What does this weigh?

jon f mn · Dec 12, 2017

Had to wait at the dot scale on US 2 near Duluth to get going this morning. Wonder what it weighs total.

Mike M · Dec 12, 2017

Once all the road salt starts eating away it will be less soon.

Russ from MN · Dec 12, 2017

Wow! That's a lot of axles! You would think something like that would be better assembled on-site. Jon, you could weld that together on your weekend off! I have been looking at the MN dot cameras, it looks like N MN is getting a little nuisance snow every day.

the tractor vet · Dec 12, 2017

Well with out knowing for sure but i am going to give a guesstamation as on the north side of 4500000lbs or more . Because we don't know if they are running all them axles at legal weight or at a permited overload. 278800 is as heavy as i have moved . My one friend that i taught how to drive truck back in the early 70's does these kind of moves all the time and has been real close to 7500000. and it tool them over sixtyfive days on that move alone . Longest sigal move i have made myself was a week to go from New Philly ohio to a lime stone mine in Neb. with the second largest Gradall they made , first day i never made it out of Ohio due to routing , two days getting across In. a day across Il., never made it out of Iowa the next and 3/4 of a day just getting to the mine . Maxed out on every axle had to remove a lot of stuff off the truck , run with only half tank of fuel , each time i needed fuel i had to drop the trailer.

RedMF40 · Dec 12, 2017

What is it? Looks to be barely sitting above the road. Guess they didn't route it over any RR crossings.

Steve@Advance · Dec 12, 2017

Any idea what it is?

Other than real heavy!

The Famous Grouse · Dec 12, 2017

Is the hitch on the front of that tractor so they can couple up a second tractor to make it up hills?

Some really heavy stuff comes into Duluth by ship. Back when they were building the Hiawatha light rail line in Minneapolis, they brought in a tunnel boring machine by ship from Europe that needed a 20+ foot wide trailer. IIRC they pulled it with tandem side x side rigs and then had a pusher to get it up the hill out of Duluth. I believe they ran it out of Duluth and down I35 in the middle of the night to minimize traffic backup.

Whatever that thing is in the picture, it's heavy. My last farming uncle would love to have that trailer with a grain box on it so finally, he'd have something that his "just a couple of extra bushels" father in law couldn't overload.

Grouse

Andy Martin · Dec 12, 2017

With that header at the bottom it looks like a boiler to me.

Did I count eight axles on the front and nine on the back? 17 axles with eight tires each would be 136 tires. Loaded at 5,000# per tire would be 680,000#.

That's a load.

jon f mn · Dec 12, 2017

X2 since there are 2 rows of axles.

marloweg · Dec 12, 2017

sure hate to pay that tire bill around 288 tires wow

jon f mn · Dec 12, 2017

Oops, you are correct.

grizz02 · Dec 12, 2017

my guess is 500,000 to 600,000 lbs

4010tim · Dec 12, 2017

About as much as a asphalt trailer in Michigan!

TKiste · Dec 12, 2017

I'm guessing not that much. since is being held up by just the two cross beams and what appears to be small flanges on either end of the contraption. Looks like the chains are just keeping it from swinging around. Maybe that was the only rig big enough to carry it size wise.

used red MN · Dec 12, 2017

Okay I?m no trucker, but have been around trucks and truckers. This may have a little ?Smokey and the Bandit? spin, but don?t them coops have CB?s in them? You should have fired up the old 25w Johnson squawk box and asks the obvious question. Or don?t them bears like to engage in idle chatter? Here at the refinery I work at in the twin cities occasionally for turnarounds (shut down/repair cycles) they have a large 2500 ton capacity crane owned by a Louisiana company come in. They say it takes 130 semi loads to get it up here and set-up. The main mast can be set up to a max length of 450 feet.

oldproudvet · Dec 12, 2017

Came thru Alexandria friday, took 12 hours to navigate the town. What with the lakes and what not around here, thru town is the hiway. I was told it's a boiler for a ship

SVcummins · Dec 12, 2017

If it was light they would have put it on a 48 footer

LonM · Dec 12, 2017

It came through an area close to me. A local paper says the trailer and boiler together weigh 880,000 pounds.

Lon

Farmaller · Dec 12, 2017

Looks like it is close to dragging the road.

Dean · Dec 12, 2017

Could be a transformer.

If it is, it's full of transformer iron and VERY heavy.

Dean

showcrop · Dec 12, 2017

Mammoet took a big transformer through my town maybe 15 years ago. I think it had half again as many tires. They had three Western Stars with planetarium on the drivers on it. It was interesting to watch it go over an abrupt hill crest. Some friends and I went to the state highway garage where they parked it for the night to check it all out and talk to the crew.

stonerock · Dec 13, 2017

tractor vet are you one who grossed 200,000 in a coal bucket in ohio back in the 70's?

jon f mn · Dec 13, 2017

I doubt I could do that in a weekend, I'm so busy these days I rarely have an entire weekend for just one project.

Wayne in NE · Dec 17, 2017

It is a boiler, weighing between 150- 160 tons. The boiler was built and started its trip from Lincoln, Nebraska. Will be loaded onto a ship and will complete the journey to eastern Canada.
Wayne

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