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Post by thywar on Jun 5, 2015 12:07:59 GMT -7
I'm posting this just because it's interesting, and let's you know how they're assembled. It's not a post pro/con windmills or if they're cost efficient. It's just a 'dang, that's pretty neat', post As an aside for about five years I escorted oversized loads around the country. My last two years was escorting tower sections made by trinity industries. Three sections. Two were made in Tulsa and the other in Ft Worth. We delivered them to Coleman Texas. www.youtube.com/embed/84BeVq2Jm88?feature=player_detailpage |
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Post by missasip on Jun 5, 2015 12:46:21 GMT -7
Very cool vid for sure...
Jimmy
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Post by thywar on Jun 5, 2015 16:23:08 GMT -7
The 'generator' that sat in to of our towers weighed 100,000 lbs and had electric, disc and hydraulic brakes. The blades would turn at 3 mph and the brakes would kick in at 30 mph. They are amazing and in their own way artistically beautiful.
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Post by woodyz on Jun 5, 2015 16:57:10 GMT -7
great video
those big lifts remind me of installing the giant cranes inside the reactor domes on nuke plants
but I guarantee you making up those connection and getting the holes to fall on the bolts is not as easy as they made it look.
I watched a 100 ton crane fall when I was 300 foot in the air above it, when the operator got distracted and over corrected a lift.
He got killed, his Daughter was our elevator operator, when the crane fell the power went off and she was stuck in the middle for an hour and didn't know her Father was killed til she got down.
I spent a few weekends when we were not getting any overtime putting up towers in TX, but nothing that big.
very cool
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Post by woodyz on Jun 5, 2015 17:05:13 GMT -7
that rotor lift had to have been tricky
they had some good riggers
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Post by Cwi555 on Jun 5, 2015 18:09:25 GMT -7
I've worked on the tower sections and rotors. They are impressive.
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