C&C trucks carrying wind turbine blades to the mountaintop
Video of C&C trucks transporting wind turbine blades for the wind farm project on the Baoding mountain in Yunnan province.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
An important consideration for installing wind turbines is the ability to transport the large components. While this is really an advertisement for C&C trucks designed to transport wind turbine blades; the video shows the trucks at work moving these large components.
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I think it is fascinating to watch how these big turbine blades are moved through rugged terrain.
It is equally fascinating to see them rolling along 45, 287 or 35 ( both E & W ) in Texas, on their way to the North and West Texas wind farms.
We were tied up recently when one had to get off of 35 to make repairs or swap out the pulling semi truck near Temple TX.
Getting the parade back on to the highway took hours.........
Have you ever seen the wind farms in Western Kansas?
There's a company here in Little Rock that makes these blades. I see them going up US 67/167 all the time
Are the trucks in your area configured with steerable dollies?
Like this one:
I have seen large construction beams and equipment being moved but I haven't seen any turbine blades yet.
Hard to see, but I can't imagine the rear unit isn't steerable. ( this is also 3 years old )
this is new, by train?
not from Texas but the trailers look the same, steerable.
this is from Scotland in the countryside.
Most of the issues I have witnessed are interference from traffic lights and traffic signs which they remove and reinstall they same day.
They always have other vehicles for low wires.
Pretty amazing how the trucks are designed to navigate on available (and limited) roadways. If I was younger, I'd want to drive one at least once.
Yeah, I'm not thinking our semi's carrying the blades flat would be able to compete with C&C
I was reminded of leaf cutter ants - neat solution!
It's a completely different world when your transporting items of immense size or weight.
What is even more interesting is when they are moved internationally...
Good article.
That has to be done by ship....surely
That is true. Many are moved via ocean barge as this photo shows...We moved twelve cranes from Korea to California via ocean barge.
A heavy-lift ship is a vessel designed to move very large loads that cannot be handled by normal ships.
This is the Blue Marlin, a semi-submerging vessels capable of lifting another ship out of the water and transporting it.
Like the USS Cole.
Or, say, a dozen other transport ships.
Or this Oil Rig
Or this one.
This is the SBX-1. The Sea-Based X-Band Radar, which is a floating, self-propelled, mobile active electronically scanned array radar station designed to operate in high winds and heavy seas. It is part of the U.S. Defense Department Ballistic Missile Defense System.
And it’s huge!
These are drilling rigs with a gridwork of iron below them creating a giant footprint to stabilize the weight. They jack up out of the water with those large legs.
And here’s three of them.
Good gravy! Can you imagine engineering one of these things?
Talk about a mother ship.
That is crazy.
Beam me down, Scotty.
Wow, how fascinating. There are some wind turbines on mountain ridges in Western Maryland that I've driven past, but I never thought about how they get the parts up there.
They should have just ordered them on Amazon Prime. Free shipping! Maybe even by drone!
Ship in a bottle, with ocean, delivered by Amazon Prime.
Unbelievable. You don't realize how big the blades are.
I keep thinking, we don't have a large transport helicopter or something? Seems like it would be easier.