Stunning video of wind turbine blades being hauled

[TheDane2006]

I guess the stunning part is the driver in the wind turbine truck overtakes that other weichle, thats a bit hasard i think.

[stewwiii]

you know your going slow when a wind turbine passes you

[mptrax]

oh my  !!!!

[Raaannndddyyy]

To the Tehachipi Wind Mills Maybee?

[idushy]

What happens when the GPS tells the truck drive "Take a Legal U turn?" ;-)

[pseudojoo]

I make these!! :D

[GordonSturrock]

@pseudojoo, AWESOME!!!!! Keep it up, your work is our future! Would love to see pictures of these being made. Contact me on Facebook, or post a link here so we can admire the early stages of your handiwork!

Bless you,

Gordon Sturrock

Radical Vet for truth, justice and non-violence

[pseudojoo]

@GordonSturrock as soon I have the chance I'll do that, it really is something else! Thanks for the support, all the best for you

[mrstuperstefan]

@GordonSturrock and a dyed in the wool queer

[aznfilipinoboi]

Whoa, I didn't know that wind turbines are that big :O

[hoffpauirs]

yea just another product from overseas, and when the oil stops flowing into the country then we can then survive on our own oil just like our own wind. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!!!!

[therealkurdopants]

These all come from ships overseas and drop off in Duluth,MN. I work right next to the ship yards and see these things almost everyday now for close to 3 yrs. Blades the motors, and the pillars they stand on. It is quite a sight to see.

[MegaChristopher5]

It's no big deal in Iowa there's a whole parking lot full of those walking distance from my house

[potatoewarrior]

that was just my condom

[sed6]

Stunning only because they are just barely bigger than my stick...

[TheBiddlyboobaa]

I am STUNNED

[monkeyman1140]

Yeah, they're big. I saw 3 of them going down I-35.  I would not want to be that truck driver. Even something as simple as changing lanes must be a nightmare.

[Dillon1108]

haha, burning all that fossil fuel diesel to make green energy...

[newid99]

@Dillon1108 as opposed to not doing anything alternative. Good attitude.I suppose it magically gets transported as does everything else you use or eat.

[bigdougo]

and those are small blades

[snakeeater1977]

THAT TRUCKERS DRIVING TO FAST

[newid99]

@snakeeater1977 How would you be able to determine that I'm driving too fast?!?! I'm on the interstate driving past a vehicle that has slowed down to film me going by.

[justforever96]

@newid99 And how did you get the footage from the guy in the car? Did he stop at the same rest stop as you a ways down the road? Or was he a buddy of yours?

[newid99]

@justforever96 The gentleman's name that took this video is Gordon Sturrock & he posted it on the web & a friend of mine told me it was on here shortly after he put it up.

[transworld20]

Ive seen them being hulled from sualt st marie to wawa ontario section of trans canada

[EM2Nerd]

I'm pretty sure my plant made this blade. Its only 37.3 meters and out plant stopped making them due to the demand of bigger blades. we make 40.3 meter blades and 42.5 meter blades now and were getting another bigger mold soon.

[jhugo1986]

i see these out in west Texas. they are big.

[Railrodder]

I've seen these being shipped down Hwy 401 here in Eastern Ontario! Massive! More recently, I saw a huge shipment of the tower sections being shipped on a westbound CP along the north shore of Lake Ontario! Pretty amazing sight! Check it out!

[legolover2468]

when i see the blades i think they r the column

[justforever96]

I remember looking at these frickin' HUGE steel I-beams under a bridge in Royalton, VT, and wondering "how the hell did they GET those here?". The things are easily 6' wide and longer than these blades are, and there are six of them. There is an interstate that runs within a few miles of Royalton, but it goes under 1-way railroad overpasses on sharp S-turns TWICE. No way they could drive one through those, and the only other roads don't go anywhere NEAR an interstate, and ain't much straighter!

[whiskeyrott]

I'm still waiting for the "stunning" part of the video

[justforever96]

I think the SIZE is supposed to be the "stunning" part. What stuns ME? Where are the escort vehicles? You can't just drive wherever with a load that long. I'm wondering if this video wasn't taken from the escort vehicle. I was wondering why the trucker would pass another car with a load like that, but maybe they saw there was no traffic, and let the truck come alongside so they could film it? Anyway, I'M impressed. They haul some crazy shit on trucks.

[xGIATIx]

i escort these blades and the escort should be not to far behind the law is on a 2 lane road we r to be in front but if its 4 lane or more we have to be in the back

[newid99]

@justforever96 The escort is behind me. We are on an interstate & the vehicle taking the video is going slow to get the shot as we go by. Take a chill pill.

[justforever96]

@newid99 I didn't realize that I was "freaking out" about anything! I was wondering why you couldn't see an escort, and I said I figured that the guy in the car slowed down to let the truck past. You take a chill pill!

[angrygreek1985]

Wow those turbine blades are a lot bigger than I thought.

[ConanEdogawaX]

When I went on a trip to Colorado we happened to pass a a truck hauling a wind turbine blade, it really is an amazing site to see. Great Video.

[coolgenie1]

lol, no shit oversized load! :)

[proaudiohd]

how do they handle crosswinds?

[newid99]

It can get a little hairy sometimes with a heavy crosswind. The worst I ever had was going N on I-35 in Northern Iowa last fall.

[mike198748]

you should try it in wyoming,on a good day. make your arm sore for sure

[75corvette055]

aero dynamic there wild mill blades

[GordonSturrock]

I had some great pictures of this drivers truck sent to me, but a computer crash lost them. Would love to post them on my site Squadron13dotcom if they could be aquired. If the driver of this rig is still driving these things across the country I gotta say "Go Baby Go!!!"

[ClumsyRoot]

Amazing! Thanks for posting!

[pjce3]

we should use as much renewable energy as possible. That size of wings is amazing, i bet it power hundreds of homes.

[newid99]

@pjce3 One wind tower can power approx. 250 homes

[Maurbel]

the sound made my ears bleed.

[MnTrucker1984]

Thank you!

[TheBrat1972]

hey i know this driver!!!!! If he is watching this we want to say Hello

from brat and ben

[jrynef]

well lets see you haul one asshole devestaor

[jkauffman990]

now that really does need a mile to turn

[tangnatalaga]

you do a dangerous thing of holding one hand to the steering wheel while a long load is passing you, and operate the video recorder at the same time just for us. way to go 10-4 on that. lol

[Rakkasans2006]

i wonder how much does it weight?

[pulver117]

aprx. 16,000lbs. I just got on with a company that manufactures wind turbines and i'll be dealing with the blades on a day to day basis.

[Giantmember101]

Holy shit that was STUNNING!

[mavrick45]

I see that view alot on my way to work

^__^

[Teratornis]

Wind turbines in isolation might be there to power schools and so on.

When people prospect for wind, they put anemometers up on test towers at standard heights such as 50m and 60m. After recording the wind speed and direction continuously for at least one year, they plug the data into wind power software packages that plot the wind resource map for a location and optimize the turbine siting. It's very smart now. They accurately predict the power output of the wind farm before it goes up.

[Knackerette]

would these be for a 40 watt or 60 watt turbine?

[travisr1987]

you mean kilowatts or megawatts?

[Teratornis]

The industry standard size for large land-based turbines now is around 3 MW. They keep getting gradually bigger because the economics favor larger size. Making them taller reaches stronger winds higher from the ground. Making the blade diameter longer increases the swept area of the rotor, thus the power, by the square of the blade length.

[Calskater]

GE is also now producing 7 MW wind turbines.

[newid99]

They go on a 1.5 MW GE tower

[MrsCocolicious]

How much power can a 1.5 MW GE tower

provide??? a house, a school or something much larger..

[proaudiohd]

It really depends on the local wind contidions. 1.5MW is the max output in peak winds. But for fun, lets say there was bigger tower in a windy spot and it averaged 1.5MW all the time. 1.5MW x 24 hours in a day = 36MW-hours. That's 36,000 kwh per day or 13.14 million kwh per year. The average house uses about 10,000 kwh per year, so a wind tower that averaged 1.5MW with local wind conditions could power around 1,314 homes.  Just from sitting there turning by itself. That's pretty cool.

[MrsCocolicious]

Thank you for your wonderful explanation. I have wondered about how much power the towers put out and this helps put it in perspective. I have family in Texas and there are some homes we have seen that actually have these on their ranches. How amazing. Thank you again.

[AlumniWeaver]

I don't think the trucker is passing as much as the videographer is slowing down to get a shot of the blades' full length.

[ibook133]

That is nuts.

[datzfast]

looks like the ones that roll through muskogee

to the woodward windmill complex

[someman7]

Is that legal?

[raykeens]

ya if they have the right permit

[dominiccss]

Stunning! Not.

[azarate418]

so hes passing another truck on the left. Scary.

[plantsnpop]

How do they turn?

[GrumpyHashishin]

Nice blades. I want a wind turbine.

[LosJalapeno]

i want one in my room!

[MP1VHT]

It's called a ceiling fan.