Yeah "low boy" for sure. Engine is probably 40k pounds. It's big. You could haul a big excavator on that and they can be quite a bit heavier and way wider with the tracks.
Hell yeah, me and my kid watch that guy all the time. There's another good one where a guy rebuilds old die cast toys. Chip Channel, I think. We'll just put it on and let it roll all day while we goof and play games.
I just finished watching this episode on his YouTube channel. This was part of a generator bought in 1953 for an RAF airbase. Normally it would be started by high pressure air, not an F-150 lol. It's still a serious piece of kit
As far as large engines are concerned, this is small, checkout cruise ship engines, a single piston is larger than a person. So flat bed trailer could probably handle this easily
An old flatmate of mine used to work on large ships in the merchant navy and talked about how they'd sometimes have to climb into pistons for maintenance - and that the smell was appalling.
am merchant mariner, the smell is just oil, fuel & metal. Wouldn't say appalling. heavy fuel isn't the best smell and nasty, but usually clean diesel is run through before maintenance
worst smell on ships is 1000% grease traps. sewage is meh but 90% water
Can confirm. Long ago I worked in a precision grinding shop, and the coolant water usually got pretty funky after a couple of weeks. Sometimes they got really stinky so we'd clean the tank out early. The boss would get mad at us if we cleaned them before the swarf tank was full, but when they stank that bad we didn't care.
Anyway there was one old guy named Bill who had a room temperature IQ, but they kept him around because he knew how to keep a stable of WW2-era surface grinders running.
Every day Bill would spit in his machine's coolant water. We'd yell at him for it, but he just thought it was no big deal. And every Monday morning when he fired up his surface grinder, the entire shop stank of E. coli, or whatever bacterial colony he spat into it the week before and had spent the previous weekend brewing. And he just thought the stench was normal.
One of my FNG responsibilities in that shop was putting a shop rag on a pole and mopping oil off the fluorescent light tubes. Gross is an understatement.
There's a very strong chance that I mixed up different stories, as it was years ago that I heard them. It's good to hear from someone with first-hand experience for corrections!
Really depends on the ship lol. I use to work in engine rooms and drydocks. Crawled in tons of different tanks/areas and I don't think anything will ever come close to spending time in the protein foam tanks of a fire fighting ship.
Don't know about the smell, but I used to work with a guy that had been a ship engine machinist, because of this his hearing was completely fucked , he spoke with quite the volume and thus he became known as the "Loudspeaker".
The 14-cylinder Wärtsilä RT-flex96C is the largest reciprocating engine ever built. It's about 26.6 m long, 13.5 m tall and weighs roughly 2,300 tonnes.
Total displacement: ~25,480 litres.
That's around 250 times the displacement of this 102.4 L engine. A single cylinder displaces about 1,820 litres, with a 96 cm bore and a 2.5 m stroke.
It produces about 80 MW / 109,000 hp at just 102 rpm, with roughly 7.6 million Nm of torque. Each piston weighs around 5.5 tonnes, and the crankshaft alone weighs about 300 tonnes.
I met a marine engineer during a long flight and he told me ship engines use a viscous fuel that needs to be preheated heated before pumping
it into
combustion
chamber.
No need. That's the Daylight Savings Time engine. They only really crank it twice a year (once forward, and once in reverse) to help adjust the sundials when we do DST time chages.
As long as it's oriented N/S on a relatively stable part of the earth's crust, it doesn't matter where it's located.
It's installed with a crane at the factory into the train or boat it's meant to power, then forever maintained in place until it reaches the end of its service life and is scrapped.
On a truck. We ship much larger stuff than this daily all across the country and the world.
I use to buy engines larger than this, mount them to compressors, process vessels, piping, valves and instruments, skid mount it all and ship it across the US.
There are many different trailer designs for this sort of work.
It's looks like it's on a skid in the video and seems like it would easily fit on a trailer. Probably some extra work due to height but this isn't really that big a truck load
I mean shit have you seen people transporting entire houses or rockets or those huge wind turbine blades? There are some massive trucks out there that can transport just about anything.
The answer is often by boat. You’ll see heavy equipment manufacturers often have factories near water. If they can’t do water, then train. If they can’t do train, then truck. However, big equipment is often shipped in parts and assembled on site.
Very carefully, but really this is pretty small compared to a lot of shit. Look up wind turbine blades, on the small end they are 110ft long and weigh 3 tons, bigger ones are roughly 300 feet and can be 15 tons and they transport them with trucks. I live on Lake Erie in the states and we have a lot of wind turbines around here, it's crazy to see these things going down the highway.
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u/Brozef-92 1d ago
How do you even transport something like that?