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When You Really Need to Move 1.98 Million Pounds

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boatmadman:
Some years ago, my local shipyard, VSEL, diversified from subs to surface vessels for a while.

They built a number of ships in sections in an under cover facility that was originally built for the Trident submarine project, then transported about a mile down the road to the slipway, welded together and launched.

Two of these vessels are Albion Class landing platform docks, with a displacement of 18500 tonnes.

The picture attached shows the rear section of the vessel passing some houses en route to the slipway, unfortunately, its the only one I have, but it really was an impressive sight.

I may be wrong, but I think the weight of the heaviest section moved in this way was about 7000 tonnes.

Ian

Bernd:
Steve,

Great pictures and very fasinating to see something that large being moved.

Ian,

Now that's scary.

Bernd

Krown Kustoms:
Boggs, here  in Virginia it is illegal to move anything oversize, overhight, or overweight at any time except weekday daylight. (M-F 6am-6pm)
As far as I know that law is national but Im not completely sure.
Do they have to ove big things at night or is that a convenience?

cedge:
Krown
It is a national regulation. Daylight to Sunset movement only.

Bogs...
Word is that they are paying the state $3 million just for road use. Then they are having to pay a per lift charge for power lines and obstruction removal. Someone  tossed a $45 million total number into a conversation while we were standing around talking, but said it could go higher if weather delays and such trigger contract penalties. I have no idea what the actual generator price tag was.

The generator was built by Toshiba in Japan, so I'm sure there were similar charges over ,there plus the cost for sea movement. Luckily a power company can spread the costs for such things over many years.

I've seen one or two larger trailers than this one in the past, but not loaded and on the move.

Steve

bogstandard:
Krown,

If they tried to move large objects down our motorways during the day, the country would come to a halt.

Even when something breaks down on our motorways, it can take untold hours to get the traffic moving again, and of course, in a country where they used to build roads to go around trees that were in the way, in a lot of places, you would be lucky to get a standard artic thru.

Britain is a quaint little place in parts, but crap to get around in a vehicle almost anywhere. This morning, I have driven 60 miles, mainly A roads and motorway, and it took me 2 1/2 hours.


Bogs

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