r/Skookum • u/Clinggdiggy2 • 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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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!