it dont belong in the wheat field

r aiken · Jul 12, 2020

The wind mill guys were moving a big crain across my boys wheat field and did not make it.
a video before and after, I missed the good part, my boy watched it go down.
500 ton down

r aiken · Jul 12, 2020

still down
I have fallen and cant get up

jal-SD · Jul 12, 2020

Had one like that go over at a site in SE SD spring of 2019. Took them a couple of weeks to get it upright. It was a really wet spring but they thought they would "float" across a wet spot, landowner told them there was no bottom, but the bosses didn't believe him, even though he was 4th generation land owner.

SVcummins · Jul 12, 2020

You could haul that off and video the loads going to the scrap yard

wingnuttx · Jul 12, 2020

R..... That being a newly new multi-million dollar lifting device.... You can bet the contractor will salvage every piece, part, nut, and bot out of the field. I'm sure they work under a clause to return the owners property to the condition it was in previously in.

john in la · Jul 12, 2020

They asked for that taking something that big off the mats.

Did your boy say how bad the operator was hurt???

centash · Jul 12, 2020

One was lost here some years ago when it tipped over as they tried to move to the next turbine. Takes a full day to dissemble, move a couple hundred yards and another full day to re assemble, making a half day traverse look pretty cheap....til it tips. The one here was pretty well all scrapped.

Ben

Gambles · Jul 12, 2020

On a slightly different topic, several years ago, there was a wind turbine that fell down a few miles from me. It wasn't from severe weather, it wasn't hit by lighting and there wasn't a blade malfunction. It just fell down for some reason. The locals said that it was harmonics from some bad Chinese bearings. I know the odds of that happening are small, but after seeing that, I'm curious how they can get people to work on or in them.
She went down, captain...

jacksun65 · Jul 12, 2020

They were widening the road by my house and had to cut into the hill. solid rock. The supervisor said they were going to bring in a jack hammer on an excavator. I told him good luck that rock is not your normal limestone it's crystalized. He had them come in with a drill and explosives after that, but they didn't use enough. Legal reasons. They broke it up a little, the size of a vw. Still took them a week with the excavator and hammer I can still hear that thing.

vvfarms · Jul 13, 2020

Where did this happen?

it dont belong in the wheat field

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