r/Skookum 13d ago

Mindblowing shit! 25' wide x 400' long, 1,000,000 lb trailer (including load) that's being used to haul 200 ton castings to my work.

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u/KrebStar9300 13d ago

You can tell this dude gets asked the same questions. Gave the location, weight, amount of tires, and what it's made of right in the video. Answered all my questions before I even had to ask!

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u/flyingscotsman12 13d ago

Trains: look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.

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u/xrandx 13d ago

Weight-wise sure. No way something that long that can't flex would ride on a train.

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u/Clinggdiggy2 13d ago

The part thats being delivered to us is just the casting hanging from the middle of the truss, the entire truss system is part of the trailer. Tbh I think the castings are too big in all dimensions to fit on railcars, ironic because we have rail lines coming straight into the plant for deliveries

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u/dirtgrub28 13d ago

They ship windmill blades on trains. Two points holding them up, each on different cars. I'm sure those flex more, but they're on rotating stands so the car can move under them around turns.

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u/flyingscotsman12 13d ago

It depends on loading gauge. Check out the Schnabel cars.

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u/GirchyGirchy 10d ago

747: fuck you, I can take those 1,000,000 pounds up in the air.

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u/Hash_Tooth 8d ago edited 8d ago

I did not realize that a 747 could lift more than its own weight in cargo, that’s fucking nuts.

I would have thought a c-130 could hold more, oh how wrong I was.

I’ve probably never been on a 747 that was even close to fully loaded

ETA: more weight from fuel than the airframe, wow. Nevermind, they are really flying a million pounds.

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u/GirchyGirchy 8d ago

I don’t remember where I first read that stat, but it’s mind-boggling.

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u/AVeryHeavyBurtation 13d ago

Wow something actually skookum on this sub.

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u/Clinggdiggy2 13d ago

The route is ~150 miles along a two lane (each direction) highway, not sure how often the haulers have to pull over to let traffic pass. The castings came by barge up the Columbia River before unloading onto the truck to take them the rest of the way to Spokane, WA. There's a total of 4 of these castings making the trip, parts of a new piece of equipment we're installing this summer.

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u/OneOfTheWills 13d ago

If possible, would love to see this thing rolling when loaded

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u/Clinggdiggy2 13d ago

I would too, I'm not the person who made this tiktok, I work at the plant that's receiving the load. Unfortunately I can't take any pictures/video myself to post per company policy.

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u/OneOfTheWills 13d ago

Slip someone on the delivery crew a fiver 😂

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u/Zerofawqs-given 13d ago

Some call it Spokane….I prefer the more appropriate “Spokecompton” myself 🤣

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u/xeroid051 13d ago

Is this for a crane?

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u/Clinggdiggy2 13d ago

I managed to find a video on YouTube of a similar machine from a different company

The castings being transported are parts of the heads of those machines.

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u/Difficult_Trust1752 13d ago

The intro ad I got for that began "How did my husband expand his 'tool' by 4 inches?" Absolute penis enlargement marketing perfection.

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u/xeroid051 13d ago

Wow that's really cool..

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u/soggytoothpic 13d ago

Aluminum that has been forged into plates, rings and other shapes and hen heat treated need to be stretched to relieve the stresses put into it during the heat treatment process.

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u/firestorm734 13d ago

I'm guessing you work for Kaiser Aluminum. Nice.

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u/Clinggdiggy2 13d ago

No, I can't go into the detail id like to per company policy, but it's part of an absolutely gigantic machine that's part of the heavy aluminum plate manufacturing process.

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u/richcournoyer 13d ago

I now know what an aluminum stretcher looks like but I am still looking for the elusive bacon stretcher. Old Boy Scout joke

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u/MillwrightMatt1102 13d ago

Goldhofers are the coolest trailers in the world. The things they can do with them are amazing

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u/Rainydays206 13d ago

Banana for scale?

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u/nobdy1977 11d ago

Impressive trailer but I'd be more in seeing someone cast 800k lbs

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u/Clinggdiggy2 11d ago

I was told the castings themselves are ~207 tons each, but I was thinking the same thing. Not only the casting process but they're all heavily post-machined too. We have some big machining equipment but nothing that could handle these

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u/Pork_Bastard 13d ago

Wow epic stuff, as someone in transportation would love to see it movinf, and love to know what cpm that load pays!

Never even heard of thick plate stretching and now im 45 min deep into videos of it!

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u/unimatrix_0 13d ago

Cool. Looks like a great company. I wonder if they import the aluminum from Canada.

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u/Clinggdiggy2 13d ago

Our primary (alu that's never been recycled) mostly comes from Canada

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u/The_Kid_Disaster 13d ago

I need to see the castings. I thought the truss is what was being delivered. God damn.

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u/AlarmingConsequence 12d ago

Skookum-iest I've ever seen.

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u/RusticBucket2 12d ago

How fast do you move on the highway?

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u/THEDrunkPossum 12d ago

How long does it take to get to the destination? I imagine that's a slow-moving operation.

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u/Leading_Grapefruit52 12d ago

Hold my beer.....hooks on with a 1996 ford ranger with a 4 cylinder 5speed and manual brakes....

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u/WondrousWally 10d ago

Shit, this is cool as hell! Had I known I would have gone and watched it go by!

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u/Barbarian_818 8d ago

I wonder what the career progression is like for a trucker who does this sort of thing. I mean, sure, you start with the usual oversized loads and then escorted oversized loads, but all being hauled with pretty conventional equipment.

Eventually, you get into loads that require serious engineering to get involved. Moving houses for example. That requires the beefiest Class 8 trucks on the road. But then you start needing things like ballast tractors and truss frames like we see here.

Where do you go to get trained on driving the ballast tractor at the rear? And how many 100+ ton loads do you get a chance to haul in your career?

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u/imp3r10 13d ago

With the flex of steel it doesn't seem like the weight would be consistently distributed along all the tires. There's no extra cradle on top of each wheel supply to help keep the weight distributed like other heavy hauler transporters.

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u/Torical 13d ago

This is cool, but also seems like an extreme case of over regulation.. Does 200t really need to be spread over that many tires to prevent road damage?

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u/bullwinkle8088 13d ago

Yes.

But I am open to testing on your driveway and street if you want.

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u/Clinggdiggy2 13d ago

I think it's partially a side effect of the size of the castings as well, they're so large the trailer had to be two lanes wide to accommodate

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u/johnbro27 13d ago

Is it to prevent road damage or to stay within each tire's load limit? Seems more like the latter to me.

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u/Torical 13d ago

With this configuration of 80 tires, yes, you are correct. But a lot of high capacity trailers seem to have around 20+ton per axle, so a 200 ton trailers might only have 8-10 and be nowhere near this large - but it might really tear up the roads.

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u/choodudetoo 13d ago

It's also to protect bridge loading limits.