To two people in the greys. Liquid Oxygen isn’t dangerous because it burns, it’s dangerous because of WHAT it burns (dang near everything is a fuel in a LOX fire).
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Big crane. Probably two of them. I watch them unload these all the time off ships. They do it with two gigantimous cranes.
It’s really not so bad, it just takes experience. Early in my trucking career, I found myself on a road I shouldn’t have been on, looking at a 5 ton bridge, and my only recourse was to back up my 53' trailer about 3/4 of a mile, back to where I made my wrong turn. Took me about 1/2 an hour, but I did it. In the next 7…
Naah, just sharpen the leading edge to razor-sharpness. The bridge has gotta lose sometime!
It’s a massive Autoclave used at a gold min. My guess is since its a pressure vessel it needs to be completely assembled at the fabrication site and not at the install site.
Definitely the truck with trailer and that anchor/lever point. I shoot cranes with a drone in my spare time, Dad still works for the company.
i think the weirdest thing i saw was a transport of molten aluminum or some other metal. had to keep a massive tank of liquid metal at like 2000F in transit.
Lol at the "much bigger straps"
Damnit, I came to say very specifically: Gnarly.
i got really annoyed once when i got stuck behind a massive firetruck that stopped in the middle of the road to then back into the tiny station door. i thought i was going to be there forever.
Some keep the spar intact inside like a tube for the length of the blade and some have it drop the trailing edge and support just the leading, which would make it genuinely hollow. The spar is the majority of the blade by weight.
When the blades got over 40 or 50 feet any natural product stopped being used because mass is the primary enemy of efficiency. For monsters like these even the polyester resin and fiberglass is largely supplanted by carbon fiber composites.
Gnarly.
Hope they go around that 11'8 bridge!
Care to elaborate? I’m interested to know.
Ages ago, when seeking my emergency vehicle operator certificate, I felt like hot shit as I blazed through the slalom both forward and backwards.
These guys must have nerves of steel. I’m white-knuckling it with a sofa in the bed of my truck with 10 ratchet straps and 6 bungie cords from Ikea. Couldn’t imagine having to do it for a living.
1. That Hofmann transporter sounds like it has a HUGE hydrostatic drive system for those, what, 32 wheels?
The center of gravity is somewhere within the wheelbase of the vehicle, and on a big load like that they’ll try to distribute it as evenly as possible across the axles. It’s deceiving because the root of the blade is much heavier than the tips, so the CG is not nearly as high or outside the vehicle envelope as you…