A massive 108m load on the move. 30 January 2018

n here it B fresh off the boat and assembled up @ South Wharf Lorrimer St where the Straitsman use to tie up





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Roderick.

January 30 2018 Power station 'super load' to be hauled through Melbourne's streets.
Imagine trying to move a super jumbo jet through city streets. This is pretty much what AGL is planning to attempt this week as it moves a generator component from its power station in country Victoria to Port Melbourne.
AGL is sending one of its spare generators to Germany for scheduled maintenance, moving the component nearly 200 kilometres from the Loy Yang A brown coal-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley to Port Melbourne before shipping it overseas.
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Imagine trying to move a super jumbo jet through city streets. This is pretty much what AGL is planning to attempt this week as it moves a generator component from its power station in country Victoria to Port Melbourne.
The total convoy will weigh in at 650 tonnes, making it one of the largest in Victorian history and equivalent to transporting a jumbo jet through the streets of Melbourne.
Transporting the load over three nights, the convoy will stretch over more than 108 metres, measuring 6.5 metres wide, and reach a height of five metres.
The convoy will crawl along at about 15 to 20 kilometres an hour and will take 27 hours in drive time to complete its journey.
Dubbed a ‘superload’, the unit will require three prime movers at the front of the load to pull it while a fourth truck at the back will help guide the convoy.
“The load is longer than an A380 Airbus and a sight rarely seen on Victorian roads,” VicRoads said in a statement.
This Loy Yang generator will travel through Melbourne Photo: Supplied
Due to the size of the load, traffic lights and signs will have to be removed and steel supports put in place as it drives over drains to ensure the trucks do not crush them.
Its route is planned to avoid tram lines, roundabouts and as many bridges as possible.
However, despite the load’s height, overhead power lines will not have to be removed.
There will be a convoy of up to 20 cars driving alongside the load to ensure safe transport.
“We will have a convoy crew across the journey, preparing roads and structures ahead of time and assessing the area once it has passed,” VicRoads director of Heavy Vehicle Services Eric Henderson said.
“At some points, we will have to move the convoy onto the wrong side of the road to ensure a clear path.”
AGL Loy Yang A general manager Steve Rieniets said the move will not impact operations at the power station or energy supply in the state.
The generator, a spare component of the larger power unit, was taken offline in October last year – and was replaced with one of two spare generators – before being sent for maintenance in Germany, after which it will be brought back into operation later this year.
However, it is still not the largest heavy load moved in Australia.
In 2014, six prime movers hauled 675 tonnes over 230 kilometres, taking an enormous excavator to an iron ore mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
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Motorists face delays as super convoy travels from Gippsland to Port Melbourne.
Herald Sun February 1, 2018.
MOTORISTS will be forced to put the brakes on in Gippsland and Melbourne’s eastern suburbs for a convoy the length of two Olympic swimming pools.
Traffic will come to a halt tonight as a convoy transporting an AGL generator makes the trek from Loy Yang Power Station, in Victoria’s southeast, to the Port of Melbourne across three nights.
HUGE GENERATOR IS MOVED ACROSS THE STATE.
Motorists will not be able to overtake the 650 tonne convoy unless it can safely pull over, which could take up to 15 minutes.
Adding to traffic woes, the convoy will be travelling no quicker than 20kmh.
This massive convoy will be on the move from February 1 to 4. Picture: Supplied
The generator will depart the Gippsland power station at 6pm Thursday night and is expected to reach Princes Hwy about 9pm.
The convoy will then travel down the Princes Hwy from Moe to Officer, stopping at 5am Friday morning.
The convoy is also expected to hold up Friday night traffic from 9pm until 5am on Saturday as it journeys from Officer, through Noble Park to Dingley.
The convoy carrying the generator will make its final trek on Saturday from 9pm.
It will leave Dingley Village and go to Port Melbourne early Sunday morning.
Traffic lights and signs will also be pulled down and put back up to make way for the convoy.
A VicRoads spokesman said the exact Friday and Saturday night routes were yet to be released.
The generator will be shipped to Germany for maintenance repairs.
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180130Tu SMH generator move.

180201Th Melbourne Herald Sun - generator move (two).

180201Th Melbourne Age link to a twitter video of the departure, by Mikkayla Mossop.

180202F Melbourne Herald Sun - generator move.
Roderick

Swish and Rex, as the heavy haulage people (experts) on the Forum, I would like a comment and just wanting to know your thoughts about that "generator" being shifted to Melbourne to be shipped overseas to be "overhauled". Looking at some of the pictures it seems to me that that the gear used to transport the piece (The trailer and cradle used) might have a higher Tare weight than the piece being transported, maybe engineering and road transport regulators got in the way of practicality and made the weight being transported way higher and a lot more wheels involved to do the job than needed to be - along with a lot of hangers on making out they were important.
Tacka -long time looker and enjoy this forum please keep up the good work.

$43,200 doesn't sound anywhere near enough Money for Job Like that to Me..

But as Swishy says "waddaeyeno"

Hello Hayseed
Thinking there might be a 2 missing in front of the 43,200.
But as we say "waddaeyeno"
And then it would be a pretty ordinary job just the same.
Rex

Blokes, go back and have another read. They are talking about length, the equivalent of 43200 one dollar coins laid end to end. 108 metres long. :S

I wonder if they have costed for all the broken sewerage and water pipes that are likely to fail after it passes over them? :whistle: