How do they move these?

[underwhelmist]

From the ugly/vulgar cars thread…

Grrbang said:

Only this would be more vulgar than the Brabus 900, if driven on the road:

I’ve never seen one of these being transported by road, but presumably they must be from time to time. I guess they would have to be transported in a fairly disassembled state but even the the pieces would be pretty big. How do they move them?

[thewarlock]

underwhelmist said:

From the ugly/vulgar cars thread…

Grrbang said:

Only this would be more vulgar than the Brabus 900, if driven on the road:

I’ve never seen one of these being transported by road, but presumably they must be from time to time. I guess they would have to be transported in a fairly disassembled state but even the the pieces would be pretty big. How do they move them?

Not sure about stuff quite that big, but I used to live near a TEREX factory.

They'd move the big tippers in the evenings, on low loaders, with the axles/chassis propped up on the bed of the trailer, with the wheels hanging off the sides. They'd shut the relevant bit of motorway to get them from the factory to the docks to put them on a boat, and they'd be escorted as you'd expect with lots of support vehicles and flashy lights.

[AlexIT]

As you said probably:
https://rogergsmith.typepad.co.uk/.a/6a00e54efb2c7...

https://www.pinterest.it/pin/444800900669158592/

On a smaller scale:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZIBmlHNAUY

[Mammasaid]

In bits, is correct

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAVYizVoLww

[Dave Hedgehog]

in bits, slowly with a lot of closed roads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXAXen3pzGM

[Every day a journey]

Biggest one I've seen on the move.

The queue behind it was pretty big too

[aterribleusername]

As the warlock says, all done outside of peak times. I used to drive a van at night and they were a regular sight for me along the M4 and Heads of the Valley road. Also things like massive portakabins, canal barges, luxury yachts, trains and rolling stock, wind turbine bodies and blades and aircraft engines going to and from GEAS in Nantgarw. You can tell when something really heavy is being moved soon by dotted green lines appearing on bridges, designates the safe zone for the trucks. There's a permanent one on the Avonmouth flyover but it's usually that temporary spray paint that washes away after a few rain showers.

[AlexIT]

Mammasaid said:

In bits, is correct

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAVYizVoLww

A full-scale Lego basically

[thewarlock]

Every day a journey said:

Biggest one I've seen on the move.

The queue behind it was pretty big too

This is exactly what I used to see, although up here they were curteous enough to close the M8 and do it at night, instead of holding everyone else up.

But when you look at the pictures AlexIT posted, those are clearly a entirely different thing altogether, much bigger!

[Mammasaid]

thewarlock said:

Every day a journey said:

Biggest one I've seen on the move.

The queue behind it was pretty big too

This is exactly what I used to see, although up here they were curteous enough to close the M8 and do it at night, instead of holding everyone else up.

But when you look at the pictures AlexIT posted, those are clearly a entirely different thing altogether, much bigger!

Yep, gross weight of over 600 tonnes!

https://www.cat.com/en_GB/products/new/equipment/o...

[55palfers]

Imagine that queuing for fuel.

[sherman]

The big ones get stripped down to parts. Axles on one trailer, bucket on another, engine/cab bit on third and wheels on a fourth trailer sort of idea. There may be more trailers involved.

You can get skinny transport wheels too like how they transport monster trucks and then the offroad tyres follow behind.

Depending on how far its traveling things like wind turbine blades will bve put on a barge and shipped round the coast.

[s p a c e m a n]

I remember watching Angelica Larsson getting stuck with the bucket from one on a bridge because it was too wide and having to reverse it back something like 5km but she seems to have deleted it.

Messing about with a smaller one..

https://youtu.be/sO394qrn3E0

Found it..

https://youtu.be/H8s9QBvUEEc

Edited by s p a c e m a n on Wednesday 29th September 18:20

[grumpy52]

Large lumps of plant tend to be moved in 1 of 3 ways . Escorted and or at night , in parts on several trucks or in the case of low height but over wide things like caterpillar dozers , they tip them on their sides .

[DavePanda]

Bit like this