News Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab, spawning road closures over nine days

[Admin]

Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound cold box from the Ohio River to its new fab near Columbus. This load is one of the largest of Intel's approximately 20 super loads making their way across the state.

Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab, spawning road closures over nine days : Read more

 

[evdjj3j]

280 feet is not longer than 100 yards.

 

[peachpuff]

Four of these loads, including the one hitting the road now, weigh around 900,000 pounds, 400 metric tons, or 76 elephants.

Adult or baby sized elephants?

 

[rluker5]

A typical semi is limited to 80,000lbs. in the US, 900,000lbs isn't a trivial task to run down the road.
Lot of work being done. Can't be cheap.

 

[parkerthon]

I can’t imagine this doesn’t cause damage to the roads or is this what they are dealing with? That much weight is intense on pavement. Hopefully some of the spectators shoot video and post on youtube so I can see this spectacle. ODOT themselves should share more. I love this sort of thing.

 

[Notton]

They use special trailer trucks that are designed to distribute the load. AFAIK they don't exceed the axle load limit for the road they travel on, and they move slowly so the wear and tear on the road is not as high as you'd think.
It's pretty fun to watch these on youtube from an aerial time lapse

 

[TechieTwo]

These very long transports have many axles/wheels to distribute the load. The real problem is the width, height and length.

 

[Gillerer]

Adult or baby sized elephants?

African or Indian elephants?

A number of regular fully-loaded semi trucks would have been a far more effective analogue; Not only do very few people have an instinct for how much elephants weigh, African elephants are much heavier than Indian ones (~1.6×).

(Brings to mind Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the discussion on various species of swallows and their respective coconut-carrying capacities.)

 

[Eximo]

But then again African Elephants are non-migratory.

 

[Neilbob]

It's a power supply. Just the one.

 

[Amdlova]

The truck willdestroy less the road than a tesla car with a fat family inside.

 

[grein002]

Adult or baby sized elephants?

African or European?

 

[jlake3]

African or European?

Metric or Imperial elephants? 😛

 

[why_wolf]

So basically like when they moved the Space Shuttle to the museums. Though I imagine an enclosed box isn't as interesting to watch being moved.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdqZyACCYZc

 

[Air2004]

280 feet is not longer than 100 yards.

The box is 23 feet tall, 20 feet wide, and 280 feet long, nearly the length of a football field.

Are you trolling the reporter or is comprehension not you're strong suit ?
The opererative word in the sentence is "nearly". He never it said was the length of a football field, he said it nearly was.

 

[hushnecampus]

They should add this as a job in ATS

 

[OLDKnerd]

So just 1 truck pulling, that must mean when we Danes move stuff, well our trucks must be anemic ( hint they are not VS US trucks at least )

Trucks here probably) 700 BHP each.

The wings for our largest turbines are about 110 M long, that's about 360 feet give or take.

that box in the picture that's 40 feet or so MAX

 

[alan.campbell99]

African or Indian elephants?

A number of regular fully-loaded semi trucks would have been a far more effective analogue; Not only do very few people have an instinct for how much elephants weigh, African elephants are much heavier than Indian ones (~1.6×).

(Brings to mind Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the discussion on various species of swallows and their respective coconut-carrying capacities.)

My thoughts exactly 🙂

 

[tennis2]

Couldn't have just gone by rail?

 

[Co BIY]

23'x20'x280'

I wonder why it can't be built in sections and assembled on site.

 

[Rabohinf]

Adult or baby sized elephants?

Laden or unladen?

 

[OLDKnerd]

Laden or unladen?

I don't know.

Aaaaaaaaaa

 

[kb7rky]

Still won't be able to run Starfield 😛

...and, for the love of God, Montressor...don't let the tree-huggers see this! They'll bury those oversize load haulers in so many lawsuits, their great grandkids will be fighting them.

FUN FACT: Around 10 years ago, Lewiston, ID had two oversize loads shipped in that were headed to Montana (quickest overland route). The environmentalist zealots (emphasis mine) got wind of these, and filed lawsuit after baseless lawsuit after frivolous lawsuit, claiming they were disrupting the "natural environment", and "going to lose control of their vehicles and drive into the rivers", etc. etc. etc. Kinda funny how Mammoet (the heavy-hauling company) took extra pains to ensure none of those "tree huggers" fears would ever come to pass.

FUN FACT #2: Not only did the company not "lose control" of their vehicles, nor "disrupted the natural environment", they got those oversize loads to Montana without so much as dislodging a few rocks from the cliffsides all along US 12. What should have taken a few days, though, took them over a year, because the tree huggers were successful in delaying those loads for months.

 

[evdjj3j]

The box is 23 feet tall, 20 feet wide, and 280 feet long, nearly the length of a football field.

Are you trolling the reporter or is comprehension not you're strong suit ?
The opererative word in the sentence is "nearly". He never it said was the length of a football field, he said it nearly was.

It didn't say nearly before it's been edited.

 

[TrieHard]

I can’t imagine this doesn’t cause damage to the roads or is this what they are dealing with? That much weight is intense on pavement. Hopefully some of the spectators shoot video and post on youtube so I can see this spectacle. ODOT themselves should share more. I love this sort of thing.

Most damage to roads is done by semis. The damage a vehicle does to a road surface is proportional to axle load^4. The logistics industry's miniscule share of road usage fees amounts to the single largest subsidy in the US when you consider trucking accounts for nearly all vehicle-related damage to roads surfaces.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four...fourth power law (also,power of the axle load.