Traffic stopper

[Ryan]

Took these pics on my way out to Inverleigh today on the Hamilton Highway. Traffic was halted while the power company lifted the power lines with a VERY long pole to get the loads under.

[Ryan]

Getting closer

[Ryan]

Impressive load.

[Ryan]

And his partner.

[Ryan]

I wonder what it would have weighed?

Is that the beer delivery for Corowa events?

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Vets Dottir 2nd
Is that the beer delivery for Corowa events?

Damn, Karmen, I reckon your training took after all....

[Snowtractor]

Sorry gents, nice little load ya'll got there. You have to come to Alberta and witness a rig move, which is almost daily. Not to mention the oil upgraders units and the oil sands factories flying down the highways. Units are getting so big they are researching bringing peices of plants up the west coast through the Alaskan straight into the Beaufort sea up the Mckenzie over the Great Slave lake, up the Slave river then up the Athabasca by barge. They used to go the other way to supply the north, so it is fitting.
In the Spring I was doing a camera job on a main on the highway in Edson, when I looked up to see a huge box towering overhead. I can't just chop a 20k camera and let it go so I thought , here we go the highway 16 is now closed. Nope the truck runs up on to the sidewalk uses his steering many multidolly trailer to do the same with the 30ft wide load , whips around me and is gone at 60km down the road in a heartbeat. To be fair he did slow down to swerve around us.
Sean

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Damn, Karmen, I reckon your training took after all....

Actually, I first thought it was a special beer delivery for our Salesman Bob, but then thought that was too much beer, even for the likes of him, so figured it had to be for Corowa gatherings

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

However Kartmann, Salesman Bob does go to Corowa for a week.
Bob

Originally posted by Bob Moseley
However Kartmann, Salesman Bob does go to Corowa for a week.
Bob

Hmmmmm ... you'll need to keep an armed guard on duty at Corowa then, so you don't run dry yourself, because the local yokels and green-machine-addicted tourists will need to be controlled from helping themselves and drinking you dry. I need a job ... and have a verra fine that works wonders and would offer my protective services ... but ... alas ... too far a commute for me. Good luck with finding protection ...

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Ryan
tanks were made in Mildura and will be arriving at Geelong over the next month, so there must be quite a few of them. From memory they are 5.5 meters wide.
(Does'nt anyone listen to ABC country radio?)
Rich

[Ryan]

Well there you go, thanks Rich.
I'll keep my eye out for more. I'm lead to believe they did a night rest in Inverleigh the previous night before I caught them on the road.

[cletrac (RIP)]

Here's one of those oil sands pieces that went by a few years ago. Each of those axles has 8 tires that are hydraulically steered and leveled by an operator in that little cab out back.
The biggest one I saw being moved was a heat exchanger that was at least 200 feet long and weighed over a million pounds. The jeep setups they used were floaters with 16 tires per axle and that made the axles over 20 feet wide. The exchanger was an arched setup and at the height of the arch you could have driven a semi through underneath it. It had one high HP truck pulling it and two more out back for extra braking. It was made in the USA and was trucked over 3000 miles to Fort McMurry. I talked to one crew member and he said the biggest problem was finding a route where you could cross the bridges. You can cut power lines but bridge superstructures stop you.

[Snowtractor]

NOw that's what I'm taking about! Mind you back in the 70's and 80's it seems like everyone was moving grain elevators. There was some big stuff too, not near as heavy though.
Sean