Stephen Larcombe

Moving a Hydraulic Excavator

• Tri-axle Steco Low Loader, with Tandem drive UD prime-mover
• Carrying capacity up to 30 tonnes
• Out-riggers for wide loads
• Folding goose neck trailer - for easy loading
• Heavy duty winch - for loading derelict machinery
• Based in the Geelong area

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The gooseneck folds down to make a flat ramp, ideal in slippery conditions or for smooth tracked machinery. Loading a Ruston Bucyrus 19RB dragline

Dimensions of the trailer

• Over all length 19.4 metres (41 feet)
• Flat in the middle 5.74 metres (18 feet 10 inches), opening out to 6.25 metres (20 feet 6 inches)
• Lowest height of the deck from ground 0.70 metres, helps to keep those high loads below the power lines
• Gooseneck length 3 metres (9 feet 11 inches)
• Back Deck length 3.30 metres (10 feet 10 inches)
• Width 2.44 metres (8 feet)
• Width with out riggers out, 3.05 metres (10 feet)

In the process of folding up the gooseneck

Winching up a 25 Tonne excavator

Finished loading the 25 Tonne excavator

Some of the jobs we have done in the past:

Draglines, Ruston Bucyrus 19RB

Draglines, Kockum KL250

Draglines, Harman 15 ton, there is a little too much rear overhang, suitable for off road transport only, the boom would need to be unbolted in the middle and shortened for road transport.

Hydraulic Excavator

Using a jib on the truck to attach the blade to a Caterpillar D8

Winching up a Caterpillar D8

Caterpillar D8 Loaded

Internatonal Bulldozer

Vickers Bulldozer

Grader

Truck Crane

Tractor Crane

Power Screen

Boom Lifts

New Holland Header

Four Wheel Drive Loader and small Forklift

Scrap Steel

Large Tank

Anti Air Craft Gun

Farm Machinery

Milling Machines

Wabco Dump Truck

Muir Hill Tractors

Old Cable face shovels

Harman 15B Backactor

Old Oliver DDH wrecked dozers, and the forklift that loaded them

McLaren Traction Engine

Unloading Ruston Hornsby 6VEBX diesel engine

Ruston Hornsby 6VCB Diesel engine (weighing over 7 ton), and the forklift that loaded it

Unloading Ruston Hornsby 3VCB Diesel engine and forklift

Insley/Blaw Knox excavator

3 Old Jelbart tractors

Rumely, McDonald, and Titan tractors

Old Portable Steam Engines

1923 Ruston Steam Shovel, being winched on (left), and towed off with the dozer (right). The shovel needed a 5 metre over height permit to transport.

Steam train

Pushing a steam loco on over temporary track, using empty rail trucks between the pushing loco, and the Steam Loco

The Loaded steam loco

A load of what will be firewood

Round bales of Grass hay, old bales do not stack that neatly

Bales of wool

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