Here's somthing you dont see every day!

[84chevyguyid]

This company from Oregon is moving a piece of oil field machinery through our area so we had to check it out. The thing weighs a touch over 900,000 lbs and is almost 400 feet long with the 3 trucks attached and there is something like 128 tires on all the dollies. Its 28 feet wide and maybe 20 foot tall. There is a platform on the back that has two steering wheels to help maneuver it around corners. One of the security guys there says the front truck is around 1,900 horsepower, the first rear one is 1,500 horsepower and the other two rear ones are around a thousand hp each. They move it after 10 pm at night and go till 6 am or the next pullout wherever that may be at a blinding speed of 10 to 12 mph. They have several really sharp corners to go around tonight and a bunch of us are going to camp out by the sharpest one so we can see how they negotiate it, should go through at 1 or 2 am. They are trying to get to a town called Salmon Idaho by morning then tomorrow night they will go up over the continental divide into Montana over Lost Trail Pass which is partially snow covered and icy, also there is supposed to be a snow storm coming in tomorrow night. Whats the pucker factor of taking a 450 ton load over a snow covered mountain pass 40 miles long with 6.5 % grades? I wouldnt want to be driving the front truck.... Tried for the gratuitous suburban shot but it didnt turn out so well.