LOADER/CRANE TEAM CREATES HOMEMADE DRAGLINE

Early in April, a large rock slide heavily damaged three tractor trailers and closed I-40 at the North Carolina/Tennessee border. North Carolina Department of Transportation crews partly cleared the slide and reopened I-40 to traffic within six hours, but the hillside of rock and mud was still unstable. A major clean-up was needed, and experience was a key requisite for its timely and successful completion. NCDOT hired Oman Construction Company of Nashville, Tennessee, to remove the remainder of the slide. The Tennessee contractor fashioned a homemade dragline to pull rock and mud down a steep roadside slope. A 300-ton crane lifted a dragline bucket made of a dozer track curled into a "U" around a scaling plate studded with bucket teeth. A wheel loader pulled the bucket, bringing unstable material down the hill.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Cahners Publishing Company

  275 Washington Street
  Newton, MA  United States  02158-1630
• Authors:
  • Klemens, T L
• Publication Date: 1989-9

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: p. 46-47
• Serial:
  • Highways and Heavy Construction
  • Volume: 132
  • Issue Number: 10
  • Publisher: Cahners Publishing Company
  • ISSN: 0362-0506

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cranes; Draglines; Loaders; Maintenance practices; Rockslides; Slope stability; Slopes; Unstable soil
• Uncontrolled Terms: Wheel loaders
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Vehicles and Equipment; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00488557
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 31 1989 12:00AM