The real unsung heroes here are the planners who work out the routes, often working out big diversions to avoid overbridges, unsuitable roads etc, and still get to their destinations, also the authorities who arrange for overhead wires etc to be moved/removed and replaced afterwards. It's all a big logistics puzzle they always seem to get right.
Reminds me of my local Autobahn. Heavy transoprter hauling a wind turbine blade couldn't make the turn ON the Autobahn. For about 1 week we had the truck with the blade standing right outside our town. Don't know how they finaly made it.
I live in an area where this happens a lot - we usually get around 1 weeks notice ahead of time with the full route listed, usually on the morning before the load comes through or sometimes the day before you see the workmen taking the lights and things down, they usually just lay them at the edge of the road. Allelys has an office building that I drive past daily never knew what they did though.
In my youth I did a lot of work for Allelys. Nothing this crazy, but helped with his projects. Maurice Allely also had a great collection of vintage tractors. RIP Maurice Allely. 🙏👍 I’m happy his business is still going strong. 👍👍😁
@@sudazima The trailer you refer to is made by Goldhofer, usually one of the regular Girder trailers that Allelys use for very heavy loads like this. The little hut as you describe it actually is for an operator to steer the multiple axles using hydraulics.
From Allelys Facebook post...march 2022.....A first on UK roads! Over the weekend we successfully transported a 150te reactor and a 195te transformer in convoy! Using two of our specialist girder frames to transport the units 40 miles from Shoreham to Ninfield in tandem. Congratulations to the whole team for engineering, managing and delivering such an impressive project.
The hauler on this video, Alleleys is often featured on one of our TV programmes. The show is called Train Truckers and shows the company moving trains, both heritage steam locos, new locos and rolling stock. Not only do they shift railway stock for the heritage lines but also for the national rail companies.
That MAN truck is the biggest standard heavy duty type MAN builds (except for special mod builds...). It has two steered front axles and two double axles in the back. The regular transmission type for regular big trucks are not "automatic", but fully automated manual transmissions with 12 to 16 gears. This heavy duty truck has a manual 12 speed transmission, but with an additional torque converter in between to allow for superslow driving and manouvering under load like that. That "tower" behind the cab contains sevaral additional air pressure tanks, a big radiator to cool down all the heat from the torque converter and also engine, a big coolant tank, hydraulics and fuel tank (since it has so many wheels there is no room anywhere else...). The frame is reinforced so the torque doesn't twist it. "Goldhofer" as it says on the trailer, is a company that specializes in the manufacture of trailers and purpose made heavy load transport equipment. Almost every time you see a rig like that it's by Goldhofer...
The other big brand for this kind of equipment is "SCHEUERLE", both companies have similar products for special needs. Here they use "Heavy-Duty Modules" and a a girder bridge that it can be quickly and easily converted into a vessel bridge.
The drivers of these trucks are the best of the best in the business at what they do. You've reached the top of the driving skills mountain when you are moving these massive loads. I've a lot of admiration for their driving skills when I see them on the road
Whilst there is a much lower kerb than the US all the other features to make it stand out have been removed to allow the turn... the island would usually have railings for a pedestrian crossing plus white trashcan sized marker plastic bollards with hazzard markings and lane arrow, Remember UK road designs also have been designed around the OG mini which can run 10 inch rims... hitting a tall kerb in that sounds fatal similar thing happens with certain sized roundabouts when transporting wind turbines, they just make a road through the centre if going round would beech it on the centre island
In remote areas, like some UK North Wales projects, building new or modifying existing roads is part of the project cost. The roads was designed for for movement of large loads. However what was designed in the 1960's does not always work in the 2020's. Things have got bigger. In the 60's truck engines did not have turbo's, so multi truck lash ups where common. We even used steam road engines The trailer designs came from Army tank transporters and the multi wheel (above 4) across design was yet to arrive. Brakes still used asbestos.
I did like your understanding of the problems of moving abnormal loads through the small towns of the UK, great narrative from you too, will definitely watch more of your content.
One is a Saturable reactor which was built to a 30 year old design and the other is a Transformer , both built by GE Transformers ,,Stafford . UK the Sat reactor was 150 ton and the Transformer was 195 ton
Hey Ian, fyi, the transformer is only the "little" grey box in the middle of the two red arms. The red arms are only load bearing and pivots points for the steering
There is a video on a 255 tonne monster being driven through UK streets which is awesome to watch, i myself was in the RCT (Royal Corps of Transport) British army, we had the Antar tank transporter monsters for which we transported Chieftan tanks we could carry up to 100 tons GVW .
What isn't often described in these videos, and of late, on television shows demonstrating these huge loads, is the organisation involved. In general it can take many months to set up for the movement. There are laid down rules and regulations in place, covering just when these types of loads can be moved. Invariably, they can only be moved in Daylight hours, and even then, movements can only be made surrounding Rush Hour periods. Only in very exceptional circumstances, are these loads moved at night. There are thorough recce's of the chosen route, so that every possible risk issue along the proposed route is factored in. Ironically, on the route in this video, one issue cropped up at a small middle of town roundabout which meant a hold up whilst the Experts worked out a solution - the problem was a building beside the roundabout was undergoing works to the structure, and scaffolding had been erected around the exterior, projecting out almost to the edge of the pavement. There was a resolution, but the expert drivers and support crews were able to re-negotiate that turn without any problems. Along the entire route taken, the notification processes mean contacting every Local, Parish, Community, County, Regional and Town Councils through whose control the load passes. That means their respective Highways engineers and teams can work ahead of the convoy, removing street furniture, bollards, street railings, Traffic Lights, even lamp posts and then once the convoy has passed through, reinstall everything removed beforehand. Utility companies have to be made aware, especially Phone and electrical supply companies whose personnel often have to raise power and phone lines to allow the convoy to pass underneath safely without snagging on cables. Advance publicity is generally made via local press and other media outlets, especially to make everyone aware, especially in Emergency Services, and Public Transport Groups so they can plan around it and Signs will be set up at least 1-2 weeks in advance on all affected roads to inform motorists.
Not mountains in the background, but the South Downs chalk hills. The full South Downs Way is a 100 mile trail stretching from Winchester to Eastbourne. I've walked the whole lot. It's a wonderful place to be. Nearby is Lewes, which is the only place in England that has seen a fatal avalanche. The site is now occupied by a pub called The Snowdrop.
I live in Denmark, where high curbs are also the norm. But Denmark is also a world leader in wind turbine production. So especially, over the last 30 years, many intersections have been rebuilt, especially around all the factories that make these wind turbines and blades, so that transportation of these giants is much easier. Curbs have been lowered and many roundabouts have an asphalt drive-through with gates that are usually closed, but opened, during heavy, long transports. I lived close to one of these factories for many years, and seeing these transports on the roads was pretty mesmerizing, when I was younger. Now, it's just the norm.
And the biggest transport, I've seen on the road (on video), was a transformer, if I remember correctly. It had a weight of 400 tonnes. It was a similar setup to the one in the video.
Both trailer units front and rear have got cabs on top of them. They have drivers sat in the cab, steering all the wheels. Enable in it to make tight turns. They can even lift the trailer up-and-down until till tip.😊
Typically when they have a crawl load they can load as much as 15 ton per axel. The loaders have 10 axles each so the totaly load is probobly close to 300 ton. The truck is probobly loaded to 15 ton on the bogie axel and 10 ton on the front as well. Adding a other 50 tons.
Good estimate ;-) "Each load weighs over 300 tonnes and is over 70 metres long." www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/news/2022/abnormal-load-being-moved-shoreham-port-ninfield
They have 2 (two) axles side by side! One can see it very well at the 2. loader. So you might double the weight! - Unfortunately I don't know the specifics of this type (made by Goldhofer), but for Scheuerle loaders I know them to have a grossweight of 20 tons per axle-line with a payload of 16,25 tons. (Specifics for German streets and a speed of 80km/h (ca. 50 miles/hour) Goldhofer loaders schould have similar weights.
"The reactor weighing 150te, and transformer weighing 195te, were transported on specialist girder frames with a total combined transport weight of 667te gross travelling in tandem."
@@drdwatkins If both trucks and trailers have the same configuration that would imply that the first transport hade a brute weight of 356 ton and the second had one of 311tons. That would be 6 tons of my estimate.
Those types of Goldhofer are presetting the steering, when they put them together. It is a schematic layout. When you plan a load, you put in the dimensions and the program tells you the steering layout, and suspension setup. If you look closely, the rear dolly is made of 3 units, one with 4 lines, and two with three lines. The front one is 2 units with 5 lines each. They have different rotation points for sure but once set, the steering is locked. The more expensive versions do have programable steering, but this type is what we call forced steering.
5:41: Flat tyre: Under the vehicle are everywhere 2 axles with twinwheels side by side. Those axles are called Pendelachse or pendulum axle as the can tilt (left wheels up and right wheels down or vice versa). If the left side is lifted up on an otherwise flat ground, that would result in the right outer tire bearing must of load ans thus gat flatened. At 5:48 the wheel is round again. - By the way: those axles can be lifted or extended for about one foot (30 cm). They are interconnected, if one axles gets pushed into the vehicle all other axles gets pushed out,
Another channel to see is if you search ALE Heavy Haulage. They've now gone out of business and I think maybe that Alleleys have taken over and use their equipment. These type of haulage are planned months in advance, as they need to let people know on the route to relocate their cars from outside of any properties, and they usually have their own mobile tyre fitters and on occasion, tree surgeons if they need a heavy branch lopping off. The bollards on roadways are also taken away. This truck will be manual not automatic, and on a lot of our lorries over here, they can switch over from auto to manual. On the front of the truck, you can see "STGO Cat 3". This is the code used for the weight, including what tyres are needed for a heavy weight load like this one. When watching the ALE Heavy Haulage, they haul transformers which weigh about 700 tons. By the way, at 11:12, you can see a yellow sign as a warning that a heavy load will be coming through on such a date
5:00 on small roundabouts like that it’s common for the kerbs to be lower or nonexistent so if an emergency vehicle has to overtake a car stopped in the roundabout then they can run over that kerb while still carrying some speed
Allelys is about 4 mile from my house, head office is in Studley, Warwickshire in the centre of England. They have to plan months in advance, and the low kerbs you mentioned would have involved dealing with the local Councils and getting railings and road signs removed where needed. Difficult to advise of pronunciation as English and American dialect differ but here it's something like AL-LE-LEYS
I once was driving near Lincoln in England when I saw a massive mis shaped aircraft possibly a super transporter airbus aircraft it flies the wings for the largest aircraft to where they are fitted. It looks in flyable like a massive block unwieldy at low level.
According to a local newspaper "The two loads, weighing roughly 300 tonnes each, took a 41-mile trip from Shoreham Port to the National Grid substation in Ninfield, near Bexhill". So that's a 300 tonne load in the video
I think you would enjoy watching this video of a WW2 British army training film called "Scammell Breakdown Tractor Using Simple 5 to 1 Pull." It shows how to recover and tank from a ditch using a Scammell recovery truck.
When going around tight turns ect a separate person steers the dolly's and can also raise and lower the suspension using air bags to allow the load to go over obstacles such as the kerb
7:40 Those super heavy duty tractors usually don#t have a cluch. They use torque converter (Drehmomentwandler) like you would find in oldfashioned automatic cars. Drasticly simplified: there are no patches skidding on a steeldisc until the pressure causes sufficient friction to stop that skidding. Here there are two fans, one connected to the crankshaft and the other connected to the gearbox shaft. Both fans are placed vis-a-vis are are dunked in oil. The motorside fan 'swirls' the oil which then turns the gearbox shaft. There is no wear on parts but the oil gets rather hot and has to be permanently cooled (for example by those grey towers behind the cab on the DAF). - In older cars you may have noticed that after long drives the tunnel between the front seats got pretty warm? Now you know why ;-)
On certain routes traffic islands are removable to allow for heavy movement. Ipswich has a number of marinas and to allow for road delivery of the luxury yachts there are several islands that are removed to allow for entrance to the marinas .
Thats where I live in near the roundabout in Eastbourne, Sussex on the coast of UK ....electric producing wind turbines if I remember correctly? That is a restaurant 10:11 behind on the corner
I live in Caithness (far north of Scotland) and we have huge wind turbine blades going through our town quite regularly. The route they wanted to take had a house on a corner that made it impossible to manoeuver the truck around. Simple (but quite expensive) solution:- buy the house; demolish it; flatten the area and drive over it.
This setup is often a two wagon haul. The second tractor unit hooked up to the rear of the cradle can also help on those really tight corners and junctions where the rear end needs to be steered like the front end to clear the corners. The truck you said you could listen to all day is one of two extra tractor units that are there as a backup against any breakdowns on the other tractor units doing the actual work. The front multi wheel section is controlled by someone walking along side it and the rear section has it’s own driver’s cab, then you’ve got the rear tractor unit steering as well, So there is at least 4 people steering this thing.
This is about 5 miles from my house and the roads are small and winding. Where you see the yellow sign the turn is very tight. They went through the town as the alternative route was over a railway bridge which couldn’t take the weight.
If you search on RUclips you will find a number of similar types of movement of abnormal or special loads, including some military nuclear movement convoys. There are some special abnormal loads that have to go through Scotland and roundabouts have to have a lane through the middle for wind turbine blade delivery. Back in the 60s and earlier these sorts of loads would have gone by rail as the railway had common carrier status. Effectively meaning that they had to transport any items required, even if it required removing bridges and making special wagons. The UK railway loading gauge is much much smaller than the US one.
Hi. I used to travel to Stone, Staffordshire regularly to BT’s, my employer, training school. I used to drive along the A34 dual carriageway. It has a few roundabouts and there is a factory nearby that makes big power station transformers. These are very heavy so require large road transport vehicles. As the roundabouts make it difficult to drive long loads around. These long loads drive along here so often most of the roundabouts to the M6 motorway have a road straight across the roundabout with gates to stop other traffic from using the heavy/wide load routes, long/heavy loads find this easier.
The a34 is known for having the most speed cameras going in staffs, we hate it lol.. Dual carriageway way and roundabouts make for a race track, ....I know the exact spot you mean 😅
Regular thing here in Stafford for these going out, they have built a new place right next to the a34 now so the movements will eventually not go through the town. Shame but also a little better I guess.
I used to live in Stone. Large loads often drove north on the southbound side of the A34 as the railway bridge near the wayfarer was lower on that side.
5:45: it could very well be those wheels are indeed slightly deflated to distribute the weight better. Mammoet in The Netherlands takes care of such transports (besides doing a whole lot of other extremely heavy lifting/moving in the nautical field as well) and such 'duizendpoten' (literally: 'thousand-legs' but millipede is a better word) as we tend to call them can control all axles individually when it comes to height, pressure, angle and speed and such, allowing for some every extreme manoeuvres.
Hi I Wroker I was one of the guys who asked you to show you heavy haulage in England as you have noticed our roads are small compared to the USA These transformers can way anything up to 400 Tonnes which will involve three of these trucks up the hills and they are allowed to travel on the motorway at 20 miles per hour which causes tailbacks Our motorway's consists of four lanes the Escort car at the back stop the cars from Overtaking this very oversized loads Wishing you all the best from Nottinghamshire 🏴 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
That lead truck is actually a relief truck in case the the truck breaks down and im pretty sure each piece of heavy machinery hauled has there own relief truck, the dolly's used also have hydraulic suspension so if a curb was too tall they raise the load enough to clear the curb.
OMG this is my home county and heading through a town I use to live in. Polegate East Sussex. The building on the corner is an old tavern converted into harvester restaurant and they have dismantled the traffic signals. The hills in the distance are the South Downs and area of outstanding natural beauty.
I lot of european heavy haulage trucks use a transmission called a ZF Transmatic which is a 16 speed manual with a clutch but also a torque converter in front as well. Kind of gives the best of all worlds. Got your multiple manual gear choices but also have the torque multiplication effect of the torque converter and the ability to do smooth, low speed manoeuvring without using the clutch.
As bridge engineer part of my job was to route abnormal loads through West Yorkshire in the UK. The largest I was involved with was a 230 tonne all up load. It was a transformer going into a power station. It was always a relief when no bridges on the route were damaged after giving them permission to use a certain route.
@@HrLBolle in sweden at least have to go 8 bar on the drivers to get the bonus tons for the driver axles.of cause that is only true if its a boggie driver.
That was being transported to the power station in my town, about a mile from the place there is a bridge that they needed to take the railings off. That was a year or so ago, still haven’t put the railings back.
You ask who is controlling the steering on the wide beam jockeys this is done usually by a diver who walks along and can steer with radio control it can also be done via the driver in the rear training unit, ALL the operatives including vehicle drivers are in radio contact. When this heavyweight haulage takes place, the planners have been working for weeks before hand on the routes.
Polegate, East Sussex England... About 2 miles from me, that whole detour through the town high street was because 1 sharp corner the load couldn't get around
The lead trailer steering can be remotely controlled by an external worker by radio control. The rear trailer has a separate steersman in a high cab at the rear, the steersman will have the benefit of cameras, as does the driver but are also guided by workers using radios to communicate. Allelys are a Midlands Company based near Birmingham in the UK. They know all the clearances needed, and the trailers can be raised or lowered slightly by hydraulics as needed., again the driver and steersman are in constant contact with the external workers who advise them.
My local town used to have steam locomotives delivered to the station for special occasions - one evening after work I noticed traffic backed up for miles so I parked and walked in. One of those multi-wheeled trailers with a _huge_ loco on it had burst its hydraulics while trying to make a sharp turn. The whole town was gridlocked solid and the street was awash with _Texas Tea!_
The power station I worked at the main generator transformer weighed 240T, the reactor 160T, and the staion load transformer 110T and we had two of each.
I live so close to here, I know this junction well. The event was publicised for weeks hence the crowd. The kerb you talk of has had barriers and traffic lights removed.
If you want to find out the rough weight, look at the stgo plate on the front. You get a 1 2 or 3 and they're by max weight, by the looks of that one it's a 3 so your looking up to 150 tonne or 16.5 tonne per axel
Allelys are also the subject of a British TV series called 'Train Truckers' where they transport large, heavy railway Locomotives, often older Steam locomotives for heritage railways which are often in difficult to access locations. It is a fascinating show, and the older programs are now on RUclips. If you like heavy haulage, you'll love it. I do, as my father was a heavy truck driver (the trucks, not my dad, who drove Scammel and Diamond T Tank transporters in the North Africa Campaign of WW2) and I sometimes accompanied him as a child, which I suppose would not be allowed these days.
That Polegate junction (where the A27 meets the Hailsham-Eastbourne Rd) is tight for HGVs at the best of times. There was a new bypass put in over my way (Bognor Regis) where part of it is a flyover and all the prefabricated concrete lintels were kept on standby in a layby on the A27 just before Chichester. They used similar transport as used here and had to adapt some of the junctions and roundabouts and add extra surfaces so the length of the lintels on the transporters could make it across the tight bends on the wrong side of the road as they couldn't go around them.
We in North America (I'm in 🇨🇦) haul loads just as large as this. We even in the past have designed our own trailers for specific loads which we would tear down (the trailer) at the final destination and erect it vertically into a gantry crane. The one thing that, up here in the oilfields we don't have to deal as much with is the long drawn out routes going through towns with no bypass roads available.
Trucks like this one are usually custom build. This one most likely has manual transmissin, but several gears more than your usual transmission. It´s like that "Unimog" you reacted on some time ago. I once drove one with stick shift and it had 16 gears, 3 reverse and 13 forward. I had to shunt railway wagons in a malthouse. I beleive, this one has a similar setup. TBH, I´ve seen bigger, more dificult and way more impressive hauls here in Berlin (after gemany´s reunification). And I´ve traveled to one haul specifically near Siegen. It was a 1680 ton haul (high pressure chemical reactor) through narrow and curvy moutain roads and through small old villages. That was one hell of an experience!
I used to drive a large truck like that MAN, it was a Ford Transcontinental. It had a gear stick 16 forward gears and two reverse. it was a monster , but fun to drive !
This kind of transport is a work of art. Not only for those responsible for actually moving the load, but also for those planning these transports. They have to work out everything related to size, turning radius, used equipment and weight. These transformers can be easily 150 ton loads, and weight has to be spread out enough over all the axles and length of the rig to be sure that the roads and bridges in the route can handle this. The dollies used are officially known as modular platform trailers, they consist of sections having 2,3 or 5 axle lines and can be hooked together to form a platform of the desired capacity. All wheels are hydraulically steerable controlled by a computer to give each set of wheels the right angle and ride height for each set of wheels is also controlled by hydraulics so that height automatically adjusts when one axle line has to much load, like in riding up curbs. The steering can be controlled by the angle of the towbar, the operator in the back can override this system and steer manually, he can crab the whole thing (all wheels point in the same direction so that the rig moves sideways) and he can adjust the ride height to get over obstacles like the curbs or lower to fit under bridges. The tech in these trailers is amazing, however this type of trailer is not yet very common in the US, there you see more conventional following or mechanically steered trailers. It's mainly European companies who build these, like Scheuerle, Goldhofer, Nicolas, Broshuis and Cometto to name a few well known of them. The 'railcar' thing is a locomotive built by EMD/Progress Rail in Canada.
Something like this came through my town a few years ago but hauling wind turbine blades from port to the new wind farm being built. They came round and chopped some islands back to allow for the turn, removed traffic lights, signs etc and in one case for a particularly tight roundabout, ploughed a gap straight through the middle for the turbine to get through. Many of these works they never reinstated so can still see the evidence.
I know this crossroad very well. I didn't know anything about this going on, however. This is in East Sussex in England, 3-4 miles from the South Coast. The hills in the background are part of the South Downs.
Years ago I remember Scammells and Diamond T haulers on our roads. Scammell was an English company and of course as you know Diamond T was American. They were left behind when WW2 finished and the counterpart of the Scammell both being tank transporters during the war.
This was a two day move , I watched it come out off Shoreham on the Saturday morning and watched though to Patcham, it’s was complicated move due to weak bridges witch meant there had to run wrong side for much of the route as well as put in a temporary bridge at Lewis , a friend of mine was steersman on one of the trailers. This company is well worth following they do a lot of great work The hills you commented on are the south down to the east of Lewis in Sussex Weight I seam to remember each load was over 150 tonne See if you can find the first day off the move when they pushed each load out of Shoreham docks. If you like old heavy haulage lots of good old stuff on here
The DAF that comes in first is there for 2 big reasons. First, if they struggle up any incline, he hooks a metal bar and provides extra power, 2ndly and possibly more critical, if the lead truck doing the haul has any kind of a fault/puncture (not that unusual as they ovten have removed roadsigns and there can be metal pieces left behind) then he can drop straight in and keep the load moving while they fix it. Usually another to the rear in case of issues on the pusher truck. These moves are months of planning, not least as at that first junction all the traffic lights have been removed to ground level. Initially there were some temp ones there, that they had wheeled out the way as they approached.
yes, M-A-N is correct because its an abbreviation for Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg just like BMW stands for Bayerische MotorenWerke... so with that in mind its M-A-N in the same way as you say BMW and not the english "man" ;)
If it's in Wales it's : Aclely (i base my though on the city's name of a wales rugby team so i can be wrong) a thing that I'm sure: there's not specially a massive pressure in the tires because there a lot of wheels so weight is evenly distributed so, pressure inside the tires don't need to be sky high. It can be 8 bars like in a standard truck (perhaps slightly higher but not a lot higher) I don't know if it's an automatic or a manual, but I'm pretty sure the trailer is powered by hydraulic engines this kind of load with all the stuff around weighs more than 200 tons as a truck driver myself, i noticed that we haul absolutely everything people need, even if you buy organic vegetable in a local farm, we (truckers) hauled seeds for this farm, the tractor if they use one, plow etc...everything (the same week i hauled products for supermarkets and tractor's hoods for the tractor factory...the same week with the same truck) i hauled wood for a paper plant, wood chips for the same paper plant, paper paste, paper, cardboard, chemicals for the paper plant and even old papers and cardboards for recycling... I transported everything that makes paper at every stage of its manufacture from wood to recycling through paper cutting and specific papers for the manufacture and recycling of cardboard. You bought a new mouse for your computer? I transported the wood between the forest and the pulp mill, the pulp between its manufacture and its transformation into paper, the paper to the cardboard plant, the box between the cardboard plant and the and the factory where the mouse is built, from this factory to the shop where you bought your new mouse and then the box you threw away that I carry for recycling You cannot live without truckers
I, also, find these fascinating. Have you seen the '70m 145 tonne lorry meets small Surrey roundabout'? That was the first one of these I saw and I still love to watch it every so often.
The 'mountains' are the South Downs, a range of low chalk hills that run west to east across the counties of Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex. This video is shot at, I think, Polegate in East Sussex.
My Farther was involved in haulage for most of his life after serving throughout ww2. Just as a side observation the landing craft in the end still shots is a at the D-Day museum at Portsmouth. You can see it on google earth if you are interested. Just a little connection with Britain and the USA on June 6 1944. Portsmouth will host a major event to remember the 80th anniversary of this most famous battle and those who fought in it.
Those steerable dolly trailers with many axles are usually remotely controlled by an operator on the ground walking alongside through town or around sharp corners, while on the highway when it's moving a bit faster they're in a car behind.
There are Kenworth in the USA and other parts of the world that do this load work too. I recall the International Pacific of the 70s that pulled and pushed these loads too in South Africa. Some loads over 450 tonn. Metric!
1:34 thats a gen 1 Sköda Fabia and I've recently found out the estates (station wagons) are expensive on road tax $380 or £305 the hatchbacks are cheaper at £190 or $237.
Thank goodness the weather was in their favour. And yes... the layman is oblivious as to the skills a driver of any piece of large equipment has...buses, trains, ships, planes, delivery trucks... the list is endless. And the responsibilities that person has when passengers are part of the equation. All kudos to these people.
a lot of the heavy haulage trucks are often manual although newer ones may be automated, one thing they do tend to have in common on MAN and Mercedes Benz trucks is a turbo-clutch or WSK etc, this is a combined friction plate clutch and torque converter, so you can use a torque converter for starting and shunting, they switch to manual gears once moving for greater economy and power, if you want to see an example of a turbo clutch, look up the Voith turbo retarder clutch (VIAB) [ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=voith+turbo+retarder+clutch]
The question itself can only be answered for trucks up to around 350 tonnes. Everything above that is special conversions and then the customer decides what they prefer. I seem to remember a non-road-legal tractor at a German shipyard that had to pull ship engines up to 500 tons, with 32 half-step manual transmissions, and a gear ratio that only allowed around 40 - 45 kmh. I imagine it will be super stressful, but the owner wanted it that way.
@@sèdnuvès well look at it this way, the MAN and Mercedes Benz trucks can operate up to 400 tonnes GTW each in parts of the world like South America on-road, though in Europe they are limited to 250 tonnes on-road each, so for each multiple of 250t there needs to be 1 truck, so a 500t load needs at least 2 trucks on the public road (on private property they can operate at significantly high loads each well above 500t), if we are talking away from the public road, then context come into play, if your looking at a dockyard they they will probably be Alison automatics with pure torque converter as they are not covering distance (if they don't go for the SPMT option which is hydrostatic drive and docks have shifted towards), if you are talking about oilfield in the middle east then for example the 500 tonne and 1000 tonne Titan just use the same engine and driveline as the Mercedes Benz trucks 250T truck, just coupled to lower ratio transfer box will lower ratio heavy axles, so they still use turbo-clutch combination, though they are tailor made to the customer spec. so if the customer wants an Alison they can, but a 6-speed Alison (just a torque converter) offers no advantage over a 12 or 16-speed that is manual or automated AND has a turbo-clutch (torque converter and plate clutch) that has more than twice the gear steps. at one time the Alison units were the only real options at the heavy end of things, but with turbo-clutch combination things have been moving towards them.
@@b101uk9 I am only aware of a limit of 250 t in Europe in direct connection with bridges. It is not uncommon for freight weighing more than 500 tons to be on the road. For me it wasn't about which type of gearbox made sense, but rather about the fact that after a certain weight the general offer simply stops and that there are customers who also make decisions that are far from logical. The shipyard example should make this clear, because yodeling up and down 32 gears to get to a speed of 40 would simply be too stupid for me personally, which supports your assessment of an automated solution.
@@sèdnuvès re-read what I said, in Europe on the road for each multiple of 250t requires a truck, thus a load of 250t to 500t requires a minimum of 2 trucks, a load of 500t to 750t requires a minimum of 3 trucks, etc etc, so a load of 775t GVW for example needs 4 trucks connected to it, but in South America that same load could be pulled by just 2 trucks on the road. - my comment had NOTHING to do with the maximum weight of the indivisible load that could be moved, just the minimum amount of trucks based on weight of the load and the "trailer" upon which it sits in terms of GVW. as for the port example, when pulling 500t or 1000t in a port your overall speed is irrelevant, you are not going to be doing 40km/h unless your empty in a port, and if your empty the amount of gears you have above X number is irrelevant, as being empty you will skip gears (also keep in mind 32 gears is just a standard 16-speed gearbox coupled to a 2-speed [high and low range] transfer box as you would find on most AWD trucks or even 4x4 like land rover or G-wagon etc), even a large port or shipyard is a small place relatively speaking which is why slow SPMT have taken over trucks in shipyard etc sectors, because they can with enough of them move tens of thousands of tonne modals operated from a single remote control.
And the big advantage of the turbo retarder clutch is that reappeared hill starts are possible where as it’s to be avoided at all costs on anything else. It’s happened to me where I was in a Merc with 150t machine on where we were forced to stop on a steep climb as a lorry came around the corner on a site unexpectedly. No problem restarting but does need the driver to know how it works to get the best from it. Brilliant system especially issues on older ones are now resolved and modified
That is great to see you watch a video in the USA made 5 miles away from I live. The Hills in the background are the South Downs and are now a national park. My friends office is on the corner.
Back in the early days from the early 1900 s to the 1970 s Pickfords were one of the main companies carrying very large loads like these they used scammel trucks and trailers until deregulation when any company with large vehicles could do the same work
During covid a 200ton oxygen tank came through my town to the hospital. Off the top of my head there was tree surgeons to cut trees, telecommunication to move wires etc, road workers to tarmac above curbs etc if needed. Road workers to move traffic signals etc. These operations cost millions.
If nobody else has mentioned it, MAN is made by VW truck division. Having driven MAN trucks, I can say they're a good truck to drive as is the DAF lead truck, which is probably a puller truck for assisting up steeper hills of which there are many in the UK. The automated gearbox can be held in any gear going up the box for acceleration if needed. Ive driven a DAF CF for an employer and found the automated far more relaxing than a normal stick shift! Great to see an American liking something other than home grown stuff. Great videos as well.
These are transformers for major national power installations, its basically a huge solid iron core i think wrappped by loads of copper wire, so they're exceptionally dense and heavy. it looks to me like the curb leading edge has been removed or a bit of a tarmac ramp added prior to this move op, which will be cleared up later to help the move. Not something ive considered before but would make sense as these moves aren't common so the small disruption and cost to ensure a smooth move would be worth it, if not outright entirely necessary. Its probably sign posts etc were removed from those sections in advance too. Also id say this is one of the few hauls a train strike wouldn't come out of unscathed haha.
Jobs like this one are planned about 6 months in advance the route is planned out and any street furniture is removed bridge height checked and over bridges weight checked it will weigh approx 250 tonnes. I was talking to 1 of their drivers at a fuel station he had put 1000 litres and still going on a heavy load it will do about half mile to the gallon
We have been moving big things for a long time. Try to find a film by British Transport Films called Dodging the Column. It was made in the 1950s I think and shows a distillation column being transported to a refinery in Scotland from Southern England. There was once an accident where a transformer being transported by road was hit by a train on a level crossing.
On the front of the towing truck is the code STGO CAT3 (Special Types General Orders, Category 3) which allows a maximum gross weight of 150,000 KGs (150 tonnes)
If my memory serves me correctly the daf thats running in front is a manual these guys do alot of big heavy stuff. Also on the motorways they are going about 25mph at most
These trucks are know as ballast tractors because the traction on these vehichles is the big ballast weight sitting on the back of the vehichle over the rear axles
McMurchy's of Leicester have some beast rigs. Not sure if they have much social media exposure, but I see their tractor units all over the county and a few of their units are insane.
So glad you finally got round to Allelys. I have been recommending for a while. I grew up with Allelys as my uncle and his brothers all drove there. Every weekend and school holiday I was out with them. Great memories
With the trailers they make it easier by having each axle able to turn and lift / drop, back in the day it was done by a second man on the back of the trailer with a jockey wheel steering the trailer wheels. Nowadays it’s a bit more intelligent. The little engine you hear is the engine just for the trailer. Some modern trailers are actually self propelled and modular, they can join them together in a configuration for bigger loads and more control. Each route will have been planned years in advance with every corner, tree and lamppost accounted for.
I didn't notice any power lines interfering with the load either, which in a town centre is unusual. They must have disconnected/diverted some of that. The husband's sister works for Ergon Energy here in Australia and her job is to schedule power line management during the passage of abnormal loads. She says it can get interesting, particularly as we're situated near the coalfields, so a lot of enormous equipment is moved in by road.
@@viper11 We do have plenty of overhead telephone lines in the UK (you can see some if you look carefully in the video) but this load doesn't look like it's over-height. Any wires passing over a road in the UK will at least be high enough for double-decker busses to pass safely.
The real unsung heroes here are the planners who work out the routes, often working out big diversions to avoid overbridges, unsuitable roads etc, and still get to their destinations, also the authorities who arrange for overhead wires etc to be moved/removed and replaced afterwards. It's all a big logistics puzzle they always seem to get right.
Yes my friend is a shepherd as they are called and it’s a lot of responsibility getting it right and arranging escorts etc
Reminds me of my local Autobahn. Heavy transoprter hauling a wind turbine blade couldn't make the turn ON the Autobahn. For about 1 week we had the truck with the blade standing right outside our town. Don't know how they finaly made it.
May i point out they have disassembled the traffic island, street furniture and traffic light to allow the turn. Wow!
I live nearby. They definitely have taken down the traffic lights and the pedestrian railings that are normally in the centre island
@@MrBrianholding That's what She already said?
@@jonnywilson9117I just noticed they have removed traffic lights and everything from the middle island. Amazing!
Yes - the route got 'shaved' LOL
I live in an area where this happens a lot - we usually get around 1 weeks notice ahead of time with the full route listed, usually on the morning before the load comes through or sometimes the day before you see the workmen taking the lights and things down, they usually just lay them at the edge of the road.
Allelys has an office building that I drive past daily never knew what they did though.
In my youth I did a lot of work for Allelys. Nothing this crazy, but helped with his projects. Maurice Allely also had a great collection of vintage tractors. RIP Maurice Allely. 🙏👍
I’m happy his business is still going strong. 👍👍😁
I did what he did and checked out Alley's history and how it all started . . Pretty cool . .
is that huge red dolly made by allelys or is a mammoet? the little hut on the trucks is that electrical power for the wheels?
@@sudazima The trailer you refer to is made by Goldhofer, usually one of the regular Girder trailers that Allelys use for very heavy loads like this. The little hut as you describe it actually is for an operator to steer the multiple axles using hydraulics.
@@iainjones5002 interesting, not what i expected thx.
From Allelys Facebook post...march 2022.....A first on UK roads! Over the weekend we successfully transported a 150te reactor and a 195te transformer in convoy! Using two of our specialist girder frames to transport the units 40 miles from Shoreham to Ninfield in tandem. Congratulations to the whole team for engineering, managing and delivering such an impressive project.
shoreham to ninfield with that would be a pain
The hauler on this video, Alleleys is often featured on one of our TV programmes. The show is called Train Truckers and shows the company moving trains, both heritage steam locos, new locos and rolling stock. Not only do they shift railway stock for the heritage lines but also for the national rail companies.
That MAN truck is the biggest standard heavy duty type MAN builds (except for special mod builds...).
It has two steered front axles and two double axles in the back.
The regular transmission type for regular big trucks are not "automatic", but fully automated manual transmissions with 12 to 16 gears.
This heavy duty truck has a manual 12 speed transmission, but with an additional torque converter in between to allow for superslow driving and manouvering under load like that.
That "tower" behind the cab contains sevaral additional air pressure tanks, a big radiator to cool down all the heat from the torque converter and also engine, a big coolant tank, hydraulics and fuel tank (since it has so many wheels there is no room anywhere else...). The frame is reinforced so the torque doesn't twist it.
"Goldhofer" as it says on the trailer, is a company that specializes in the manufacture of trailers and purpose made heavy load transport equipment. Almost every time you see a rig like that it's by Goldhofer...
The other big brand for this kind of equipment is "SCHEUERLE", both companies have similar products for special needs.
Here they use "Heavy-Duty Modules" and a a girder bridge that it can be quickly and easily converted into a vessel bridge.
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It's in England, and pretty standard size for roads designed centuries before the invention of cars.
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"most British cars have steering wheels". Basil Fawlty
The drivers of these trucks are the best of the best in the business at what they do.
You've reached the top of the driving skills mountain when you are moving these massive loads.
I've a lot of admiration for their driving skills when I see them on the road
7:16 The lead truck is probably there in case the one doing the work breaks down.
Whilst there is a much lower kerb than the US all the other features to make it stand out have been removed to allow the turn... the island would usually have railings for a pedestrian crossing plus white trashcan sized marker plastic bollards with hazzard markings and lane arrow,
Remember UK road designs also have been designed around the OG mini which can run 10 inch rims... hitting a tall kerb in that sounds fatal
similar thing happens with certain sized roundabouts when transporting wind turbines, they just make a road through the centre if going round would beech it on the centre island
In remote areas, like some UK North Wales projects, building new or modifying existing roads is part of the project cost. The roads was designed for for movement of large loads. However what was designed in the 1960's does not always work in the 2020's. Things have got bigger. In the 60's truck engines did not have turbo's, so multi truck lash ups where common. We even used steam road engines The trailer designs came from Army tank transporters and the multi wheel (above 4) across design was yet to arrive. Brakes still used asbestos.
I did like your understanding of the problems of moving abnormal loads through the small towns of the UK, great narrative from you too, will definitely watch more of your content.
One is a Saturable reactor which was built to a 30 year old design and the other is a Transformer , both built by GE Transformers ,,Stafford . UK the Sat reactor was 150 ton and the Transformer was 195 ton
Hey Ian,
fyi, the transformer is only the "little" grey box in the middle of the two red arms.
The red arms are only load bearing and pivots points for the steering
Oh wow lol thanks for the info 😎🎉
There is a video on a 255 tonne monster being driven through UK streets which is awesome to watch, i myself was in the RCT (Royal Corps of Transport) British army, we had the Antar tank transporter monsters for which we transported Chieftan tanks we could carry up to 100 tons GVW .
What isn't often described in these videos, and of late, on television shows demonstrating these huge loads, is the organisation involved. In general it can take many months to set up for the movement. There are laid down rules and regulations in place, covering just when these types of loads can be moved. Invariably, they can only be moved in Daylight hours, and even then, movements can only be made surrounding Rush Hour periods. Only in very exceptional circumstances, are these loads moved at night.
There are thorough recce's of the chosen route, so that every possible risk issue along the proposed route is factored in. Ironically, on the route in this video, one issue cropped up at a small middle of town roundabout which meant a hold up whilst the Experts worked out a solution - the problem was a building beside the roundabout was undergoing works to the structure, and scaffolding had been erected around the exterior, projecting out almost to the edge of the pavement. There was a resolution, but the expert drivers and support crews were able to re-negotiate that turn without any problems.
Along the entire route taken, the notification processes mean contacting every Local, Parish, Community, County, Regional and Town Councils through whose control the load passes. That means their respective Highways engineers and teams can work ahead of the convoy, removing street furniture, bollards, street railings, Traffic Lights, even lamp posts and then once the convoy has passed through, reinstall everything removed beforehand. Utility companies have to be made aware, especially Phone and electrical supply companies whose personnel often have to raise power and phone lines to allow the convoy to pass underneath safely without snagging on cables.
Advance publicity is generally made via local press and other media outlets, especially to make everyone aware, especially in Emergency Services, and Public Transport Groups so they can plan around it and Signs will be set up at least 1-2 weeks in advance on all affected roads to inform motorists.
Not mountains in the background, but the South Downs chalk hills. The full South Downs Way is a 100 mile trail stretching from Winchester to Eastbourne. I've walked the whole lot. It's a wonderful place to be. Nearby is Lewes, which is the only place in England that has seen a fatal avalanche. The site is now occupied by a pub called The Snowdrop.
That’s fascinating 🎉 thanks for clarifying 😎
Not the kind of video I would normally view but you are making it all sound fascinating. Love your descriptions and enthusiasm!
I live in Denmark, where high curbs are also the norm. But Denmark is also a world leader in wind turbine production. So especially, over the last 30 years, many intersections have been rebuilt, especially around all the factories that make these wind turbines and blades, so that transportation of these giants is much easier. Curbs have been lowered and many roundabouts have an asphalt drive-through with gates that are usually closed, but opened, during heavy, long transports.
I lived close to one of these factories for many years, and seeing these transports on the roads was pretty mesmerizing, when I was younger. Now, it's just the norm.
And the biggest transport, I've seen on the road (on video), was a transformer, if I remember correctly. It had a weight of 400 tonnes. It was a similar setup to the one in the video.
Both trailer units front and rear have got cabs on top of them. They have drivers sat in the cab, steering all the wheels. Enable in it to make tight turns. They can even lift the trailer up-and-down until till tip.😊
Typically when they have a crawl load they can load as much as 15 ton per axel. The loaders have 10 axles each so the totaly load is probobly close to 300 ton. The truck is probobly loaded to 15 ton on the bogie axel and 10 ton on the front as well. Adding a other 50 tons.
Good estimate ;-) "Each load weighs over 300 tonnes and is over 70 metres long."
www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/news/2022/abnormal-load-being-moved-shoreham-port-ninfield
They have 2 (two) axles side by side! One can see it very well at the 2. loader. So you might double the weight! - Unfortunately I don't know the specifics of this type (made by Goldhofer), but for Scheuerle loaders I know them to have a grossweight of 20 tons per axle-line with a payload of 16,25 tons. (Specifics for German streets and a speed of 80km/h (ca. 50 miles/hour) Goldhofer loaders schould have similar weights.
"The reactor weighing 150te, and transformer weighing 195te, were transported on specialist girder frames with a total combined transport weight of 667te gross travelling in tandem."
@@drdwatkins If both trucks and trailers have the same configuration that would imply that the first transport hade a brute weight of 356 ton and the second had one of 311tons.
That would be 6 tons of my estimate.
Those types of Goldhofer are presetting the steering, when they put them together. It is a schematic layout. When you plan a load, you put in the dimensions and the program tells you the steering layout, and suspension setup.
If you look closely, the rear dolly is made of 3 units, one with 4 lines, and two with three lines. The front one is 2 units with 5 lines each. They have different rotation points for sure but once set, the steering is locked.
The more expensive versions do have programable steering, but this type is what we call forced steering.
5:41: Flat tyre: Under the vehicle are everywhere 2 axles with twinwheels side by side. Those axles are called Pendelachse or pendulum axle as the can tilt (left wheels up and right wheels down or vice versa). If the left side is lifted up on an otherwise flat ground, that would result in the right outer tire bearing must of load ans thus gat flatened. At 5:48 the wheel is round again. - By the way: those axles can be lifted or extended for about one foot (30 cm). They are interconnected, if one axles gets pushed into the vehicle all other axles gets pushed out,
Another channel to see is if you search ALE Heavy Haulage. They've now gone out of business and I think maybe that Alleleys have taken over and use their equipment. These type of haulage are planned months in advance, as they need to let people know on the route to relocate their cars from outside of any properties, and they usually have their own mobile tyre fitters and on occasion, tree surgeons if they need a heavy branch lopping off. The bollards on roadways are also taken away. This truck will be manual not automatic, and on a lot of our lorries over here, they can switch over from auto to manual. On the front of the truck, you can see "STGO Cat 3". This is the code used for the weight, including what tyres are needed for a heavy weight load like this one. When watching the ALE Heavy Haulage, they haul transformers which weigh about 700 tons. By the way, at 11:12, you can see a yellow sign as a warning that a heavy load will be coming through on such a date
5:00 on small roundabouts like that it’s common for the kerbs to be lower or nonexistent so if an emergency vehicle has to overtake a car stopped in the roundabout then they can run over that kerb while still carrying some speed
Allelys is about 4 mile from my house, head office is in Studley, Warwickshire in the centre of England. They have to plan months in advance, and the low kerbs you mentioned would have involved dealing with the local Councils and getting railings and road signs removed where needed. Difficult to advise of pronunciation as English and American dialect differ but here it's something like AL-LE-LEYS
I once was driving near Lincoln in England when I saw a massive mis shaped aircraft possibly a super transporter airbus aircraft it flies the wings for the largest aircraft to where they are fitted. It looks in flyable like a massive block unwieldy at low level.
AirBus use a plane that looks like a beluga whale
According to a local newspaper "The two loads, weighing roughly 300 tonnes each, took a 41-mile trip from Shoreham Port to the National Grid substation in Ninfield, near Bexhill".
So that's a 300 tonne load in the video
I think you would enjoy watching this video of a WW2 British army training film called "Scammell Breakdown Tractor Using Simple 5 to 1 Pull."
It shows how to recover and tank from a ditch using a Scammell recovery truck.
When going around tight turns ect a separate person steers the dolly's and can also raise and lower the suspension using air bags to allow the load to go over obstacles such as the kerb
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Those super heavy duty tractors usually don#t have a cluch. They use torque converter (Drehmomentwandler) like you would find in oldfashioned automatic cars. Drasticly simplified: there are no patches skidding on a steeldisc until the pressure causes sufficient friction to stop that skidding. Here there are two fans, one connected to the crankshaft and the other connected to the gearbox shaft. Both fans are placed vis-a-vis are are dunked in oil. The motorside fan 'swirls' the oil which then turns the gearbox shaft. There is no wear on parts but the oil gets rather hot and has to be permanently cooled (for example by those grey towers behind the cab on the DAF). - In older cars you may have noticed that after long drives the tunnel between the front seats got pretty warm? Now you know why ;-)
On certain routes traffic islands are removable to allow for heavy movement. Ipswich has a number of marinas and to allow for road delivery of the luxury yachts there are several islands that are removed to allow for entrance to the marinas .
Thats where I live in near the roundabout in Eastbourne, Sussex on the coast of UK ....electric producing wind turbines if I remember correctly? That is a restaurant 10:11 behind on the corner
I live in Caithness (far north of Scotland) and we have huge wind turbine blades going through our town quite regularly. The route they wanted to take had a house on a corner that made it impossible to manoeuver the truck around. Simple (but quite expensive) solution:- buy the house; demolish it; flatten the area and drive over it.
This setup is often a two wagon haul. The second tractor unit hooked up to the rear of the cradle can also help on those really tight corners and junctions where the rear end needs to be steered like the front end to clear the corners. The truck you said you could listen to all day is one of two extra tractor units that are there as a backup against any breakdowns on the other tractor units doing the actual work. The front multi wheel section is controlled by someone walking along side it and the rear section has it’s own driver’s cab, then you’ve got the rear tractor unit steering as well, So there is at least 4 people steering this thing.
This is about 5 miles from my house and the roads are small and winding. Where you see the yellow sign the turn is very tight. They went through the town as the alternative route was over a railway bridge which couldn’t take the weight.
If you search on RUclips you will find a number of similar types of movement of abnormal or special loads, including some military nuclear movement convoys.
There are some special abnormal loads that have to go through Scotland and roundabouts have to have a lane through the middle for wind turbine blade delivery.
Back in the 60s and earlier these sorts of loads would have gone by rail as the railway had common carrier status. Effectively meaning that they had to transport any items required, even if it required removing bridges and making special wagons. The UK railway loading gauge is much much smaller than the US one.
Hi. I used to travel to Stone, Staffordshire regularly to BT’s, my employer, training school. I used to drive along the A34 dual carriageway. It has a few roundabouts and there is a factory nearby that makes big power station transformers. These are very heavy so require large road transport vehicles. As the roundabouts make it difficult to drive long loads around. These long loads drive along here so often most of the roundabouts to the M6 motorway have a road straight across the roundabout with gates to stop other traffic from using the heavy/wide load routes, long/heavy loads find this easier.
The a34 is known for having the most speed cameras going in staffs, we hate it lol..
Dual carriageway way and roundabouts make for a race track, ....I know the exact spot you mean 😅
These were built in Stafford and went along this route
Regular thing here in Stafford for these going out, they have built a new place right next to the a34 now so the movements will eventually not go through the town. Shame but also a little better I guess.
Yes they come past where I live on the a34.chaotic to say the least.
I used to live in Stone. Large loads often drove north on the southbound side of the A34 as the railway bridge near the wayfarer was lower on that side.
5:45: it could very well be those wheels are indeed slightly deflated to distribute the weight better. Mammoet in The Netherlands takes care of such transports (besides doing a whole lot of other extremely heavy lifting/moving in the nautical field as well) and such 'duizendpoten' (literally: 'thousand-legs' but millipede is a better word) as we tend to call them can control all axles individually when it comes to height, pressure, angle and speed and such, allowing for some every extreme manoeuvres.
Hi I Wroker I was one of the guys who asked you to show you heavy haulage in England as you have noticed our roads are small compared to the USA
These transformers can way anything up to 400 Tonnes which will involve three of these trucks up the hills and they are allowed to travel on the motorway at 20 miles per hour which causes tailbacks
Our motorway's consists of four lanes the Escort car at the back stop the cars from
Overtaking this very oversized loads
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That lead truck is actually a relief truck in case the the truck breaks down and im pretty sure each piece of heavy machinery hauled has there own relief truck, the dolly's used also have hydraulic suspension so if a curb was too tall they raise the load enough to clear the curb.
OMG this is my home county and heading through a town I use to live in. Polegate East Sussex. The building on the corner is an old tavern converted into harvester restaurant and they have dismantled the traffic signals. The hills in the distance are the South Downs and area of outstanding natural beauty.
I lot of european heavy haulage trucks use a transmission called a ZF Transmatic which is a 16 speed manual with a clutch but also a torque converter in front as well.
Kind of gives the best of all worlds. Got your multiple manual gear choices but also have the torque multiplication effect of the torque converter and the ability to do smooth, low speed manoeuvring without using the clutch.
As bridge engineer part of my job was to route abnormal loads through West Yorkshire in the UK. The largest I was involved with was a 230 tonne all up load. It was a transformer going into a power station. It was always a relief when no bridges on the route were damaged after giving them permission to use a certain route.
To answer your question regarding the tire pressure trucks usually have 9 Bar, unless it's aired down for off-road work, commenting from Germany
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@@matsv201 I work as a driver and the trucks at my company in Germany all run tire pressure of 9 bar for all 12 wheels
@@HrLBolle in sweden at least have to go 8 bar on the drivers to get the bonus tons for the driver axles.of cause that is only true if its a boggie driver.
@@matsv201 to complicated, I'll stay in the 40 tons cap zone of Europe
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That was being transported to the power station in my town, about a mile from the place there is a bridge that they needed to take the railings off. That was a year or so ago, still haven’t put the railings back.
You ask who is controlling the steering on the wide beam jockeys this is done usually by a diver who walks along and can steer with radio control it can also be done via the driver in the rear training unit, ALL the operatives including vehicle drivers are in radio contact. When this heavyweight haulage takes place, the planners have been working for weeks before hand on the routes.
Polegate, East Sussex England... About 2 miles from me, that whole detour through the town high street was because 1 sharp corner the load couldn't get around
Thank you, I LOVED that. I’m going now to see if I can find the whole thing
The lead trailer steering can be remotely controlled by an external worker by radio control. The rear trailer has a separate steersman in a high cab at the rear, the steersman will have the benefit of cameras, as does the driver but are also guided by workers using radios to communicate. Allelys are a Midlands Company based near Birmingham in the UK. They know all the clearances needed, and the trailers can be raised or lowered slightly by hydraulics as needed., again the driver and steersman are in constant contact with the external workers who advise them.
That trucking firm also move locomotives around to. There was a TV programme here called 'Train Truckers' featuring this firm.
Allelys move some of the biggest things in the UK. This transformer weighed 195 tons + the weight of the double framed carriers.
My local town used to have steam locomotives delivered to the station for special occasions - one evening after work I noticed traffic backed up for miles so I parked and walked in. One of those multi-wheeled trailers with a _huge_ loco on it had burst its hydraulics while trying to make a sharp turn. The whole town was gridlocked solid and the street was awash with _Texas Tea!_
The power station I worked at the main generator transformer weighed 240T, the reactor 160T, and the staion load transformer 110T and we had two of each.
What size and voltage were the generator transformer?
I live so close to here, I know this junction well. The event was publicised for weeks hence the crowd.
The kerb you talk of has had barriers and traffic lights removed.
If you want to find out the rough weight, look at the stgo plate on the front. You get a 1 2 or 3 and they're by max weight, by the looks of that one it's a 3 so your looking up to 150 tonne or 16.5 tonne per axel
Allelys are also the subject of a British TV series called 'Train Truckers' where they transport large, heavy railway Locomotives, often older Steam locomotives for heritage railways which are often in difficult to access locations. It is a fascinating show, and the older programs are now on RUclips. If you like heavy haulage, you'll love it. I do, as my father was a heavy truck driver (the trucks, not my dad, who drove Scammel and Diamond T Tank transporters in the North Africa Campaign of WW2) and I sometimes accompanied him as a child, which I suppose would not be allowed these days.
It's some times called trucking heavy but they stopped using allelys heavy haulage instead they use bowlers heavy haulage
That Polegate junction (where the A27 meets the Hailsham-Eastbourne Rd) is tight for HGVs at the best of times.
There was a new bypass put in over my way (Bognor Regis) where part of it is a flyover and all the prefabricated concrete lintels were kept on standby in a layby on the A27 just before Chichester. They used similar transport as used here and had to adapt some of the junctions and roundabouts and add extra surfaces so the length of the lintels on the transporters could make it across the tight bends on the wrong side of the road as they couldn't go around them.
We in North America (I'm in 🇨🇦) haul loads just as large as this. We even in the past have designed our own trailers for specific loads which we would tear down (the trailer) at the final destination and erect it vertically into a gantry crane. The one thing that, up here in the oilfields we don't have to deal as much with is the long drawn out routes going through towns with no bypass roads available.
My Ex Company Kübler Heavy Duty is one of the best in the World!!But I Respect other Company and Driver, too ❤
What about Mmamoet? Operate globally.
Do kubler go through streets like these? ,
@@joginns778 Yes
Trucks like this one are usually custom build. This one most likely has manual transmissin, but several gears more than your usual transmission. It´s like that "Unimog" you reacted on some time ago. I once drove one with stick shift and it had 16 gears, 3 reverse and 13 forward. I had to shunt railway wagons in a malthouse.
I beleive, this one has a similar setup.
TBH, I´ve seen bigger, more dificult and way more impressive hauls here in Berlin (after gemany´s reunification).
And I´ve traveled to one haul specifically near Siegen. It was a 1680 ton haul (high pressure chemical reactor) through narrow and curvy moutain roads and through small old villages. That was one hell of an experience!
I used to drive a large truck like that MAN, it was a Ford Transcontinental. It had a gear stick 16 forward gears and two reverse. it was a monster , but fun to drive !
This kind of transport is a work of art. Not only for those responsible for actually moving the load, but also for those planning these transports.
They have to work out everything related to size, turning radius, used equipment and weight. These transformers can be easily 150 ton loads, and weight has to be spread out enough over all the axles and length of the rig to be sure that the roads and bridges in the route can handle this.
The dollies used are officially known as modular platform trailers, they consist of sections having 2,3 or 5 axle lines and can be hooked together to form a platform of the desired capacity.
All wheels are hydraulically steerable controlled by a computer to give each set of wheels the right angle and ride height for each set of wheels is also controlled by hydraulics so that height automatically adjusts when one axle line has to much load, like in riding up curbs. The steering can be controlled by the angle of the towbar, the operator in the back can override this system and steer manually, he can crab the whole thing (all wheels point in the same direction so that the rig moves sideways) and he can adjust the ride height to get over obstacles like the curbs or lower to fit under bridges. The tech in these trailers is amazing, however this type of trailer is not yet very common in the US, there you see more conventional following or mechanically steered trailers.
It's mainly European companies who build these, like Scheuerle, Goldhofer, Nicolas, Broshuis and Cometto to name a few well known of them.
The 'railcar' thing is a locomotive built by EMD/Progress Rail in Canada.
Something like this came through my town a few years ago but hauling wind turbine blades from port to the new wind farm being built. They came round and chopped some islands back to allow for the turn, removed traffic lights, signs etc and in one case for a particularly tight roundabout, ploughed a gap straight through the middle for the turbine to get through. Many of these works they never reinstated so can still see the evidence.
I know this crossroad very well. I didn't know anything about this going on, however.
This is in East Sussex in England, 3-4 miles from the South Coast. The hills in the background are part of the South Downs.
Years ago I remember Scammells and Diamond T haulers on our roads. Scammell was an English company and of course as you know Diamond T was American. They were left behind when WW2 finished and the counterpart of the Scammell both being tank transporters during the war.
This was a two day move , I watched it come out off Shoreham on the Saturday morning and watched though to Patcham, it’s was complicated move due to weak bridges witch meant there had to run wrong side for much of the route as well as put in a temporary bridge at Lewis , a friend of mine was steersman on one of the trailers. This company is well worth following they do a lot of great work
The hills you commented on are the south down to the east of Lewis in Sussex
Weight I seam to remember each load was over 150 tonne
See if you can find the first day off the move when they pushed each load out of Shoreham docks.
If you like old heavy haulage lots of good old stuff on here
The DAF that comes in first is there for 2 big reasons. First, if they struggle up any incline, he hooks a metal bar and provides extra power, 2ndly and possibly more critical, if the lead truck doing the haul has any kind of a fault/puncture (not that unusual as they ovten have removed roadsigns and there can be metal pieces left behind) then he can drop straight in and keep the load moving while they fix it. Usually another to the rear in case of issues on the pusher truck.
These moves are months of planning, not least as at that first junction all the traffic lights have been removed to ground level. Initially there were some temp ones there, that they had wheeled out the way as they approached.
I have used Movement Orders where my company applies for roads i am allowed to use when moving wide loads
There were kurbs there in the middle of the street too. And trafic lights. They had been removed for the day and will be built back again afterwards.
yes, M-A-N is correct because its an abbreviation for Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg just like BMW stands for Bayerische MotorenWerke... so with that in mind its M-A-N in the same way as you say BMW and not the english "man" ;)
Or BMW, Bayerisher Mist Wagen.
If it's in Wales it's : Aclely (i base my though on the city's name of a wales rugby team so i can be wrong)
a thing that I'm sure: there's not specially a massive pressure in the tires because there a lot of wheels so weight is evenly distributed so, pressure inside the tires don't need to be sky high. It can be 8 bars like in a standard truck (perhaps slightly higher but not a lot higher)
I don't know if it's an automatic or a manual, but I'm pretty sure the trailer is powered by hydraulic engines
this kind of load with all the stuff around weighs more than 200 tons
as a truck driver myself, i noticed that we haul absolutely everything people need, even if you buy organic vegetable in a local farm, we (truckers) hauled seeds for this farm, the tractor if they use one, plow etc...everything (the same week i hauled products for supermarkets and tractor's hoods for the tractor factory...the same week with the same truck)
i hauled wood for a paper plant, wood chips for the same paper plant, paper paste, paper, cardboard, chemicals for the paper plant and even old papers and cardboards for recycling...
I transported everything that makes paper at every stage of its manufacture from wood to recycling through paper cutting and specific papers for the manufacture and recycling of cardboard.
You bought a new mouse for your computer?
I transported the wood between the forest and the pulp mill, the pulp between its manufacture and its transformation into paper, the paper to the cardboard plant, the box between the cardboard plant and the and the factory where the mouse is built, from this factory to the shop where you bought your new mouse and then the box you threw away that I carry for recycling
You cannot live without truckers
The location is Polegate, West Sussex. Near Eastbourne.
EAST Sussex
I, also, find these fascinating. Have you seen the '70m 145 tonne lorry meets small Surrey roundabout'? That was the first one of these I saw and I still love to watch it every so often.
The 'mountains' are the South Downs, a range of low chalk hills that run west to east across the counties of Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex. This video is shot at, I think, Polegate in East Sussex.
My Farther was involved in haulage for most of his life after serving throughout ww2.
Just as a side observation the landing craft in the end still shots is a at the D-Day museum at Portsmouth.
You can see it on google earth if you are interested.
Just a little connection with Britain and the USA on June 6 1944.
Portsmouth will host a major event to remember the 80th anniversary of this most famous battle and those who fought in it.
Those steerable dolly trailers with many axles are usually remotely controlled by an operator on the ground walking alongside through town or around sharp corners, while on the highway when it's moving a bit faster they're in a car behind.
There are Kenworth in the USA and other parts of the world that do this load work too. I recall the International Pacific of the 70s that pulled and pushed these loads too in South Africa. Some loads over 450 tonn. Metric!
1:34 thats a gen 1 Sköda Fabia and I've recently found out the estates (station wagons) are expensive on road tax $380 or £305 the hatchbacks are cheaper at £190 or $237.
I have a MK2 estate and my tax is something like £160 a year.
Depends on the engine size , my first Fabia estate was £nil Road tax (1.2l diesel green line II) my current is £20 (1.2l petrol)
Thank goodness the weather was in their favour.
And yes... the layman is oblivious as to the skills a driver of any piece of large equipment has...buses, trains, ships, planes, delivery trucks... the list is endless.
And the responsibilities that person has when passengers are part of the equation.
All kudos to these people.
a lot of the heavy haulage trucks are often manual although newer ones may be automated, one thing they do tend to have in common on MAN and Mercedes Benz trucks is a turbo-clutch or WSK etc, this is a combined friction plate clutch and torque converter, so you can use a torque converter for starting and shunting, they switch to manual gears once moving for greater economy and power, if you want to see an example of a turbo clutch, look up the Voith turbo retarder clutch (VIAB) [ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=voith+turbo+retarder+clutch]
The question itself can only be answered for trucks up to around 350 tonnes. Everything above that is special conversions and then the customer decides what they prefer.
I seem to remember a non-road-legal tractor at a German shipyard that had to pull ship engines up to 500 tons, with 32 half-step manual transmissions, and a gear ratio that only allowed around 40 - 45 kmh. I imagine it will be super stressful, but the owner wanted it that way.
@@sèdnuvès well look at it this way, the MAN and Mercedes Benz trucks can operate up to 400 tonnes GTW each in parts of the world like South America on-road, though in Europe they are limited to 250 tonnes on-road each, so for each multiple of 250t there needs to be 1 truck, so a 500t load needs at least 2 trucks on the public road (on private property they can operate at significantly high loads each well above 500t), if we are talking away from the public road, then context come into play, if your looking at a dockyard they they will probably be Alison automatics with pure torque converter as they are not covering distance (if they don't go for the SPMT option which is hydrostatic drive and docks have shifted towards),
if you are talking about oilfield in the middle east then for example the 500 tonne and 1000 tonne Titan just use the same engine and driveline as the Mercedes Benz trucks 250T truck, just coupled to lower ratio transfer box will lower ratio heavy axles, so they still use turbo-clutch combination, though they are tailor made to the customer spec.
so if the customer wants an Alison they can, but a 6-speed Alison (just a torque converter) offers no advantage over a 12 or 16-speed that is manual or automated AND has a turbo-clutch (torque converter and plate clutch) that has more than twice the gear steps.
at one time the Alison units were the only real options at the heavy end of things, but with turbo-clutch combination things have been moving towards them.
@@b101uk9 I am only aware of a limit of 250 t in Europe in direct connection with bridges. It is not uncommon for freight weighing more than 500 tons to be on the road.
For me it wasn't about which type of gearbox made sense, but rather about the fact that after a certain weight the general offer simply stops and that there are customers who also make decisions that are far from logical. The shipyard example should make this clear, because yodeling up and down 32 gears to get to a speed of 40 would simply be too stupid for me personally, which supports your assessment of an automated solution.
@@sèdnuvès re-read what I said, in Europe on the road for each multiple of 250t requires a truck, thus a load of 250t to 500t requires a minimum of 2 trucks, a load of 500t to 750t requires a minimum of 3 trucks, etc etc, so a load of 775t GVW for example needs 4 trucks connected to it, but in South America that same load could be pulled by just 2 trucks on the road. - my comment had NOTHING to do with the maximum weight of the indivisible load that could be moved, just the minimum amount of trucks based on weight of the load and the "trailer" upon which it sits in terms of GVW.
as for the port example, when pulling 500t or 1000t in a port your overall speed is irrelevant, you are not going to be doing 40km/h unless your empty in a port, and if your empty the amount of gears you have above X number is irrelevant, as being empty you will skip gears (also keep in mind 32 gears is just a standard 16-speed gearbox coupled to a 2-speed [high and low range] transfer box as you would find on most AWD trucks or even 4x4 like land rover or G-wagon etc), even a large port or shipyard is a small place relatively speaking which is why slow SPMT have taken over trucks in shipyard etc sectors, because they can with enough of them move tens of thousands of tonne modals operated from a single remote control.
And the big advantage of the turbo retarder clutch is that reappeared hill starts are possible where as it’s to be avoided at all costs on anything else. It’s happened to me where I was in a Merc with 150t machine on where we were forced to stop on a steep climb as a lorry came around the corner on a site unexpectedly. No problem restarting but does need the driver to know how it works to get the best from it. Brilliant system especially issues on older ones are now resolved and modified
That is great to see you watch a video in the USA made 5 miles away from I live. The Hills in the background are the South Downs and are now a national park. My friends office is on the corner.
Back in the early days from the early 1900 s to the 1970 s Pickfords were one of the main companies carrying very large loads like these they used scammel trucks and trailers until deregulation when any company with large vehicles could do the same work
During covid a 200ton oxygen tank came through my town to the hospital. Off the top of my head there was tree surgeons to cut trees, telecommunication to move wires etc, road workers to tarmac above curbs etc if needed. Road workers to move traffic signals etc. These operations cost millions.
I love these heavy transport videos. There's a company in North Yorkshire who feature a lot called Metcalfes
If nobody else has mentioned it, MAN is made by VW truck division. Having driven MAN trucks, I can say they're a good truck to drive as is the DAF lead truck, which is probably a puller truck for assisting up steeper hills of which there are many in the UK.
The automated gearbox can be held in any gear going up the box for acceleration if needed. Ive driven a DAF CF for an employer and found the automated far more relaxing than a normal stick shift!
Great to see an American liking something other than home grown stuff.
Great videos as well.
1:42 It's a Sköda Fabia, looks a base spec possible.
The trucks have automated manual transmissions with a torque converter, that's what takes up the weight at the low speed.
These are transformers for major national power installations, its basically a huge solid iron core i think wrappped by loads of copper wire, so they're exceptionally dense and heavy.
it looks to me like the curb leading edge has been removed or a bit of a tarmac ramp added prior to this move op, which will be cleared up later to help the move. Not something ive considered before but would make sense as these moves aren't common so the small disruption and cost to ensure a smooth move would be worth it, if not outright entirely necessary. Its probably sign posts etc were removed from those sections in advance too.
Also id say this is one of the few hauls a train strike wouldn't come out of unscathed haha.
Jobs like this one are planned about 6 months in advance the route is planned out and any street furniture is removed bridge height checked and over bridges weight checked it will weigh approx 250 tonnes. I was talking to 1 of their drivers at a fuel station he had put 1000 litres and still going on a heavy load it will do about half mile to the gallon
The kerbs in the uk are generally small but they would of removed a bollard or a sign😊
We have been moving big things for a long time. Try to find a film by British Transport Films called Dodging the Column. It was made in the 1950s I think and shows a distillation column being transported to a refinery in Scotland from Southern England.
There was once an accident where a transformer being transported by road was hit by a train on a level crossing.
On the front of the towing truck is the code STGO CAT3 (Special Types General Orders, Category 3) which allows a maximum gross weight of 150,000 KGs (150 tonnes)
The truck might be licensed for STGO cat3 transports, but the transport shown here was not done under STGO rules. It's way to long and heavy for this.
If my memory serves me correctly the daf thats running in front is a manual these guys do alot of big heavy stuff. Also on the motorways they are going about 25mph at most
Al-lel-ees is how you pronounce Allelys 👍🏻
A TV show called ‘train truckers’ is about all the trains they move around the country & Europe
These trucks are know as ballast tractors because the traction on these vehichles is the big ballast weight sitting on the back of the vehichle over the rear axles
McMurchy's of Leicester have some beast rigs. Not sure if they have much social media exposure, but I see their tractor units all over the county and a few of their units are insane.
So glad you finally got round to Allelys. I have been recommending for a while.
I grew up with Allelys as my uncle and his brothers all drove there. Every weekend and school holiday I was out with them. Great memories
With the trailers they make it easier by having each axle able to turn and lift / drop, back in the day it was done by a second man on the back of the trailer with a jockey wheel steering the trailer wheels. Nowadays it’s a bit more intelligent.
The little engine you hear is the engine just for the trailer.
Some modern trailers are actually self propelled and modular, they can join them together in a configuration for bigger loads and more control.
Each route will have been planned years in advance with every corner, tree and lamppost accounted for.
Oh and a lot of those trucks and trailer will be made to suit this particular job with custom drive train etc
I didn't notice any power lines interfering with the load either, which in a town centre is unusual. They must have disconnected/diverted some of that. The husband's sister works for Ergon Energy here in Australia and her job is to schedule power line management during the passage of abnormal loads. She says it can get interesting, particularly as we're situated near the coalfields, so a lot of enormous equipment is moved in by road.
In Europe most powerlines are underground these days, especially in city centers
@@viper11 We do have plenty of overhead telephone lines in the UK (you can see some if you look carefully in the video) but this load doesn't look like it's over-height. Any wires passing over a road in the UK will at least be high enough for double-decker busses to pass safely.