Move of a huge turbine/generator in Canton, CT. The temporary bridge is placed over a bridge where a stream crosses diagonally under the road. You can see the left side bridge railing, the right is off camera.
This was a excellent video well done on getting this big Turbine over the section of the Small Bridge with this massive load and I really enjoyed every minute of this video and the Trailer was placed and the Steel Bridge was just amazing to see real pros. Know their own jobs well done to all involved
These heavy hauls are awesome to watch on video...not so much in person in traffic, when you’ve been driving for hours and need to use the bathroom, and you know the next stop is only 20 miles away, and you come around a corner and suddenly you’re 15th in line behind a massive convoy pulling a huge water tank going 2mph up a long hill with no shoulder to pull off onto. We were going slow enough, if I had a bottle in the truck, I would have used it while driving.
I have watched a lot of these heavy haul videos, and I do believe this is the biggest trailer I have ever seen! We got a machine in at work a while back that the largest piece weighed over a million pounds and that trailer wasn't nearly this big. It was a lowboy deck I belive this is a gantry beam type.
At the time I believe this was the largest ever. 1 million pounds load, 1.5 million total weight, or something like that. The news article is no longer available. One of 4 or 5 they moved.
Jarret Hall ....I have seen trailers on the road, with 72 tires, not including the truck. That comes to 18 axles. There are bigger, but this is the largest I have seen in person.
I know they can adjust the axles up/down on the fly. But, did I see the length of the 'truss' adjust as it went over the bridge? Fascinating! Thankyou for a great video!
David Solomon there are no gods among men, there are engineers, doctors, physicists that can do things way out of the ordinary, like Albert Einstein, Jonas Salk, Orville and Wilbur Wright, sorry no god like humans.
@@timmayer8723 I have no problem with your response: Any reference I made about gods among men was poetic. As a believer, I would not dare be blasphemous! Scripture, however, does say that God made man a little lower than the angels ( gods)!
(" Hey, AAA, can ya send someone out to change a tire? Or ten? Or......?) Interesting lead rig - never saw one like that before.. Love the 8X8 pusher.. Oshkosh, I'm guessig..
The could have used a little sand under those drive wheels that was slipping. I will say one thing for these people they have got in a very small sock and doing a very outstanding job. thanks for a very outstanding video. it was awesome on a wide screen
This trailer is crossing a temporary bridge spanning a DOT bridge on the road when it crosses it will be disassembled and reassembled at the next crossing
Just out of curiosity When the man measured the center of the span for height above road and then again when the first segment was on the bridge. What was the flex of your bridge? Now at 11:00 minutes into the video, what official allowed a semi to cross that bridge? Someone below stated that the bridge was a diagonal. Your vehicle and the semi actually pushed the bridge into an overweight according to federal bridge weight formulas.
All road surfaces are rated and approved by the state. If engineer doesnt think road or bridge will handle the weight then j supor brings thier own bridge and passes over. Really bitchn actually
Steve Huffman There is a stream running diagonally under the road. You can see the bridge railing if you look closely. The bridge plates spanned over the bridge which could not support the weight. They had to do this at every bridge.
Looks like they're bridging a Culvert or drain. I'm sure he's wanting to check the drop in the bridge, it's probably engineering to handle the weight. but it's nice to keep something like that in the back of your mind the next time you use that piece.
The axles are hydraulic controlled they can keep the load spread evenly or take weight off the load on bridge and leave the difference on solid ground.
I THINK THAT RAMP PURPOSE IS TO MAKE A BRIDGE OR SO CAN HANDLE THE WEIGHT OF THE CARGO. THAT RAMP FORM SUPPOSE TO STAY BENT WHAT SO EVER. IT'S A WEIGHT EQUIPMENT.
Rogelio Maza Yes. There’s a stream that runs diagonally under the road there, you can see the railing for the road bridge on the left, it ends at the line pole. The metal plates create a bridge over that, because it wasn’t built to hold so much weight.
There was probably underground utilities That couldn’t handle the weight that’s why the bridge was deployed. High pressure gas main or high pressure oil air gasoline pipelines
Joseph Valent Jr No. as I mentioned in the comments, there’s a small bridge over a stream. It runs diagonally under the road, you can see where the guardrail turns into the railing on the left hand side.
There is a stream running diagonally under the road. You can see the bridge railing if you look closely. The bridge plates spanned over the bridge which could not support the weight. They had to do this at every bridge.
more then likely with a small stream that is running under it all that is really supporting that road is a Culvert drain pipe and that much weight would just crush it.
@@GhostDrummer In the 1960's Wynn's Heavy Haulage (UK) used hovercraft technology to lighten the loads of transformers going over bridges/culverts. Here is an interesting video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-plWukUpqb9M.html&ab_channel=kenpics
These guys put up all kinds of barriers to every little loophole that Murphy may exploit. No detail left unscrutinized for the devil truly lives in the details.
@@texastowman233 I understand the self-propelled part of it. Someone, somewhere has to be operating it. I'd assume it by remote control from a driver closely watching it. Thanks for your information.
@@jeffryblackmon4846 You bet. Easy to miss considering he was visually doing very little. Strolling along, casually controlling a million ton or whatever turbine. Lol.
@@donmcmannamy3409 bridge was under the span, I was involved in a move like this years ago we had to span bridges and culverts, long trip. Did as many as 12 jumps in a night, worst part was we only had two spans so we got really good really fast
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