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Paul K
14-08-2005, 20:03
BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4151062.stm)

A 340-tonne Italian submarine has completed its last, expensive journey, reaching its destination - a Milan museum - on board a huge trailer.
The transport operation, said to have cost 1m euros (£684,0 00), entailed four years of planning.
Streetlamps and traffic lights were temporarily removed and roundabouts flattened to allow it to pass.
The Enrico Toti was built in 1967 to track Soviet submarines in the Mediterranean during the Cold War.
Three-dimensional computer simulations were used to assess potential damage to buildings and bridges along the way.
"We had to flatten roundabouts, take down street lamps, cover tramlines, not to mention reinforcing the ground covering Milan's underground canal network," said Giovanni di Paolo, the engineer in charge of the submarine's transport.
:Yikes:
daxx
14-08-2005, 20:05
BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4151062.stm)

A 340-tonne Italian submarine has completed its last, expensive journey, reaching its destination - a Milan museum - on board a huge trailer.
:Yikes:

Hmmmm Italian, was it in an 'unused' condition :rolleyes:
marky
14-08-2005, 20:09
25 knots in reverse :D

ide love to see the pics of it on the truck that one doesnt show much
Jules
14-08-2005, 20:32
Link not working :(
fireman328
14-08-2005, 20:34
I just withdrew the link, must be in Latin, never was much good at it !
Roy MM
14-08-2005, 20:36
http://www.mi-lorenteggio.com/primopiano/eventi/enricototi/videoenricototi.htm
Paul K
14-08-2005, 20:40
25 knots in reverse :D

ide love to see the pics of it on the truck that one doesnt show much
Haven't found many pics to be honest but there is this one
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2005/08/13.jpg
marky
14-08-2005, 20:40
loved the website plug on the sub

and the fuel tank on the trailer
and thats one big truck:eeek:
fireman328
14-08-2005, 20:43
http://www.mi-lorenteggio.com/primopiano/eventi/enricototi/videoenricototi.htm



et tu brute (sob)
Keytops
14-08-2005, 20:58
Wouldn't it of been easier to of partly dismantled it and transport it in pieces?
budwieser
14-08-2005, 22:30
Why didn`t they transport it by one of the Big ******* Helicoptors?:D

Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Just read 340 Tonne!:Yikes: :dunce:
homealone
14-08-2005, 22:41
Wouldn't it of been easier to of partly dismantled it and transport it in pieces?

submarines have to have an outer 'pressure' hull, which is effectively seamless, they are not designed to be dismantled, it would have had to been cut up ???
marky
14-08-2005, 22:48
submarines have to have an outer 'pressure' hull, which is effectively seamless, they are not designed to be dismantled, it would have had to been cut up ???

and 340 tonnes isnt that big it could have been a lot bigger
like this one http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/177.html
15980 tonnes :Yikes:
Hom3r
14-08-2005, 22:54
I've got some pics that i'll upload soon that make that 340 ton sub a kids toy (5000 tons)
Mal
14-08-2005, 23:04
Hope that they didn't get a puncture on the trailer. ;)
Hom3r
14-08-2005, 23:53
type 'heavy haulage' in google
Taf
15-08-2005, 00:09
They could have plonked it atop a few Italian taxis... it would have been cheaper... and got there in a fraction of the time ...
Hom3r
15-08-2005, 00:18
yes but it wouldn't arrive in a good condition, (Italian drivers are nutters)
Angua
15-08-2005, 00:37
Shouldn't this thread be titled Now that's a Toe job!! Just considering where it started off from? :D ;)
Hom3r
21-08-2005, 20:51
340 tons of sub, small fry, a ship on the discovery channel has the power to move Icebergs that weigh 3,000,000 tons
AndrewJ
21-08-2005, 23:14
What about the 747 with discovery on its back?
Stuart
21-08-2005, 23:54
340 tons of sub, small fry, a ship on the discovery channel has the power to move Icebergs that weigh 3,000,000 tons


It's far easier to move large loads in water than it is on Land..

For instance, the average container ship will carry 50,000 to 75,000 metric tons of cargo, and will possibly weigh up to 25,000 itself.

No quite as impressive as 3 million, but impressive none the less (especially if you see a fully loaded cargo container ship up close. Those buggers are HUGE).
Hom3r
22-08-2005, 11:10
check out these small loads

304 tonnes 221ft lonh

and 4000 tonnes inc trailers:Yikes:
Halcyon
22-08-2005, 16:35
Now that must have taken some planning !!!
Its huuuuuuge !!!
Hom3r
22-08-2005, 19:18
check out these small loads

304 tonnes 221ft lonh

and 4000 tonnes inc trailers:Yikes:

I'll attach them this time