the temperture get. we have a Dart 50 tons haul trucks that we turn into a 100tons capacity lowboy hauler, we go down in the same pit with a Bucyrus drill B.E 45R that weight about 90tons on the lowboy, in 1st (or 2nd gear on summer with a dry road) and oil temperture get around the half of the green area. those trucks are not used to get hot.. even when we "rape" the retarder
So are you also license to drive semi trucks down the highway? and is there a special license for driving all that way dump trucks
No you do not need a CDL to operate off road heavy equipment. Thanks!
I agree but guess what, not my problem.
are you a driver
@2001yz250rider1 I'm part time at work
Shoot give us a night shift video it 2 a.m.doinh just little bit of raining while different Game than day shift.
Yes but there's not much more to see than this lol
@PAmining I'd say you guys need to retrain your grader operators if that's as good a job as they will do.
They were cleared and that's about as good of a job as a grader will do...that's why I hate graders