Could you check the air in my tires, all 576 of them.





Jim

 

Wonder who many guys the have on the pre-trip crew, that pre trip checklist has to be a book.

 

Piece of cake. I could pull that with my truck on the GN.
It is amazing what man can do when he wants to. They lifted these 450 ton transformers and generator stators here at the power station like they were nothing. They moved the 425 ton transformers on plywood literally coated with hand rubbed ivory soap. Blew my mind for sure.
My album has a pic of one of the new reactor heads coming in by truck and they were only 75 tons.

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...6&ppuser=19433

 

That set up has Onboard Air. One of the power units is the compressor.
Sheesh, its so obvious.

 

576 tires lets says you catch a deal from the tire store at $500/tire. $288,000 just for tires.

 

Is the 950 ton the weight of the whole rig/load, or just the load? The generators I work on are usually in the 400-500 MW range, the stators are around 250-300 ton. Another 700 is huge!

 

Think how flat that would make road kill.

It would make it almost impossible to get them on the stick.

 

I watched the night video and thought, why not fabricate on site?
then I watched the day video and realized, the cargo was a smaller portion in the middle, the rest was trailer.

amazing.

 

Kinda looks like the transporters they use in shipyards. We have em to pick up units, they drive under it, and all the wheels have hydraulics on em. They have like 60 tires, and the whole deck lowers to get under the unit, then raises it up off the stands. each row of tires can be steered independantly so it can move laterally, or spin around on an axis.

 

What road kill? It is not permanent asphalt conversion at that weight.

 

Is that the one they shipped thru Texas? if so, I saw it. The actual part they were carrying wasn't that big. Everyone made a big deal about it like it was going to shut the town down when it came thru but it was more talk than anything.

 

So this happens every day in your town? I could see the lack of luster..

 

I can't see the "Radio Flyer" on the side... I know it has to be there somewhere...

 

No it doesn't happen every day, but our local media made it sound like it would be so big everyone will have to evacuate for it to make it thru. It was parked a few miles from town and we just happen to drive by it and it wasn't as big in person as it is in tv land.

 

Was this piece going to the Gibbons Creek Steam Station or being used in your area?
Remember, you live in Texas where everything is bigger so you have been desensitized and it did not seem as big to a resident.