Luxembourg based P. Adams Schwertransporte, who specialize in the transport of heavy items, moving a 67-metre-long, 25-tonne wind turbine blade, on Dec. 2020.
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Why did they carry it like that though? Couldn’t they just lay it flat? A few years ago some wind turbines were built close to my house and the blades were around 40-55 meters long and weight between 6.7 and 14.5 tonnes. However, they were all lain flat and carried on trucks.
Wouldn’t it have been easier to just carry the blades in Luxembourg the same way? Since the blades are so big and long, wouldn’t that make their moment like, really frickin big? I guess what I really want to ask is, how the hell did that truck carry it and not drop it/turn over??
Look at the second picture again. How are you going to get that long blade around that corner horizontally without going off-road?
And the third picture, taking that corner after the bridge flat will lead to knocked over lamp-posts and traffic lights. On other corners, it could lead to it demolishing buildings.
If you've got flat country and straight roads, carrying horizontally is feasible. In Europe, you don't get much in the way of rolling plains inhabited by nothing but fields of wheat and herds of cattle (or desert), and the roads, being ancient, follow the contours. That means twisty roads going through dense population centres every few kilometres.