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KOMATSU 575A SUPER DOZER AND TOM, JOHN AND ME IN THE COAL MINES.
Well , the day has arrived that I have begun the design stage of this Komatsu 575A Super Dozer . It is the largest and most powerful dozer being produced today. weighing in at around 150 tons and with a engine producing over 1,150 h.p. It is certainly a monster of a machine. It looks like Tom was trying to stretch his hands across to see if he could reach both sides of the blade in this picture, ha,ha. We had a great afternoon with John in the coal mines and so far I have built the Bucyrus-Erie model like the real one that John operates , and I have built the monster Champion 100T grader that we climbed all over on this trip. So this is the third piece of equipment I will be building into a model from this trip. And it won’t be the last, there are two more machines we climbed on that day I still want to build. The big Dart Loader was very unique looking and the Liebherr T-272 Monster Haul Truck was awesome so I hope to also build both of those machines into models one of these days. Last night I got things around and started working on the scale the 575A Super Dozer model will be. Once again I am excited to build it too. Did I ever mention I like all kinds of machines , LOL !!
TWO DEGREES BELOW ZERO AGAIN THIS MORNING- It was another nippy morning in Gaylord, Michigan. The sun is shining and it is now 7 degrees. The weatherman is saying another week we could get a wram spell and it could hit 30 degrees. Oh Yea !! Almost time to get the Corvette out of storage, ha,ha.
HENDRICKSON ; THE BEAUTY ; TRUCK MODEL – Well, I am doing the last of the welding on the truck this afternoon. Because of the finished weight of the truck and the softness of the tires, I am mounting ajustable stands under the truck model . That way , they can be turned up or down depending how much squishiness Kevin wants on the tires to give them the right look. Without the stands , they would be 3/4 squished !! . And over a few years of sitting on the shelf, they would be 100% squished. I’m thinking the finished HENDRICKSON TRUCK MODEL could end up weighing closer to 40 lbs.
The Terra-Gator Fertilizer Spreader Model I made several years ago also had real soft tires and I had to put a stand uner it too.
If all goes well, by tomorrow night all the body work should be done and all the parts should be primed.
