Pressure Vessels

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Oklahoma is big on oil and gas exploration, and processing.  And I happen to live on a highway that's used quite often for oversize loads due to the fact that there are no overpasses along this stretch of highway.Sometimes we're leaving/coming, and get some cool pics.  "K'KINS GIMME YOUR CAMERA..........QUICK!!!!!!"That's a lot of steel going down the road."Any day above ground is a good day"http://www.farmersamm.com/
Reply:I bet it would leave a welt if it burst under pressure!
Reply:Here's another vessel from some yard down in Houston.  I shot this a couple years ago when I spotted it driving through town.To put it in perspective, if you look real close you can see a welder in the lift. Attached ImagesBenson's Mobile Welding - Dayton, OH metro area - AWS Certified Welding Inspector
Reply:farmersam-bottom one looks like a steam drum to me, just some weight perspective, our steam drum on our coal fired unit has a 12" wall thickness, all 2 1/4 chrome. generally most steam drums are atleast 8"
Reply:Nice photo.  Was there really no pilot car or cars?  Wow, that's a huge load.  Thanks for sharing.
Reply:Sam, I thought you ordered a new fuel tank for the farm.
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Reply:Originally Posted by Pressure_Welderfarmersam-bottom one looks like a steam drum to me, just some weight perspective, our steam drum on our coal fired unit has a 12" wall thickness, all 2 1/4 chrome. generally most steam drums are atleast 8"
Reply:GOOD!  The new tank for my air compressor is on it's way.  They charged me a fortune to ship it...
Reply:Cool.Biggest truck load I ever saw was something like 120+ wheels altogether!  IIRC (this was like 30+ years ago), there were something like at least 8 'bogies', four(?) at the front of the load and four(?) at the back, all cross-connected with sort of goosenecks (two bogies connected, then a pair of connected bogies connected to each other, etc) with the load on a low-boy type of deck between the front bogie set and the rear bogie set.  That was one BIG f'in MOFO.  Must have been 200+ ft long, not including the tractor.  Load was a large mostly rectangular chunk of metal 'machinery' of some sort (best guess was something like a marine propulsion gearbox).  The best laid schemes ... Gang oft agley ...
Reply:Originally Posted by Pressure_Welderfarmersam-bottom one looks like a steam drum to me, just some weight perspective, our steam drum on our coal fired unit has a 12" wall thickness, all 2 1/4 chrome. generally most steam drums are atleast 8"
Reply:The big white one is called a bullet tank. and the silver one is a demethanizer tower. I know the big white one weighs in the range of 300k lbs to 500k lbs depending on the size
Reply:The Boilermaker shop few blocks from us has the local Votec/adult Ed class fab up custom palletts for some of their tanks.The instructor told me one weighed 9000 lbs, of wood mind you, and cost the shop a mere $50K in materials. However, the tank being shipped was sold for a cool million dollars...Lincoln Power MIG 210 MP ( boat anchor )Lincoln Weld-Pac 100 HDHobart IronMan 230Cutmaster 42Jackson NexGenSumner Ultra ClampsDWM120