Turbine to Hirwaun - The Story of the huge load that didn't make it the last mile to its destination

This is the story of one of three large loads to be delivered into the Hirwaun Industrial Estate over the coming weeks.
Despite month of planning, the load got to within a mile of its destination, only to be scuppered by a footbridge that was 6 inches to low for it to pass under.
We follow the events of that evening, and the following weeks, as an alternative is sought to get the huge turbine to its final resting place. If no other route can be found, it'll be hundreds of miles of detour to get it there.
Let's see what happened.

[@anthonypaterson7066]

Excellent piece of filming and in the wind @ rain. thank you.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Yes, we got a little wet and cold. Thanks.

[@MervynPartin]

Well captured. Pity that it had to come from Germany, though. We used to make power station machinery in this country.

[@tomrogers9467]

Until your labor unions took all the jobs away with their never ending greed.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Indeed, we're too reliant on other countries for our infrastructure, as borne out by the recent cost of living crisis, something not of our own doing, but due to outside forces.

[@hypergolic8468]

​@@tomrogers9467 Not true: the main manufacturers Parsons ended up in the hands of Rolls Royce, and when the privatisation of the C.E.G.B. happened in the 90's and the progression from the 660mw to 900mw turbines - towards the 1250mw fleet was stopped the order book fell empty, and the R&D stopped. That allowed the US / Japanese / French and German companies to carry on R&D and bring to market the next generation (air cooled stator cores at 660mw). Rolls sold the Steam Turbine business to Siemens who moved the work to Hungary and Germany. Shields Road, is now a car park and shopping precinct, helping ever further deepen our balance of payments problems with China. As for GEC: the merger with Alstom went well. Except it wasn't a merger, in a few short years the same gap in orders, the work moved to France from Trafford Park. The failure starts with privatisation of the C.E.G.B., and for that look a the EU directives about the electric market and opening it up to competition.

[@hypergolic8468]

@@TechKnowGarageServicesUK I would venture that if we'd kept some of the 2000mw coal fired stations on standby we could have kept prices down. We're loosing jobs because of green levies that the rest of the World either doesn't bother with, or circumvents. PS Great video.

[@MervynPartin]

@@tomrogers9467I think that it was more the greed of the directors, selling out their companies to foreign owners- Cadbury, ICI, C.A. Parsons, British Steel, British Oxygen, GEC, plus the Government selling off successful industries to foreign owners, CEGB, BREL, British Rail, etc. The transfer of the work, and all the technical patents to otherwise underused factories abroad has screwed our economy, with constant threat of factory closures here unless government "grants" are forthcoming.

[@taffyjones57]

I would have thought that they would lower the suspension and the tyres on the trailer too go through. When my dad was driving for Wynns of Newport they used too let the air out of the tyres to get under bridges. This is also very bad planning on the haulers part.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

I guess they might have thought of that. The suspension was bottomed out and they had lowered the tyre pressures to the lowest they are allowed, but there wasn't another six inches of tyre to let the air out of!

[@TeezerDriz]

​@@TechKnowGarageServicesUKlooking at the load, if the turbine sat on steel plate instead of what looks like 12inch timbers on the trailer, the necessary clearance was there?

[@phillip1115]

@@TeezerDriz Somebody made some decisions that cost someone a whole lot of money. Looking at the trailer I could see why they were having problems. Did the other two loads make it in okay?

[@Stroopwaffe1]

Yeh, air out the iresseems really ob ious.

[@mickkidston7344]

little lesson in physics, steel on steel is a low friction interaction, big heavy bit of kit slides and rolls over, steel to wood is a low friction interaction but the wood needs to be thick due to the mass of the bi bit of kit@@TeezerDriz

[@jimsvideos7201]

I can only assume they measured that bridge when the tide was out 😅 The fourth option would be to put rails into (or onto) the roadway and swap the road wheels on the SPMTs for (small) railroad wheels. Option five would be to lift the load off the trailer and skid it under the bridge.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Haha, yes, it would appear they weren't too accurate this time.

[@tinajehu2712]

that was amazing thank you.....brilliant job done by all .

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Thank you.

[@alexrobinson2281]

Great video , well done

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Thank you.

[@tomatoes3]

Not many times if ever I've seen Alleys have problem like that .Good result .

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

As you say, it's an uncharacteristic fail from Alleleys, they usually get it bang on.

[@BlackBuck777]

Excellent cock-up story. Reminds me of a shipment my business made recently (14m x 4m - but much lighter!). We had to send a large storage tank to a location in Norway recently, the location was then changed by the customer to a more remote town. This made the tank too big for their road tunnels - so had to be delivered by boat at an eye-watering cost. Logistics was interesting, having to negotiate with the coast guard amongst other bodies. I have to say that they just got on with it though, no fuss.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Transport like this is so specialist, with expensive equipment and as such costs a fortune.

[@JelMain]

Right said Fred, time to take the roof off, that there bridge is gonna have to go. Mind you, in that area, they'd have had no difficulty running it through a mine! Most likely someone resurfaced the road.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

We believe the road had been resurfaced many times and the highways people got the subsequent heights wrong, a bloody expensive mistake.

[@user-do8ul2zi4v]

At that point, they have three options: (1) deflate the tires enough to get the clearance, (2) jack up the bridge somehow, (3) dig out enough of the road to get the clearance And who decided to take the word of anybody when determining clearances. You get a vehicle with a tall pole and whip antenna and you drive the whole route. Assumptions bite you in the ass.

[@kevinmothers904]

@@TechKnowGarageServicesUK An LGV friend once told me about a driver who hit a bridge with his trailer and was going to be prosecuted even though he could prove that the vehicle would have gone under it. In the end they used a measuring pole to determine the height and it transpired that the road had been resurfaced a few times over the years and the bridge height signs had not been altered to take it into account.

[@deezelfairy]

​@@user-do8ul2zi4v They will have measured everything - but most likely months in advance as these load moves are planned months in advance. If the local authority has resurfaced the road since and hasn't got the height correct (which happens) it's hardly the haulier fault.

[@deezelfairy]

​@@kevinmothers904We had a similar situation at one of the forklift companies I've worked at. Our lorry driver hit a bridge local to the depot - top of the forklifts mast hit the crown of the bridge. Exactly the same scenario - he was just under the posted bridge height but the road had been resurfaced which had shortened the gap by about 4 inches.

[@KirkHermary]

I had this playing while working on some stuff around home. I really enjoyed your camera work and your narration, text overlays too, to help make sense of what was happening throughout the big move.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Thank you.

[@jonpeters-kitesurf-mtb1522]

😂 that’s me in the OR cherry picker, it was a good foot too high from when I measured it with the rods 🤣🤣

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Hi there, when I spoke to you boys on the night it was thought it was about 8 inches too high, so I was being a bit kind to Alleleys by stating it was about 6 inches too high, when we went around the other side it became apparent that it was way more than that too tall. Thanks for looking at the video.

[@metrovic]

The Police car is made in Sweden, front tractor unit and turbine made in Germany, both countries I have great respect for and enjoy visiting. Wouldn't it be nice though if at least one of the newer main players here was made in the UK? Great video btw and nice to see the 1990's Leyland DAF pushing at the rear. At least DAF do still build trucks in the UK (I think)

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Yeah, that DAF 95XF was doing a good job and it's 32 years old.

[@video3ish]

That road looks fresh - may easily have been built up since measurements for level / water runoff etc

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Yep, records were wrong.

[@FAS1948]

My first experience of abnormal load movements was over 50 years ago, and about 30 years ago one of my jobs included authorising abnormal load movements, so I find this video quite baffling, and cannot understand how they got it so wrong. I used to have bad dreams about eventualities like this involving loads that I had authorised, but it never happened in reality. I know that procedures for authorising abnormal load movements have changed significantly since I was involved, but I thought the new system was more efficient, and more rigorous. My memory of loads of similar size is that a project team involving all interested parties would have been assembled at least 3 months prior to the move, and the planning would have involved measuring every junction, every bend in the road, and every obstacle, so that local authorities and utilities could make necessary adjustments to allow the load to pass safely, or find another more suitable route. All height, width, and weight limits would be allowed for, 'street furniture' would have been moved, steel plates laid over weak sections of the highway, parking restrictions enforced, and all other necessary adjustments along the route. The planned route would have to be approved by multiple agencies, all of whom had their own responsibility for the safety of the move, and all of whom should have been able suggest changes. How could so many people have got it so wrong? And where was the spare tractor? They usually stay close to the load in case they're needed. It's not as if Allelys are novices in heavy haulage; as far as I'm aware, they've been doing it efficiently for a long time, and I'm sure I remember abnormal loads going through Hirwaun years ago. The video was entertaining to watch for a nerd like me, but I'm glad I wasn't involved.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Thanks for the comment, exactly as you say, it's so unusual for something like this to be got so wrong, hence the amazing interest in my video.

[@LSDale]

I have to agree with the other viewers who mentioned that the wood cribbing under the load may not have been factored in while calculating the height. They should have taken final measurements prior to departing, but i guess mistakes do happen.A steel plate to set the load on would have saved a lot of head room.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

It may have been the cause of the issue, or the calculations were just wrong and the wooden platform was necessary for the protection of the cargo.

[@briancooper562]

As a designer of large items for the steel industry it was important to consider how the product was to made and delivered and any restrictions on the way. We had a set of roll housings from Sheffield to Port Talbot that had to go a route 50% longer then the direct router due to weak bridges.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

This had to come a round about route, due to sections of the A465 near Neath that were too weak to support the 380 tons all up load.

[@briancooper562]

We also had a bridge collapse under one of our loads at Boroughbridge on the then A1 (in the 50's)

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Sounds frightening.

[@tomrogers9467]

Of course they had to do at night, in the rain, just to make it comfortable for everyone. Great planning, Einstein!

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

TBH, the rain hasn't let up in the UK since about last September, so there probably wasn't ever a good time to do it.

[@MrLampbus]

Load is waterproof, Engineers are waterproof. Rush hour daytime traffic doesn't want delays behind a slow moving load.

[@sparty94]

just get a good running start.😂

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

As long as the run up is enough, something will have to give.

[@johnnyholland8765]

Thats a real bugger and it is raining too. Why is it always raining in that part of the world...

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Only most of the time, when it's nice, the views are gorgeous.

[@kwinterburn]

If I had to make a guess , the problem will be caused by the timber that the load stands on , I suspect it wasn't included in the calculations

[@45KevinR]

I noticed that too, it looked suspiciously like 6 to 8 inches! Trailer + load fits, add some wood and it's a big oops. So seem like sleepers are 250x150, if that's their source of bulk timber!

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

You may be right.

[@barrywhitley2535]

Interesting video.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Glad you think so! Thanks.

[@gregmorgan5332]

Bit of a red faced moment for allelys but this shows them at there best. It became clear there was a problem and it was not going to work they stopped work didn’t make any silly moves like trying to let down 200 tyres or moving the the load on the trailer.They stopped came up with a working plan and delivered the load undamaged without damaging their own equipment.I think that’s worth more to the customer to have there cargo a little late and intact than face the costs and delays of there cargo being damaged by a bridge . So a hard decision to be made delaying the delivery but they made the correct one .

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Indeed true, although I heard that the shippers were trying to pass the increased delivery cost to Drax, the power station operators. I'm sure they will have come to an amicable arrangement to prevent there being handbags at dawn.

[@glbaker5595]

I bet that crew of people just love all of those camera engineers that's there watching😅 of course I would be one of the first ones that are also hahaha

[@Ralph2]

No don't do it like that, do it like this! 😂

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

I wasn't there to judge or be an armchair expert, I just wanted to get some video of it coming through, we're a little village in Wales that nothing much exciting happens in, so when this was more than just a simple job, it made it interesting, hence many from the village turned out for the daytime show when the first attempt had failed.

[@jamesburnside3023]

Awesome video and transport

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Thank you very much!

[@petersharpe3186]

From the angle of filming, there would appear to be adequate clearance on residential overhead spans.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

From the angle of the dangle, there was 6 inches too little clearance, as proven by the guy up in the cherry picker.

[@davidbroadbent2529]

Plain and simple total incompetence of the route planners. Likely someone whom Never goes out of an office or for that matter their bedroom (Working from home person). For this type of extreme high load, during the planning stage, you get in a vehicle and drive the route yourself. I am trying to locate some old pics of a road vehicle that had an spring loaded (hyd retractable trailing boom) that could be fitted with a wide template of the top shape of the over height load. When they vehicle came to an fixed obstacle that boom was raised and vehicle driven along planned center line of the OD load trailer. This then recorded height to surface of potential obstruction (fixed bridge etc) along with photographic info) 99% NO excuse these days for not getting route planning of major OD load correct. Oh sorry I forgot, take 20% of that for Companies Bean Counters worrying about 50 quid for a few sandwiches and 100L of fuel wasted driving the planned route in the Companies BMW. Take a further 30% of for HR incompetence

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

I understand they were using records from local authorities.

[@howiej4084]

Never underestimate an engineer with a long pole...

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

That's what they needed in the weeks before.

[@lawrence18uk]

I was hoping that with things like Airlander blimp-type air transport this sort of thing would become a thing of the past, but that has a lift capacity of only 10t. The US has the advantage of wide gauge railways, but we're stuck with the roads!

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

We're a long way from any aircraft taking 280 tonnes over a short distance.

[@dunckeroo1987]

Looks like they forgot to calculate for the size of the blocks between the trailer and the vessel.

[@ralph5476]

Agree. Pull out the timber blocks, and it most likely would have fit.

[@paulharrison2325]

@@ralph5476the wooden blocks are vital.

[@ralph5476]

@@paulharrison2325 Agree. But it looks like maybe they didn't allow for them.

[@paulharrison2325]

@@ralph5476 doubtful - all deliveries have some form of base. I suspect that the data on the bridge height was simply wrong.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Yes, bridge height data was wrong.

[@Eddiecurrent2000]

Baglan bay being demolished was a disgrace, it got absolutely wrecked by looters and arsonists after security left. Complete waste of a power station, and worse was that it was still connected to the grid. The amount of work going on to connect this power station to the grid is considerable, yet Baglan was sold for pennies and the demolition crew are making a packet.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

It is a disgrace that a new station is being built, when just a few miles away a mothballed site could be brought back into use for far less money.

[@damianbutterworth2434]

They could grind some of the turbine blades down a bit. :)

[@ralph5476]

Tin snips along the top.

[@damianbutterworth2434]

@@ralph5476 We got it sussed Ralph.

[@lurch1005]

Its a gas tubine not a wind turbine

[@damianbutterworth2434]

@@lurch1005 I was taking the mickey mate. I `ve balanced a few turbo`s at work so know what a pain they are. They forge titanium aircraft engines shafts next to where I work. Feels like a Dinosaur is walking past where the forge hits.

[@ralph5476]

@@lurch1005 It was a Joke. No one is THAT stupid!

[@briancooper562]

The Siemens company which make these items use to be called Trafo Union.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Interesting.

[@gurglejug627]

How difficult can it be put in two temporary supports then cut away part of the lower bridging structure, to replace it later? Lifting a small bridge per-se isn't that difficult, either.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Possibly harder than you'd think, whilst still maintaining the use of the bridge as is needed.

[@Eddiecurrent2000]

I wondered why they parked it up! Now it's all explained lol.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Yes, sat on the roundabout for a couple of weeks.

[@briancooper562]

We had a large load delivery and the turn into the workshop was too tight so we had to take the bloody doors off (not Michael Caine fashion)

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Maybe the Michael Caine way would have been more fun!

[@ShionWinkler]

They could have let the air out of the tires, that would also give them a few inches. Drive under, put air back into the tires.

[@lurch1005]

Was a thought couldn't happen

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

I'm quite sure they'd thought of that, but since the tyre sidewall isn't even 6" that wouldn't work.

[@egoequus6263]

Interesting truck setup. Looks more compact and maneuverable than ones I see in USA. I wonder if the transporter is the self-propelled type or if the hydraulics only run the suspension and steering.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Hydraulics only for the steering and suspension of the trailer, the trucks are the only propulsion source.

[@Objectified]

There are a variety of trucks like this available for specialized loads in the U.S.

[@thepvporg]

The option to take down the bridge! Really not thinking outside the box... You lift the bridge and shim it until the desired clearance is made then after, remove the shims. The type of bridge that was is just resting on large rubber dampers which have to be replaced every 10 years or so, this means hydraulic lifting jacks could have been used to lift the bridge for shims to be inserted.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

This is a cantilever bridge, so not sure if that can be done.

[@kwinterburn]

Ah yes Wales , pouring with rain blowing a gale

[@tomrogers9467]

On a good day.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

The whole of the UK has been under water since September TBH.

[@13bigerdave]

had they just all stayed in a Holliday Inn Express last night all would of gone correctly

[@tomrogers9467]

Except for the food poisioning.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

LOL.

[@alanrainey5022]

Excavator + dozer + council survey of bridge. Dig out the road.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

That was one possibility, but they found that services were quite shallow below the surface, so that option wasn't available.

[@kevinmothers904]

@57.38 Driver exits cab to move cone while traffic management guy look on....sniffs....not my job mate, I only put 'em out......mutter, mutter..health and safety....hands in pockets, bloody cold ain't it.🤣

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

All union driven.

[@tomrogers9467]

@@TechKnowGarageServicesUK. Hence the fall of Britain.

[@rogerwilliams8339]

with mark drakford in charge of wales what do you expect

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Amazingly not one of his cock-ups, but you're right, he's responsible for putting Wales back into the dark ages.

[@davidbroadbent2529]

If its not an inconvenience, could you please go back to that bridge in daylight and film the area so we can get an understanding what ground surface approaches both sides look like, principally in regard to the Highest point in the Bridge, seen to left of load . I really would like to get detail of what "temp works" could have been done to access that higher area under bridge as part of the Route planning I would be really interested to know also if the design drawings of that bridge are accessible? Also what are both sides of the bridge beam sitting on? Many sit on a "bearing surface" to allow for minor ground movements. I have seen such beams "hydraulically jacked up" to replace these "bearing materials"; so I do wonder if that point was addressed as an option ? Oh sorry my error.. route planner and convey head have broken "joy sticks" and cannot work out such possible options.😢

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Yeah, I'll try to grab a picture, it definitely higher at the middle, as it was due to be widened to a dual carriageway eventually, but that has now moved further away from the village, so this single carriageway only goes under one side of the bridge. They would have had to remove the entire verge to get under the central part.

[@normangiven6436]

Time to go get a road ripper and dig up the roadway to allow passage.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

That was indeed one of the ideas.

[@Woffy.]

Maybe the problem with calculating the height is that is not siting directly upon the deck, there are two sections to the low loader so it requires the spreaders thats where the six inches has gone ?.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Whatever the reason, the total calculations were a little wrong.

[@egoequus6263]

@@TechKnowGarageServicesUK They mention that the load was transferred between trucks. I suspect they had measured with the assumption of particular truck doing the run, but changed the plan to another rig for some reason. I usually see stuff like this on lowboys, but that would mean a longer rig.

[@richards200]

Bad mistake that, they should have known the minute that load was on that it wouldn't fit under that bridge, unless the road was resurfaced after they surveyed the route???

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

It was a bad mistake.

[@JL-rx6hl]

didnt they measure the height as part of the route planning or did they rely on the highways

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

I'm told they worked off highways height measurements and plainly they were badly wrong, the bridge at that point is lower than it is in the middle, but as there is a verge under the middle of the bridge, they couldn't use the full height, so they were in trouble.

[@marktucker208]

Google maps

[@ericdunn555]

​@@marktucker208 🤣🤣🤣

[@grahamnimmo4656]

So i would presume they need a planer to come out with a few 8 leg tippers and cut 4 inches from the road surface to lower it, drive under, and then have a resurfacing team put down the new top and undercoat to the correct level that would maintain the original bridge height specified. But who pays for that is the 64,000 dollar question?

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

They couldn't do that as the main services coming into the village were too near the surface, the whole story is in the video.

[@damianbutterworth2434]

My Gran used to plan the route for my Granddad`s haulage company to transport huge Robey Boilers all over the UK. She had a map with all the bridge heights on. What do they do nowadays????

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Something similar, but on computer, and the computer failed to say no here!

[@damianbutterworth2434]

@@TechKnowGarageServicesUK Someone needed to update lol.

[@ivortoad]

"You had one job !" Has anyone got a Rizla paper?

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

It would have needed a few boxes of Rizlas to measure how far out they were, it was more than six inches, 150mm too tall.

[@richardhupfield1187]

Thanks mate how many wheels all together

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

A lot, lost count

[@TheOldtimer3]

Why could they not have just let enough air out of each tire to lower everything 6 inches?

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Firstly there wouldn't be six inches of air in the tyres, secondly, why didn't they think of that, they only ship billions of pounds worth of gear all around the country all of the time with millions of pounds worth of equipment.

[@wthorwirth]

If not shure what high is, use a high dummy to prove it. Or a new fashioned laser measuring equipment...

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Doesn't appear they did

[@danlowe8684]

It appears the high point on the load was a pipe connection of some sort. Couldn't this have been removed or cut/replaced?

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Who knows, it was a nasty night to be doing any of it TBH.

[@andyash5675]

There's probably a reason why power stations are often found by the sea.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Often it's nuclear power stations near the sea due to needing the cooling water, gas fired power stations are all over the place, including inland.

[@redtussock]

You mean to say they had not checked first @3:00

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

It would appear they got it wrong.

[@jamesmarsh1831]

all they would've had to do is bring in a crane and lifted it over the overpass and set it back on the carrier on the other side.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

At 280 tons, the crane would have been taller than the turbine and also not got under the bridge. The road probably wouldn't take the combined weight either.

[@elliottgussow9555]

How does the pusher driver know what's required?

[@tomrogers9467]

They use this newfangled thing called a radio.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Yep, radio contact

[@briancooper562]

Left hand down a bit Number one?

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

I think it was having the number twos that was more of a worry.

[@DieyoungDiefast]

They shouldn't of needed the guy in the cradle for checking the bridge. The movers should've known the exact height of the load and also been carrying the measuring stick to accurately measure the gap. I deal a lot with a company called Metcalfe Farms who haul stuff for the MoD, and they check the height of every vehicle after loading.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

I'm sure they had all the heights worked out, but were given some duff information on the height of this bridge at the point where the road goes under, which is not the maximum height of the bridge.

[@billb7876]

Blimey, even Stevie Wonder could see it would not fit under lol Thats a rather big oops eh

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

I think he did the site survey!!

[@ralph5476]

Bummer to have gotten a flat tire on that.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

There's a few tyres to deal with there.

[@johnbewick6357]

Can't see them doing that in the future with electric trucks.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

This thing needs to be working first, to burn the gas to recharge the eco friendly electric trucks......................oh wait, not eco friendly.

[@rdmgwinn]

Would of been a very interesting 20 minute post.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

It is if you use the skip buttons, but many have liked the full version. Maybe I could do a short version for those who want it.

[@user-by8bh6ie4y]

Planning did not help.. The planning department was incompetent on this move

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

I'm told that the movers were told the wrong height by the local authority. But that may be false info.

[@user-vs9oq8cd8l]

I suppose the person in charge of measurement will be looking for a new job.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Fired!! Lol.

[@onetoeinthegrave6506]

load that didn't make the last mile oh ok iv just watched the whole video for what exactly ?

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Travelled for miles with no issue, then the last mile was the problem.

[@JelMain]

And then they close Port Talbot, the biggest customer in the region. Duh...

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

All part of the master plan.

[@phillip1115]

They should have used the "Lucky Banana".

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Is the banana for scale only though?

[@phillip1115]

@@TechKnowGarageServicesUK I'm not sure what you mean. I was being a bit facetious but this is who I meant. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iICUnKeAg66nhZo

[@74quo]

Why the need for signs to be in Welsh and English costing the taxpayer extra money Same on police vehicles Total waste of money!!

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

It does cost a lot of money, but keeps the language alive. However, we have recently found the temporary signs on the M$ are only being displayed in Welsh, which is wrong, as many more only speak English than only speak Welsh.

[@buy.to.let.britain]

just let some air from the tyres.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

There wasn't six inches worth of air in the tyres, so it was never going under that bridge.

[@buy.to.let.britain]

they could take off 6" road top surface, then recover after.@@TechKnowGarageServicesUK

[@ericdunn555]

​@@TechKnowGarageServicesUK should've put half pound of best butter on the top; would've slid under no problem 😂😂🤣🤣

[@glbaker5595]

I just wonder how many times a year does heavy haul trailers get used, you wouldn't think that would be that big a demand for them

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

I think Alleleys are extremely busy all the time TBH.

[@harrygooch834]

Someone dun goofed

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Yep, big error there.

[@petersharpe3186]

Let some air out of the tyres.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Not sure that they'd thought of that!

[@stugill4513]

the oldest truck on there fleet doing the job of pusher threw town

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Good old workshorse that old DAF 95

[@cragmorematchbox]

@@TechKnowGarageServicesUK The old dog for the hard road and the pup for the path! Enjoyable video overall & well done to the excellent team, on the road and in the offices.

[@ericdunn555]

Yep, I drove an XF95 back in the 1990's for Allely's, but only a 6×4 rated at 75tonne (manual gearbox obvs); good to see some are still knocking about - I've seen a pic of a K-reg (1991-92) DAF XF95 low-roof cab 6×4 in fab nick on their Google Maps page recently.

[@malcolmmckinlay2143]

@ what cost ???

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

Hate to think, but into the hundred of thousands I'd guess.

[@zacglickman6376]

I'm shocked that a department of transport dropkick inspector didn't book the driver for the pisspoor tie down of the link bar and two steel crates.... I take it there's a crane at the site capable of lifting the turbine...

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

One assumes they were able to take it off at site, as the low loader was seen a couple of days later being moved away from the site.

[@Officialtechfixed4u]

Who was the idiot walking backwards! in between the lead truck and trailer (high Viz and hard hat)..... Did he just assume that they would stop the truck to give him time to roll out of the way if he tripped? (backwards at 4mph) - I've seen some site stupidity.... but he takes the win.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

On all these moves there's a guy who spends his life walking backwards.

[@andrewjosiah9062]

that's what happens when you send the Y.T.S kid to do your measurements.

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

LOL.

[@bradhayes8294]

Somebody fetch me that big shoe horn!

[@TechKnowGarageServicesUK]

LOL.