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!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• TxDOT
• MCD
• Motor Carrier Division
• generator
• turbine steam engine
• heavy load

[zomgbbqwth]

name of song?

[TxDOTpio]

@zomgbbqwth Not sure and the individual who put it together is out of the office for a bit. I'll check back with her once she returns and let you know!

[721069]

How does Toshiba make this stuff?

[TxDOTpio]

@721069 I don't know. Pretty amazing to me.

[4624tone]

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

[hickrystyk]

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

[khaninator]

@rlorion Needs to distribute the weight.

[07popeye07]

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

[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 

[BarneySaysHi]

Yay Mammoet!

[721069]

@2005Danimal

LOL :)

[2005Danimal]

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