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Old Jun 22, 2009 | 04:59 PM
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this thing went flying by me on the highway and i pictured some final destination rollover crash.

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Old Jun 22, 2009 | 05:05 PM
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that's a lot of go-wrong-ability right there. how fast was he going?
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Old Jun 22, 2009 | 05:09 PM
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damn.............. that would be some Wylie coyote **** right there
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Old Jun 22, 2009 | 05:12 PM
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Some of those probably had some nitrous in them so he just ran a hose from the bottle to his engine. He couldn't stop until the tank was empty.
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Old Jun 22, 2009 | 10:37 PM
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I was making a trip to Houston about two months ago, running 78mph. I got passed by a truck that had "wide load" on it and some horizontal large cylinder on it.
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Old Jun 24, 2009 | 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by A Low Dime
I was making a trip to Houston about two months ago, running 78mph. I got passed by a truck that had "wide load" on it and some horizontal large cylinder on it.
Probably a tower section for a wind turbine...lots of those things running up I10. Never seen one moving that fast though. It's cool seeing them haul the fan blades, those things are like 120 feet long.
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Old Jun 24, 2009 | 10:37 AM
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Damn that is a lot of tanks! I hope that they are empty tanks with him passing you like you said that he did.
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Old Jun 24, 2009 | 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Neil 6.0
Probably a tower section for a wind turbine...lots of those things running up I10. Never seen one moving that fast though. It's cool seeing them haul the fan blades, those things are like 120 feet long.


A few years back they were bringing thoes blades through Muskogee, they are really freaking long.

I can see Tulsa AirGas 2003 all over again lol.
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Originally Posted by A Low Dime
I was making a trip to Houston about two months ago, running 78mph. I got passed by a truck that had "wide load" on it and some horizontal large cylinder on it.
thats not normal everywhere else?
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Old Jun 24, 2009 | 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Neil 6.0
Probably a tower section for a wind turbine...lots of those things running up I10. Never seen one moving that fast though. It's cool seeing them haul the fan blades, those things are like 120 feet long.
Originally Posted by usarmyman
A few years back they were bringing thoes blades through Muskogee, they are really freaking long.

I can see Tulsa AirGas 2003 all over again lol.
I brought a few of those over from the Netherlands and we had one shipment fall overboard...

They are so big and bulky that they are a PITA the handle and stow correctly!
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