Anybody wanna pull this??

[AggieJustin]

Check these out... came across this on Sunday in Stonewall, Texas. Very small town Texas.



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Sorry the pics aren't better, but all I had was the camera on my phone.



So this came into the Port of Houston, on it's way to Alberta, Canada for PetroCanada. An exchanger of some type, even the guys hauling it weren't sure what it was. Apparently they're taking the backroads all the way there since they can't just cruise up the interstate. This thing had 80 tires on the trailer alone. A Kenworth hooked up in front, and another tractor in the back doing the pushing. Took up the width of a two lane road with no room to spare. Hydraulic steering on all the wheelsets of the trailer let it make some pretty short corners. In fact it made a couple of T-intersections on some two lane roads with no shoulders. They had a crew in a pickup that would hitch up all the wheelsets when it was traveling straight, then jump out and unhitch all the wheelsets whenever they pulled up to a corner. Can't imagine the weight on this thing, but it did look like the tires were squatting a little bit.

 

[Hale on wheels]

Granted I don't know much about shipping, but it seems to me it would have been better to ship it to the North-eastern side of Canada and go across, or anywhere closer than Houston!

 

[AggieJustin]

I'm with you on this one. Not sure why it came into Houston. That's a long roadtrip to Alberta taking the backroads doing 20mph.

 

[JoshPeters]

There is a company in Cambridge MN that makes tanks like that... they ship all over the US. It's amaizing they will shut down entire highways to move these things around! I got off work one night at 1am... they HWY patrol had shut down the main hwy through town to get a tank/truck/trailer rolling down the road. Same sort of set-up. You would think they would build it in pieces... and assemble on site!



Josh

 

[ndurbin]

When I useto live in Hutchinson Ks, there was a places there that built boilers (Superior Boilers I think was the name). Drove by it almost everyday for 2 years going to school. They never had anything that big, but they did have one they had to call a large crane in to move onto the truck.



Nathan