We watched this roll through Outlook, SK today. I still don’t know how they navigated that puppy through the intersection into town without taking out the real estate office.
We watched this roll through Outlook, SK today. I still don’t know how they navigated that puppy through the intersection into town without taking out the real estate office.
It is amazing what fits through this town.
You can see the skill and engineering expertise of moving very large parts through this short video on the Airbus 380. This is the world’s largest commercial aircraft of any kind. Like the Space Shuttle of decades ago, it had to be engineered to ensure that its components could be shipped for final assembly in Toulouse, France.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGqhQyeK3TY
Thanx cgh … If I’d known that I was going to have the pleasure of viewing tony blair’s slimy countenance this early in the AM, then I’d have fortified myself with a stiff scotch !
As an aside. few people know that his wife cherie blair is a Booth … a direct descendant of that actor John Wilkes of the Lincoln assassination plot.
It wouldn’t matter whi h direction through town you would be going, either direction you would use that yield area. It would be better if that concrete island wasn’t there. But you can tell they engineered a long swooping corner for a reason.
Some of the trailer tires will steer.
Pardon my Central-Canada ignorance, but what the heck was that thing anyway?
Cow-fart catcher.
Canada’s contribution to the next Moon shot.
Would it work on politicians? That is, would it absorb their bodies? Minds won’t matter since there aren’t any.
There is a “yo mama’s dildo” joke here somewhere…
Dunno, is it a carbon tampon?
Two pass fire tube waste heat boiler with integral steam drum.
Weighs 164 tons empty.
From Altex website
164 tons … moving thru the center of town at 35 mph!? Can you imagine if they had to slam on the brakes because some fool pulled out in front of it!?
Not to worry. That truck looks pretty rugged. Don’t think it would hurt it much. As for the [jerk] who was too important to wait for it to go by, comfort yourselves with the knowledge that at least he didn’t cut off a motorcycle.
Yes, I am an old man who used to drive the big ones and ride the little ones. Frequently behind the wheel of an 18 I wished there was one day a year when we could treat the four-wheelers [what truckers call cars] the way the four-wheelers treat motorcycles. “Sorry, officer, I didn’t see him. How long you figure it’ll take you to get him out from under there?”
I rode a bike for a while … and I learned REAL FAST that I had to consider myself “invisible” to every 4-wheeler on the road. That hyper awareness saved my life on more than one occasion.
I have always ridden with the assumtion everyone in a cage is going to make an attempt on my life. they’ll even look you right in the eye before pulling out in front of you.
But what are its pronouns?
All of the trailer tires steer.
Highway 15 through Outlook has been designated an oversized load route through Sask. There must be beneficiaries of the oil & gas industries of Alberta based beyond its own borders because we see these big loads passing through this area quite often.
I’ve worked with Altex building numerous vessels for the oilpatch. They’re a first class fabrication shop. In a 20 year career working as a sub-contractor on countless pieces of process equipment, I found that the farther away from Edmonton that a vessel originates, the lower the quality. Edmonton produces the best, there’s a big shop in Utah that’s ok. Texas and Oklahoma are marginal, Mexico is bad, Asia is terrible. I worked on a catalytic regenerator for Co-op Regina that was so intricate and complicated you would think it was a nuclear submarine. There is amazing technical expertise and talent in Western Canada.
Good to hear we can still make things in canada.
I believe that was a road crusher. If you want to know where it went, just follow the potholes. We have them in Michigan too.
I’m always impressed at the skill of large equipment and vehicle operators.
While in the army in the 1980s, I was on exercise in Germany and watched a platoon of Bundeswehr Faun Elefant tank transporters – each carrying a Leopard tank – briskly negotiate the cramped, winding main street of a little Black Forest village in a matter of a few minutes. With the tractor and semi-trailer combined, these machines are over 20 metres long and three metres wide.
And of course, there’s that epic YouTube video of a gorgeous blonde driver deftly backing up her tractor-trailer into a warehouse somewhere in Brazil.
Amazing stuff!
Good catch Mecheng at 11:52 pm
“Two pass fire tube waste heat boiler with integral steam drum.”
I was hoping it was this,
https://www.altexinc.com/
“APRIL 1, 2023 COMPANY NEWS,
ALTEX LAUNCHES MARS HEAT EXCHANGER,
Heat Exchangers Play Vital Role in Mars Terraforming,
Edmonton, Alberta, April 1, 2023: Altex Industries, a renowned manufacturer of heat exchangers, has recently announced the launch of their new division, dedicated to the terraforming of Mars using advanced heat exchange technologies.”