This is a stator being moved from the Port of Charleston,SC. to Cliffside, NC.
Duke Power’s Cliffside plant supplies most of the power around here.
The convoy travels at 5mph and has taken a month.
Said to be the largest load moved over roads.
I don’t remember how many millions this move cost(read about it well before the move).
The permit costs alone were in the millions.
I remember thinking it would have been cheaper to fabricate it on site.
Ralph
They did essentially the same thing here not too long ago. Moved a piece of equipment from Peach Bottom in Lancaster Cty up to Limerick in Montgomery Cty. They had to close roads, reinforce bridges, bypass over passes and under passes and it took them almost a month to go the 70 miles between the two places. They had utility companies with crews on stand-by to move any overhead lines that needed to be raised or lowered. Pretty impressive.
How do they get 4 trucks pulling in unison? Seems to me that would be hard
Impressive, but I agree, why not just assemble or build it on site?
mike omalley said:They all have CB radios for communication and most have cruise control to set the speed. Just takes a lot of coordination.
How do they get 4 trucks pulling in unison? Seems to me that would be hard
Ken Brunt said:Interesting. I would have thought that there was some type of electrical MU like connection so that one driver controls all throttles.mike omalley said:They all have CB radios for communication and most have cruise control to set the speed. Just takes a lot of coordination.
How do they get 4 trucks pulling in unison? Seems to me that would be hard
We get a few High and Wide trans-loads through my area, but nothing anywhere close to this large. Usually transformers that come in by train, then are off-loaded to special trucks at a spot where there is room to build a 4 legged crane over the tracks. I might have pictures somewhere.
There are 5 trucks, three front and two in the rear.
You could RC or MU the throttles fairly easily, I would think. Brakes
would be more difficult.
The video really doesn’t do it justice. It looks much bigger in person.
Ralph
Ralph Berg said:Well, you have throttles, brakes, steering, clutch, shifting gears(with a Hi/Lo range in the trans and a splitter for each gear on the gear shift)........................it would be quite the MU set up for all that. One glitch and the whole convoy shuts down..............
There are 5 trucks, three front and two in the rear. You could RC or MU the throttles fairly easily, I would think. Brakes would be more difficult. The video really doesn't do it justice. It looks much bigger in person. Ralph
“One glitch and the whole convoy shuts down”
That’s it in a nutshell. Probably best to keep it simple as possible for reliability.
Ralph