Sunday, February 18, 2024

Kenworth Snowed in

 Recent heavy snow in the Halifax area may or may not be the reason that this rig has been idle in the Fairview Cove parking lot for more than as week. Oversize trucks are often held over waiting for permits and usually do not leave late in the week due to weekend restrictions in Quebec.

I first saw the rig on February 10,

I next saw the rig February 17, still in the same spot, but with a souvenir of the recent snow fall. 

 The Studio Sleeper Kenworth tractor runs for Transport M.D.  (Michel Denommé Express) of New Liskeard / Temiskaming Shores / Haileybury ON, and Spruce Grove, AB and carries Alberta plates. The trailer is from Accusteel, an Edmonton based custom trailer builder.  The load is an unlabled component for some sort of machinery and its control cab has protection covers over the windows.

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Saturday, January 27, 2024

Pete and Potatoes

 A Peterbilt with full fenders (I wonder how they work in heavy snow and ice) made a brief call in Halifax to pick up an unusual piece of farm machinery at the PSA Fairview Cove terminal January 26.

The load is a Downs Vision sorter for unwashed potatoes. A field trailer dumps the potatoes onto the wide conveyor which sends them through a number of stages for cleaning, grading, optical sorting and inspecting and can connect to loading and storage systems by more conveyor connections. The unit was likely built in France where the Downs company is based.

The truck is from Quebec and was preparing to leave with its pilot car. Nova Scotia has a number of regulations for escort vehicles, which vary depending on the number of lanes of the road being traveled and whether in daylight or at night, and the dimensions of the unit.

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Saturday, January 20, 2024

Rosenbauer arrival

 Recently arrived by sea this Rosenbauer is parked inside the fence at the PSA Fairview Cove terminal in Halifax. 


 I posted the photo on Facebook and thanks to alert readers I learned that it is an electric and is headed for Victoria, BC eventually, but is going to Minnesota first for certification and compliance work.

It may be going out by rail or by truck (the latter seems more likely.)

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Thursday, January 11, 2024

Boom truck or crane truck

 What looks like a boom truck becomes a crane truck when the boom is fully extended. Two of these cranes, operated by A.W.Leil, worked together to lift a couple of cruise ship gangways onto a flat bed.


One crane was mounted on a twin steer Western Star, the other on a Kenworth. I could not identify the red crane manufacturer - I think it had been painted over, and I could not get near the white one. 

The flat bed trailer (with one axle lifted) was hauled by a Navistar International.

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Saturday, December 23, 2023

Bellemare moves a Schmidt

Heavy and oversize specialists Transport Bellemare had an interesting load out of Halifax today - a Schmidt TJS-C630 airport jet sweeper. 

Bellemare used a Western Star with a tag axle to pull a tri-axle Manac goose neck trailer rated at 40 tonnes.

AEBI Schmidt of Burgdorf, Switzerland builds a range of snow clearing vehicles. This one is an articulated rig with a 6.3 meter wide broom. The powered cab unit pulls the unpowered trailer. 

 

The rear mounted engine drives the rotating brush and the jet that blows clear the last of the snow.

 


Some airport will be receiving this unit just in time for the winter season.

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Saturday, October 21, 2023

Epiroc

 Mining equipment arrives in Halifax by ship, moslty from the Sandvik company from Sweden. However that is not the only Swedish manufacturer. I have now noted a mine truck built by Epiroc.


 It is a MT42 model, an articulated Mine Truck with a 42 tonne capacity. Full specs are available here: Epiroc MT 42

Epiroc was spun off from the Atlas Copco company as of January 1, 2018 and is now a stand alone, offering a full range of mining equipment and operates world wide. 


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Friday, October 20, 2023

More Wheels

 If you need to haul big, you need more wheels. That is certainly the motto of Atlantic Tiltload Ltd, when they had a Terex Finlay J-1175 Tracked Jaw Crusher to transport.

The Western Star, fleet number 78, had a spare axle not in use, but the Trail King trailer rig had all its wheels on the ground, including a three axle jeep and two axle booster. According to the Finlay web site, the operating weight of a J-1175 rock crusher is 113,096 lbs / 51,300 kg. I expect shipping weight might be a little bit less.

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