The heavy load took an unusual route to avoid as many bridges as possible, to reduce the risk of damage. This is with the exception of one point on the route where a temporary over-bridge had to be built, as seen in this video: th-cam.com/video/UYk5N92YJxM/w-d-xo.html Allelys transported the Siemens Energy generator, weighing 356 tonnes, from the Port of Ipswich to the Eye Synchronous Condenser Plant (read more: conradenergy.co.uk/energy-generation/grid-stability/yaxley-synchronous-condenser/ ) in Yaxley, Suffolk
well if you have a massive abnormal load like that going though a town it will be planed like 3-6 months in advanced so that have time to plan. Plus a lot of them will already have experience in certain roles in the escort so they just keep the escort going.
So, while we are all noticing the weight of the generator, the horsepower of the trucks, how many wheels there are and all, did anyone notice the size of the drawer to tow it with and the connecting pin by comparison to the scale of all else? 😂 just saying. Years of driving Roadtrains with 40mm and 50mm ringfeders, never ceases to amaze me, the engineering of it all. Cheers from down under 🇦🇺
"Wow, it's fascinating to hear your insights! The engineering behind transporting such massive equipment always amazes me. I also appreciate how you highlighted the size of components like the tow hitch and connecting pin; those details are essential not to overlook. Thank you for sharing your experience from down under! Cheers! 🇦🇺
Looked like Smit Dutch trailers. I drove road trains in WA, needed RT's because when you came head to head with a 300 tonne mine dumper on a trailer, such fun. The load covered the whole width of the road, cars etc could drive under the load but not us. Not fun backing up several trailers. These enormous loads just drove off into the dust on side roads to mines. Hot and dry and great memories for a Kiwi, nothing like it in NZ.
These guys are amazing, they delivered 4 massive transformers to the new New Deer Substation in Aberdeenshire when I was there. Large streches of the roads were A roads with trees everywhere and the last mile to the site entrance was a B road but still not a problem to these guys. There was 2 units at the front and 2 at the back as apparently transformers are heavier than generators and the extra power was necessary. Was a great piece of engineering and driving to witness.
Yeah, since Trafos usually have a lot more iron built into them to serve as the core to the windings that are around it. Generators usually have a bit less, as the windings needed are not as big.
Great video and great narration, just the right amount. Glad that I don't have to change any of those tyres under the load trailers. It would appear that the heavy haulage contractor has both left and right hand drive haulage trucks. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Well, eff me. I did a lot of heavy and abnormal hauling back in the days but of course not anything anywhere near as that! This is well and truly impressive!
@@HeimirTomm I did oversize, got to use special routes etc. But since retiring find myself having to take on leases for the junctions we need to use for the wind turbine delivery, the road furniture barriers etc are all now removable. These leases will probably outlast me and are attached to the property deeds.
Great planning. They were replacing street "furniture" the second the transport passed. At one point the lane arrows were replaced as the truck was along side.
Massive respect and admiration of the skill of this specialist haulier, I used to move mega items for Rolls Royce power gen 25 years ago on similar transport , amazing people
Superb work, thank you! May be worth pointing out that what's under the tarp on each of the tractor units is ballast to prevent wheelspin from the huge dead weight when the unit sets off.
The power in the trucks must be amazing , to pull that up Bishops Hill ...i missed it ....😢😢 I see they stopped at the Gardeners Arms for a quick pint ........
Oh yes very powerful. They had to hook the 3rd tractor up for the uphill climb. There should be another to come as it's meant to be a generator and a transformer, but the transformer is postponed. No date yet given. Yes! 🍺
the oldest of the 3 lorries is the V8 which should be 680hp, the 3rd one that was added for the hill was 510 (and the newest) and the other one was 540. to be fair that's average power nowadays, you get 770 hp scanias pulling 44t, but these obviously have hub reduction and probably 16 gears (not sure) anyway, the amount of torque is mindblowing
This is absolutely amazing. The driving, forward planning and fascinatingly complicated vehicle. I only wish l could hitch a ride on something similar. Now on my bucket list! Thank-you.
You would think connecting a major port to a power plant would be a large highway but it's the UK so centuries old narrow roads it is. Makes for entertaining content that's for sure!
It's funny you should say that! On the way into the port, the ship transporting the generator would have passed under the Orwell Bridge. A four lane highway/dual carriageway (A14) over the bridge and around the town, towards the Synchronous Condenser Plant. But because the port is centuries old (circa 625 AD), the town has been built around the port over a thousand years before the A14 became a major highway. The load arrived in the town at the port, and then made its way through the old town centre to the A14. There is a much larger and more modern port at the mouth of the River Orwell, the Port of Felixstowe, I'm not sure of the reasons for it not to have come in there but I am sure there were good ones.
@@andyxox4168 Not entirely correct. The Generator will have to be pulled out and returned to the manufacturer for a rebuild and overhaul in about 25 to 30 years. We have had a couple of Super Loads cycled out of the Generation Stations down in the Latrobe Valley and brought to Melbourne Port for return to Germany for overhaul in the last few years. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
@@markfryer9880 Having been intimate with the workings of generators over the past 35 years and dealing with legacy machines also perhaps that’s more of a commentary on the repair facilities in your country. The vast majority of stator repairs are carried out on site because of the logistics of even removing a stator from its mountings.
Impressive piece of work, and great filming! It seems like we're just glossing over the fact that Ipswich has a street named for fossilised faeces, though!
Used to happen regularly in Manchester, Rugby and Stafford when GEG shipped steam turbines and generators all over the world, same thing from Parsons (Peebles) in the north and even Brush in the midlands .. now we make sod all and the event becomes a spectacle!
Just the design of a structure on wheels capable of transporting a gigantic monster like this one is immensely impressive! How many drivers total were required to operate Goldhofer unusual-load vehicles? Amazing to see them pull the 'street furniture' first! 😮Thanks!👍 (I kept losing axel-count🤣)
1 driver + drivers mate per tractor unit, Mate also works as spotter/assistant on the trailer, large loads 2x vans for escort duties to spot issues up the road and stop traffic if no police are involved add mechanics and the weeks of route planning and it really is a major effort for 1 load
It was reassuring to see a taxi driver doing whatever they want on our roads. Should have been heavily fined for driving on the pavement and failing to stop for the police.
That's true driving skills right there lorry driver's honestly deserve the up most respect for keeping our country running forget the government if we didn't have people willing to go across country to help in construction and deliveries we'd collapse as a nation
Ipswich, my home town but moved away in the mid 70's - is that Bishops Hill at 19:58? Looks like it especially since they've hooked up another truck at the front...
i absolutely love the precision and how everyone and every car are cooperating so well together. But I do have one question in mind: why does such a huge and heavy item have to go through town center?
I’d say that generator (without rotor threaded) weight 250-300 tonnes max and is around 8-10m long. . The weights you’re quoting must be for the whole rig!
Maybe a weird question here, but why did they use older TGXs as main tractors rather than the new one? I've found something like that in other videos too😅
@@Sebastian00915 cost of replacement they don't need a particularly big fleet of specialised trucks so they'd either have to sell there old ones (to who obviously) a or just let them sit in a yard
So the reason for putting it in such a incredible structure as that cradle could only be because any wheels underneath it would be crushed or at least unable to move? How many miles did it do by road?
The reason is usually height, if it was on a trailer rather than slung on a girder bridge it would be very tall. It does mean the weight can be spread over more wheels though, so the pressure per wheel is lower, as you say.
Great video, always interesting watching these heavy haulage projects. I feel a little dumb though. I have seen this company's wagons up and down the road since they had Daf 3300/3600 in the 80's/90's I've had models of their trucks and also used skins of their trucks in ETS2 and only when you said it did I realise they were caled Allelys and not Alleys I even muttered to myself "why's he calling them Allelys😂. Thanks for correcting almost 40 years of not seeing the letter L😂
Very interesting video, bearing in mind the size of the load the whole process was done quite quickly. The only sad thing l feel compelled to comment negatively on…….is the state of the streets, l can’t believe that the Councils allow them to get that bad. ❤🇦🇺
Your local Roads Authority will have Public Notice information on their website. Military and Nuclear (if applicable) moves would be a completely different matter. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
It is fairy liquid, those two rams with the feet on are stabilisers, just barely touching the bed of the truck but can still move up and down accordingly when the unit is on a camber. The fairy is just to act as a thin flim of lubricant.
Because UK cut themselves out of EU, the customers for those insurers and bankers will mostly be local. But with no healthy local market there's nothing to insure or do banking for.
TPMS I would imagine. That said, they do sometimes get punctures/pulled off the rims, so I believe they normally have a tyre fitter and spares in the convoy.
Took me back 45 years to my first shipboard job on MV Kingsnorth Fisher, taking one of these monsters across the English Channel from Liverpool to LeHavre, France.
.. and all of this equipment and cost (at many stations) is purely necessitated because of the lack of stability and inertia provided by wind turbines. So when you’re considering the cost of wind energy consider the additional billions in infrastructure to make them viable!
@@BromideBride I’m aware to some extent but it’s not my field of expertise however a non operational plant has nothing to do with grid inertia nor stability! (Not is removal of main equipment as there is the option to ‘cut it up’ on site)
@@andyxox4168 Climate change is already raising it's ugly head, two huge hurricanes in a week in Florida. Like it or not, energy source change is arriving now and ain't gonna be convenient. Nuclear is probably inevitable.
Doing loads like that here in the U.S. is bad enough, I can’t imagine the problems you must encounter in G.B. With those narrow streets. Just moving that empty trailer and all its parts is a big job. Last thought…..after they made the turn I noticed the lead truck was left hand drive? This is jolly old England isn’t it?
Yes, this is England, but some companies have left hand drive trucks as well, if they deliver to/from the continent as everywhere else in Europe except Ireland and Cyprus drive on the right with left hand drive vehicles like in the US.
@@mcsike7264 wrong... Police cars, ambulances and firetrucks have a secondary battery that powers only the flashing lights and all of the features that an emergency vehicle have on board like radars, computers, radios and so on. The primary battery only powers the headlights, the air conditioner and all of the basic systems of the car. In the case of the Testa it could have a third battery on board, that could be considered as the secondary battery of the conventional emergency vehicles. Yep, electric cars have both a lithium battery that powers the electric motors, plus a conventional 12 volts battery to all of the service of the car, just like a conventional car
The 1st road that they came down & then out of (duke street?), there used to be a roundabout there, if it was still there it would have made it interesting to get round.
There's still one coming out of Cliff Road onto Duke St, where this load would have come up from. You can't see it in the video, though, as it's just behind the buildings. maps.app.goo.gl/nZ4aE5iPQdNENB6U9 I assume this is the one they meant 😁
Suffolk Police spending £45,000 on a Tesla? Seems pretty extravagant when they claim they don't have enough public funding to properly police the county!
The heavy load took an unusual route to avoid as many bridges as possible, to reduce the risk of damage. This is with the exception of one point on the route where a temporary over-bridge had to be built, as seen in this video: th-cam.com/video/UYk5N92YJxM/w-d-xo.html
Allelys transported the Siemens Energy generator, weighing 356 tonnes, from the Port of Ipswich to the Eye Synchronous Condenser Plant (read more: conradenergy.co.uk/energy-generation/grid-stability/yaxley-synchronous-condenser/ ) in Yaxley, Suffolk
@@CobraEmergency I've witnessed this load slowing coming together on A140 for the past week
What I love is that everyone knows their job. Nobody waving arms or shouting orders. Totally unlike other countries I've seen on TH-cam.
It's about the eighth one of these through Ipswich this year. They've had some practice 😂
In my experience, the project team would have been planning the route for at least 3 months, so they should understand what is needed, and when.
well if you have a massive abnormal load like that going though a town it will be planed like 3-6 months in advanced so that have time to plan. Plus a lot of them will already have experience in certain roles in the escort so they just keep the escort going.
Great video
Well, except the Tesla getting in the way at 5:42.
What skill! What machinery! What phenomenal professionals! Thank for lettings me watch such a transport miracle. Rob
@@roberttaylor6295 first time I've seen someone sign off their name on a TH-cam video. Cheers Rob
Good that these trucks are marked with ther STGO Cat 3 signs, otherwise we would not know it was a abnormal load!
Interesting video!
Cat signs are for weight! NOT size.
So, while we are all noticing the weight of the generator, the horsepower of the trucks, how many wheels there are and all, did anyone notice the size of the drawer to tow it with and the connecting pin by comparison to the scale of all else? 😂 just saying. Years of driving Roadtrains with 40mm and 50mm ringfeders, never ceases to amaze me, the engineering of it all. Cheers from down under 🇦🇺
@@donaldwayne4219 looks like the 15axle modular trailer..
Yeah m a farmer and i pull 30-50 ton in my trolley with tractor with just 10 inch hook
"Wow, it's fascinating to hear your insights! The engineering behind transporting such massive equipment always amazes me. I also appreciate how you highlighted the size of components like the tow hitch and connecting pin; those details are essential not to overlook. Thank you for sharing your experience from down under! Cheers! 🇦🇺
Looked like Smit Dutch trailers. I drove road trains in WA, needed RT's because when you came head to head with a 300 tonne mine dumper on a trailer, such fun. The load covered the whole width of the road, cars etc could drive under the load but not us. Not fun backing up several trailers. These enormous loads just drove off into the dust on side roads to mines. Hot and dry and great memories for a Kiwi, nothing like it in NZ.
@@howardsimpson489 Big gear and big country up there mate, just the place to make lasting memories
These guys are amazing, they delivered 4 massive transformers to the new New Deer Substation in Aberdeenshire when I was there. Large streches of the roads were A roads with trees everywhere and the last mile to the site entrance was a B road but still not a problem to these guys. There was 2 units at the front and 2 at the back as apparently transformers are heavier than generators and the extra power was necessary. Was a great piece of engineering and driving to witness.
Yeah, since Trafos usually have a lot more iron built into them to serve as the core to the windings that are around it. Generators usually have a bit less, as the windings needed are not as big.
@2:14 That was the funniest thing ive seen in a while. At first I thought he was cleared to pass but buddy went full crazy
one of those "professional drivers"
Typical Ipswich cab driver, think the own the roads
@@Dandeano It's not just Ipswich, all Taxi drivers think they hold special licences to do whatever they like
But why did they shut the road off so early?
It's just one more bell end to add to the growing number of bell ends this country has.
Great video and great narration, just the right amount. Glad that I don't have to change any of those tyres under the load trailers. It would appear that the heavy haulage contractor has both left and right hand drive haulage trucks.
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Thank you for NOT putting music over the vlog.
Indeed.
A really well put together video. I'm particularly liking how you've provided links to the project too.
Well, eff me. I did a lot of heavy and abnormal hauling back in the days but of course not anything anywhere near as that! This is well and truly impressive!
@@HeimirTomm I did oversize, got to use special routes etc. But since retiring find myself having to take on leases for the junctions we need to use for the wind turbine delivery, the road furniture barriers etc are all now removable. These leases will probably outlast me and are attached to the property deeds.
Great planning. They were replacing street "furniture" the second the transport passed. At one point the lane arrows were replaced as the truck was along side.
Massive respect and admiration of the skill of this specialist haulier, I used to move mega items for Rolls Royce power gen 25 years ago on similar transport , amazing people
Superb work, thank you! May be worth pointing out that what's under the tarp on each of the tractor units is ballast to prevent wheelspin from the huge dead weight when the unit sets off.
wow - fantastischer Job. MAN, GOLDHOFER, SIEMENS - und der Löwe aus Braunschweig ;)
Großartige Choreografie schwerer Maschinerie. Well done ;)
The man who actually deserves all the credit in this video is the man who had to tourqe all of those wheels...not all heroes wear capes 😂😂
Absolutely epic footage and very well narrated
Thank you Steven! Looking to do more like this.
The power in the trucks must be amazing , to pull that up Bishops Hill ...i missed it ....😢😢 I see they stopped at the Gardeners Arms for a quick pint ........
Oh yes very powerful. They had to hook the 3rd tractor up for the uphill climb. There should be another to come as it's meant to be a generator and a transformer, but the transformer is postponed. No date yet given.
Yes! 🍺
These generators/transformers must be worth millions many
This route and the road alterations must take months to plan amazing
🇬🇧🇬🇧👍 👍 😃😃
the oldest of the 3 lorries is the V8 which should be 680hp, the 3rd one that was added for the hill was 510 (and the newest) and the other one was 540. to be fair that's average power nowadays, you get 770 hp scanias pulling 44t, but these obviously have hub reduction and probably 16 gears (not sure) anyway, the amount of torque is mindblowing
Top firm Alleleys, great blokes who work for them and have some serious top gear, respect to them 👍🏻 👏
@perlamiseriaccia thought T800 may have made an appearance but sadly not but still quality MAN'S at the helm..
This is absolutely amazing. The driving, forward planning and fascinatingly complicated vehicle. I only wish l could hitch a ride on something similar. Now on my bucket list! Thank-you.
It's been a minute since i watched your videos but I love that you now have commentary!
I know, I went off him when he started to just do American stuff
I can remember them coming through Altrincham out of Wythenshawe on a Sunday morning, no traffic. Pickfords with their Scammell. Lovely.
We have followed wide and heavy loads for years. Always interesting to watch. Real talent.
You would think connecting a major port to a power plant would be a large highway but it's the UK so centuries old narrow roads it is. Makes for entertaining content that's for sure!
It's funny you should say that! On the way into the port, the ship transporting the generator would have passed under the Orwell Bridge. A four lane highway/dual carriageway (A14) over the bridge and around the town, towards the Synchronous Condenser Plant.
But because the port is centuries old (circa 625 AD), the town has been built around the port over a thousand years before the A14 became a major highway. The load arrived in the town at the port, and then made its way through the old town centre to the A14.
There is a much larger and more modern port at the mouth of the River Orwell, the Port of Felixstowe, I'm not sure of the reasons for it not to have come in there but I am sure there were good ones.
It really as such equipment only has to be transported once at the time of construction!
(That applies worldwide)
@@CobraEmergency Very cool thank you for sharing that!
@@andyxox4168 Not entirely correct. The Generator will have to be pulled out and returned to the manufacturer for a rebuild and overhaul in about 25 to 30 years. We have had a couple of Super Loads cycled out of the Generation Stations down in the Latrobe Valley and brought to Melbourne Port for return to Germany for overhaul in the last few years.
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
@@markfryer9880 Having been intimate with the workings of generators over the past 35 years and dealing with legacy machines also perhaps that’s more of a commentary on the repair facilities in your country. The vast majority of stator repairs are carried out on site because of the logistics of even removing a stator from its mountings.
Nicely done. I binned this channel a while back 'cos of all the boats/planes but I'll keep an eye on it.
Any idea as to the budget of this whole operation?
Thank-you.Fascinating.I was hoping more kids would be out to see it.
Impressive piece of work, and great filming!
It seems like we're just glossing over the fact that Ipswich has a street named for fossilised faeces, though!
Is that the new tesla home charger .
Used to happen regularly in Manchester, Rugby and Stafford when GEG shipped steam turbines and generators all over the world, same thing from Parsons (Peebles) in the north and even Brush in the midlands .. now we make sod all and the event becomes a spectacle!
Didn’t need such a ridiculously complicated ‘rig’ either!
Thank you for making this video I really appreciate it
I work as a cleaner on the site these were delivered to, but since I don't work on sundays, I missed all of them.
This was alot more interesting than most TH-cam content 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Trucks are large enough as it is. Now that's a huge monster at the back of that truck
Fantastic coordination 👍🇬🇧
Excellent recording - no unnecessary, raucous music or needless, runaway-at-the-mouth commentary.
Thank you! I really don't want to spoil the key moments with unnecessary audio.
Allelys are impressive, with all that diesel power this stuff blows your mind drastically fantastically.
Excellent stuff! Thanks! 👍
Just the design of a structure on wheels capable of transporting a gigantic monster like this one is immensely impressive! How many drivers total were required to operate Goldhofer unusual-load vehicles? Amazing to see them pull the 'street furniture' first! 😮Thanks!👍 (I kept losing axel-count🤣)
1 driver + drivers mate per tractor unit, Mate also works as spotter/assistant on the trailer, large loads 2x vans for escort duties to spot issues up the road and stop traffic if no police are involved add mechanics and the weeks of route planning and it really is a major effort for 1 load
2 x 14 row platforms is my count. Great work to make the turn there, only just enough room to get around by the looks👍.
And 8 wheels per row, making 112 wheels per bogie (the same number as pounds in a hundredweight). 224 wheels in total carrying the load.
Not much different than it was in the 70’s and 80’s!
It was reassuring to see a taxi driver doing whatever they want on our roads. Should have been heavily fined for driving on the pavement and failing to stop for the police.
Honestly looks like something from Thunderbirds with all those wheels, hope the driver is being paid extra for that job!
nicely documented, thanks for sharing.
That's true driving skills right there lorry driver's honestly deserve the up most respect for keeping our country running forget the government if we didn't have people willing to go across country to help in construction and deliveries we'd collapse as a nation
Suuuuuperb coverage, thank you for posting.
I can't even imagine how many months of planning and paperwork, co-ordinating with different councils and gov departments went into this.
Absolutely incredible!!!
Ipswich, my home town but moved away in the mid 70's - is that Bishops Hill at 19:58? Looks like it especially since they've hooked up another truck at the front...
i absolutely love the precision and how everyone and every car are cooperating so well together. But I do have one question in mind: why does such a huge and heavy item have to go through town center?
I’d say that generator (without rotor threaded) weight 250-300 tonnes max and is around 8-10m long. . The weights you’re quoting must be for the whole rig!
@andyxox4168 Why do you think that you know better?
Great video mate
Maybe a weird question here, but why did they use older TGXs as main tractors rather than the new one?
I've found something like that in other videos too😅
@@Sebastian00915 cost of replacement they don't need a particularly big fleet of specialised trucks so they'd either have to sell there old ones (to who obviously) a or just let them sit in a yard
So the reason for putting it in such a incredible structure as that cradle could only be because any wheels underneath it would be crushed or at least unable to move? How many miles did it do by road?
The reason is usually height, if it was on a trailer rather than slung on a girder bridge it would be very tall. It does mean the weight can be spread over more wheels though, so the pressure per wheel is lower, as you say.
@@stephenmills3622 … nope it’s to save the roads!
VERY NICELY MANAGED 👍👍👍👏👏👏
Some serious metal creaking!
MAN Powertrucks, Goldhofer Trailer, Siemens Energy Generator. German Powertools at its best.
Mate, did you miss the BMW police bikes 😂😂🇦🇺
Sneaky Vauxhall taxi can be easily identified for further action❗He Did ignore the Police road block & drive over the path❗
As you can see from later footage, cops were letting people pass. The taxi driver could have just talked a bit, wait a few seconds, and go through.
brilliant. well planned and nicely done.
I am wondering if the throttle on the pushing truck is linked to the first towing truck.
2x MAN TGX tractors GTW 250t each & Goldhofer Faktor 5 girder bridge trailer (total weight 550t at a guess?)
Amazing! Love videos like this ⚡
Glad you enjoyed! Hopefully more to come 😄
Jesus, the size of that thing, hahaha. Great video. Thanks.
Is Jesus interested?
It looks nearly cylindrical. Should have just rolled it! 😉
Great video, always interesting watching these heavy haulage projects.
I feel a little dumb though. I have seen this company's wagons up and down the road since they had Daf 3300/3600 in the 80's/90's I've had models of their trucks and also used skins of their trucks in ETS2 and only when you said it did I realise they were caled Allelys and not Alleys I even muttered to myself "why's he calling them Allelys😂. Thanks for correcting almost 40 years of not seeing the letter L😂
Great video thanks for making and sharing 🙂👍
That is huge! Do you know what it’s for?
Diesel engine back up generators are being purchased around the UK as the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine all the time.
@@jonny2954 thats the generator, the tranformer has been delayed.
To charge Teslas!!!
@@rl3898 worse than Teslas is all the pointless AI using tonnes of power in data centres.
The chap steering the bogie with no cab looks particularly cool.
Particularly good. He's not cold.
@@simontay4851 grow up Simon.
Those trailer tyres must have an insane amount of pressure
Things don’t seem to have changed much. Take a look at the old British Transport Films production ‘Dodging the Column’.
14:00 - I´m curious - does anyone know what all the tanks behind his cab are for?
Weights. No load from the trailer so he has to be heavy.
@olenilsen4660 They're air tanks for brakes and stuff. Ignore the answer saying they're weights.
Didn’t the Bobby’s do well. No fuss, no dramatics, keyed well with the moving staff guys. Well done boys. Ex ch. supt ops.
Great video Thanks for showing hope it made it to we’re it was going
Very interesting video, bearing in mind the size of the load the whole process was done quite quickly. The only sad thing l feel compelled to comment negatively on…….is the state of the streets, l can’t believe that the Councils allow them to get that bad. ❤🇦🇺
How do you find out when abnormal loads will be moved?
Your local Roads Authority will have Public Notice information on their website. Military and Nuclear (if applicable) moves would be a completely different matter.
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
All this kit must cost something else. But what I want to know is..... @ 25:38, Is that Fairy Liquid he is using & why is he using it ?
It is fairy liquid, those two rams with the feet on are stabilisers, just barely touching the bed of the truck but can still move up and down accordingly when the unit is on a camber. The fairy is just to act as a thin flim of lubricant.
@sidvee It's oil.
Was really cool seeing it climb up Fore Hamlet hill!
Would like to have seen some of the "switching ends" stuff.
what was the total length if this load?
Is it going to the Felixstowe port?
Thank you ,for sharing these Video
50-60 years ago we would be exporting these things, now we export nothing
What’s the GDP of the UK? Not exactly a developing country.
The uk is a service based economy makes a huge amount from business insurance banks etc not exporting
Because UK cut themselves out of EU, the customers for those insurers and bankers will mostly be local. But with no healthy local market there's nothing to insure or do banking for.
Pity the poor sod who had to check the tyre pressures that day.
TPMS I would imagine. That said, they do sometimes get punctures/pulled off the rims, so I believe they normally have a tyre fitter and spares in the convoy.
Took me back 45 years to my first shipboard job on MV Kingsnorth Fisher, taking one of these monsters across the English Channel from Liverpool to LeHavre, France.
I was at the unloading of the \fisher at Kingsnorth many times , for Grain and Littlebrook parts.
.. and all of this equipment and cost (at many stations) is purely necessitated because of the lack of stability and inertia provided by wind turbines. So when you’re considering the cost of wind energy consider the additional billions in infrastructure to make them viable!
@@BromideBride yes, Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant in 1990’s. I was a commissioning engineer there on the conventional island. Any more questions?
@@BromideBride I’m aware to some extent but it’s not my field of expertise however a non operational plant has nothing to do with grid inertia nor stability!
(Not is removal of main equipment as there is the option to ‘cut it up’ on site)
@@BromideBride I stand by my point that the cost of wind energy is far more wide reaching that merely the ‘turbines’ that produce it.
@@andyxox4168 Climate change is already raising it's ugly head, two huge hurricanes in a week in Florida. Like it or not, energy source change is arriving now and ain't gonna be convenient. Nuclear is probably inevitable.
Doing loads like that here in the U.S. is bad enough, I can’t imagine the problems you must encounter in G.B. With those narrow streets. Just moving that empty trailer and all its parts is a big job. Last thought…..after they made the turn I noticed the lead truck was left hand drive? This is jolly old England isn’t it?
Yes, this is England, but some companies have left hand drive trucks as well, if they deliver to/from the continent as everywhere else in Europe except Ireland and Cyprus drive on the right with left hand drive vehicles like in the US.
I wonder how many miles the Tesla will do on a charge with all the Blue lights going.
@@jimrichards3916 further than you would imagine
@@jimrichards3916 the lights not really affect range BC the battery being so big
@@mcsike7264 wrong... Police cars, ambulances and firetrucks have a secondary battery that powers only the flashing lights and all of the features that an emergency vehicle have on board like radars, computers, radios and so on. The primary battery only powers the headlights, the air conditioner and all of the basic systems of the car. In the case of the Testa it could have a third battery on board, that could be considered as the secondary battery of the conventional emergency vehicles. Yep, electric cars have both a lithium battery that powers the electric motors, plus a conventional 12 volts battery to all of the service of the car, just like a conventional car
@@lowrangemaniac5326 ok now tell me what charges the 12v battery 😂
@@mcsike7264 the same charger that charges the lithium battery of the electric motor also changes the battery of services
Dont Ipswich have a by-pass ?
They do but this came into the port which is in the centre of the town.
There needs to be a direct link to the bypass from the port.
The 1st road that they came down & then out of (duke street?), there used to be a roundabout there, if it was still there it would have made it interesting to get round.
It still is there! Would have been measured and figured out before the move. Maybe I'll try and film it from there if this happens again.
Nah, roundabout is gone. As you can see, its traffic lights now 🙂@@CobraEmergency
There's still one coming out of Cliff Road onto Duke St, where this load would have come up from. You can't see it in the video, though, as it's just behind the buildings. maps.app.goo.gl/nZ4aE5iPQdNENB6U9
I assume this is the one they meant 😁
Respect to everyone involved in the operations
How often is that transporter utilized?
Stunning video , I love these sort of videos , hope you & family are doing , 💕 ya channel & 💕 your hard work you put into it
Thanks, Chris! We're all doing good. Hope all is the same on your end! 🤍
How much the total weight of the generator and the modular trailer thats a massive weight 😮😮
I complain about how much Evri cost to deliver a parcel. I imagine this exercise was marginally more expensive...
Evri is the cheapest but they loose items. I won't use them.
@@simontay4851 I don't think they would (could) lose this!
Great video do you reckon the boat coming into marchwood tomorrow will have any decent army vehicles?
Great video.
I do wonder whether plod is there to assist or put there authority on it......
Probably poking there nose in..
what a set of lengends
Suffolk Police spending £45,000 on a Tesla? Seems pretty extravagant when they claim they don't have enough public funding to properly police the county!
They get them for £5 to encourage others to buy them!
If they end up in a pursuit they'll kindly as the criminals to wait 1 hour while they charge 😀
Great video thank you. Lovely camera work.
Glad you enjoyed it 😁 Thank you!
I just kept noticing all the weeds pushing through pavements and unkempt verges - looks like an abandoned city
Very true!
@@4-video Sadly on par with much of the rest of the UK, at least outside London...
How much does this cost
If you want EVs that's what you have to pay.
I think it more likely that 356 tonnes was the weight of everything combined. Plenty for the two tractive units to push and pull.
Removing "Street Furniture " is an interesting line.
That's what it's called.
The blade runners could have done it quicker.