Had to contract someone to move a 260,000 # vessel a few years back. Not like this, but a challenge for sure. Not many around that do this kind of thing. A lot of work goes into such an endeavor. Routing, permits, bridge upgrades, engineering, power lines, permits, crews, cranes and crews on both ends. Glad had a good team.

It’d be a lot easier to transport that transformer on a train. They have rail cars the length of one dolly. Probably shorter than one dolly, but not by much.

What is that, a bridge truss?

5:20 Bridge capacity sign shows 40-tons. Crew: we're sending it 😅

It's only 750 tons. Probably 100 tons of trucks & rigging

I counted 1.5 million tires. What an amazing achievement in engineering and rigging. 🙂

The words "build on site" come to mind.

Parallel park that bad boy in New York.

so... where did the transformer get built in the first place?

I passed you guys just outta Laramie a few weeks ago. If I remember right there was two of those rigs running together. It's definitely a pretty incredible piece of equipment !

Annoying crappy-ass "music" completely ruined this video making it unwatchable and earning the fool poster yet another "thumbs down"!

I passed this at a rest stop 3 days ago thinking WHOA WTF IS THAT THING??! Ironic I just happened to scroll across this today

it looks great

They must be hauling the national debt?

What is it?

Don't need the music !!!

Is that diamond?

Meanwhile, in Michigan, all it takes is a sled

That is an insane rig!

That’s pretty cool and amazing - thanks for sharing this

Incredible

One hell of a route survey 👍

So that's what that was! Saw it while visiting family, and hoo boy did it have the southbound side backed up for miles!

That’s nothing I’ve seen bigger loads when they haul Coker’s to Suncor in northern Alberta

That's a pretty incredible piece of machinery.

No one will believe me if they see this but I was on the same substation job that this transformer was moving to. I left to the next job so I never got to see them move it so I’m glad this video somehow got recommended to me

Found it 937,000 transformer kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIvUY4xqmc1nns0

What was the load? transformer? small volume for that much weight?

I counted 224 tires not including the trucks.

All that just to carry a little grey box that looked like it would've fit on a flatbed 18wheeler? WTF!!

Whoever was the contractor that built the bridge they went over, you know damn good and well he was going "Yeah, it will hold....Im pretty sure anyways...I hope it will...oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit...WHEW!!!!!!"

Pushes in red valve, waits 4 years for brakes to release.

Wonder how long it takes to air that up from empty with one tractor.

1 million pounds. What a ridiculous unit. Hey, why not use 680 milliards mg ?

Looks like your finally taking your mom out to eat

Fascinating! But what was it used for,? Seeing it loaded and unloaded and set into place would have been nice.

That old prime mover bringing up the rear ......if rigs could talk I'd bet that ole dude could spin some yarn for sure

Dang, I just ran over a box of roofing nails….

Big transformer.

This went by pretty close to my job suprised I didn't hear about it.

How did they even get that on the trailer

Uh oh ...its an inch too long . That will be a $25 million fine.

That is the biggest trailer I have ever seen. I guess the load was 1,000,000 pounds and the tractors + Trailer = 500,000 lbs.

Ratecon: $1.79/mile

So what the heck is that supposed to be?

lemme guess going to a solar farm to send power to california?

Dang, your mom doesn't mess around when she orders from GrubHub! 😂

That made my sticker peck out !! LOL !😂🤣😂🤣Awesome video. I miss doing heavy haul work.

What is it a box of lead ??

My ford ranger could have hauled that without all the do-dads and extra turny things. Hit me up next time, i give you a good deal 😂