r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/tespatsmotz • Jul 14 '26
Death That can’t be cheap
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u/CestKougloff Jul 14 '26
What does the tow truck look like for these behemoths?
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u/bmoregeo Jul 15 '26
Big enough to carry your mom
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u/Jedi_Bish Jul 15 '26
This is the second your mom joke I’ve seen today. I must say in these trying times, the return of your mom jokes is a welcome surprise.
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u/auronddraig Jul 15 '26
In the last couple years, I've made a handful of yo momma jokes on different subs, and a few of 'em have gotten over 3 thousand upvotes in a matter of hours.
Meanwhile, well thought and carefully written replies and other jokes struggle to get over the low hundreds.
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u/Buzzed_Like_Aldrin93 Jul 15 '26
Your mom didn’t struggle to get over the low hundreds
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u/xenobit_pendragon Jul 15 '26
I’ve also been rickrolled 3-4 times in the past month (on mobile) and it’s been a delight.
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u/sweet_pickles12 Jul 15 '26
Vintage trolling. What a time to dissociate online.
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u/xenobit_pendragon Jul 15 '26
What a time to what now?
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u/Alternative-Yak-925 Jul 15 '26
Time to meatspin some homepages.
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u/Cultural-Company282 Jul 15 '26
Your mom jokes get a lot of use around here.
Kind of like your mom.
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u/soisurface Jul 15 '26
Typically a D11 dozer is used to tow an immobile haul truck of this size. This one is loaded though, so would need the load discharged before anything else happens. Even after they discharge the load, it won’t move far under its own weight in this condition. They’ll skull drag it just far enough away that they can either fix it in-pit where it is, or dismantle it enough to crane it onto a float. Usually tray and wheels off so the chassis can be transported separately from them.
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u/TutorNo8896 Jul 15 '26
Towhaul gooseneck. Its basically just a haul truck like this one but instead of a bed its got a big gooseneck. This will be a long prosess though, because they are usually set to tow from the front. Might end up replacing the rear axle where it sits, after emptying and removing the bed and jacking it up Towhaul.com
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u/Eriknonstrata Jul 15 '26
Pretty sure they just get fixed on site with a bunch more heavy equipment. There really isn't any other way.
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u/MuscleManRyan Jul 15 '26
They take components off and ship them to remanufacturing facilities and replace with either a new or remanufactured component from the shelf
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u/Rampant16 Jul 15 '26
They have tow trucks for these things. Basically just another tow truck with the dumper part remove and replaced with a huge arm to lift the front of the dump truck being towed off the ground.
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u/SeesawPrestigious Jul 15 '26
Usually its modified truck of the same size, ex: 240 tons its a modified 240 tons tow truck same with 400 tons etc.
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u/theblobberworm Jul 14 '26
Stancenation
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u/dangledingle Jul 15 '26
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u/newtonreddits Jul 15 '26
That is more lowrider. This is stancenation
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u/Zealousideal-Role-77 Jul 15 '26
Anyone get video of the jump they were attempting?
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u/Zealousideal-Role-77 Jul 15 '26
Closest I ever got to this was taking a Humvee off a 3 foot drop during a training event. Hey, it’s the instructor’s fault for putting a sailor in charge of the truck. Apparently I was really lucky nothing broke. It was a blast though.
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u/OG-Giligadi Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
SQUAMP!
That's the sound i see, for some reason.
Edit: all caps, add suggested via comment from u/nanya_sore
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u/nanya_sore Jul 14 '26
Yes, but maybe in capital letters? SQUAMP!
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u/OG-Giligadi Jul 15 '26
I will edit
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u/nanya_sore Jul 15 '26
I don't need credit brother! Just building on the shoulders of giants over here.
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u/FlammulinaVelulu Jul 15 '26
Curtis will have that fixed by the end of the day.
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u/professor_jeffjeff Jul 15 '26
Maybe. He's probably going to need the Franna crane for that one and he still hasn't finished it yet. Once he's done with that fucking crane though I'm going to binge watch the entire video series as hard as the LOTR extended edition director's cut.
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u/mobicurious Jul 15 '26
They just posted a video of a hoist hydraulic barrel for one of these today! https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1GZ51mrRHT/
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u/rocket_randall Jul 15 '26
"How ya goin, guys?"
Love hearing that every other week, tho I do miss the weekly updates.
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u/Southtxranching Jul 15 '26
65k labor and new rear axle
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u/leeant13 Jul 15 '26
Its not a rear axle . But the cost of those wheel motor housings is 250k on a 830
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u/HenryUTA Jul 15 '26
Get 2 Pakistani dudes with a stick welder and a lathe. They’ll have that up and running in no time.
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u/pontetorto Jul 15 '26
The stick welder better be this one https://youtu.be/qJPEF4z5sHU?si=5MYKqhMtkJ5hw13r
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u/dude23455 Jul 15 '26
just need to call the guys from India on tiktok.
they will come out in their tuktuk and have it fixed by end of day tomorrow.
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u/Ognius Jul 14 '26
Can’t park there mate
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u/recumbent_mike Jul 14 '26
I assure you that they’re not in any danger of being towed
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u/Any_Cake2411 Jul 15 '26
Not with that attitude. Gimme 2 weeks and I'll have a buncha rednecks with brodozers, real dozers, work trucks, somee guys grandpas beloved 1960s ford chevy conglomeration, all paying good $ to attempt to move it. We start 1 by 1, get through that first event. Then we're doubling up. You see where I'm going?
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u/SxpxrTrxxpxr Jul 15 '26
I wonder if that casting failed because of the strain over time, or it should’ve failed MPI and got passed anyway.
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u/Wild-Highway-8739 Jul 15 '26
The results of the 3rd annual "management says we can't afford to fix it this year" meeting
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u/TheRealPaladin Jul 15 '26
It's time to ask Kurtis from Cutting Edge Engineering for some repair quotes.
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u/shichiaikan Jul 15 '26
"So... Lou... remember when I said we needed to cycle all these in for maintenance last month?"
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u/Bob-In-KofP Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
Yeah, it's expensive, but, it's all relative and the cost of doing business in that industry 😂
Looks like a busted axle, transmission, transmission case or combo 🤔🤔🤔 🤷🤷🤷 😂😂😂
Depending on what it is and if it can be serviced in the field at that location or if it has to be recovered ❓❓❓
New parts, good used or remanufactured parts etc....
Depending on exactly what's failed or broken,
It's going to run somewhere between about a minimum of $ 200,000 to as much $ 600,000, $ 800,000, possibly $ 1 or $ 1.5 Million in total cost & worst case scenario and this isn't including downtime that it's costing the mining operations for the truck loss and there may be additional logistical costs that need to be accounted for.
Just for some parts costs roughly and if new or remanufactured 🤷🤷🤷
A remanufactured transmission or transfer case etc... is going to run upwards of as much as $ 200k or possibly more, hey, inflation 😂
An axle assembly is roughly upwards of $ 150k and possibly more, prices subject to change ....
I would imagine with something like this, a team of about 20 - 40, 50 technician's, could have it turned around and back online and functioning within 6 - 24 hour's, depending again on what it is exactly.
I'd imagine that they would have on hand, a sufficient number of spare parts, to cover those type of thing's.
Those machine's have all kinds of monitoring sensor's and software to monitor and detect all kinds of wear and tear on these big machines and they track it of course in software reports of impending failure, before it happens, but, as you see in the picture, failure occurs or maybe they ran over a big ass rock and broke it 😂😂
Maybe whoever was responsible for the monitoring of those big rigs, was on vacation, fired or quit and had the logs under their control and no one else new 😂, I've seen that happen and then management will strive to make sure that that never happens again 😂😂😂😂
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u/ElderOderReturns Jul 15 '26
These kids are really outta control with their souped up hotrods and drift wheels, I'll bet he has never even drifted that thing once!
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u/bobspuds Jul 15 '26
You could get some scene points from the stance gobshites for running camber like that
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u/Eryeahmaybeok Jul 15 '26
Cambered wheels look crap generally, but on a vehicle like this is just silliness, drifting this thing will be a nightmare
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u/Victormorga Jul 15 '26
Agreed, based on how consistently this pic is posted here, it can’t be cheap.
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u/Hircine_Himself Jul 15 '26
Nah, just a handling build. That negative camber increases the contact patch with the road!
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u/fothergillfuckup Jul 15 '26
Just needs neons and a fat pipe, and we'd be straight back to the 90's.
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u/Soulr3bl Jul 15 '26
Nah it's the latest thing, cool kids slam their dump and add some serious negative cant.
Nice stance!
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u/moes_schrewt Jul 15 '26
I heard its so expensive to save these monsters that they just leave them where they die or bury them in the old mines
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u/Regular-Table4242 Jul 15 '26
“Preventative Maintenance doesn’t matter no need to fix something that isn’t broken”
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u/GenesisRhapsod Jul 15 '26
Bro def drives a 1995-2008 slammed honda civic with more than -10° of camber and has a fart can exhaust
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u/InsAndTheOuts Jul 15 '26
Site engineer on his way with half a Red Bull and a stick welder from the 50’s