@@figlexgonzalez3115 Indeed its amazing how they've engineered the distribution of weight for such loads. Sitting such concentrated weight on any conventional trailer would certainly break its back. This weight distribution isbif a science far above my feeble mind. LOL.... Years ago I drive coast to coast and Canada and hauled 'permit loads' (heavy, high and wide), but never operated anything of these proportions ... always thought I'd like to, but only ran conventional tri-axle heavies. The steering system on this rigging is what fascinates me the most.
They used to just carry a little midget in a box on the trailer, those were the days! He would even stand on the truck passing under low clearance obstacles, he would hold a bag of bells or in northern states they just put a single large bell on his hat, if you heard him fall, it was time to stop.
Reminds me of the giant boilers I'd run a push truck with, heading up to Cold Lake Alberta Weapons Range, but this is looooong! Loved how the middle axles of the set were all individual steer! So smooth. All night runs though for us, no daytime until 5pm. Slow going. 25kms/hr max. Big frame sections, with pipe and walkways and around 65ft high. 2 pull trucks, 4 trucks pushing in spring to fall, or 6 push trucks in winter. All chained up too. Massive money driving for Premay
@@GoldVP... They've came a long way with these specialized transports ... The new (I think it's called autonomous steering) has been a game changer for sure. I watch quite a few of the open mine videos, and they're using this steering on the newer dumpers. It blows one's mind to see the technologies that keep changing things. The one thing in this vid was my thoughts on what such a trailer syst would cost. I'd think we'll into the millions.
No one will believe me if they see this but I was on the same substation job that this transformer was moving to. I left to the next job so I never got to see them move it so I’m glad this video somehow got recommended to me
I drove out of Ohio years ago and hauled 'permit loads' 48 states and Canada, even to and through WY. ... Never anything this massive and awesome tho ... I wish you'd have shown the on and off loading of this piece. I can't imagine the rigging that handles this sort of weight .... the trucks and trailer show the sheer power needed just to get it transported. Awesome job!! The responsibilities of the crew required means everyone had to be in synch 100% of the time ... the routing required, not to mention getting highways cleared to accommodate this sort of move. So many things factored in makes it a task.
saw you guys out on the road a few times back in my driving days, always wanted to work the big stuff, never got beyond soloing oversize transmission poles and trans pad overheads frames, broke my back 10yrs ago, god i miss it!
@@justbe4481lol maybe not your limited imagination, but there has been an enormous amount of experimental archeology working out how to move massive pieces of stone with relatively simple tech. Scans of the pyramids show internal ramps that were used to spiral the stones up the structure. Experiments with the easter island statues suggest they were walked by tying ropes at the top and rocking+twisting them. Stonehenge rocks were probably lifted into position with levers.
Looks like the old Savage TK1000 got a new coat of paint. That trailer moved some serious loads, that Autoclave move back in the 90s is still one of my favorites.
I passed you guys just outta Laramie a few weeks ago. If I remember right there was two of those rigs running together. It's definitely a pretty incredible piece of equipment !
Yep - we need to get rid of GoPro cameras with their curvilinear lenses and use cameras that have RECTILINEAR lenses in order to see things the way they REALLY are.
Had to contract someone to move a 260,000 # vessel a few years back. Not like this, but a challenge for sure. Not many around that do this kind of thing. A lot of work goes into such an endeavor. Routing, permits, bridge upgrades, engineering, power lines, permits, crews, cranes and crews on both ends. Glad had a good team.
@@blueman5924 Cool. Saw something very similar roll through our town about 20 years ago. (Though I didn't see the whole thing all-at-once; I was at the back of a building looking through the front window.) I'd guessed it was about 2 blocks long. Always wondered about it.
How much horsepower is moving all of this? 5:00 is pretty incredible. That looks like a significant hill. It's been a long time since I had a physics class, but to move 1.5M lbs up a 10° incline (17.6% grade) at 10 mph would take about 7000 HP, I think. And that just accounts for the weight, no rolling resistance. (1.5M lbs * sin(10) * 14.667 ft/s) / 550 lb-ft/s = 6946 HP So 3500 HP would be able to do the same incline at 5 mph, or do a 5° incline at 10 mph. Seems like 3500 is a little closer to what we see at the five minute mark, but I have no idea what the speed or incline was. Regardless it's nothing short of incredible. Just the coordination with the various jurisdictions to move a load like this is enough to make my head spin.
It’d be a lot easier to transport that transformer on a train. They have rail cars the length of one dolly. Probably shorter than one dolly, but not by much.
Whoever was the contractor that built the bridge they went over, you know damn good and well he was going "Yeah, it will hold....Im pretty sure anyways...I hope it will...oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit...WHEW!!!!!!"
@tylerw7531 Thanks for answering. My son is a Lineman, and he sent me some pictures of an End dump dump truck that got into some 69Kv lines, and it went to the ground in mess of places, turned big patches of tires into charcoal.
