They say this is the largest dozer ever made.

This has been discussed somewhere before, allegedly the final drives turned out to be "probably" the weak point.
I don't remember the details of the discussion?

I do find interesting that a 183 ton Dozer was moved on a trailer.

Quote "By the end of May 2012 the dozer had been moved away from the abandoned ACCO facility and is now safely stored at a local gardening company in the same town to be preserved and eventually put on display. The ACCO Superdozer moved again its tracks by its own power onto the trailer that took it to the new location."

I believe Komatsu built a 575 Dozer of similar size some time ago. My friends in Austraiia mining say anyone who had one were stuck with it RT

Hi, Folks.
The Acco dozer is the heaviest dozer ever built at 183 tons. The gong for the most powerful so far goes to the 4WD Western 2000 built for Western Contracting in 1963 and de-commissioned in 1981. It was 1,600 hp against the Acco's 1,350 but only 170 tons.

Both of these beat the 'Kummagutsa' D575 which had two versions, the bigger of which was 1,150 hp and 151 tons.

Just my 0.02.

I would not want the guy who can lift the track shovel mad at me. LOL

Hi, Old Iron-habit.
Are you by some chance inferring that the writer did not KNOW that of which they wrote? Perish the thought. Now be HONEST here. Have you (N)EVER found that to be the case before?

A curious mind would like to know.

It certainly would be nice to have that ACCO dozer to work the wife's flowers. And yes, I do stay in the dog house most of the time.

Hi Deas, I was humorously referring to the amount of dirt or mud that them huge tracks could carry around the rollers and on the track frames. It would take a big shovel to get them cleaned out and still be home in time for supper. Or is it only me that gets that much dirt, mud, snow, and ice freezing up my rollers if I am not diligent in cleaning them? It's to bad that big boy didn't get to push something. I would like to see it work. Hopefully it will some day.

I think there was some coverage of this dozer on one of the Discovery channels a couple of months ago - saying that they were made for Gaddafi allegedly to be used for desert agricultural developments. But in reality, they were going to be used to doze out the homes of desert arabs in Libya - which Gadaffi did to force them to starve and/or move away. The export was blocked by the US and other countries who had at the time fallen out with Gadaffi due to the Lockerbie bombing etc. Of course, later he reformed and came back into favour, as did his oil supplies😊

The dozer was shown being started and moved around a bit outside the factory and it was certainly an impressive sight. It was then parked up awaiting relocation to a more permanant home.

That dozer is mightily impressive, but check out its cousin.

http://www.vincelewis.net/accograder.html

What a piece of machinery, although not a happy ending 😞