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MAN ballast tractor hooked via drawbar to 92,000 kg (203,000 lb) transformer on Nicolas modular axles. The ballast tractor's name derives from the nautical term “sailing ballast” describing heavy material added to a vessel to improve stability. For a ballast tractor, ballast is added over the driving wheels to maximize traction.
Nicolas Tractomas is a heavy-duty built-to-order ballast tractor specifically to tow hydraulic modular trailers and road trains used for movement of oversize loads manufactured by French manufacturer Nicolas Industrie based in Auxerre. The tractor was bespoke build with preferred engine, gearbox, drivetrain and ballast with a Renault Kerax cabin.
The Rotinoff company specialized in the production of ballast tractors and heavy transport vehicles. The vehicles of Rotinoff were widely used in Europe as tractors for tank transporters . In the Swiss army , the Rotinoff Atlantic GR 7 was used from 1958 - 1991 by the tank troops to haul Centurion tanks .
The Rotinoff Super Atlantic is a 6×4 ballast tractor made by the British company Rotinoff Motors Ltd. The tractor was designed for GCW of 200 tons with the help of a Rolls-Royce six cylinder supercharged engine producing almost 335 bhp with support of six speed main gearbox and a three speed auxiliary box for critical conditions.
In 2018 MOL CY delivered custom build ballast tractors to CLP Power Hong Kong Limited in Hong Kong named HF5066 with 6x6 configuration powered by a Cummins ISX15 producing 550 hp supported by Allison full automatic, 4700 series, 6 speeds transmission with a gross weight of 52 tons including the ballast box. The ballast tractors are capable of ...
Pumps can also be used to empty the leeward ballast tank and fill the windward tank as the boat tacks, and the quantity of ballast can be varied to keep the boat at the optimum angle of heel. A disadvantage of water ballast is that water is not very dense and therefore the tanks required take up more space than other forms of ballast.
In some cases, a heavy hauler is designed and constructed to move a particular load on a one-off or short-term basis. An example is the self-propelled antenna transporter for the ALMA radio telescope project, a 130-tonne (130-long-ton; 140-short-ton) 28-wheeled rigid vehicle designed to carry and place 115-tonne (113-long-ton; 127-short-ton) radio telescope antennas up a mountain to an ...
A Hayes-Anderson truck from 1933. The Hayes Manufacturing Company was established in Vancouver in 1920 by Douglas Hayes, an owner of a parts dealer, [1] and entrepreneur W. E. Anderson from Quadra Island, [1] as Hayes-Anderson Motor Company Ltd. [2] The company sold American-built trucks and truck parts for the first two years, then built their own trucks, because the trucks weren’t strong ...