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CasaManzana
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This truck arrangement has 76 wheels to take this thing down Hwy 1 (Mulege)..WHAT IS this thing (see pix)???
We followed THIS THING from Santa Rosalia to almost Mulege at 20 MPH, and got these pix as it passed Posada Beach some three hours later. What is
THIS THING and where is it going??????? The two tractors are hooked together by a huge steel bar. Please....no jokes about how to get your drugs
through the check points.
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bajalou
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They are transformsers for a power plant. A couple three years ago we saw the same on highway 3 and 5 taking them from the port of Ensenada to
Mexicali for a new power plant there. Those are concrete blocks on the trucks to give them enough traction. A couple times they even had one truck
pushing.
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Bruce R Leech
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they are going to la Paz . there was a article in the Ensenada paper about it . it is 76 tones . we passed it in Guerrero Negro.
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Bruce R Leech
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all 16 axles 64 tires on the trailer are stirring axles so it can get through the tight turns
2 drivers for the tractors and 2 more for the trailer plus six support vehicles
[Edited on 7-27-2006 by Bruce R Leech]
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David K
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Going to the festival on Friday we came up behind it near Nuevo Odisea and El Socorro... two of us in the line got around it by driving along the side
of the highway at Costa Rica, as they were NOT allowing anyone around it... at least for the duration we were behind it!
Here it was a couple cars ahead of us...
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Bruce R Leech
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they are steered buy remote control usually from a truck fallowing behind when on the open rode. but when they are doing tight maneuvering they stand
on the trailer or walk along beside it. one operator fro the front set and one for the rear.
[Edited on 7-27-2006 by Bruce R Leech]
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bajamigo
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Good question. I would have expected something like those steering arrangement you see on hook and ladder trucks running around NYC. Maybe the lead
driver steers it all.
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JZ
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How many wheels? I don't see 76 (CM's number) or 84 (Bruce's number based on the suggestion of 64 on the trailer). It looks to me like there are 52
(32 on the trailer and 10 on each truck). What am I missing.
[Edited on 7-27-2006 by JZ]
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Bruce R Leech
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the trailer has 16 axles with 4 tires each . that is 64 the tractors have 10 each for a total of 84. the trailer is 2 axles wide if you look close.
the photo is kind of dark around the tires.
[Edited on 7-27-2006 by Bruce R Leech]
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JESSE
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Those where not going to La Paz, i saw them pass tru Todos Santos on their way to Cabo, wich leads me to believe they might be for the new
desalination plant.
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Taco de Baja
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
Those where not going to La Paz, i saw them pass tru Todos Santos on their way to Cabo, wich leads me to believe they might be for the new
desalination plant. |
That would have been my guess.
There are inlet and oulet pipes all over that thing.
A transformer does not need inlet and outlet pipes. 
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Cypress
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Large Load
Must be hard on the HWY. Wonder why they didn't ship the parts and assemble it onsite?
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jimgrms
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Those inlet pipes are for cooling the transformed. before i retired i worked on 2 different power plant projects in calif and the transformers
looked just like that , they use oil for cooling and , even if it is going to the desalinazation plant they need to step up or down the voltage .
cypress it can't be shipped in pieces it is a sealed unit they proably would save a lot on shiping cost if they couud
[Edited on 7-27-2006 by jimgrms]
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Bruce R Leech
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the company sed it was going to La Paz
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Sharksbaja
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Saw a similar arrangement
pulling thru Catavina 7/1 but it looked like an older one and lighter. They had a trailer with fewer wheels and axles. They stopped traffic in
sections.
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bajaguy
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A giant margarita machine???
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Baja&Back
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So much for the newly repaved Baja highway - now there'll be 2 grooves down the middle all the way to cabo! 
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Bruce R Leech
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Baja&Back
So much for the newly repaved Baja highway - now there'll be 2 grooves down the middle all the way to cabo! |
no there shouldn't be any problem with that. If it is only 76 tons like the say. but I doubt . then that is less than 2 regular truck loads would be
on 36 wheels. so the Waite per tire is pretty low.
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elgatoloco
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Wow! I will never again complain about getting stuck behind an RV caravan doing 35 MPH. 
Thanks for the photos and back story.
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bajalou
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I saw at least 6 that were very similar moving east on Mex 3 then north on Mex 5 while they were building the powerplant in Mexicali a couple? years
ago. And I sure didn't drive those roads every day or every week so don't know how many they must have moved but a bunch. 
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