This is how you transport a 510 ton object (slowly and with a giant land barge)

Friday, September 25th, 2009

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Simply amazing. I had no idea that such a transportation vehicle existed for standard roads. But sure enough, Fagioli manufactures the beast and calls it a Self Propelled Modular Transporters (SPMTs).

The SPMTs uses hydraulic drive motors mounted on the axles and cruises along at an average of 5km/hr. The modular platform can be configured to meet just about any task. If you need more capacity, just hook more together. Each axel – and there are a lot of ‘em – can hold 36te gross and 32te net. Impressive, but it still doesn’t have anything on the NASA crawler-transporters that moves at one mile per hour and weighs 2400 tons alone.

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