. . . around some twisty mountain passes in Greece.
Looks like those guys have done that a few times before. That articulating trailer must have been designed specially for those roads.
Peter
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. . . around some twisty mountain passes in Greece.
Looks like those guys have done that a few times before. That articulating trailer must have been designed specially for those roads.
Peter
I've seen some monstrous stuff on the highway, but nothing THAT big yet.
Wow… THAT is impressive!
Do you think that they ran a full size / light weight mock up over the route just to see if it would fit?
http://sbiii.com/roadload.html#roadschn
http://www.jsupor.com/Heavy-Hauling.aspx
for photos of similar rigs
I watched a program on NHK where they were getting the bits of a windfarm up a similarly twisty road. I suspect the loads were lighter but of similar length and they had, amongst other things, tunnels to navigate. They definitely had a custom machine to do the work because it could raise and lower the load so as to pass over/under various obstacles. And yes they did model it in advance, and they got the power company to take down a couple of electricity poles for the night etc.
This is the sort of delivery that would be ideally served from a heavy lift airship. The problem of course is that it would be a nightmare handling the unloading in a controlled fashion so that the airship didn't hurtle skywards