I stopped at a rest stop on I-65 south of <?:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Montgomery</st1:City> <st1:State w:st="on">Alabama</st1:State></st1:place> last Monday and pulled along side of this. You are looking at 50 wheels on the ground. The “trailer” has 2 fifth wheels. The load is a part for a drag line that is being moved from <st1:State w:st="on">New Mexico</st1:State> to south <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Florida</st1:place></st1:State>. This part is one of the hinges for the boom. It weighs 147,000 pounds. It is one of 119 loads total. The truck gets 2.7 mpg. That is a standard 18 wheeler in the background.
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Cool. http://dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/smiley20.gif

My Dmax could pull that and get better mileage! http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/smiley36.gif


WOW that is HUGE! How would you like to be the truck driver moving that hunk of metal.


Ben

I wonder what the cost of that move would be? Man, that is some trailer!

This is the driver. He said it took him 14 years to work up to driving this rig.


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I saw one flat bed trailer that had 96 wheels on it. It was 65'
long (at least) The first and last third of the wheels would
pivot. The middle third were fixed. The trailer was towed
by a super sized duty Kenworth. It was used (in this case) to
move a 24 ton gas turbine. Kinda neat. I asked the driver
what happened if he got a flat, on one of the inner tires? He
calls the shop, and doesn't worry about it.

They used a civilian rig like this to move our M1A1 tanks. They were only 65 tons. Wasn't quite as big as this rig though. The HET, the military vehicle used to transport the tanks had something like 10 rows of dual wheels on each side that piviot independently. They also can shift the load for each set of wheels.

WOW..


That is a huge rig... what double or more the length of a typical 53" truck or so....


I did find this while doing a search...





Two powerful trucks – like a lead locomotive and a helper engine – sandwiched a flatbed trailer carrying a massive 389,000-pound electrical transformer destined for an Avista substation north of Lewiston. Including the two front-and-back trucks, the whole combination weighed 609,000 pounds – or 304-plus tons.


always love big rigs





http://www.itd.idaho.gov/transporter/2003/111403_Trans/111403_Transformer.jpg

I see this company haul all the time.


www.hallamore.com (http://www.hallamore.com)


400 ton trailers.

We are installing a new transfer press in our shop.


The major componets had the large trailers w/ the rear driver steering the back end.


We couldn't take any pics hear at work.

Super-sized vehicle carrying key Atlas V equipment to Vandenberg
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BY CAPT. TODD FLEMING
30th Space Wing Public Affairs

A transport rig the length of a football field ison its way to Vandenberg after leaving FloridaJune 22 carrying part of the fixed launch platformstructure for Lockheed Martin’s new Atlas V launch pad. The 29-axle rig is one of four vehicles carrying the structure due to arrive at the base some time near the middle of July. “As you might imagine, moving a vehicle literally as long as a football field all the way across this great nation of ours is quite a modern marvel,” said Tech. Sgt. Norman Sibley, 4th Space Launch Squadron. “Planning has been underway since January and extensive coordination with each state was required. The actual route has been driven and surveyed in great detail to identify potential problem areas. Due to the width of the vehicle, two traffic lanes are being used at all times.” The truck is making a 3,300-mile journey across eight states traveling a maximum speed of 45 miles per hour. It is using both a standard diesel tractor to pull the transport and a pusher tractor.
When all four trucks arrive, the 400-ton launch platform will be assembled. Mechanical and electrical service requirements for the Atlas V are provided by the fixed launch platform. The existing Atlas launch facility is being modified by Lockheed Martin to launch the new Atlas V rocket in fourteen months. Depending on its configuration, Atlas V can place from 10,900 to 19,100 pounds into geosynchronous transfer orbit and 14,000 pounds directly into a geostationary orbit. “The Atlas V is the latest evolution in expendable launch vehicles, being built by Lockheed Martin, that gives us another tremendous capability to deliver key national satellites into orbit,” Sergeant Sibley said. “We’re excited about the opportunity to support this construction at Vandenberg in anticipation of a 2005 launch.” Sauer, Incorporated, which built the mobile launch platform for the Atlas V program at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., constructed this device. The new Atlas V launch complex is being built on Space Launch Complex-3 East, or SLC-3E.

<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I stopped at a rest stop on I-65 south of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Montgomery</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">Alabama</st1:state></st1:place> last Monday and pulled along side of this.<span style=""> </span>You are looking at 50 wheels on the ground.<span style=""> </span>The “trailer” has 2 fifth wheels.<span style=""> </span>The load is a part for a drag line that is being moved from <st1:state w:st="on">New Mexico</st1:state> to south <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Florida</st1:place></st1:state>.<span style=""> </span>This part is one of the hinges for the boom.<span style=""> </span>It weighs 147,000 pounds.<span style=""> </span>It is one of 119 loads total.<span style=""> </span>The truck gets 2.7 mpg.<span style=""> </span>That is a standard 18 wheeler in the background.</font>
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About 3 years ago I saw one on I-70 near here (there was two of them
too) that made this thing look small. If had one tractor in center in
front and TWO tractors in rear of trailer about 6 feet apart, side buy
side pushing! One of the push tractors broke down and the whole rig sat
near a rest are for a few days until they replaced the tractor. It was
over 2 lanes wide too. I wish I would have had a camera with me then.
It was something and I can only imagine how much it must have weighed
to need 3 souped up tractors!

Well I guess I'm too late, but I don't see any pics. What gives?http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/smiley5.gif


JP

A friend runs a mining company near Grants, NM. When they got their new dragline a few years ago, they spent over $1M on trucking to get all the parts there. I can't remember how much the machine cost.

Coming through New Mexico, Nov 2, I came accross a similar rig,
unloaded in the Moriaty NM Rip Griffin's truck stop.. Now I have
found somewhere to post pictures, I will start taking my digital around
with me - I go places with all sorts of cool looking equipment to drool
over.



Mylash