Baumann in Germany moving this crazy 290 ton load. 4 trucks pulling and one pushing all with added weight on the drive axles. Also notice the guys steering the trailer sections.

This was me earlier this year, 560,000 lbs, so 255tons. 22ft high, 21 ft wide, 185ft long. 1 pull, 1 push. Houston Texas to Fort Saskatchewan Alberta. 5 trucks seems overkill for that load, but will be close to 1.3 million lbs with load,trailer and trucks so local bylaws?.

Nice Mat, yeah thats another thing I never got into but wanted to. Have done tons of equipment transport work but never any of the truly heavy haul stuff.

The balls to sit right under 290 tons that will turn you into a pancake if something bad happens.

Pretty sure this is how they moved the big granite blocks inside the pyramids

You see this kind of thing and you become aware that there are millions of jobs out there that you can't even possibly imagine, let alone the life path you need to be on to place you in one of those jobs

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That looks good except the cable on the first truck and not a towbar

Yep I saw that too, and wondered about it.

This one in China is more impressive.

Or also crazy

This appears to be a tower used for distillation or fractionation in chemical production.

It's certainly not 290 tons. It might be 2900 tons. 290 tons is considered not very large in engineering industry.

What is it?

California: “Hold my Pilsner”

At first I thought it was a rocket but then I remembered it's Europe.

What in the hell weighs 290 TONS? 🤯🤷🏼‍♂️🤯🤯

Impressive. Now, let's see the 90 degree turn. Left or right, doesn't matter.🤣🤣

Now we need a video of this being lifted and set in place! Nice video!

And then we folks pay for road repairs

La preuve d'un Starship européen. @starbase_fr @ufotinik

Man-o-man….those automatic cow milking machines keep getting bigger and bigger.

Australian truck drivers say hold my beer

That looks like it would make some mighty fine shine and lots of it

it's carrying the balls of steel of the lone clancy juror holdout.

@Grok what is it these trucks are hauling?

I wonder if the trucks here are utilizing an electronic master/slave control system to "synchronize" the trucks.

Imagine you're rushing to work by the minute and you roll up behind this thing on the road

That’s one giant cryogenic beer keg?

I have one of those under my sink

But what is it?

Given the way Germans love organization a permits i can only imagine the amount of paperwork involved with that move

Wtf is that, the Hidron Collider ?

amazing

just give it to SpaceX. they're slap a set of legs on it, fuel it up, tell it where to go and delivered.

Our local truck recovery guy told me once that he'd recovered every MAN truck operating in our region. We dont see too many on the roads these days.

I can't help but think about the Giza Plateau and someone pulling this weight with ropes

What is it?