12 MOST HIDDEN EPIC TRANSPORT OPERATIONS IN THE WORLD

12 MOST HIDDEN EPIC TRANSPORT OPERATIONS IN THE WORLD 

Transport Operations

The main goal of transportation is to move people or things from one location to another.

Cars, trains, and airplanes are more than capable of moving little objects, but occasionally much larger objects must be moved.

When such occurs, specialized equipment is needed to complete the task, necessitating the development of extraordinary modes of transportation.

Thankfully, we are a creative species. And as you're about to witness in this article, we've developed some quite astounding solutions.

The US Israel Synagogue in Washington DC is already historically important in America's capital. It's the oldest synagogue in the city, and it has another historical claim to fame though the synagogue doesn't stay in one place.

The first time it was moved was in 1970 would have had to be shifted to make way for the City subway system.

Then in 2016, it had to be nudged along again to make space for a new building development shortly after it was tilted 90 degrees, so its faces east and now it's been moved to whole blocks to the corner of Third Street Northwest.

It's hoped that the synagogue which was opened by President Ulysses S Grant in 1876 will be able to stay forever at its new location, where it will be at the heart of the new capital Jewish Museum.

A special 28-wheeled dolly was commissioned to move the building which was dragged along by a circularity factor. That's what we call a holy roller.

Controlling wound was called upon to install a chemical column in their home country of Singapore. They knew it was a tall order, literally. The column is 354 feet high and weighs in excess of eleven hundred forty-seven tons a heavy column requires heavy machinery and so the construction company uses giant tariffs cc 8800 dash one Caterpillar crane to do the job.

It has a lifting capacity of 1600 tonnes. A portable elevator machine was then used to lift the column up and set it straight.

The 400-foot tall machine was even bigger than the column and weighed 2400 tonnes. That device couldn't have been done from it.

It was invented it wound amazingly they were able to complete the installation in only two days lifting the column 80 feet on the first day and bringing it up the rest of the way on the second.

Getting to its final location was also challenging and the SPMT self-propelled system had to move it along a carefully planned route expired the temporary removal of 300 trees.

Having a body of water to float things on always helps if you have to move something massive but making a 294-tonne generator float on water is easier said than done fostering company Felber Meyer was tasked with moving the generator from Siemens plant in Boeheim and dirt in Germany all the way to a Hungarian power plant.

They decided that sending it down to the Danube was the best way to go about the job. So they loaded it onto the specialist cargo vessel or Felix.

It took 13 days on a 12 Axle loader to transport the generator 500 miles to the port of Linz, where it takes one hour to get it off the loader and onto the waiting ship with no bridges, delicate road surfaces or other potential hazards to worry about. The waterway was literally plain sailing with the hard work done the rest was simple by comparison.

If you need to move something big, you probably want to call upon the services of a heavy-duty crane. What about the crane though, then you need something even bigger.

That's where an incredibly powerful device like the lever LR 1300 comes in. This is the crane that was built to carry other cranes.

In fact, it's the most powerful crawler crane in the world at maximum load it's capable of dealing with weights up to 3000 tonnes its most impressive feat to date is transporting 3/4 sized cranes at the same time.

You'll only ever see a device this large and powerful put to use on huge construction projects. When somebody's building a power plant.

You'll probably see a lever LR 1300 on-site doing the bulk of lifting. Its most useful attribute is it adjustable boom, it's extended out to its maximum, it can reach almost 500 feet.

We all know we should be doing more about clean and renewable energy. But harnessing the power of the wind means getting a wind turbine to the right place for China.

That place was at the top of the bounding mountains at the height of over 9000 feet. That meant breaking the wind turbine down into pieces and transporting it blade by blade.

Each blade has a weight of 12 tonnes and is 160 feet long. To do it a series of trucks had to be adapted to carry the incredible load.

After modifications the trucks featured 16-tonne double rigid planetary axles improved torque and a trailer that could use hydraulic power to rotate the blades and make sure they avoided contact with the power lines that dangle overhead.

To make matters worse, the slopes of the mountain are angled at 30 degrees. Transporting one blade to the top of the mountain took five hours they were next in total. As you can imagine. It was not a fast job.

When you go on vacation, you probably stay in a hotel. That's not fair on the hotel. What they sometimes want to get away from it all to.

Some of them are lucky though. The hotel Montgomery in San Jose, California has had a change of seasons built-in 1911.

The beautiful old building was severely damaged during an earthquake in 1989 and had to be abandoned.

The city originally wanted to knock it down, but the mayor intervened and decided that the original hotel should be preserved with a new one being built on its original site.

That meant moving the old one out of the way. In the year 2011 years after the earthquake, the nearly 5000-tonne hotel was eased up on hydraulic jacks.

While clever remote control SPMT ease crawled in beneath it. The hotel was gently lowered to back down onto the SPMT and they strained their way into moving it a mere 186 feet across the street to a new permanent location. 4 years later, after extensive renovation, it reopened to the public.

Every time you hear about a new telescope on the news it's bigger and better than anything that came before it.

When the Giant Magellan Telescope is finished in 2025. It will be the most powerful telescope ever built.

But they have to finish building it first, which means someone had to find a way of getting its enormous mirrors to it so they can be put together.

The telescope requires seven mirrors all of which measured 30 feet across the center and have to be shipped from Arizona in the USA.

Also because they're sensitive pieces of scientific equipment, they can't even be allowed to feel a bump and that means lifting the 17 tongue mirrors into the air with something akin to a giant suction cup and lowering it into a purposely being container.

That state-of-the-art container is full of thick insulation and shock absorbers and should mean that the rough journey overland and see doesn't rattle the mirror around.

Mining equipment tends to be extremely heavy. Nova coos Big Oil Refinery knows all about that. It has a series of columns for hydrocracking and each of them weighs over 300 tonnes.

On average. They're 160 feet tall. Most standard transport options are out the window so the oil refinery had to get invented.

First, they made their way to the Sumatra region on specially equipped barges floating down the voga up the river Croatia and then into the cargo berth.

From there the police had to be called in to close down all the local utilities temporarily. That meant switching power lines off stopping trains and trolley buses and D electrifying sections of the railway line.

The columns were sent across in pre-agreed time windows and after each one, the power lines had to be manually reconnected only to be disconnected again for the next window. It was a complex and challenging operation, but they pulled it off.

What can be more unique than the Russian beuran spacecraft? The answer is a transport operation to move a prototype of that spacecraft across the middle of Moscow and down busy streets.

The 50-tonne Buuren was taken from the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure to the industrial square a distance of just over nine miles.

This wasn't a job for one vehicle. It was a job for six. The fleet included double-length trucks, and special platforms.

And self-propelled cranes capable of bearing a load of 100 tonnes each passer-by stopped and stared as the unlikely motorcade passed down Moscow Siaka Monka Street and proceeded all the way down star Boulevard before being delivered to the square where it will be displayed next to the Vostok launch vehicle and the Yak 42 aircraft.

In total, the burin motorcade stretches back 114 feet down the road. The traffic jam gave everyone plenty of opportunity to take pictures.

The bocce Vanguard has a hard-earned reputation as the largest semi-submersible heavy lift vessel in the world.

It was built to deal with any job out at sea, but even the company responsible for creating it had a few doubts about the biggest job it had ever been faced with.

The Vanguard was asked to lift an FPSO for those not in the know that's a floating production storage and offloading platform. And the one in question weighed 90,000 tonnes.

That kind of weight is almost impossible to imagine. So we'll put it in perspective for you. It's the equivalent of 300 Boeing 747 planes, but simply it was the heaviest weight ever carried at sea by a heavy lift vessel.

The bulk of Vanguard's maximum capacity of 110,000 tonnes was the only vessel that had any chance of doing the job. Its owners needn't have worried the brave boat moved the FPSO all the way from China to Brazil.

Performing float-over operations at sea is one of the most challenging maritime installation projects any company can undertake.

And the heavier the load, the more challenging it is. That's why we're so impressed with the Dutch company vocalists who managed a dual vessel float over operation of the aasta Hansteen topside in Norway.

Most scholars had spent several years transporting Hansteen to Norway from South Korea, but the duel float over it was the peak of their achievements.

Several records were broken in the process, including the transport of the heaviest spar in history. And the largest ever topside catamaran floating over the hansteen is a gas storage and production platform of which the hallways an immense 46,000 tonnes with a 110-foot diameter and 650-foot bow scholars moved not only that but also the 24,300-tonne topside, which they then lifted and placed onto the top of the hole. These pictures tell the story better than we ever could.

Sometimes it's not the weight of an object that determines how gently it must be carried, but its importance and delicacy.

It's hard to imagine something more important and delicate than a 3200-year-old statue in ancient Egypt.

It's probably best advised never to move them at all. But Egypt was determined to move the 83-tonne statue of King Ramses the second to a new home when Cairo opened.

It's the grand Egyptian Museum. The statue was to be the star attraction. The journey was only 1300 feet, but the greatest care was required.

The services of both the army and engineering specialists were called upon to arrange an operation that saw the statue placed into kick-mounted on SPMTs and then hung from a huge steel bar so it wouldn't be in contact with the trucks while moving.

That was the only way to ensure that vibrations wouldn't crack the ancient statue. The roads even had to be specially reinforced to ensure that they can deal with the enormous weight of the sculpture altogether.

The operation costs $750,000 That's a price fit for a pharaoh.

 

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