Wide Loads Ahoy

1 year 7 months ago #742357 by Ozzie_Traveller
G'day all

It's most unusual to have 3x Wide-Loads under police escort on the same highway and on the same day (but each one about an hour apart).  We had plenty of warning that they were approaching via the 2-way radio, where I could hear the front pilot vehicle's text as "northbound 6-point-7-metre wide load approaching... please exit the highway and park your vehicle"

Here they are ... we're in central Queensland at the moment--and all this stuff is used by the coal mining industry

1)- Wide Load ... 6,7m wide bulldozer blade
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exif- Panny FZ-300; 1/800s x F4,0; ISO-100; 24x zoom / 600mm FF Equiv

2)- Wide Load ... 7,3m wide bulldozer blade
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exif- Panny FZ-300; 1/1600s x F5,6; ISO-400; 12x zoom / 300mm FF Equiv

3)- Wide Load and Highway Patrol police escort
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exif- Panny FZ-300; 1/800s x F4,0; ISO-100; 13x zoom / 330mm FF Equiv

4)- And here is the 8-metre wide bit of industrial machinery
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exif- Panny FZ-300; 1/640s x F4,0; ISO-100; 13x zoom / 330mm FF Equiv

As always, feedback welcome
Phil

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1 year 7 months ago #742377 by Shadowfixer1
That's not a knife. This is a knife. Old movie reference. That's some big equipment.
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1 year 7 months ago #742395 by Esseff
Love these. Don't really see this sort of thing in my area.


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1 year 7 months ago #742403 by db3348
All very well if  you have 2-way radio installed ,  but  for those of us without it ,  we just have to learn by surprise .

Great shots Phil .


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1 year 7 months ago #742414 by Ozzie_Traveller

db3348 wrote: All very well if  you have 2-way radio installed ,  but  for those of us without it ,  we just have to learn by surprise .
Great shots Phil .


G'day Dave

On average we get 5 to 8 minutes warning from the primary escort vehicle's radio calls
Our radio is a GME ... Aussie made and able to be repaired almost anywhere across Oz (unlike the imports which you have to chuck away if something stops working)

This is the equiv to our 20-yr old job ... a 2-piece unit where the control box is mounted / hidden under the dash and a small head unit is seen by the driver
www.gme.net.au/au/fixed-mount-radios/tx3520s/

Phil

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