Can someone tell me what its liek to pull something like this -
picture-rail.co.uk/GNERLowlo … oader3.jpg
Is it constently slow moving all the time or can you at least get up to 56 or so ?
Tom_DAF:
Can someone tell me what its liek to pull something like this -picture-rail.co.uk/GNERLowlo … oader3.jpg
Is it constently slow moving all the time or can you at least get up to 56 or so ?
I once did some second driver work on a job taking 100ft long 100 tonne wind turbine masts from Hull docks to Eire. Once out of Hull and on the A63, we bombed along at 56MPH with no trouble.
well thats good stuff , would be boring going something like 20 with escorts 
Is most of it international stuff?
Tom_DAF:
Can someone tell me what its liek to pull something like this -
you’d need grippy shoes on! 
depending on STGO category (i.e weight) speed limit varies, that’d be 40mph on motorway
conor, that wasn’t for dave marrison was it? 100te is stretching the tale a bit 
Conor:
Tom_DAF:
Can someone tell me what its liek to pull something like this -picture-rail.co.uk/GNERLowlo … oader3.jpg
Is it constently slow moving all the time or can you at least get up to 56 or so ?
I once did some second driver work on a job taking 100ft long 100 tonne wind turbine masts from Hull docks to Eire. Once out of Hull and on the A63, we bombed along at 56MPH with no trouble.
Now admittedly, my experience on heavy haulage is very small, with the biggest I’ve pulled being a 45 tonne excavator, but I do know that big weights and fast speeds do not go well together and you’ll have the trailer tyres popping in no time because of the heat.
Personally, I considered 50mph more than fast enough for an 80+ tonne gross, so for a 100 tonne load (grossing 140ish tonne? ) to be blatting along at 56mph is surely nothing short of plain stupidity, and that’s not even taking into the account the length of it .
I dunno, perhaps I was being overly cautious 
. Maybe someone who’s experienced in this field could comment 
Well connors story checks out as far as the weight & length goes.
afm.dtu.dk/wind/ek1000.html. I have seen clips of the danish trucks that do this work regularly & they seem to driving at a normal speed.
harry:
Well connors story checks out as far as the weight & length goes.
afm.dtu.dk/wind/ek1000.html. I have seen clips of the danish trucks that do this work regularly & they seem to driving at a normal speed.
Page carnt be found harry
But i can now remebr danish trucks pulling them 
Rob K:
I dunno, perhaps I was being overly cautious
You weren’t. Second-hand experience here, but I know when Rikki was on the planers (60t) he used to refuse point blank to go more than 50mph loaded unless it was [zb]ing with rain to cool the tyres down. In fact, when the firm concerned put an idiot ex-driver in the office who tried to make his name by pushing the drivers, he’d take great pleasure in saying “ok”, putting his foot down, blowing a few tyres off and then turning up far later than he would’ve been if muppet-features hadn’t pushed him in the first place.
One particularly memorable incident was when my dearly beloved spent several hours taking the proverbial out of me in the bad old days of Southampton Container Terminal. I went something like 4 truck lengths in 5 hours, and dearest Rikki was gloating like a good 'un, especially when he worked out that he had time to pick up the machine, run across the A14 etc., and get parked up before last orders in his favourite watering hole in Harwich.
Long story short, the job wasn’t finished when he got there and it was looking a bit touch and go…it was drizzling, winter and dark - so cool enough for 56mph, theoretically - so off he steams, laughing and gloating all the way. Suddenly I hear a bang in the background. “Gotta go” and the phone cuts off.
20 minutes later he calls back. Tyre blown, no layby for a good while so had to keep going, next door tyre caught fire, fitter out, gloating beer monster - who, bear in mind, doesn’t even self cater in the house, never mind the truck - spending a very hungry and beerless night in a very narrow layby 2 miles from Bury St Edmunds…whilst the ■■■■ of his gloating is just pulling out of the docks and heading off to park up and potter to her favourite Southampton food and beer emporium.
OH how I laughed… 
jj72:
Tom_DAF:
Can someone tell me what its liek to pull something like this -you’d need grippy shoes on!
conor, that wasn’t for dave marrison was it? 100te is stretching the tale a bit
No, it was for Mammoet. 100ft isn’t stretching the tale at all. Two lorries ran in convoy. We took the blades the following week and the mast was alot longer than those. The rig was the type where the rear end is supported by a seperate steerable bogey. You know the bridge on the single carriageway section of the A66 near the bendies where Center Parcs is? We had to stop the traffic as it required both sides of the road to get around.
When we went on the ferry from Cairnryan to Larne, they had originally planned to put us in behind each other but found that they couldn’t.
Whern we got to Buncrana in Eire, we had to go through the town in a Police car first to check the route. Good job too as the route the Police had chosen had two corners on we couldn’t get round.
At one left turn just after Buncrana, we had to drive past it and reverse into it then reverse 1/4 mile up the road until we got just past a Y turn where we turned right. Even though the road was around 40ft wide at that junction, they had to demolish 1/2 of the wall of the bridge on one side and when we were reversing back, if you didn’t have three of the five axles on the bogey in mid air on the inside of the corner, you couldn’t make it around. When it came to making the right turn at the Y junction, we took out the fence on the field to the left at the rear of the load and partly demolished (accidentally) the front wall of a womans house on the junction, it was that tight.
As we were driving up the country lanes, people who lived on the side were sat on their porches watching us.
When unloaded, the GTW was still nearly 38 tonnes.
Definitely one of the most challenging and interesting jobs I’ve ever had.
We took them up to a hilltop here:
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What trucks were pulling them ?
Its funny but it doesn`t want to open. Google ,WIND TURBINE WEIGHT… & all the spec will be there. They weigh about 90t.
Conor & they keep on banging on about how environmentally friendly these things are…
how environmentally friendly these things are
Someone told me that they will take about 50 years to generate the same amount of energy as that was used to build and install the thing.
Tom_DAF:
What trucks were pulling them ?
DAF - whatever the XF equivalent was back in 1996 and MAN… Can’t remember what the engines were rated at.
i meant the 100te AND 100ft bit conor, especially back in 1996 before they started to build em big - anyway i’m not arguing
back in the early days of the wind turbine boom (i.e late 90s) i spent many many weeks in southern ireland surveying routes for turbines and some of the stuff that had to be done was mind boggling i can tll thee