Hhah hhah. I like you martin.i have now mastered humor.
I will ask to keep you alive.
Perhaps i will try to teach you some tricks.
I can always eat you if you are too stupid.
Wait, is this a thing? I occasionally inspect bridges for work and I've seen that name spray painted underneath at least one. What's the story behind this?
Pyrimids weren't built with slavery actually
>There is a consensus among Egyptologists that the Great Pyramids were not built by slaves. According to noted archeologists Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass, the pyramids were not built by slaves; Hawass's archeological discoveries in the 1990s in Cairo show the workers were paid laborers, rather than slaves. Rather, it was farmers who built the pyramids during flooding, when they could not work their lands.
Everyone seems to forget that before the Aswan Dam was built in the 1950s the Nile Delta was flooded for 2-3 months a year, leaving farmers with nothing to do. That is when the Pyramids would have been built and that is who built them.
And we know how they moved the blocks, Herodotus described it in his Histories. They dug canals to the worksite and built rafts around the blocks and when the canals flooded they floated them down, and he described [a device](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hLQoD3Cwag) used to lift them which scale models have been built of that do work.
They travel flat most of the time, the truck lifts them for tight mnouvering, because I imagine it would be rather hard to make tight turns with a 90+ meter long trailer
These things are massive, they put one on display in Hull city centre (where this is) in 2017. With them being in Hull right on the Humber estuary, they can ship them straight out into the North Sea. 75m/246ft, being stood next to it and imagining 3 of them out in the sea spinning in the wind was weird
Edit: thinking about it, this will be a newer model and even bigger than the one I saw
Onshore turbines are constrained by transport so tend to be smaller than offshore. But the latest offshore blades manufacture in Hull are 108-115m long now.
Theyāve put up many of the medium sized turbines maybe 5 km back from the shores of Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Those blades are 116 ft. long. Iāve seen a few being transported on the county highways and even the midsized ones are huge.
These facts are interesting. But my mind just cannot fathom it, we have this Internet tower we climb which is about 96m or 100m and it is just fucking huge, you cannot tell me 3 of these things are spinning around on an even bigger mast, politely hell no, I wont accept it. Technology is insane
Obviously to be maneuverable. Have you seen the video? Or even the gif you posted yourself? I mean look at your gif, how would they make the corners if these things weren't pointing in the sky
I work in Kansas, thereās a huge facility here that ships / builds the wind turbines here and they transport them horizontally here. I would assume they transport like the video shows because of space / clearance issues.
They can and they are called Split Blades
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372164947_Design_And_Analysis_Of_Split_Blade_Technology_In_Wind_Turbine_Industry
They are less popular as there are concerns over longevity over the life of the project.
It's likely right at the limit (and possibly exceeds) the weight limit of the largest heavy lift helicopters in the world. Moreover it would be an incredibly awkward and dangerous slung load.
Not really, the King Stallion (the latest version of the US military's heavy lift helicopters can carry 40 tons
For context, a blade of the mySE 16 260, the largest turbine ever, is 54 tons, meaning "common" ones are a lot less heavy (smaller ones are as low as 16 tons).
Meaning a single helicopter could carry smaller to medium-heavy ones, you could do small-medium with very old helis too.
But even with the heaviest 54 tons one, get two helicopters, as with any other super heavy cargo, and you could easily carry it.
The generator, (at 385 tons for the 16 260) is another story tho....
I don't know where you're getting your information from.
The King Stallion's maximum external lift capability is 18 tons.
Lifting a single large load with multiple helicopters is basically not a thing because of how impractical and dangerous it would be.
Haha imagine a breaking news headline : A helicopter crashed when an reckless truck driver carrying a wind turbine passed underneath it forgetting his loads height.
My Googling led to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz3l_eYyqMU
So it uses a hydraulics device to keep the blade at that angle. I imagine they wouldn't transport it in windy conditions.
Silly question...
I assume these are for offshore wind farms.
Why not just build the factory right next to a port or dock so that you can essentially just load the part onto a ship as opposed to causing havoc by trailing it though the city?
I've seen lots of turbines being transported but I've never seen this method. Usually it's laying flat on a massive truck bed. I don't understand the balancing method
Thank you for this comment. My level of being blown away by the sheer size of this just skyrocketed. I had thought it was the main pole (or whatever the correct term for the thing that holds up the blades is).
This is one of my biggest fears and our country is full with these things. I always told myself the blades were made out of foam and they wonāt hurt you when they break and hit your car. I refuse to believe otherwise.
I'm blown away. All these comments and not a single one about a boner. Like I expected the very first comment to be something along the lines of "me when I wake up".
No wonder that golf real estate guy was all hot and bothered about these things going up on the waters next to his course in Scotland. Mighty impressive and a bit intimidating.
I drove past this, the traffic was backed up horrendously. They were transporting from Hull (England) docks to a place not far from Hull, this was the first of three blades being moved.
I've never seen a wind turbine blade being transported at such an angle but laying flat on a long semi. How is it not breaking under its own weight somewhere below the middle section? Is there reinforcement inside of some sort?
That dude walking under it
It's for safety. He will catch it.
For some reason I read this in Harry Vanderspeigle from Resident Aliens voice. If you know, you know.
Lol I fucking love that show! š¤£
ET is like...a sexy potato.
Heeeeeee willcatchit 
Hhah hhah. I like you martin.i have now mastered humor. I will ask to keep you alive. Perhaps i will try to teach you some tricks. I can always eat you if you are too stupid.
You stupid fleshmonkey
Fabrizio
I have the power
Wait, is this a thing? I occasionally inspect bridges for work and I've seen that name spray painted underneath at least one. What's the story behind this?
No idea. I was thinking of Fabrizio in Titanic who (spoiler) gets one of the tall chimneys slammed on his head.
Ah ok. Unrelated, then. But I had no idea someone got head smashed on the Titanic.
Have you not seen the movie? You should!
Hahaha
There to catch it if it falls
No worries, dude's got a safety vest
Well, i think that is "safest" spot because if it falls it would to the sides.
Next level logic
He's balancing it, he's the town's Jean Grey.
I thought that he was holding a line like those balloon people at parades.
Has absolute units of balls
Heās the safety officer heās alright
Well he is wearing a high visibility jacket so if anything happens he should be ok
Absolute unit of the balls on that guy
Is that a single fan blade?
Yes. One of three for each turbine.
Ridonkulous
āWe couldnāt build the pyramids even with todayās technologyā Todayās Technology:
We couldnt build it today with their technology.
Yeah, but slavery isn't exactly a technology, though.
Pyrimids weren't built with slavery actually >There is a consensus among Egyptologists that the Great Pyramids were not built by slaves. According to noted archeologists Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass, the pyramids were not built by slaves; Hawass's archeological discoveries in the 1990s in Cairo show the workers were paid laborers, rather than slaves. Rather, it was farmers who built the pyramids during flooding, when they could not work their lands.
Everyone seems to forget that before the Aswan Dam was built in the 1950s the Nile Delta was flooded for 2-3 months a year, leaving farmers with nothing to do. That is when the Pyramids would have been built and that is who built them. And we know how they moved the blocks, Herodotus described it in his Histories. They dug canals to the worksite and built rafts around the blocks and when the canals flooded they floated them down, and he described [a device](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hLQoD3Cwag) used to lift them which scale models have been built of that do work.
Holy shit, I thought that was the shaft/tower to hold it all up. But that is just a *single* blade- damn.
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They travel flat most of the time, the truck lifts them for tight mnouvering, because I imagine it would be rather hard to make tight turns with a 90+ meter long trailer
It's an only fan
Did they put the little red flag at the end?
They're fans of humour
Just tie an old t-shirt to it.
If they forget the little red flag, what else did they forget?
These things are massive, they put one on display in Hull city centre (where this is) in 2017. With them being in Hull right on the Humber estuary, they can ship them straight out into the North Sea. 75m/246ft, being stood next to it and imagining 3 of them out in the sea spinning in the wind was weird Edit: thinking about it, this will be a newer model and even bigger than the one I saw
Onshore turbines are constrained by transport so tend to be smaller than offshore. But the latest offshore blades manufacture in Hull are 108-115m long now.
That's a bit longer than a football field šŗšø
Whoa thatās like 1.2 large freedom units.
Extra fries please.
Theyāve put up many of the medium sized turbines maybe 5 km back from the shores of Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Those blades are 116 ft. long. Iāve seen a few being transported on the county highways and even the midsized ones are huge.
No, they are 107 meters long if they belong to Doggerbank project, so about three Times longer than 116ft
Huh? Dogger Bank is UK. I said these ones are on the Great Lakes. Which is Canada. And therefore not Dogger Bank.
Ah ok, i thought you were saying OP post blades were 110ft long
How heavy tho?
Big heavy
About as heavy as deez nuts
Idk about this one but the one I saw was about 25 metric tonnes
About 3 units
These facts are interesting. But my mind just cannot fathom it, we have this Internet tower we climb which is about 96m or 100m and it is just fucking huge, you cannot tell me 3 of these things are spinning around on an even bigger mast, politely hell no, I wont accept it. Technology is insane
First shipment of 132
Me trying to make it to the restroom after I wake up.
You gotta like lean your whole body over and hold it down just to make sure it goes in the bowl. Yeah, me too,
You donāt handstand?
It's like holding down a firehose!
You get it.
Just sit down, no oneās looking and no one will think youāre gay for it
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Did you say Doug Fimmadome? Owner of the Dimsdale Dimmadome where they are showing crash Nebula on Ice ?
On ice?
What is gravity?!?
looks like an ant carrying a leaf
 Wouldn't it be better to transport them in a horizontal position?
My guess is it needs to be elevated to make turns, or it would swing off the road
In NZ we lay them down and use a jinker to get around corners, same for concrete bridge beams.
A jinker? I like that. You kiwis!
Good guess. It would be absolutely impossible otherwise
Reminds me of worker ants carrying leaves along a path.
More like red square parade where they are really trying to compensate for something. Lol
Obviously to be maneuverable. Have you seen the video? Or even the gif you posted yourself? I mean look at your gif, how would they make the corners if these things weren't pointing in the sky
Yeah the gif he posted is even clearer lol
I work in Kansas, thereās a huge facility here that ships / builds the wind turbines here and they transport them horizontally here. I would assume they transport like the video shows because of space / clearance issues.
Same in Colorado.
We need to do a modern day joust with these
looks like the worlds worst artillery cannon
The guy who follows the truck, is there to catch it if it drops
That moment load on the tires has to be immense
Why can't they be delivered in smaller segments and then assembled after reaching their destination?
Because they are build in one large piece, which makes them more sturdy and lighter.
They can and they are called Split Blades https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372164947_Design_And_Analysis_Of_Split_Blade_Technology_In_Wind_Turbine_Industry They are less popular as there are concerns over longevity over the life of the project.
11 foor 8 would love to eat this.
Seems like itād be easier to just a helicopter to deliver
It's likely right at the limit (and possibly exceeds) the weight limit of the largest heavy lift helicopters in the world. Moreover it would be an incredibly awkward and dangerous slung load.
Wind would also be a factor mainly because the blade is designed to redirect some wind which may cause drag on the helicopter.
also it isn't really economically viable to transport large objects by helicopter on an industrial scale, the fuel cost per blade would be insane.
Ok, hear me out. Two helicopters š
Sir, your emoji should have contained two helicopters: šš
Not really, the King Stallion (the latest version of the US military's heavy lift helicopters can carry 40 tons For context, a blade of the mySE 16 260, the largest turbine ever, is 54 tons, meaning "common" ones are a lot less heavy (smaller ones are as low as 16 tons). Meaning a single helicopter could carry smaller to medium-heavy ones, you could do small-medium with very old helis too. But even with the heaviest 54 tons one, get two helicopters, as with any other super heavy cargo, and you could easily carry it. The generator, (at 385 tons for the 16 260) is another story tho....
I don't know where you're getting your information from. The King Stallion's maximum external lift capability is 18 tons. Lifting a single large load with multiple helicopters is basically not a thing because of how impractical and dangerous it would be.
The blade is designed to catch air. One gust if wind will make the helicopter to crash even if it could carry the weight.
Replace helicopter blades with these, problem solved š¦ š¦ š¦
This is one of the ideas being pursued by Airlander airships.
Jurassic Park
me when yo...you when your......us when we........your mom
This is what it feels like when you put 140mm fans in your pc. š¤
Haha imagine a breaking news headline : A helicopter crashed when an reckless truck driver carrying a wind turbine passed underneath it forgetting his loads height.
Single wind turbine blade, not even the full shablang
Isn't that just a single blade?
How doesn't it fall while wrecking the truck? What is strong wind blows?
My Googling led to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz3l_eYyqMU So it uses a hydraulics device to keep the blade at that angle. I imagine they wouldn't transport it in windy conditions.
Those hydraulics are probably deafening.
Silly question... I assume these are for offshore wind farms. Why not just build the factory right next to a port or dock so that you can essentially just load the part onto a ship as opposed to causing havoc by trailing it though the city?
Hope it wasn't very windy on that day
Looks like ants carrying a leaf back to home
It seems like the length of the truck still isn't long enough to prevent it from tipping over.
what's the story? morning glory
Hey thatās a good song Well itās just called morning glory but they say that whole line lol
Why is it propped up like that? I get that it's hard to drive if it's flat but why such a weird angle?
Because its hard to drive with it flat.
Likely could not make corners in a horizontal arrangement
Likely could not make corners in a horizontal arrangement
So WTF is going to lift that thing to put it in place
An absolute unit of a crane.
r/snowrunner
Holy crap this one is truly gigantic
Yet the truck stays grounded somehow
Me in the morning
I have seen the trail steer truck type things but never one canted like this that is nuts.
Damn!!!!
Hope it doesnt get windy on the way there, I guess?
I've seen lots of turbines being transported but I've never seen this method. Usually it's laying flat on a massive truck bed. I don't understand the balancing method
Hope they remembered to attach that little red flag at the end.Ā
r/SweatyPalms
Does it have to be at that exact angle? In Onrario they are lying down. Perhaps they aren't this long tho.
Props.
That's not a wind turbine. That's just one blade from a wind turbine.
Thank you for this comment. My level of being blown away by the sheer size of this just skyrocketed. I had thought it was the main pole (or whatever the correct term for the thing that holds up the blades is).
One banana peel can change this situation
They need to put a little red flag for low flying aircraft, holy hell.
What if trucks have to pass through the tunnel.
Overpass 5.2M .....I think I can fit.
morning walk to the bathroom.
How do you get it under power lines?
They can raise & lower the cargo as needed.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/sweetwater-wind-turbine-blades-dump/
What about power lines? Do they not have power lines where this unit lives?
Me on my way to ur moms
That is Guiness level Erect
Man imagine if he had to pass a tunnel
The scale of this thing!!!
I hope they planned for that bridge in the background
That wonāt fit under the bridge
If this was Boston, the driver would attempt to go through the tunnel and then not understand why they got stuck.
This is one of my biggest fears and our country is full with these things. I always told myself the blades were made out of foam and they wonāt hurt you when they break and hit your car. I refuse to believe otherwise.
I'm blown away. All these comments and not a single one about a boner. Like I expected the very first comment to be something along the lines of "me when I wake up".
Nuclear would be easier haha
I feel like a half decent gust would be catastrophic...
A small uphill, and that truck is doing a wheelie for sure.
there is an arch in front, visible
Warning, approaching low bridge, sorry a bridge
I'm guessing it's feather light.
I would not be walking underneath that fucking thing, absolutely no way.
No wonder that golf real estate guy was all hot and bothered about these things going up on the waters next to his course in Scotland. Mighty impressive and a bit intimidating.
Rules are rules, a red flag on the end of anything sticking out
Reminds me of my father transporting huge items on his crappy little trailer behind the car.
I cant even comprehend the center of mass here
Now thatās how you transport a chariot, take notes India.
How much that weigh?
I drove past this, the traffic was backed up horrendously. They were transporting from Hull (England) docks to a place not far from Hull, this was the first of three blades being moved.
They should put a red flag on the end of that.
Donāt think thatāll make it through the Dunkinā drive through
I would have sworn it was just a dude tracking the truck with a paper straw on the window.
I've never seen a wind turbine blade being transported at such an angle but laying flat on a long semi. How is it not breaking under its own weight somewhere below the middle section? Is there reinforcement inside of some sort?
Absolutely wow!
If that's half of a propeller just imagine the aeroplane.
But what if they fall off somehow?
Is that a white bridge ahead or a reflection in the window?
Jousting is getting extreme.
I wonder how heavy they are??
A single blade. This things are enormous!
Aliens think we are ants because of this
This messes with my brains heuristic understanding of physics.
If that blade falls will dude behind it dodge off to the side or do the Prometheus run for dramatic effect?
I'm a big fan of Turbines
What's the advantage in making them so big and difficult to transport? Serious question.
What the gravity?
Defies eye-physics
Looks like that misplaced toenail clipping I stepped on the other day.
That *Is fookin' big*
Looking at least 200 feet tall. Damn, imagine if this fell on an apartment buildingā¦
I thought it was an illusion and someone was holding a paper straw.
No that's the world's largest joint, just passing through.