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Last year I was impressed by see working a crawling crane in Italy.It was a liebherr LT-11350 and the first thing I think it was”…biggest moving thing I never seen!(on the ground)” so I’m a curious guy…what’s your?
Claudio….about six years ago I took a detail for PSNH. I had too escort a generator to a new per plant in Derry NH. The generator came in on a ship to the nuclear power plant and it took three days to escort it from Seabrook to Derry. It’s only about sixty miles! On the night I took the detail we (State Troopers) met with personnel from three fire departments, PSNH and a bout thirty local Police Officers. My job was to follow the generator which was being towed by one GIGANTIC tractor and being pushed by on GIGANTIC tractor. The wheels on the tractors were ten feet in diameter. The generator was over three stories tall and about forty feet wide. It was probably a good hundred and fifty feet long and weighed over ONE MILLION ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS, Every time we got to a power line PSNH crews would loose. The power lines and use cranes to lift them up as the generator moved by. There were probably over a hundred PSNH guys working this detail on the particular night. We started at 800 pm and I got home at 630 am. The distance driven for the detail….four miles. I couldn’t average my speed but at one point the Trooper next to me had to wake me up. I had fallen asleep at around three am driving behind this thing. He was driving next to me. We were averaging less than a mi,e per hour. Outside of gigantic ships coming in to the channel that is the biggest moving thing I have ever seen.
Wow Chris!sorry I don’t understand the tall of the generator..with my calculations the crane I’ve seen can lift the generator!the crane lift 1350 European tons.180 meters high max.huge
Three stories is about forty feet or a little over 11 meters tall
The generator rode on over fifty wheels!
11 meters high on the road…amaizing!
No limit weight on the road?
Sorry sir you use feet for length and stories(!!!)for high?
It’s easier to imagine a building that has three, or four, or five levels in height that to visualize 30 or 40 or 50 feet in the air. I measure stuff every day (land surveyor) and I STILL am not very good at it.
Roman Abramovich’s 533-foot yacht Eclipse 🙂
Was on the balcony on holiday and that thing was huge,The water around it for meters on end where flooded with light..
Not sure it was the biggest, but I saw one of those high speed racing boats. It was so wide it had to ride onits side on the trailer. Looked like a million dollar boat.
Nothing too crazy for me 🙁 just wind turbine parts
this is the biggest moving thing I have seen, and trust me when I say it looks bigger in person……..
…on the water is much easier moving giant things…