Sights from behind the wheel... A WOW factor thread.

Jeeepers · 08-09-2007, 05:58 PM

Thought this would get some interesting pics going, as many get to see some amazing things on the road from time to time... I look forward to seeing how many motorized, and free wheeling wonders have been snapped around the place. These pics I took from behind the wheel today at Coode Island opposite West Swanston Dock. Bloody big tank... And 3 were moved to a new location today. The foundations have been under construction for a month or so. Now these muthas are to be placed on them.

Doolans backing a tank into the new tank farm. Pics taken with my Nokia N95 through the windscreen.

Bit hard to see around that sucker... LOL

andrewts · 08-09-2007, 06:50 PM

How is that even possible!?

Jeeepers · 08-09-2007, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by andrewts

How is that even possible!?

Shhhh... Carefully.... LOL

onfire · 08-09-2007, 06:56 PM

Watch out for those street lights.

Jeeepers · 08-09-2007, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by onfire

Watch out for those street lights.

Hehehehe, yeah was about 10 feet clearance each side.. Drove down the street between the lights.. These tanks are exactly that, a tank. Solid enough to be lifted onto a float by crane and moved as pictured.

**MR_LON** · 08-09-2007, 08:25 PM

them some big tanks kev, but check this load of bull out

or how about this high rise passenger

Hunter · 08-09-2007, 08:35 PM

Haha I saw some guys the other night carrying a table on top of an old station wagon (think it was a corona or something). Four guys, one with a hand out the window holding the table (including the driver). No ropes. Wish I had a camera

I had a mate one time who had been living with us then him and his missus decide to move out to their own place after we decided to move to our own. He only had a motorbike and the only car they had was a Starlet which the girl owned. They had to move their bed to the other house and weren't wanting to spring for a removalist... so they decide to strap this queen sized mattress to the top of the starlet and drive it over...

Mate gets on his bike and follows behind, his girl drives with her little handbag dog on the lap. Before they left I jokingly said "haha wouldn't it be funny if you ended up at an RBT with that on top? haha!". They drive off and apparently they were about 1 km from their destination when she saw an RBT ahead and the mattress started to slip off. Girl freaked out and did a u-turn, the cops saw the car do this, thought they were ****ed and trying to avoid the RBT and took off after them. The cop pulled her over and apparently took one look and told her to get out of his sight and not to let him see them again.

J_Tank · 08-09-2007, 08:51 PM

Did something similar one night with a mates Mazda 121 and a queen size mattress. We didn't have any rope though so we wound down the back windows and used an extension cord to tie it on. Couldn't open the back doors of course... LOL, all through the inner suburbs of Sydney..

Jeeepers · 08-09-2007, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by MR_LON

them some big tanks kev, but check this load of bull out

or how about this high rise passenger

Ahhh Asia, where anything goes.... LOL

webby_191189 · 08-09-2007, 09:12 PM

For out that tank is HUGE!! Thats not exactly a small truck towing it either but the tank makes it look tiny

fmc351 · 08-09-2007, 09:19 PM

I wish i got pics of it, anyone near Altona should know the Cracker tower in PRA. When i worked there way back in maybe 1990, they pulled the thing down for maintenance during a shutdown, the crane they use for that, it takes two of the largest drivable cranes youll ever see on the road, just to put the boom on the actual crane. This thing was ridiculously big. The boom came in on a low loader with nothing but wheels the length of it. Took 8 hours to set the crane up.

oil refineries, its an experience I tell ya.

cowboy · 08-09-2007, 09:24 PM

The truck towing it is a baby! Come West...

Jeeepers · 08-09-2007, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by fmc351

I wish i got pics of it, anyone near Altona should know the Cracker tower in PRA. When i worked there way back in maybe 1990, they pulled the thing down for maintenance during a shutdown, the crane they use for that, it takes two of the largest drivable cranes youll ever see on the road, just to put the boom on the actual crane. This thing was ridiculously big. The boom came in on a low loader with nothing but wheels the length of it. Took 8 hours to set the crane up.

oil refineries, its an experience I tell ya.

Ooohh an ex local boy.. I worked at Hoechst Australia Altona from 1980 to 1990. PRA supplied ethylene and propylene gas for our plastics production.

Jeeepers · 08-09-2007, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by cowboy

The truck towing it is a baby! Come West...

Noice... Big boy toys... Love it.... That's a real Big Mack....

I know.. It's a KW....

cowboy · 08-09-2007, 09:29 PM

Saw a barge crane in Singapore with a rating of 3200mt. And as barge cranes go it's not even that massive. But I'm getting off the subject now. Sorry...

fmc351 · 08-09-2007, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ORSMT

Ooohh an ex local boy.. I worked at Hoechst Australia Altona from 1980 to 1990. PRA supplied ethylene and propylene gas for our plastics production.

Im an old Sunshine boy. I worked for Gardner Perrott (Gardner Bros at the time) for a while and then Pics Axlo

hydroblaster, now theres another item of note. 14,000 psi, suicide barrel, fan nozzle, on a 2 ft wide walkway blasting the manifold of a cooling unit. Snaking out pipe bundles, nooooo, no more pipe bundles.

Jeeepers · 08-09-2007, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by fmc351

Im an old Sunshine boy. I worked for Gardner Perrott (Gardner Bros at the time) for a while and then Pics Axlo

hydroblaster, now theres another item of note. 14,000 psi, suicide barrel, fan nozzle, on a 2 ft wide walkway blasting the manifold of a cooling unit. Snaking out pipe bundles, nooooo, no more pipe bundles.

And they strip the leather off work boots in a micro second.

And I used to live in Tennant St Nth Sunshine... Rode my dirt bike on the hill that is now the Sunshine Hospital...

fmc351 · 08-09-2007, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by ORSMT

And they strip the leather off work boots in a micro second.

Cut your hand off with a 1mm pin nozzle, acts like a laser. The pump is basically a large fire engine pump, they just restrict the flow in the lance. 5 piston pump, driven via a 5 speed box on a V12 diesel, all in a container on the back of a truck. Water fed by fire hydrants.

I remember first time I really got to appreciate the impact of it. Normally its 1" thick cold steel your blasting so its just knowing it that keeps you alert. I cleaned some pipes sitting on railway sleepers with a rotary nozzle which has less impact, a wider surface area is cleaned, took a strip of the timber away about 0.5cm deep by maybe 8cm wide in one pass. That was using maybe 10,000psi IIRC.

Nth Sunshine, well thats classy for ya

: , I was the other way. The less friendly end. We rode around the quarries, white hills and paddocks to Boundary Rd, which last I saw were mostly stores.

We used to ride to Baccus Marsh, couldnt do that now I suppose.

Nikked · 08-09-2007, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by ORSMT

*Pulls into BP*

"fill 'er up"

MITCHAY · 08-09-2007, 11:16 PM

WOW alright! I'm thinking how the hell did they get that thing on the truck

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Jeeepers · 08-09-2007, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by MITCHAY

WOW alright! I'm thinking how the hell did they get that thing on the truck

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Crane dude.... They were only moved a few hundred meters.

trick_xd · 08-09-2007, 11:43 PM

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mik · 08-09-2007, 11:53 PM

great pics ORSMT, that used to be my stomping ground also, spent many hours on the que`s waiting to get in ta conaust or 4 east

dave351cid · 09-09-2007, 12:31 AM

here is a truck with part of some kind of a mining machine (looked like a tanker of some kind from the side ) that i followed from Wondai to Taroom last year. he was cruising on about 80-90 kmh with 4 cop cars and a few normal escort cars infront clearing the road.

the crawler tracks were on seperate trucks (one track per low- loader) and were nearly the full lengh and width of the trays.

asusdragon · 09-09-2007, 10:53 AM

we get stuff like that aleast a few times a month coming down from up north pretty interesting watching all the escort cars etc etc jump out over intersections to get this truck over

FrogInASock · 09-09-2007, 10:54 AM

I can't find a pic, but last week a 370 tonne turbine was transported to the Tallawarra Power Station site (Wollongong NSW). There were pics of another huge part of the power station in the Illawarra Mercury. 5 trucks, massive flat bed with gazillions of wheels, about half the Wollongong police force!. Looked impressive in the Mercury. It was a very early morning move along the Southern Expressway, including going the wrong way up an entrance ramp!