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Went out with Tiger 231, and transporter for a little run.
https://youtube.com/shorts/MFrQIdyLiKA? ... cWZbO8pLy_
Load needed better securing.
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Still not secure.
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Off loading.
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At least it carried it quite well till it fell off

Oopsie... looks like it survived tho

Imagine having to pull a nearly 60-ton monster back up onto anything that it slipped off... bridges that hadn't been heavied up or at least scouted by engineers would always naturally cause some concern before rolling over them.

Closest I ever came to a big haul operation was back when I was a soundman for film & TV, and one job back in 2003 required us to cover the progress of a new containment lid for a nuclear reactor being delivered and installed over a 2-week period here in Florida.

The lid itself, kinda like a giant pressure cooker lid, weighs 80 tons, and the shipping crate & all the fittings close to 30 or 40 tons, so you're looking at over 100 tons being delivered by the largest jet in the world (Russian Volga) and transported across the state on the largest flatbed in the world, with 16 independently steerable axles, each with 4 automatically inflatable tires. What a job! Nothing small about it... I think I'm still glowing a little, hopefully only from the pride of a job well done & not some more nefarious cause... I worked next to a open reactor!

Another big job was anything we filmed at Cape Canaveral (an hour's drive from me here in Orlando) during the shuttle launch program... walking alongside the crawler as it crushed rocks under its treads while carrying the space shuttle to the launch pad was something I'll never forget

TankDriver wrote: ↑Tue Jan 20, 2026 6:35 am Oopsie... looks like it survived tho

Imagine having to pull a nearly 60-ton monster back up onto anything that it slipped off... bridges that hadn't been heavied up or at least scouted by engineers would always naturally cause some concern before rolling over them.

Closest I ever came was back when I was a soundman for film & TV, and one job back in 2003 required us to cover the progress of a new containment lid for a nuclear reactor being delivered and installed over a 2-week period here in Florida.

The lid itself, kinda like a giant pressure cooker lid, weighs 80 tons, and the shipping crate & all the fittings close to 30 or 40 tons, so you're looking at over 100 tons being delivered by the largest jet in the world (Russian Volga) and transported across the state on the largest flatbed in the world, with 16 independently steerable axles, each with 4 automatically inflatable tires. What a job! Nothing small about it... I think I'm still glowing a little, hopefully only from the pride of a job well done & not some more nefarious cause... I worked next to a open reactor!

TankDriver wrote: ↑Tue Jan 20, 2026 6:42 am Another big job was anything we filmed at Cape Canaveral (an hour's drive from me here in Orlando) during the shuttle launch program... walking alongside the crawler as it crushed rocks under its treads while carrying the space shuttle to the launch pad was something I'll never forget

Thank you for sharing these.

A couple of mates were involved in this move, of a 215 ton transformer.

https://youtu.be/ZPR-IptsmFo

The worst that happened to me was getting a snowplough stuck, taking out a row of cars with a different snowplough, and loosing an electricity pole off the back of a 6 x 6.

Wow, that's some big toys!

I'm always amazed at the creative engineering required to pull off a feat like that.

Everything about those kinds of jobs is huge... every wrench, nut & bolt looks freakishly oversized!

Those are some remarkable photos and videos. In U.S. railroading, a rail car similar to the truck/trailer moving the transformer is called a "Schnabel" car. One of my Make Modeling Mediocre Again gang calls them "Chernobyl" cars.

I blame the partisans for the Tiger coming off while being transported

Panzermechaniker wrote: ↑Tue Jan 20, 2026 6:00 pm I blame the partisans for the Tiger coming off while being transported

I was hoping it was making a bid for freedom.

Here's some more pix of the over 100-ton reactor containment lid being moved:


Interior of the Volga plane (larger than a C-130)


Overview of all three components working together: plane, crane & truck


The rear of the airplane opens up as well as the front


You can see right thru the middle!


Finally, the lid is being moved into the nuclear reactor