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- transformer transport in a 500 ton high frame trailer, owned and operated by Omega Morgan/IRH. This configuration takes up to 7 trucks pushing and pulling during the 97 mile transport of the 600,000+ pound transformer. Total weight is approximately 1.5 million pounds, 377 feet long, 26 feet wide (20 feet at tires) and 18'6" tall. it is impressively large when seen in person.
For anybody wandering what the load is, it's a power transformer.
Its actually just one phase (533MVA) of a three phase unit. So if you've seen it on the road it might have been one of its sisters.
Step up transformers are used to increase voltage for long distance transmission. Step down transformers are used for distribution at lower voltage networks. Autotransformers are used to interconnect two high voltage transmission networks. This one connects 500kV & 345kV transmission networks.
Thank you for explaining what it is.
wow
Is this associatied with the windmills you see near the I-80 in Wyoming?
Amazing such a small unit weight so much.
Does it take multiple cranes to place it...?
Take it back! I ordered the blue one!
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What a great sense of humor
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@@mikejohnson4617 Thats what would've happened if I'd delivered it!! Lol
Last week I parked for the night to it outside Laramie WY. Woke up the next morning and it was gone. Got on the road and couldn’t figure out why there was nobody else headed west. Then it it me that they had the interstate shut down for this thing. I made great time to Rawlins with like 4 other vehicles out there. Thanks for clearing the road for me! LOL
Pushes in red valve, waits 4 years for brakes to release.
Reminds me of the giant boilers I'd run a push truck with, heading up to Cold Lake Alberta Weapons Range, but this is looooong! Loved how the middle axles of the set were all individual steer! So smooth. All night runs though for us, no daytime until 5pm. Slow going. 25kms/hr max. Big frame sections, with pipe and walkways and around 65ft high. 2 pull trucks, 4 trucks pushing in spring to fall, or 6 push trucks in winter. All chained up too. Massive money driving for Premay
@@GoldVP... They've came a long way with these specialized transports ... The new (I think it's called autonomous steering) has been a game changer for sure. I watch quite a few of the open mine videos, and they're using this steering on the newer dumpers. It blows one's mind to see the technologies that keep changing things.
The one thing in this vid was my thoughts on what such a trailer syst would cost. I'd think we'll into the millions.
The amount of stress I'd feel backing up this monster would be off the charts. Kudos!
The way you present is so natural and engaging
I drove out of Ohio years ago and hauled 'permit loads' 48 states and Canada, even to and through WY. ... Never anything this massive and awesome tho ... I wish you'd have shown the on and off loading of this piece. I can't imagine the rigging that handles this sort of weight .... the trucks and trailer show the sheer power needed just to get it transported. Awesome job!! The responsibilities of the crew required means everyone had to be in synch 100% of the time ... the routing required, not to mention getting highways cleared to accommodate this sort of move. So many things factored in makes it a task.
lift it out with either a gantry system which is 4 hydraulic jacks and 2 I beams or some super heavy cranes . 750 ton is alot but not so much for gantry system.
saw you guys out on the road a few times back in my driving days, always wanted to work the big stuff, never got beyond soloing oversize transmission poles and trans pad overheads frames, broke my back 10yrs ago, god i miss it!
I'd like to see a documentary on this from the very beginning, when the transformer was built, to it when it was delivered & running. This is amazing.
without the music too
Dot officer:can you show me how you pretripped this thing in 10 minutes
The power behind these machines is amazing!
Talk about serious backing skills! I'm blown away!
Yah. Most of us have trouble backing a trailer onto a boat ramp.
Can you imagine checking the air pressure in all those tires 😂
They used to just carry a little midget in a box on the trailer, those were the days! He would even stand on the truck passing under low clearance obstacles, he would hold a bag of bells or in northern states they just put a single large bell on his hat, if you heard him fall, it was time to stop.
He could also be used as a hood ornament
Knee pads and a very long hose.
Imagine having a flat tire.
Just thinking about it makes me tired-maybe we need a pit crew and a coffee truck on standby!
Thanks for a great video!! Have been involved in some heavy haul loads (140 tons-plus) but nothing of this magnitude.
We saw this on the interstate just west of Laramie on Thursday night. It had backed up traffic on Interstate 80 for miles
I can't imagine the TOTAL cost of transporting this monster. GREAT driver skills!
Looks like the old Savage TK1000 got a new coat of paint. That trailer moved some serious loads, that Autoclave move back in the 90s is still one of my favorites.
These guys are the king of the road right there. Much respect
Had to contract someone to move a 260,000 # vessel a few years back. Not like this, but a challenge for sure. Not many around that do this kind of thing. A lot of work goes into such an endeavor. Routing, permits, bridge upgrades, engineering, power lines, permits, crews, cranes and crews on both ends. Glad had a good team.
Big rig coming through! NICE.
Makes them Australian road trains look small ;) Diff is that the AUS road trains are a daily thing.
“1.5 Million Pound” ….. looks like 95% of that weight was just on the trailer 😂
@@figlexgonzalez3115 Indeed its amazing how they've engineered the distribution of weight for such loads. Sitting such concentrated weight on any conventional trailer would certainly break its back. This weight distribution isbif a science far above my feeble mind. LOL.... Years ago I drive coast to coast and Canada and hauled 'permit loads' (heavy, high and wide), but never operated anything of these proportions ... always thought I'd like to, but only ran conventional tri-axle heavies. The steering system on this rigging is what fascinates me the most.
Just in tires
Also it helps even out the ground pressure so the roadway isn't absolutely destroyed. Marvel of human engineering
The load itself is 1.5 million pounds. Everything else is to transport the load.
That bridge didn't need to be limited to 750 tons.
I can't think of a better place for that transformer. Zero shortage of wind for the wind turbines.
I saw that thing today. Had traffic backed up for miles. Glad I was on the other side of the highway
BTY, the sound bed was for the 1st time in my life actually catchy, I want to find it now!
I have never seen two side-by-side prime movers at the back of a haul like that before. That is insane. Almost as much as a 377-foot overall length to distribute the weight so you can move a transformer that's about 35 feet long! Physics, gotta love it.
I assume they are used mostly for breaking right? And maybe some uphill push? After all, the strong man competition shows a man can get an airplane moving
No one will believe me if they see this but I was on the same substation job that this transformer was moving to. I left to the next job so I never got to see them move it so I’m glad this video somehow got recommended to me
I know the vibe. Can relate respective to my own work. Neat to see stuff you had hands on in some capacity on youtube. Stay safe out there sparky.
Thank you for letting me know what they were moving. I couldn't make it out myself
Autobot or decepticon?
You are correct, none of us believe you
The tolls of this vehicle crossing the George Washington Bridge would be just astroooooooonomical.
The traffic
@@CDSAfghan They might actually get a line that makes it all the way out of NJ
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We do this here in NYC. What a nightmare. Wish we had roads this wide with little to no traffic. Great job guys!. And that high hood C500 is beautiful
Oh the highway backed up for like 50 miles behind this thang
@teamcybr8375 hahaha. Yeah that must suck....no where to go around
@@jamescaliendo1030Modern trucking GPS units are pretty good at finding a go around when they can save time. If you're in the front though, tough shit. You either have to ride it out, or look for your own way around.
You are a tire shops dream come true.
Been nice to see the crane that loaded and unloaded this!
Probably using lifting beams and jacks instead of a crane (just a guess) although at 1,500,000 pounds this is 750 tons but obviously need one of the largest cranes out there at a very small radius.
@ or two rigs?
Big ol' transformer in the middle of nowhere
Most power plants are way out in the middle of nowhere.
We can put it in front of your house, if you really want to.
The humming noice is kind a relaxing.
So smooth and efficient
I passed you guys just outta Laramie a few weeks ago. If I remember right there was two of those rigs running together.
It's definitely a pretty incredible piece of equipment !
I was stuck behind that for approximately 50 miles before they pulled over in a parking area and let us by
This is why I pray we NEVER see another Carrington event or any super EMPs
Great video, Tyler, and also a great pick for the music track.
I saw that driving through Laramie about 2 weeks ago. On my way to Colorado
I was right behind you, until you turned off.
5:20 Bridge capacity sign shows 40-tons.
Crew: we're sending it 😅
That’s why there’s so many wheels on such a long trailer, to spread the weight out so that it’s roughly equivalent to less than 40 tons.
and then you back it up so beautifully. Wowser!!!!!!
Fantastic. Not too keen on wide angle lens views though, difficult to see the true length of this monster.
Incidentally, interesting to see axle grouping. In the UK, where I am, it's a solid mass of wheels, whereas it seems in the US the bogies are paired, with large gaps in between. Maybe the axle weight limit is more generous in the US?
Loved hauling super loads with steerable dollys.Mctyre trucking 2009
Coming back to this to say I went camping up outside of Centennial last weekend and saw this entire company sat at the train yard in Laramie(8/25/2024) with a load on this trailer. Even saw the green Kenworth at the back. I felt like I saw someone famous or something.
i think the green one was an old pacific truck.
@@ronblack7870you’re probably right now that I look closer. Idk why I didn’t immediately recognize the pacific/Hayes style bumper.
That is the biggest trailer I have ever seen. I guess the load was 1,000,000 pounds and the tractors + Trailer = 500,000 lbs.
Love the green Pacific truck pushing.
yup super heavy duty trucks made in canada back in the day.
How much horsepower is moving all of this? 5:00 is pretty incredible. That looks like a significant hill.
It's been a long time since I had a physics class, but to move 1.5M lbs up a 10° incline (17.6% grade) at 10 mph would take about 7000 HP, I think. And that just accounts for the weight, no rolling resistance.
(1.5M lbs * sin(10) * 14.667 ft/s) / 550 lb-ft/s = 6946 HP
So 3500 HP would be able to do the same incline at 5 mph, or do a 5° incline at 10 mph. Seems like 3500 is a little closer to what we see at the five minute mark, but I have no idea what the speed or incline was.
Regardless it's nothing short of incredible. Just the coordination with the various jurisdictions to move a load like this is enough to make my head spin.
6% grade about .5 mph, that shot is X64 speed. HP wasn't the problem, it was traction on loose gravel.
@@tylerw7531 Got it. That makes sense.
We just visited the ranch that got installed on, it's a sad day when there's light pollution in Wyoming 😢
"How many tires do you need for your trailer, sir?"
"Yes."
Some description would help.
The cargo weighs 250 pounds
The trucks and trailer make up the rest of the weight . LoL 😂
@@mhughes1160 huh, or are you just an ahole?
Looks like the same trailer I worked with 25 years ago. I do miss the days of work for intermountain rigging in heavy haul.
Intermountain brought something big through our little town of Columbus NM 10 years ago or so. There is a video of them going up Transmountain outside of El Paso.
I wish I could have seen them coming from AZ to Columbus on that tiny road.
The 1.5 million $$$ question- What is the payload???
Electrical transformer I think
Yes, it is a high voltage substation transformer
The payload isn't important. It's the weight distribution that allows this load to be carried out across small restricted weight bridges.
@@vipahman Does the red truss have nothing to do with the transformer itself, and it's just there to distribute the weight?
@@DiceMaster740 yes only the gray box is the transformer hanging between the red rails
the same units moved the nuke power units from san ofre maybe 8 years ago--the total load weight was over two million pounds was the biggest,heavyiest move in world history-they were at least 30 ft high--moved at night in calif came up 395 then 6 to utah where they buried them off of I-80 east of wendover--they parked them for awhile in Bishop,calif and everybody in town came out to look at them--they had a whole electrical support team to move power lines and many other support vehicals plus maybe 15 highway patrol--each move was over a million bucks i heard
Just like the Egyptians did it
No, that's walking ...
We still couldn't move anything as large as they did even with our technology today .
@@justbe4481lol maybe not your limited imagination, but there has been an enormous amount of experimental archeology working out how to move massive pieces of stone with relatively simple tech. Scans of the pyramids show internal ramps that were used to spiral the stones up the structure. Experiments with the easter island statues suggest they were walked by tying ropes at the top and rocking+twisting them. Stonehenge rocks were probably lifted into position with levers.
@@justbe4481 the brainrot persists
@@justbe4481You just watched a video of something much bigger and heavier being moved…
That there boys is super trucking 👍. I’m curious as to what that trailer setup weighs without the load?
Wonderful. Thanks!
So that's what that was! Saw it while visiting family, and hoo boy did it have the southbound side backed up for miles!
That's one hell of a team. Beautiful piece of equipment
274 Tires on the ground? Did I count right??
Looks like 278
I tried and gave up.
I didn't even bother
I’ll see your 288 and raise you another 16 tires
Its a weird looking trailer set p but I guess its one of those deals where you have to spread the transport weight far enough out with so many axles and tires so bridges dont get smashed.
I remember seeing one of them in motion in wyoming.
Changing Wyoming from a nice rural area to an industrial slum.
That's amazing
If you look real close you can see that last bridge bend just a tiny bit when the main axles go over it. 😳
5:23 Bridge went from benching a nice breeze to benching 1.5 mil pounds
How do the trucks both push and pull at the same time? Are they connected? Or do the push drivers just sense how much power to give?
Several questions...
Why does state with 40,000 people need that capacity? How long did it take to make? Cost?
Trying to figure out what the load was.
It’s a transformer for a substation. I was on that job but I left and missed them moving it
@@williamwayman441 thanks
I passed this at a rest stop 3 days ago thinking WHOA WTF IS THAT THING??!
Ironic I just happened to scroll across this today
Amazing skill
Fisheye kinda ruins the shot with its distortion.
Yep - we need to get rid of GoPro cameras with their curvilinear lenses and use cameras that have RECTILINEAR lenses in order to see things the way they REALLY are.
Fascinating! But what was it used for,? Seeing it loaded and unloaded and set into place would have been nice.
I sure miss doing heavy haul loads.
What was the load? transformer? small volume for that much weight?
I literally saw this on the road the other day!!!! It was wild!
That old prime mover bringing up the rear ......if rigs could talk
I'd bet that ole dude could spin some yarn for sure
So he's basically dragging a suspension bridge.
Great teamwork
Dang 44 axles in that train
What are they hauling
hell of a back in at 4:00
I counted 1.5 million tires. What an amazing achievement in engineering and rigging. 🙂
That's a pretty incredible piece of machinery.
I met Vic in 87' at the Koch refinery in Rosemont MN. Iwas blasting and painting for Rainbow. Union shit...
What is it that weighs so much. 1.5 million lbs
Any idea how much it costs to move a load like this? 🤑
1 mpg per foot🔥
The money shot at 5:18 - awesome footage, Tyler!
They must have calculated the axle spread and weight right. They did not fall thru the bridge.
Wonder how long it takes to air that up from empty with one tractor.
How do they keep all the trailer axles pointed in the right directions through turns? Mechanical cleverness or something else?
Probably motorized steering
It is remote controlled hydraulic steering. 4 axles steer per wheel set, each wheel set controlled by different operators.
@@tylerw7531 Ok right on, thank you.
And I bet their controllers weren’t game console controllers like Stockton Rush used on the Titan.
I'm from Rawlins, Wyoming
Does anyone know where the transformer was manufactured?
The Wheel Seals on that Monster!😢🤯😵💫
Is it transporting anything or just itself?
Has to be fun for the guy who has to drive on the rumble strip the whole time.
What is it a box of lead ??
Video came up short by not stating what the purpose of this 500 ton high frame trailer. Does anyone know?
transformer move
I wonder if we getting this in gta 6😂😂
That’s pretty cool and amazing - thanks for sharing this
Was it built in Laramie or how did it get to Laramie?
No it wasn't built in Laramie. WTF kind of question is that?
That is an insane rig!