Anyone know what these are?

I remember not knowing either years ago, until I had one of my trainees ask me what it was. Heck, he knew what it was and was trying to make sure by asking me. I later looked into it and found the answer.

 

I see a lot where I live, but I’m almost certain the ones I see are airplane wings, since I live down the road a ways from an air force base and fairly close to two airports. Though I am in Oklahoma so they could be windmill blades. I also saw them in Texas years ago near Ft. Sam military base. My daughter was told by a Sargent there that those were airplane wings

 

I looked at the pic again n zoomed in lol They taper too much at the far end and are the wrong angle to be airplane wings. My bad!

 

A blade runner had a paid parking spot next to mine in OKC for a while. He was an owner operator. The trailer set him back about $230K.

Deadheading he was at 67500 lbs. Loaded he was at 225000 lbs and 178' from front bumper to the tip of the blade.

He said he got $22 per loaded mile, with about half his miles unpaid deadhead. When I asked how it all worked out for net profit he just got a #### eating grin and didn't say a word.

 

Their plant in in grand forks... and they can’t hire enough staff. Even with a massive university in town, every place is looking for help.

 

the ones i’ve seen first hand were 105’ long. primarily comprised of fiberglass and balsa wood. when i did the drilling gig we were contracted to complete the drilling for a 600 turbine wind farm. i literally lived up there for a year, 7 days a week. back in 08ish. bp owns it and ran the show. quite an experience.

edit: unrelated but i got to watch a huge barnhart crane lay over in a corn field due to soft subsurface. cost to upright and repair: $5 mil.

 

Everytime I see one. I'm infatuated with it. Love watching them come through an intersection. Could watch them all day long. Would love to do it. Pretty advanced though.

I've got a picture of an intersection on my blah blah yadda yadda thread. It's of an intersection with a stop sign on a cart in the middle. Intersection has lights. The city gave up on the lights and set them to blink red. So much heavy oversized stuff coming through. They had to go to this. The Blade Runners come through alot. Pilot gets out. Rolls the stop sign to side of road. Pilots also block traffic so he can make the turn. Back pilot stands and watches the poles. That blade comes real close to the poles sticking up out of the sidewalk.

 

I never called my drivers blade runners, they may be offended.

The trailers are called double Schanble trailers and they cost about $200k used, don't know what they cost new.

 

That's the intersection in Watonga, OK...right?

 

Go down to texas them guys will blow ya doors off runninf 75 in the hammer. Pilot cars keepin up with him to