Dawes moves shovel
2 February 2009Dawes Crane and Rigging subsidiary Dawes Special Transport helped Vision Logistics move 10 giant kiln shells, three riding rings, and a massive P & H mining shovel to the Port of Milwaukee.
DST utilized a fleet of heavy specialized equipment, including their 100- and 200-ton capacity lowboy trailer configurations.
The kiln sections and the 18-foot-wide rings, headed for the Seadrift Coke Plant in Seadrift, Texas, weigh between 75,000 lbs (34t) and 125,000 lbs (56.7t) each. The largest kiln section weighed 125,000 pounds and measured 58 feet long (17.6m) by 15 feet, 2 inches in diameter. One of the largest kilns ever hauled by DST, it was transported to the port to be loaded onto two river hopper barges for the trip to Texas.
The mining shovel, bound for the Port of St. Petersburg, Russia, was in excess of 50 truckloads; the largest piece for the shovel was the revolving frame, weighing 214,000 lbs (97t) and measuring 32 feet long by 15 feet, 2 inches wide and 11 feet, 4 inches high. When fully assembled, the shovel weighs 2,900,000 lbs and has a bucket capacity of 115 US tons—the largest mining shovel that P & H produces and that DST has ever moved.
DST was able to expedite the move of the shovel to the port in one week so the ship could leave the Great Lakes before the winter freeze.
