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TxDOT's Heaviest Load
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- Опубліковано 22 лют 2010
- Crawling along at 10 miles per day, TxDOT recently oversaw the transport of a mammoth 1.7 million pound Toshiba steam turbine engine. A custom rig with 520 tires transported the generator, measuring in at 39 feet wide, 18 feet high, and as long as a football field. This is the heaviest load that has ever been moved this distance in Texas!
Good video! I was the driver on the front truck. Your video brings back good memories. We met a lot of nice people in Texas.
Am a pilot car owner/operator now. Would have loved to been on this run. My niece's husband works for Mammoet. You may know him, Bulldog
The Mammoet crew does stuff that just drops my jaw, and I have been a heavy haul driver for a long time.
This. Especially when theres America full of welding shops who manufacture this size of steam turbines. There's 7 companies in 10-minute drive from where I live who does 1.7 million pound -sized steam turbine engines.
You’re telling me that within ten miles of your house there are 7 companies who could make ......
This is sarcasm isn’t it. Damnit!
I did heavy haul for 3yrs. But NOTHING like this. I would have loved to have been a part in a move of this scale. Looked like fun, but at the same time what a headache! Gives a whole new meaning to OVERSIZE LOAD.
I got to see this run through pretty damn badass
The creaking and groaning is scary.
damned if I would sit on the guardrail with that big thing passing overhead
As much as I want to make a joke, looking at the set up of trailer I can't. That is just way to awesome. Also the loads normally start out as sheet steel and go from there.
How much of that 1.7 million pounds was the cargo and how much was the carrier?
Don't look now but Mammoet is a Dutch company and Kenworth tractors are made in Canada. Not much 'made in USA' but the Big Macs the crew ate for lunch.
The ship yard I worked for moved a ship weighting over 24,000 tons a short distance over dry land on a rail system
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1. In the video the bridge you crossed what was the load weight of the bridge? I saw you beefed up the roadway over the bridge what was the total weight per wheel on the rig you used?
2. How long did it take for the total distance?
3. What was the total cost of the move everything included?
Thanks you for a very good educational video
The guy sitting there watching the tires go over that plate, was in a really bad spot if 1 of those tires blew
+louis “joe” puglisi It is danger for him if the structure bridge to collapse as well
Very bad idea.
Completely agree, and he wasn't the only one. I'd say project management at this company could use an overhaul, with a focus on Safety. It's possible to be Hard Core without being completely stupid. Even in 2010 it would have been absolutely feasible to mount cameras to monitor wheels at close quarters where necessary. But what do I know, I am just a candy-assed Brit.
AMAZING! Thanks for sharing
as an American i agree, we dont have to build everything to have pride, and intelligence is in every country. working together to collaborate on big projects is best for a mountain of reasons
520 tires and each one sags like its carrying twice its capacity. That thing is fucking HEAVY
at 1,700,000lbs oh yea
3269lbs PER TIRE.
Love Texas.
So glad everybody has there hardhats on tht will save ya
labor cost about 3.75 per hr to our 15.00 per hr to build it in US and our steel is sent Japan
A foreign company name doesn't mean its foreign built. Alot of companies, like Sony and LG has their plants in the US. :)
HQ of Toshiba Industrial Corporation USA is Houston, TX.
Im glad to see he has his hard hat on that thing drops on him with out it ...could be all over.
Thanks OSHA
that is one wicked trailer
Bradley Wild
What is the red platform for? Avoiding for worn bumps?
It helps the bridge to hold all that weight. The bridge isn't build for such loads.
Everyone is a genius on the internet. And we don't use american made turbines because we cant make them efficient enough
In the US, we have several companies that do heavy moving of this type, Emmert International (Portland, Oregon)
is one.
Hmm, what about using party balloons filled with helium to lift it and a couple of hair dryers to propel it along...?
I think the trailer, etc, are by Mammoet which is a world famous company...amazing what these guys do - they designed the new cover for the Chernobyl nuclear plant that blew up in the former USSR. The Swedes made the discover of the cloud of nuclear materiel that was blown over Europe - just google for the story.
I'm sure those drivers made a shit ton with that thing.
The load per tire is about 3300 pounds, which is probably about 200 pounds per square inch for the contact area.
Ok I know all this was planed to be safe as it could be. BUT you have a guy sitting on the crash rail of the bridge? Really one blow out of on of the main weight bearing tires (You can see them bulged out) and that guy is dead! Ever seen a tire on a regular tractor trailer blow out? Congrats on the move, but poor safety!
@rlorion in texas w/ 22.5 tires you can get 20k per axel (axel defined as group of four tires) i see 72 axels on the trailer so thats 1.4 million ....and the video says 1.7 million .... and you can see those tires squating
my guess on this is they sent plans out to several manufactures and said build this for this prices and with this quality and Toshiba said they could assemble the materials and tools for the cheapest
I've got two questions, #1: how fast is that thing moving, and #2: what type of engine is in the truck pulling the whole load?
oh, ok. I don't see loads like this out in Pennsylvania much.
+Timothy Fuller Western Stars
oh ok.
+Timothy Fuller oh and also i think 2 kenworth C500s
noice
well..1.7 million pounds (850 ton?) is b.s..also it's not a turbine engine but the generator stator.
who ever was the shipping company made a nice expensive show for nothing..all those trailers and the fixture for the actual stator were unnecessary. maybe only if the bridge could not take it and they had to distribute the weight with maximum amount of wheels on the ground.
Just the daily pre trip had to take 6 hours lol
I'll bet that bridge is glad that load is off of it
It makes me wonder why people today are not as smart & advanced as the earth's previous humanity was; they were able to move much heavier loads than we can do today. Why could not they just had the steam turbine built & assembled at the Waco power plant?
In old days large steam generators were built under cathedrals where a thermal vent was to use for steam so that the cathodrils would have heat & free energy, and more free electricity was generated by ionization from the spires by resonance.
This is the real "Never-Ending" story!
suck to check the tire pressures on that thing, it'd take a week
everything's bigger in Texas!!
Steam turbine for dirty gas or oil power? Why not endless Texas wind and sun? 🌞
It would suck to be behind that!
In Texas, everything is big.
Silly question: How many MPG did you get outta that thing?
TxDOT= Texas department of Transport, read the title, they oversaw the trip.
I'm surprised no one has said what the piece weighs. What is its weight?
i wonder just how much air pressure is going threw the entire load i mean trucks and all because the trucks air pressure has to be powering the platform right
+Logan Curry If you look at 1:26 there is a Air Compressor mounted on the front of the Jeep part of the trailer. And, I'm sure there is another one at the rear of the load too. I used to haul these "Heavy Haul Loads".
what's the heaviest load you've hauled in your career danny walker
A little over 450,000 lbs.
Sucks for the guy that has to crank on the floor jack when a tire goes flat.
Why not just build on site and save everybody the head-ache?
Because you can't build a turbine piece by piece and test without a dedicated facility to do it in. It's not Lego. :-/
Actually most of this thing's assembly is done on site. The steel girders are all just part of the frame that could have been modular(bolted or welded). I used to work on this stuff for a living. It pretty much is all giant legos
Why are you asking that question on a comment board on UA-cam? You should get directly in touch with the people involved and ask that question if you really want to know the answer.
Robert Palmer It wasn't a question. It was more like criticism in the form of a question. You never know.... sometimes people involved with these types of projects do actually comment back and drop some knowledge.
10/4
I thought the load securement needed to equal the weight of the load. Not near enough chains!
need to get rid of a heavy load myself.
It seems like there is too much trailer to me for the size of the engine.
I would love to work for this outfit.....they seem top notch !!!
I'd hate to be one of the guys walking along that thing, I'd be scared shitless the tires would blow.
3600 lb tire
Wow, i move equipment, never do my eight axles of tires go flat on bottom like that, lol, thats freakn heavy..
how much would a load like this pay?
I hate seeing crap like this they could have built this on site .What did this do to improve the economy?
Uhm, did you made a proposal to sell the company an american made turbine? Did you go to their office and say "Guys, buy my GE turbine, it is so much better". Did you win the tender offering the best price to value and quality with the best aftersale service? Well, maybe that is why they have Toshiba now. I'll be serious now - any time somebody sell something - they earned that, because they gave the best offer out there.
What is the red platform for? Avoiding for worn bumps?
Reinforcement
Will my Honda support such loads?
Holy Shit !!!!!
how much weight in the footprint?
Yay Mammoet!
saw it come thru cut n shoot tx.....:-)
How does Toshiba make this stuff?
I am guessing that load paid over a dollar a mile.
@rlorion Needs to distribute the weight.
what's this music ?
about 850 t
@721069 HUGE massive workshops haha, it is sum bloody size
Can't we have it tonnes like the rest of the world quotes it?
Yea imagine that in Louisiana roads lol. I'll leave it there
Everything Is Big In Texas.
OMG, those guys must have balls of steal.
Nice move, but I had to turn the volume down- that waylon & willy shitkicker music was just too much....
Theres no scales in texas mostly
Texas Boogie-Woogie?
I am disappointed that the Texas DOT did not mention the Mammoet company which managed the job...too bad.
granskare - Yeah. I would think that when this job was finished, TxDOT’s entire year’s budget was “Sponsored by Mammoet” with the warehouse of permits from this load.
There is a vid here on YT where Mammoet moved a load of 28-MILLION pounds.
Check out "Mammoet Guinnes Book Of Records"
Dutch power yeah
U know that is mammoet not txdot
hey here's an idea PULL IT APART and then move it and then rebuild it :D EASY
0_0 what would that thing even power
We (Americans) can all thank the unions for that. Union prima donnas wanting much more than they are worth and driving up the cost of doing business. In doing so, they make it difficult, or impossible, to compete in the business world, hence forcing manufacturers to go abroad.
BULL, it's the mega companies with a long term plan to kill the unions by every possible means. Including decades long lobbying efforts in congress.
Sir wrong way turn round
and before you turn change all those break pads
you need a trailer to carry the trailer.....
What are we going to do when Obama, Reid, and Pelosi mandate that ALL trucks get 54-miles-per-gallon by 2035?
@Bandit4229 alot im gessing
I build all the eq. for tx.you think this is big,you should see our building where it is born!
@721069 They can figure that out but my lap top well thats another story
They could have split it up and traveled 4 times as fast...
They could have, but sometimes you don't have the ability to assemble it onsite due to it's size, weather, or whatever reason. I might need to be built in a controlled environment, exact specs and they have all of that in one place. It's easier and cheaper to do it this way. These things aren't bought every year.
why couldn't they just fedex it?
They didn't have a box big enough.
truck centipede
Typical government hack trying to take credit for the private sector work being done.
pay was more the 1.50 a mile.
Because we don't make them here, that's why!!
> 1.7 million pound
O u crazy american types ... could you at least have bounced that down to tons for the rest of us?
(FWIW it's between 759 and 850 tons depending what system you're using - and 772t metric. Some proper heavy stuff.)
Hey, you have a brain and fingers. Use that google thing.
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@2005Danimal
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