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Big, Bigger, Biggest! SCHEUERLE builds the largest side girder deck in the world for road transport operations
In December 2009, the Multilift Group commissioned special vehicle manufacturer SCHEUERLE with the development of a side girder deck of unrivalled dimensions. For the transportation of increasingly larger generators and transformers, the world´s biggest side girder deck offering a payload of up to 620 t was designed and built within a very short time. The first transport of a Siemens transformer is already scheduled for November 2010.
The SCHEUERLE side girder deck on SCHEUERLE SPMTs.
The side grirder deck at the SCHEUERLE premises.
Together with all members of the Multilift Group, the first discussions dealing with the concept of a side girder deck of this magnitude took place last year. After an extensive project phase, SCHEUERLE Fahrzeugfabrik then received the order in December 2009 to construct this extremely impressive giant vehicle.
The STB 1000 side girder deck offers several options for accommodating generators and transformers. In connection with the main beam, the load is placed on the top boom by means of brackets. Alternatively, the load can be taken on board via additional lifting gear with cross beams. The load can also be coupled directly with the supporting tip without the main beams. Furthermore, it is capable of picking up the load without the help of a crane due to the additional support bogies. A flexible range of applications provides the deck with a span of 38,220 mm and a length of up to 47,220 mm - this is adapted to suit the required number of axles lines of the platform vehicle combination as well as the size of the load. The load width of the side girder deck is continually adjustable from 2,000 mm through to 5,200 mm, and can therefore be adjusted to match individual loads. The vertical lift of the deck for accommodating the load is 1,600 mm. Flexible, but this is not only concerning the size: the SCHEUERLE STB 1000 can carry generators, transformers as well as other loads up to weights of 620 t and is unrivalled anywhere in the world.
The SCHEUERLE STB 1000 is compatible with the SCHEUERLE InterCombi series as well as the self-propelled modular vehicles (SPMT). Depending on requirements, these can be coupled together for up to 2 x 20 axle lines and in 2, 3, and 4-file line ups respectively. In addition, the deployed platform vehicle combinations can be equipped with 2 x 4-axle InterCombi power boosters in order to be able to reduce the number of towing and pushing vehicles required for uphill gradients - both in-plant and on public roads. Optionally, the drive for the total combination can also be achieved via the InterCombi power booster units so that the overall weight of the combination is reduced which is an advantage, for example, when crossing bridges.
In order to guarantee a safe transport process, the operating personnel have two heated high tech driver´s cabs at their disposal - each designed to accommodate a crew of two. Positioned in the generously-sized cabs are screens which are used to permanently monitor the status of the load during transportation by means of camera mounted on the two main beams. The widest position of the total combination is thus constantly in the direct field of vision.
Maiden trip in November
The Multilift Group will carry out the first assignment with the side girder deck at the beginning of November. Transportation operations begin at the Siemens transformer plant in Nuremberg. At first, a 495 t machine transformer - type TRPM9056 for the Tractebel engineering company, a subsidiary of the GDF SUEZ Group - is carried on a 2 x 14-axle InterCombi along the heavy load route to the Nuremberg port which involves negotiating two very critical intersections. Upon reaching the heavy load quay, the 13 m long, 4.30 m wide and 5.10 m high load is "rolled on" to a waiting pontoon. The next stage of the undertaking is the journey along the river to Wilhelmshaven via Dordrecht and Delfzijl. Arriving at the Lüneberg quay, the 2 x 14 combination is then converted to a 2 x 20-axle InterCombi. For the rest of the journey up to the final destination - the power station in Wilhelmshaven which is operated by GDF SUEZ - the combination must be manoeuvered on public roads and through Wilhelmshaven city centre. A masterly performance for both man and machine!
