Caterpillar (CATERPILLAR) 797 is the largest mine dump truck in the world. It has a height of 7.2 meters, even higher than the two storey, with a body length of 15 meters and a width of over 9 meters. The super truck used V24 engine has a total of 3400 horsepower, the maximum speed of 64 km / h.
Caterpillar 797 has 6 wheels. Each wheel has a diameter of 4 meters and weighs over 5 tons. Caterpillar 797 is worth a lot of money, and every tire is worth 30 thousand dollars, equivalent to a BMW 3 series, and the vehicle is more than 3 million 400 thousand dollars. Each of the Caterpillar 797 tramcar has a set of 42 inch brake discs behind each wheel, 10 front wheels and 15 rear wheels.
The car has a computer that controls the brake cooling system, taking the coolant through a radiator on a disc at 1160 gallons per minute to take away the great heat generated by the brakes.
The engine displacement of Caterpillar 797 reached 117L, the volume of fuel tank reached 6813L, and the fuel consumption of 100 km was 788L. On average, Caterpillar 797 consumes 65 gallons of fuel per hour and works day and night.
Caterpillar 797F appeared in 2008, the latest version of the Caterpillar 797 mine car is 106L, mailbox capacity tank capacity of 7571L, the maximum speed of 67 km / h.
As the world's largest mine truck series, Caterpillar 797 won the largest truck title in 2000-2001 and ranked third in the world's largest mine car rankings in 2012-2013.
