I hauled 13 axle (50 wheel) loads out of Liebherr in Newport News, Virginia. The 776 weighs between 75 and 80 tons. I always loaded the blade to the rear to increase what I could see behind me.

For the guy who said this isn’t as big as a D-8, this machine is almost twice as heavy as a D-8. The 776 is slightly lighter than a D-10. D-11’s are over 100 tons. I like those 9 axle California trailers but they don’t permit well in the East.Regardz!A customer of ours also has such steel plates to protect the floor.

However, his solution provides for rubber plates on the underside so that the plates do not slip. And his stackers have electromagnets to move the plates.

I’ve never had the opportunity to get the privilege of getting to operate a Liebherr dozer of any kind because I live in the US and the only machines that size here that I know of are either Cats,Komatsu’s that have Dozer’s that big.

D-10/D-11 or Komatsu 475 Super Dozer. The D9 was the only one that I got to run for any length of time and that was about 7 1/2 years and then I got the first D-10 and I fell I love with that Dozer, it had everything right at your finger tips, I had a radio that played music that was bad ass it sounded like the one that I had in my truck.

And then it just had unbelievable things that I’d never before seen in any other Dozer that I had operated, that damn thing had more bells and whistles that I didn’t have a fucking clue what they were on how to turn them off. But after about three weeks if you would’ve come up to me and asked me what everything did I could tell you what everything and how it worked the whole nine yards.