A few weeks ago over Thanksgiving weekend a really big piece of gear came to town. Apparently there is a power generating station in North Carolina that is taking delivery of this stator.
Here is a link to another Blog called Bucky's Ride. He did a piece on it too.
Here is some of the news coverage on the load. And another article with some more pictures.
These Mammoet (pronounced Mammout) guys really mean business. They have some videos on their website that are pretty cool, at least for engineers anyway. They've moved some pretty big things in some pretty neat places.
The whole thing was at least as long as three or four tractor trailers.
The whole thing was huge. Apparently they had to close the road to get it through, as well as lift the phone and power lines as it travelled through. It was stopped here for the holiday and because they couldn't make any headway with the bad weather we had leading up to Thanksgiving.
The unit was pulled by three heavy duty truck with a few behind to push and help with braking.
The pipes on the top of the load were so the power lines would just slide over .
You can see the sets of wheels here ready to go.
Pretty cool stuff, at least I think so.
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