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Hi all,

find attached some photos of 785's working in the restoration of a open pit mine in Spain.

Cheers.

Just got back from the Banks OCCS, Brenkley, to see their new Komatsu HD785 trucks. Good looking trucks, well priced and stronger than the CAT 777F, more to go there too. Pics to follow soon and look out for a forthcoming feature in EARTHMOVERS
Paul

Nice pictures francisco

Hi paul, yeah im looking forward to the feature in earthmovers

Hi Paul
Thanks for the heads up will lookforward to that

Ross wrote:So Stu ... Are they any good?

Those Komatsu haulers to me are copies of Cats popular 777 ! They should be called copycatmatsu's ! Get your own design ideas Komatsu !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They didnt look like Copies to me .. The Frame work and suspension looked really good ..

Go and crawl under a new cat and you see that cat have copied komatsu the 785 komatsu were around be for the cat ,1986

SRB wrote:These 785's were on hire to Kier from HCL back in January whilst the 777's were on there way in. Few snaps of them at rest and work and one with a flat tyre......

SB

It's a bit ironic that when working on them at Greenburn the serial numbers of some of those HCL HD785's were in fact ex Law Mining trucks from Garleffan opencast which I spent a lot of time on and now there is 12 new HD785-7 trucks now going into Greenburn for Kier.

Hi I would like to know what part of the HD785-3

Hi
I would like to know what part of the HD785-3 is a copy of the Cat 777

It has a different engine type and set up
It has the torque convertor built into the transmission and is remote mounted, instead of the converter on the back of the engine and the tranny mounted to the rear axle.
It has different mounted front and rear suspension set up
The park brake is a single disc brake with three calipers mounted on the diff input pinion
The wheels are fitted with a tapered locking band

Hi
I would like to know what part of the HD785-3 is a copy of the Cat 777

It has a different engine type and set up
It has the torque convertor built into the transmission and is remote mounted, instead of the converter on the back of the engine and the tranny mounted to the rear axle.
It has different mounted front and rear suspension set up
The park brake is a single disc brake with three calipers mounted on the diff input pinion
The wheels are fitted with a tapered locking band
Not sure where the copying is with this model!!!