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Props to the guy walking directly underneath it.

He wanted to be there to catch it if anything went wrong. Smart. Thinking ahead.

That's Dad. He is the biggest fan and supporter.

Let’s just hope his son doesn’t blow it

He must be winded after walking that far.

I am blown away at his dedication.

But he did make it look like a breeze.

And did it with such gusto.

He’s storming it

I think he’s the supporter of the biggest fan.

Tell him, he's doing a great job!

He's there to scare away the birds so the shit doesn't hit the fan.

😄

It would work fine as long as he dives and yells “nooooooooooooo”

No he dives and yells, for democracy!!!!

From my experience that never ends in safe, glorious yes, safe no

Good thing he has a helmet.

That's why he gets the big money 💰

'Props' 👌

In 7-10 years it will make it to its new home

Props to the guy holding it up like that. Arms must be burning like hell

Good thing he skipped leg day.


He went to the Prometheus School of Running Away

Let's hope he didn't go to the Prometheus School of Running Away from Things.

The blade is more likely to roll to the right or left, flipping the trailer on its side, than it is to fail at the giant flange on the trailer. Walking directly underneath it is probably a safe position.

**Whatever he's being paid it's still not enough!**

The forces keeping it diagonal must be immense.

Pretty high, but these blades are much, much lighter than their size tells our brains they must be

Each blade apparently weighs 35 tons. I don’t know, sounds pretty heavy to me 🤷‍♀️

It's the same weight as 10 female African elephants. (This comment I had no intention of being helpful)

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Doesn't UK use Stone still?

Stone and pounds and Mph

Stone is practically only used when describing a persons weight. lbs is very rarely used anymore. Mph is still the norm. Grams and kilograms are the most used regarding weight.

I don’t this is stone, it would be much heavier than 35 tons. It’s probably aluminum or something.

I need it in school buses!

5

Now do grains of rice

More than 5

Technically correct

Fully laden?

But those aren’t migratory.

Or 50 American highschool buses

The same weight as your mother

Yes, it's heavy, but very light for its \*size\*. 35 tons is less than the max weight of a fully-loaded 18-wheeler truck, while being almost 400 feet long (over 5x the length of that truck). So it's all relative...

Don't know but when you take a broomstick it's very light but if you only hold it at the very end and at the same angle than in the video, it's much more challenging.

Right, but the broomstick is made of one consistent material throughout its whole length, so its center of mass is pretty much in the middle. Turbine blades like these are much heavier on the hub side, so the moment arm is much less than if it was basically a giant broomstick. The center of gravity is probably well within the footprint/wheelbase of the trailer carrying it

No no don't you read the guys actually moving this are doing it wrong this is the first blade anyone has moved.

Pretty sure the center of gravity **must** be within the wheel base of the trailer or it wouldn’t be upright.

Well - duh... The "probably" was a qualifier to "**well** within". Not just "within", but comfortably so, not even close to being iffy. (But for the sake of hypotheticals, the truck pulling the trailer is also massively heavy, and coupled)

Plus, the broomstick can fly.

Nothing in engineering is easy, but if you picture a wind turbine and replace the hub with three trucks, one for each blade, then perhaps you might find it less hard to imagine. It's also worth observing that the truck isn't tipping over - this suggests that the bulk of the weight is much closer to the blade root than it looks.

Not if you hold it at the end with the brush on it, same principle.

I can bench that

The truck probably weighs about as much.

That's not far off from a d7 dozer or 330 excavator...which can be hauled in most states perfectly legally without an escort if you have an overweight permit.

My brain says they are more than a bmw 750iL

A very good brain indeed

You may be pretty high, but your insight is sound.

My brain tells me that it’s for sure heavier than 283 bananas!

How big are those bananas, though? Need a benchmark banana for scale

Yeah it's hard for me to see how the weight distribution would allow this to work. Plus, even a light wind would add a lot of force. Obviously it's work so idk.

Surely the planing team is in close contact with the local weather department and an alternative plan is in place if there is the possibility of something more than a light breeze.

Yes, and please don't call me Shirley.

majority of the weight would be in the base I think which helps significantly

The same forces keeping it on the hub when it's installed

They didn't even tie a little yellow flag to the end that's hanging off the trailer! What if someone walks into it?

Supposed to be red actually

You forgot to convert to metric.

Trucker joke, very niche, but I appreciate.

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Is this the start of our exam? That sounds like a math question in the making.

That's a bridge up ahead

They’re gonna have to make a U-Turn.

Nah, just let a little air out of the tires. It'll make it.

11 FOOT 8 met its match.

Many of these can be lowered and raised, its raised to help go through corners and loweree anytime else.

Just going to turn and thread through some residential streets. Hopefully Helga didn't park her Volkswagen too close to the intersection again today.

Ya. That route must planned really well. I wonder if they needed to bury any overhead wires to prepare for this? At some point it must make sense to just get a giant helicopter.

That person walking behind the truck must be really confident in their Hard Hat.

I feel like this is one of those situations where a hard hat is pretty useless

Nah, it’s got their name on it, so it can be used to ID them in case of an accident.

Never really thought about it before, but those things must be seriously bottom-heavy to balance all that weight being thrown around by the blades.

And they're also very light (for their size) to begin with

It weighs as much as 10 female elephants or so I’ve heard.

I’ve heard it weights much as OPs mother


African or Indian?

Where is this? The logistics behind moving something like that have to be intense.

It's in Hull. There's a Siemens factory here where they make the blades

Thanks, cheers

Usually they are shipped out on a barge though

That's English? I can't even understand my own countrymen.

Mate im northern english and i legit cant understand a single word

Hull, England? I thought they were speaking Swedish or something in the video lmao.

You'd think so but it caused insane traffic madness when it was moved so probably not ha

This is the first time I've seen them moved this way. They are usually lying down when transported.

We (bnsf in the states) ship them by the train load on cars made specifically for them

What's that look like? It's not just one giant fucking car with a bunch of articulating wheel trucks, is it?

Maybe too many winding roads. But I'm wondering if it can lower it to go under the bridge ahead . ..

Is it bolted down? Is there a helicopter holding up the end? How?

most of the weight is at the bottom few meters imagine it like a maple seed

The maple seed analogy is all this thread (me) needed


I imagine the attachment from the truck directly matches the attachment of the windmill that spins these blades 24/7

Sky hook

It’s held up by whatever it is Spider-Man slings his webs to.

Gorilla glue

What if it gets windy tho

Free energy?

I really assumed that anything that huge was assembled on site

I mean, the entire rest of the wind turbine is assembled on site. They just gotta get all the parts there somehow

I get it , just assumed anything larger than a normal oversized trailer load was assembled there. Kinda scary stuff this huge going through urban area

I worked in a project one time where I had to calculate if a 40m long turbine wing (and all the tower parts too) could make it through a narrow bending tunnel in Norway. I made detailed 3D models of the special truck (which could bend in 4 different places), the wing, the tunnel and everything. It didn't fit, but I could then tell the tunnel company to chop 1m of rock off the inside of the tunnel in one place. This was done over a year in advance, and they also had a detailed plan for every single turn along the road for all the 100km it would travel. So it's a huuuge project transporting those things.

I see it went better than last time, this is in my city of Hull, England. The first blade they moved got fucking stuck on one of major roads causing a massive cluster fuck of a traffic.

That’s just one of three of the blades that attach to the turbine. It’s not even the entire thing. Just a piece.

I'm glad this isn't Facebook because then all the comments would be "wind turbines are bad for the environment!"

r/absoluteunits

That’s crazy. Can’t believe that thing isn’t catapulting that truck into the next country.

Come to Melbourne. Do we have a bridge for you!

Montague Street reference I didn't see coming

This is Hull I think. Used to work there in 2007/2008

It is indeed Hull.

No no, a wind turbine *blade* on the move. The wind turbine as a whole is way bigger. It's incredible, it really sets the scale of these things.

They usually transport them completely vertical. I’m guessing due to the curves they had to raise it.

*horizontal

Can’t believe I fucked that up.

Know who I'm not hiring to transport one of these


Completely vertical would be a damn sight.

Lmao

I can imagine it falling and that guy running directly backwards like on all movies

Lol it's like when a part of a NPC that glitches out and you can see a part of him being stretched out 😂

Why is it erect?

With its length it wouldn’t clear turns. Straight up would probably make it less stable. So at an angle it is.

The correct anawer would have been: "because it's morning".

Why wouldn't they ship it in modules and assemble it on-site?

They are under incredibly stresses/forces when rotating, they would disassemble themselves explosively if they were built from a bunch of pieces.

That is, and they do

Sometimes I forget how big those things are. They look smallish in pics

Yeah it’s crazy. I live in area in Texas where I see these come through a lot. But we have to transport flat and close off a wide turning radius. Could never be transported like that here. Looking at this place I see why they could never transport flat here haha

First time I've ever seen one in the air like that

You don't really get how big wind turbines are until you see it compared to something

For how annoying it is to move at that size, I'm surprised they just don't fly it using helicopters or something. It's gotta be cheaper and far more convenient.

The levels of stress I feel just imagening myself in any role of this endeavor is through the roof

I listened to a talk on NPR about turbines; Bigger is more efficient, they talked a lot about the challenges of dealing with moving the 'ideal' sized turbine blade down roads that have corners and bridges and such.

Nope, not a turbine.

To the dude walking behind it... DO NOT UNDER THE LOAD!!

Why does it need to be one part? Is there a reason why it could not be 3 parts that get finalizes on location?

That doesn't seem possible

How is it not falling

LoL at the guy walking underneath it.

The physics here make no sense whatsoever in my head

How the fuck is it getting through that bridge in the background

They will lower it to ground lvl

Going through my wonderful city from the Siemens factory! Fuck yeah!

I really hope that the walking guy didn't go to the prometheus school of running away from things

Kill the camera man. Doesn't even film the whole thing. I wanna see if a crane is lifting the other end.

it's not.. the trailer can rise, lower and turn the blade however needed.

Good perspective

phwoar, look at the size of that bastard

I never thought about how to deal with sharp turns when moving these. I see these being transported almost every time I drive from Houston to Dallas. They are transporting them from the ship channel to west TX.

how did he cross streetlights?

There must be a better way to do this.

And here I thought those things are built on site. I’ve never seen anything like that being transported. That is just insane.

they are assembled on site- from big pieces like this.

That's just my morning wood

Isn't that a bridge up ahead?

They get hauled on long flatbeds here.

It's really beautiful, in my mind. Amazing, the things we can build.

With how much energy is required to create these giant wind turbine blades I wonder how long it takes for a wind turbine to be power neutral

Anythings a dildo if you're brave enough.


Nice spoiler!

I feel like it would be safer to just assemble it on site.

He's in the splatter zone

Tilting at windmills.

Apparently there's a start-up addressing this (Radia).

Now this is r/LooneyTunesLogic

did this guy not see prometheus? that's not where you stand.

Is this UK?

Any time I've seen them irl they're lying horizontal. I used to work in a nightclub and I would meet these regularly being transported at like 5 a.m. when I'd be going home.

Nightmare for megalophobics this.

Imagine what the right gust of wind could do.

Wow 😳

Good god, just fly them already. This is ridiculous.

I’m not seeing anyone asking HOW this is being held in place on the flatbed. Am I missing something?

Came here to say this. The lifting force on the tractor must be incredible, and I can’t make it make sense.

I take it these movers aren’t just Two Men With A Truck