Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
I thought some of you truckers (and trucker at hearts) would be interested in a big move we just made at work last week. We are in the process of building a $60 million dollar air seperation plant at work. The cold box (where most of the gas seperation takes place) was delivered on a large boat to the harbor (Lake Erie) all the way from Italy. It arrived before the ice set in and sat at the dock all winter until last week. A company out of Canada was contracted to move the cold box which was delivered in 2 sections.
Here is the trailer they brought to move the sections from the dock to the site, approximately 3 miles.
Would have loved to talk to the driver about this rig but I never got the chance to. All I can say is that sucker was turned up! I'm sure this rig is probably familiar to some of you. I'd really like to know what powerplant was in it, whatever it was was definitely pushing some serious horsepower.
They had over 12k lbs in weights over the drive axles for traction.
Lower section of the cold box at the dock.
Here she is on the road. It took almost 10 hours to move the 3 miles from the dock to the site. Low overhead lines had to be moved, street lights taken down, a section of guard rail removed in order to make a corner. Lots and lots of prepping went into making the move as smooth as possible but they still struggled with virtually every corner due to the shear size and weight of the unit. The first section is over 18 ft in diameter, 145 ft long, and weighs in at 756,000 lbs. Even with the number of axles under the trailer they still suffered 2 different blow outs and bent one of the pivot axles. On several occasions they had to hook a second truck up to the first rig and twice they had 3 trucks pulling together to get the cold box up the on ramp of the highway and again when they cut a corner too tight and 4 axles dropped off the pavement (and out of sight). This is also when they bent one of the axles and blew a tire.
It was pretty impressive seeing such a massive object being moved.
Here is the trailer they brought to move the sections from the dock to the site, approximately 3 miles.
Would have loved to talk to the driver about this rig but I never got the chance to. All I can say is that sucker was turned up! I'm sure this rig is probably familiar to some of you. I'd really like to know what powerplant was in it, whatever it was was definitely pushing some serious horsepower.
They had over 12k lbs in weights over the drive axles for traction.
Lower section of the cold box at the dock.
Here she is on the road. It took almost 10 hours to move the 3 miles from the dock to the site. Low overhead lines had to be moved, street lights taken down, a section of guard rail removed in order to make a corner. Lots and lots of prepping went into making the move as smooth as possible but they still struggled with virtually every corner due to the shear size and weight of the unit. The first section is over 18 ft in diameter, 145 ft long, and weighs in at 756,000 lbs. Even with the number of axles under the trailer they still suffered 2 different blow outs and bent one of the pivot axles. On several occasions they had to hook a second truck up to the first rig and twice they had 3 trucks pulling together to get the cold box up the on ramp of the highway and again when they cut a corner too tight and 4 axles dropped off the pavement (and out of sight). This is also when they bent one of the axles and blew a tire.
It was pretty impressive seeing such a massive object being moved.
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