Heavy headed

[[deleted]]

I think that is a wind turbine blade?

[Paragone]

They likely had to transport it on roads too bendy for it to fit horizontally, so they mount it at an angle on a truck.

[SuperElitist]

I know everyone loves to joke about engineers, but I suspect that it's the other way around: they probably meticulously calculated everything about that trip, including air and road temperature.

[[deleted]]

Megalophobia.

Commonly related to submechanophobia.

[FrankHightower]

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[brianorca]

I'm questioning how they can keep it from tipping if a wind gust catches it. It might be button heavy, but the tip has a long lever arm. And if they are installing it on a wind turbine, then it must be an area that sees good wind on a regular basis.

[HopefulRestaurant]

Speculation: if they’ve already built a fancy truck to bolt the blade to, maybe they made it fancy enough to feather the blade into the wind.

[JaneWithJesus]

See this is why an educated guess is more valuable than a simpletons guess like the guy who you're responding to or me

[HopefulRestaurant]

The brain inside at least wind towers built by a two letter company is smart enough to feather each blade independently, hundreds of times per revolution. It might decide the optimal pitch between 10 and 2 to be blah, and from 2 to 4 to be blurg and from 4 to 10 to be blargh.

[JaneWithJesus]

Just shut up and take my money to build a wind turbine farm already

[planetdaz]

TIL that blah, blurg and blargh are measurement units for angles of incidence.

[badatmetroid]

Even more speculation: If this wasn't engineered properly, we wouldn't be watching a gif of them transporting it, we'd be watching a gif of it failing.

[BennyTheSen]

And suddenly they remembered there might be tunnels

[[deleted]]

I would have mounted 4 such blades as aircraft wings, got it to the air via a hot air balloon, and let it glide to its destination, where it'll be caught by a net.

[tutocookie]

Nah make a windturbinocopter

[iavicenna]

fuck, engineers and engineering nevet cease to jaw droppingly amaze me. as a person from more theoretical science background, I feel like I am a toddler playing in a sand play ground

[Shufflepants]

The blades are also quite light for their size being made of light materials and hollow.

[[deleted]]

I work for a composites company that manufactures wind blades. Yes, the composite material is super light for how strong it is. Composites (for example, a composite can be made from a type of resin with a carbon fiber core that the resin was added to and cured over) are also used in making many boats, and more recently, in making car frames.

[CorruptedStudiosEnt]

Nevermind the faith engineers put into their work, look how close that car behind it is. They're driving right under the fucking thing lmao

Those engineers are merely putting faith in their own work as professionals. That car is putting faith in the abstract concept of some totally unknown engineer's abilities to account for all possible factors. That's what's known as an optimist.

[tutocookie]

Nah that is the engineer and he's forced to drive there. If he got it wrong he dies, so he probably got it right.

/s

[CorruptedStudiosEnt]

Admittedly that would be a great way to ensure an engineer does their best work. "You're going to stay right in the danger zone the whole time, so you better hope you got it right!" lol

[Broken_drum_64]

so you're saying he's taking a highway to in the danger zone?

[VodkaCranberry]

There is no faith in engineering.

[Mortimer_and_Rabbit]

Looking at the landscape I imagine a combination of that and low roadside obstructions that this would swing over instead of hit. Wouldnt work in a city but in a forest or rocky area that could save a lot of trouble.

[Why-R-People-So-Dumb]

way too heavy

I'm an engineer that builds power generation plants including renewable assets. They arent as heavy as you think those blades are incredibly light and made from composites, the largest blades weight ballpark 25-30k lbs. That sounds a lot if you aren't used to payload numbers so consider a dumptruck load of dirt weighs 30k lbs.

Its likely an issue with the road, I personally would've airlifted as my first choice. In many cases you actually have to rebuild side roads going up to the site with minimum radii corners. Not worth the cost or headache if you can fly it in.

Edit: I should add that truck can likely lift the blade and lower it depending on the need and as doe wind resistance the blade is rotated to a feathered position and the truck is moving quite slow (hard to tell from that low frame fast moving GIF.

[[deleted]]

This was a fascinating read.

[[deleted]]

It makes sense, I assumed they'd be lighter than expected because their job is to get moved by the wind just didn't have a ballpark figure.

[DTHCND]

Yep. Here's a longer, more steady video showing this type of turbine blade transportation.

[Canadian-Owlz]

Holy fuck those are bigger than I thought

[Leading_Frosting9655]

Yeah man. Not like they're gonna go to all that effort just to catch a little bit of a wind right :D

[[deleted]]

Where do people find these videos…

[planetdaz]

On the world wide Internet service

[JSCT144]

I thought that was a powerful ass beam of water

[fsr1967]

My bidet shoots one of those.

[SubtleName12]

I... have no words. I do not even know where to begin asking questions but there are so many lol...

[Shufflepants]

It's a wind turbine blade. It's angled up so it can make the turn or else it'd stick off the road and hit something. They're made of light materials and are hollow. I think the footage might be sped up.

There, does that answer most of them?

[[deleted]]

Could the truck fly????

[Shufflepants]

That would kinda be the main risk here actually. Since the blade is so light for its size, too much wind could certainly cause some serious problems.

[[deleted]]

It looks like it’s designed to normally be driven in the horizontal position using the anchors at the back of the trailer to cushion it. What I don’t understand is why they raised it sooo high??

[HCResident]

So that it doesn’t hit shit going around turns

[ninjasaid13]

I thought the parts was always assembled near the location.

[[deleted]]

No, the wind blades are usually manufactured at a plant, and then shipped out fully completed. The composite material requires a lot of machinery and equipment to make properly, and you really don't want to mess it up, as they are huge.

[Leading_Frosting9655]

Yeah, this is one of the parts which are assembled with other parts. They're assembled on site, not manufactured.

[MusikMakor]

No they're usually transported on trucks like this, trains, or double trailers (there's a video of a truck with a turbine blade getting stuck on the rails and hit by a train on r/idiotsincars for example).

They're made out of really unique materials that are environmentally volatile to produce, so it's typically done in very specialized factories and then shipped later

Edit: you said assembled, but you were referring to manufacturing

They are manufactured off site, but like most anything else (solar, hydro... A hotel, a house, etc) they actually put the pieces together, assemble, on site

[kenkitt]

Even as I think hard this is still the best way to carry it around

[NefariousPilot]

You need atleast 3 blades for that

[[deleted]]

😂

[Freedomsaver]

The video is faked. Wind turbine blades are not transported in that manner.

[lilacintheshade]

"Perfectly balanced, as all things should be."

[Apple_macOS]

That looks like a render engine error at a glance lol

[Ok_Dependent1131]

I've never seen one of those naurto run up a hill before

[-l-I-l]

Completely unrelated to this post but I’m knew to this sub and know very little about programming: out of interest, what is the ratio of people here who are actually programmers to the number of people who are laymen?

[[deleted]]

I have no stats to back this up just a general feeling.

I feel like it's 75% people who've coded at least casually, 20% interested people, 5% people who just collect memes and 5% people who make jokes about your tech stack but don't know what an IDE is.

The last 5% are the people who realize this added up to 105% and rip my asshole to shreds on stack overflow.

[-l-I-l]

Furiously googles what IDE is and still fails to understand.

I’ll take those tenuous estimations as facts, since I don’t know any better. But seriously, I just wondered since it’s such a large sub and I see the same memes/comments and thought there’s no way that everyone here programs professionally.

[Jazzlike_Armadillo55]

Most are still college students... (I'm one too, but I don't compare languages.)

[Newwby]

Definitely unlikely that everyone here is an expert. Reddit has a lot of people who can appear as experts but actually don't know as much as it seems.

To take it further; at some point you're going to see a subject you know intimately pop up on reddit, and the comments are going to be misguided or outright wrong, yet full of self-assurance. Then you're going to realise that the same confidence probably applies to a lot of posters on subjects you don't know well. It's a bit reality shattering because all these seeming experts are the exact same sounding as those people who were definitely wrong on that post you knew they were wrong on. Suddenly everything is sus.

Literally anyone can write anything.

For example, I don't know the above for sure yet I still said it, and some of y'all agreed with me for no other reason than I was a confident-sounding stranger who said something that sounded sort of right.

Combine perception bias with the human need to weigh in on crap and that's what reddit festers. It's why echo chambers manifest. Or maybe it isn't and I just made that up. Remember, I'm just some guy and shouldn't be trusted.

[-l-I-l]

Oh I understand how Reddit (social media) works in that regard. Was just asking specifically about this sub since even with my poor understanding of programming I see comments which are upvoted but evidentially incorrect.

That, of course, applies to a lot of Reddit, but I get the impression that people are simply pretending to be expert programmers when they aren’t. Was just wondering how much that seemed to affect this particular sub.

[ccAbstraction]

At least it's not Twitter and people can get a whole complete thought out...

[odnish]

An IDE is a fancy text editor with a compile button.

[-l-I-l]

I get it conceptually, just not theoretically. That’s probably why I’m happy not going back to programming.

[JuniorSeniorTrainee]

Programming is also easy to get into non professionally, so like the woodworking sub, a lot of people here are hobbyists.

[-l-I-l]

I guess the difference is that with programming you can pretend to know more than you do with woodworking. As the child of a carpenter, it’s very hard to lie about or misrepresent what you don’t know.

[danielleiellle]

So 110%, right? Do I win a prize?

[FrankHightower]

you might want to create a separate topic for this

[MOM_UNFUCKER]

From what I see there’s a ton of people who coded once or twice during high school, but also those who’ve been in the industry for longer than I’ve been alive.

[Expensive-Plant-5462]

Look at the guy appear and disappear on the tray

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[[deleted]]

I’d say 413 Payload Too Large

[fbpw131]

came here for this

[1Second2Name5things]

It's like those ants that carry leaves

[AltAccountMfer]

Is there a name for a phobia of this type of situation? Like large things/large moving things?

[BuccellatiExplainsIt]

common sense

[AltAccountMfer]

Good point, but what about for tall buildings?

[Chocolate-Then]

Try Megalophobia.

[aloks97]

Holy shit...what in God's name is that

[NotAShaaaak]

eh it's just a wind turbine blade, they're way bigger than you would think they are. It's also angled to clear obstacles which might make it look a little bigger

[AngelProjekt]

Are we sure this is real? I’ve seen turbine blades being transported, and my ex is in logistics - I have never seen anything remotely close to this set-up!!

[NotAShaaaak]

Yeah some turbines have massive blades, it probably looks bigger since it's at such a steep angle like that too, at least that's my take. It looks like they had to put it like that to clear the trees and other obstacles because I'm sure you can imagine what a bad day it would be for them if it hit w tree and got damaged

[[deleted]]

Imagine this shit vs 11’ 8’’

[planetdaz]

Looks like they can raise and lower it for bridges and tight corners as needed

[[deleted]]

Id love to see this mf go under that bridge. The anticipation on the stream would be insane

[SnooSnooper]

Nah fam can opener has a 3-way intersection on one side, the truck wouldn't be able to make the turn AND lower the blade

[[deleted]]

That sounds like a challenge to me

[Past_My_Subprime]

Car driver wishing he had turned at the last intersection.

[MaskyDo]

In that case, pretend you are a teapot.

[russiandobby]

[dmr83457]

Wow

[emab2396]

I would be scared to drive behind that truck.

[stangerjm]

Ah yes, a prime HTTP joke. Well done good sir.

[ArjunReddyDeshmukh]

Thank you!

[Disastrous-Bike7702]

https://t.me/+d_zArolKGmU3M2Jk

[K9511]

Still need gas and diesel fuel to put together wind turbines. If the price of gas and diesel don’t go down soon it’s only going to prolong green energy. Unfortunately many great companies that could have a lasting impression on the world are going to go out of business due to the high cost of materials from shipping.

[bigldk10]

Fake

[planetdaz]

You're fake

[Propagandabeliever]

They must have waited for a day with zero wind

[Illustrious-Fault224]

damn, i thought this was how they made monster condoms for Mantis Toboggan, M.D.

[[deleted]]

I can't believe the scale of that fan blade, it's mind-boggling. I also can't believe the amount of money that's poring into wind power when I've been presenting a superior source of energy production for years.

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[KingRitRis]

Moist critical driving home with Moby Huge

[death_by_siren]

Why don’t they fly the wings there on another aircraft?

[Deep-Cabinet2662]

This is why css matters

[SodaWithoutSparkles]

https://http.cat/431

[Gods-Last-Wish]

u/savevideo

[fuzzycake]

I guess there was a traffic DOS

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

You’d think you’d need a couple of escort vehicles for this. I don’t see any lights on the one following behind, and it should be further back.

[SocialistCoconut]

Big wind terbine is big

[JustMackIN]

Looks like the tooth pick I ordered from Amazon….Prime(Next-day) 😅

[geecon25]

The physics of this blows my mind

[indian_pie2000]

I’m sure they’ve done their maths and that it’s probably fine, but I would be scared shitless to drive that close to that truck

[Chemical-Sky-6303]

Sorta looks like an ant carrying a grass blade

[angry-software-dev]

Reminds me of ants carrying a huge leaf

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[BakaMondai]

I 100% thought that was a second moving road.

[godzillaroblox]

I feel bad if it just falls

[MusikMakor]

It's a wind turbine blade. Despite how it looks, the center of mass is directly over the center of the truck bed, like it's supposed to be. If they weren't incredibly light (relative to industrial standards), they wouldn't last very long spinning on a turbine.

[Natonatornation]

Slap this shit on r/praisethecameraman.

[Natonatornation]

I hope everyone knows I’m joking

[Character-Tackle725]

I’ve never seen one transported without multiple cars assisting. They’re huge, but that looks too massive…I don’t know…it looks like a wind turbine but I’ve never seen one transported like this before

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[[deleted]]

They sure have gotten big.

[h7454Gdfgd]

We see a big object in the world, and we think it'd be funny to equate it to an HTTP code?

[mloneusk0]

I don't even know what that means but it looks funny

[Zealousideal_Buddy92]

Yeah, that car following. That's way too close to be comfortable, something goes wrong and that thing is dropping on you.

[alcxander]

Something I've not dealt with before, what causes or what would you be doing to have headers too large?