TxDOT's Heaviest Load

Crawling along at 10 miles per day, TxDOT recently oversaw the transport of a mammoth 1.7 million pound Toshiba steam turbine engine. A custom rig with 520 tires transported the generator, measuring in at 39 feet wide, 18 feet high, and as long as a football field. This is the heaviest load that has ever been moved this distance in Texas!

[@jerryn1]

Good video! I was the driver on the front truck. Your video brings back good memories. We met a lot of nice people in Texas.

[@TxDragon55]

Am a pilot car owner/operator now. Would have loved to been on this run. My niece's husband works for Mammoet. You may know him, Bulldog

[@peterbiltroy]

The Mammoet crew does stuff that just drops my jaw, and I have been a heavy haul driver for a long time.

[@SakariNy]

This. Especially when theres America full of welding shops who manufacture this size of steam turbines. There's 7 companies in 10-minute drive from where I live who does 1.7 million pound -sized steam turbine engines.

[@cjeam9199]

You’re telling me that within ten miles of your house there are 7 companies who could make ...... This is sarcasm isn’t it. Damnit!

[@TruckinFool68]

I did heavy haul for 3yrs. But NOTHING like this. I would have loved to have been a part in a move of this scale. Looked like fun, but at the same time what a headache! Gives a whole new meaning to OVERSIZE LOAD.

[@DOCRX09]

damned if I would sit on the guardrail with that big thing passing overhead

[@SAXTProductions]

As much as I want to make a joke, looking at the set up of trailer I can't. That is just way to awesome. Also the loads normally start out as sheet steel and go from there.

[@dieseldoctor415]

I got to see this run through pretty damn badass

[@stevefromvirginia]

Don't look now but Mammoet is a Dutch company and Kenworth tractors are made in Canada. Not much 'made in USA' but the Big Macs the crew ate for lunch.

[@tegoblue]

The creaking and groaning is scary.

[@aaronsbarker]

How much of that 1.7 million pounds was the cargo and how much was the carrier?

[@louispuglisi9867]

The guy sitting there watching the tires go over that plate, was in a really bad spot if 1 of those tires blew

[@websoundcr]

+louis “joe” puglisi It is danger for him if the structure bridge to collapse as well

[@NicholasLittlejohn]

Very bad idea.

[@neiltrotter5933]

Completely agree, and he wasn't the only one. I'd say project management at this company could use an overhaul, with a focus on Safety. It's possible to be Hard Core without being completely stupid. Even in 2010 it would have been absolutely feasible to mount cameras to monitor wheels at close quarters where necessary. But what do I know, I am just a candy-assed Brit.

[@jaxsman01]

AMAZING! Thanks for sharing

[@antietam1958]

The ship yard I worked for moved a ship weighting over 24,000 tons a short distance over dry land on a rail system ; 1. In the video the bridge you crossed what was the load weight of the bridge? I saw you beefed up the roadway over the bridge what was the total weight per wheel on the rig you used? 2. How long did it take for the total distance? 3. What was the total cost of the move everything included? Thanks you for a very good educational video

[@BUNCHofxs]

520 tires and each one sags like its carrying twice its capacity. That thing is fucking HEAVY

[@logancurry3835]

at 1,700,000lbs oh yea

[@firesurfer]

3269lbs PER TIRE.

[@TeddyTheYetti]

So glad everybody has there hardhats on tht will save ya

[@quanpham9698]

Love Texas.

[@bobobrazil1973]

Im glad to see he has his hard hat on that thing drops on him with out it ...could be all over.

[@woody2327]

Thanks OSHA

[@maloneturbo1]

as an American i agree, we dont have to build everything to have pride, and intelligence is in every country. working together to collaborate on big projects is best for a mountain of reasons

[@wildcoyote34]

that is one wicked trailer

[@R5H4D0W]

A foreign company name doesn't mean its foreign built. Alot of companies, like Sony and LG has their plants in the US. :)

[@unahaclosp]

HQ of Toshiba Industrial Corporation USA is Houston, TX.

[@pineapplepenumbra]

Hmm, what about using party balloons filled with helium to lift it and a couple of hair dryers to propel it along...?

[@1raeleen1]

labor cost about 3.75 per hr to our 15.00 per hr to build it in US and our steel is sent Japan

[@berdooflyer]

In the US, we have several companies that do heavy moving of this type, Emmert International (Portland, Oregon) is one.

[@scrapman9148]

I'm sure those drivers made a shit ton with that thing.

[@granskare]

I think the trailer, etc, are by Mammoet which is a world famous company...amazing what these guys do - they designed the new cover for the Chernobyl nuclear plant that blew up in the former USSR. The Swedes made the discover of the cloud of nuclear materiel that was blown over Europe - just google for the story.

[@chris6200]

my guess on this is they sent plans out to several manufactures and said build this for this prices and with this quality and Toshiba said they could assemble the materials and tools for the cheapest

[@Alexzander19736]

Bradley Wild What is the red platform for? Avoiding for worn bumps? It helps the bridge to hold all that weight. The bridge isn't build for such loads.

[@dirtydavid26]

Just the daily pre trip had to take 6 hours lol

[@jmecrg]

@rlorion in texas w/ 22.5 tires you can get 20k per axel (axel defined as group of four tires) i see 72 axels on the trailer so thats 1.4 million ....and the video says 1.7 million .... and you can see those tires squating

[@alanhowitzer]

The load per tire is about 3300 pounds, which is probably about 200 pounds per square inch for the contact area.

[@hickrystyk]

I'll bet that bridge is glad that load is off of it

[@Squarerig]

This is the real "Never-Ending" story!

[@TheJamesloy]

Everyone is a genius on the internet. And we don't use american made turbines because we cant make them efficient enough

[@Mikey8567]

Ok I know all this was planed to be safe as it could be. BUT you have a guy sitting on the crash rail of the bridge? Really one blow out of on of the main weight bearing tires (You can see them bulged out) and that guy is dead! Ever seen a tire on a regular tractor trailer blow out? Congrats on the move, but poor safety!

[@51seluj]

everything's bigger in Texas!!

[@eyeced209]

suck to check the tire pressures on that thing, it'd take a week

[@TimDaCorgi]

I've got two questions, #1: how fast is that thing moving, and #2: what type of engine is in the truck pulling the whole load?

[@TimDaCorgi]

oh, ok. I don't see loads like this out in Pennsylvania much.

[@AJDeere]

+Timothy Fuller Western Stars

[@TimDaCorgi]

oh ok.

[@AJDeere]

+Timothy Fuller oh and also i think 2 kenworth C500s

[@TimDaCorgi]

noice

[@jeabo0adhd]

In Texas, everything is big.

[@AircraftMechanic-AP]

It would suck to be behind that!

[@arfamortis1]

TxDOT= Texas department of Transport, read the title, they oversaw the trip.

[@danjcan]

I would love to work for this outfit.....they seem top notch !!!

[@4624tone]

Wow, i move equipment, never do my eight axles of tires go flat on bottom like that, lol, thats freakn heavy..

[@metalbeast99]

I'd hate to be one of the guys walking along that thing, I'd be scared shitless the tires would blow.

[@Paddywhack1976]

need to get rid of a heavy load myself.

[@dyldevin]

Sucks for the guy that has to crank on the floor jack when a tire goes flat.

[@okzoia]

I'm surprised no one has said what the piece weighs. What is its weight?

[@atomgonuclear]

Why not just build on site and save everybody the head-ache?

[@KraziIvan]

Because you can't build a turbine piece by piece and test without a dedicated facility to do it in. It's not Lego. :-/

[@atomgonuclear]

Actually most of this thing's assembly is done on site. The steel girders are all just part of the frame that could have been modular(bolted or welded). I used to work on this stuff for a living. It pretty much is all giant legos

[@elbob248]

Why are you asking that question on a comment board on KZbin? You should get directly in touch with the people involved and ask that question if you really want to know the answer.

[@atomgonuclear]

Robert Palmer It wasn't a question. It was more like criticism in the form of a question. You never know.... sometimes people involved with these types of projects do actually comment back and drop some knowledge.

[@elbob248]

10/4

[@Brian-xu9di]

Holy Shit !!!!!

[@Chevy1951Truck]

well..1.7 million pounds (850 ton?) is b.s..also it's not a turbine engine but the generator stator. who ever was the shipping company made a nice expensive show for nothing..all those trailers and the fixture for the actual stator were unnecessary. maybe only if the bridge could not take it and they had to distribute the weight with maximum amount of wheels on the ground.

[@mfreund15448]

I thought the load securement needed to equal the weight of the load. Not near enough chains!

[@rlorion]

It seems like there is too much trailer to me for the size of the engine.

[@JASON822087]

saw it come thru cut n shoot tx.....:-)

[@BarneySaysHi]

Yay Mammoet!

[@07popeye07]

@721069 HUGE massive workshops haha, it is sum bloody size

[@aggabus]

3600 lb tire

[@vladsinger]

@rlorion Needs to distribute the weight.

[@teken322]

what's this music ?

[@logancurry3835]

i wonder just how much air pressure is going threw the entire load i mean trucks and all because the trucks air pressure has to be powering the platform right

[@DannyWalker1949]

+Logan Curry If you look at 1:26 there is a Air Compressor mounted on the front of the Jeep part of the trailer. And, I'm sure there is another one at the rear of the load too. I used to haul these "Heavy Haul Loads".

[@logancurry3835]

what's the heaviest load you've hauled in your career danny walker

[@DannyWalker1949]

A little over 450,000 lbs.

[@Korvan1993]

Silly question: How many MPG did you get outta that thing?

[@johnserafin1331]

Everything Is Big In Texas.

[@24preacherboy]

I am guessing that load paid over a dollar a mile.

[@NicholasLittlejohn]

Steam turbine for dirty gas or oil power? Why not endless Texas wind and sun? 🌞

[@Bandit4229]

how much would a load like this pay?

[@721069]

How does Toshiba make this stuff?

[@invisableobserver]

It makes me wonder why people today are not as smart & advanced as the earth's previous humanity was; they were able to move much heavier loads than we can do today. Why could not they just had the steam turbine built & assembled at the Waco power plant? In old days large steam generators were built under cathedrals where a thermal vent was to use for steam so that the cathodrils would have heat & free energy, and more free electricity was generated by ionization from the spires by resonance.

[@onebadevox]

how much weight in the footprint?

[@MERRCELAGOO]

about 850 t

[@James-cb7nb]

Will my Honda support such loads?

[@jgmagoo1]

There is a vid here on YT where Mammoet moved a load of 28-MILLION pounds. Check out "Mammoet Guinnes Book Of Records"

[@Wildjesta]

What is the red platform for? Avoiding for worn bumps?

[@NicholasLittlejohn]

Reinforcement

[@abdelfettahayadi5642]

Yea imagine that in Louisiana roads lol. I'll leave it there

[@TranquilSpaz]

OMG, those guys must have balls of steal.

[@dainfinitygauntlet]

Theres no scales in texas mostly

[@JunkMan16]

Texas Boogie-Woogie?

[@PortuguesesnaHolanda]

Dutch power yeah

[@trentyboy22222]

hey here's an idea PULL IT APART and then move it and then rebuild it :D EASY

[@NYSHARK101]

I hate seeing crap like this they could have built this on site .What did this do to improve the economy?

[@alex101164]

0_0 what would that thing even power

[@2005Danimal]

@721069 They can figure that out but my lap top well thats another story

[@jeremylee99100]

@Bandit4229 alot im gessing

[@voivod6969]

Nice move, but I had to turn the volume down- that waylon & willy shitkicker music was just too much....

[@granskare]

I am disappointed that the Texas DOT did not mention the Mammoet company which managed the job...too bad.

[@easygoing2479]

granskare - Yeah. I would think that when this job was finished, TxDOT’s entire year’s budget was “Sponsored by Mammoet” with the warehouse of permits from this load.

[@roconnor01]

Can't we have it tonnes like the rest of the world quotes it?

[@rlorion]

you need a trailer to carry the trailer.....

[@asbornbros]

U know that is mammoet not txdot

[@peterod82]

I build all the eq. for tx.you think this is big,you should see our building where it is born!

[@joejane9977]

pay was more the 1.50 a mile.

[@WhyEwe]

truck centipede

[@a4yster]

Uhm, did you made a proposal to sell the company an american made turbine? Did you go to their office and say "Guys, buy my GE turbine, it is so much better". Did you win the tender offering the best price to value and quality with the best aftersale service? Well, maybe that is why they have Toshiba now. I'll be serious now - any time somebody sell something - they earned that, because they gave the best offer out there.

[@Naavy2022]

They could have split it up and traveled 4 times as fast...

[@jeromyt6873]

They could have, but sometimes you don't have the ability to assemble it onsite due to it's size, weather, or whatever reason. I might need to be built in a controlled environment, exact specs and they have all of that in one place. It's easier and cheaper to do it this way. These things aren't bought every year.

[@721069]

@2005Danimal LOL :)

[@PremiumFuelOnly]

why couldn't they just fedex it?

[@firesurfer]

They didn't have a box big enough.

[@antwan020]

2:08 piece of plywood? fuckin really

[@berdooflyer]

We (Americans) can all thank the unions for that. Union prima donnas wanting much more than they are worth and driving up the cost of doing business. In doing so, they make it difficult, or impossible, to compete in the business world, hence forcing manufacturers to go abroad.

[@firesurfer]

BULL, it's the mega companies with a long term plan to kill the unions by every possible means. Including decades long lobbying efforts in congress.

[@HamaAlinzo]

Sir wrong way turn round and before you turn change all those break pads

[@Android_Warrior]

Because we don't make them here, that's why!!

[@jmecrg]

half a million easy

[@elevatorman1]

ummmmm. OVERWEIGHT LOL!!!

[@eikka3]

Old timer gears, and Controls cant uses With reallu work to day. Anything as like from seventiin i US.