Chinese ship builders turn to monster Kamag lifting platforms....who wouldn't says Biglorryblog?
How about this for a monster mover? It's one of those gigantic platform elevating trucks developed by those cheerful chaps at Kamag for Chinese shipbuilders...and sharp-eyed Biglorryblog readers will realise that the enormous lump on the back of this one is a massive marine engine. But I'm getting ahead of myself...
Where once upon a time shipbuilders built up a complete vessel on a slipway, nowadays modern shipbuilding is based on sectional construction in which individual parts are produced at different places in the yard---then the complete ship is formed by joining up the individual sections. Easier said than done! Of course it helps having these special platform elevating trucks. And they come in all sizes from those whoppas above to these 'minnows'
The eight-axle lifting platform pictured above has a 518hp Deutz engine; the six-axle variant seen being loaded at the Kamag plant comes with a more modest 389hp Deutz diesel.
Each wheel on the Kamag lifting platform is driven by a hydraulic motor and the whole shebang can turn on its own centre point...