Heavy Haulage: Books - Vehicles and History (3/3)

Drahtseilschwertransporte im Hochgebirge (Band 2)

Great driving skills and "nerves of steel" are the prerequisites for transporting wire ropes into the high mountains. The roads are rarely asphalted, the last few meters often consist only of loose gravel. Any driving error can be life-threatening.
Michael Müller was there again when it came to exciting new heavy wire rope transports in the high mountains: Piztal Glacier, Zermatt, Ischgl, Stubai Glacier and others.

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Ein Haus geht auf Reisen: Die Verschiebung des MFO-Gebäudes in Oerlikon

In May 2012, the whole world looked to Zurich-Oerlikon to watch the most spectacular building relocation ever seen on the continent. The book provides exciting information about this unique technical masterpiece and previously unknown facts about the history of this building.

Oerlikon's last industrial monument was actually already destined for demolition. But the residents of the district managed to persuade the owner and the city to preserve the building in a thrilling negotiation.
But what was the purpose of the MFO administration building in the first place? What stories were told in it? Does moving the building make sense from a monument preservation perspective?
A search for clues to the 6200 tonne building.

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Das Schwertransporte-Buch

Wherever they appear, they attract attention - the huge heavy transports with their tractors from Titan, Faun, MAN, MB, Kenworth or Oshkosh. The book shows and explains impressive heavy transports and their tractors with technical data, dimension drawings and a wealth of illustrations.

From the content:
- Transport and assembly of a generator with Mercedes-Benz tractors
- Transport of wind turbines
- Transport of sulphuric acid containers
- Transport of a 185-year-old Uhlemann house with MAN tractors
- a Liebherr excavator and a high-pressure preheater
- FAUN machines and transport of a turbine runner
- Transport of a desulfurization reactor
- Transport of a press part and a transformer with Titan tractors
- Kenworth 953 and CC 500 and Oshkosh heavy-duty vehicles.

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Schwertransporte für die Energieindustrie

Everyone needs energy; without it, life according to today's standards is not possible. Despite all the alternative energy, the base load is still generated using the tried and tested method.
The units in the power plants are not only incredibly heavy, they are also huge. Transport is becoming more and more difficult: weak bridges, roundabouts, infrastructure. And it is becoming more and more exciting!

The transformers, generators and turbines are the "big chunks" of heavy transport. Michael Müller has been tracking these transports for 25 years. He presents the results here with a wealth of unique, mostly unpublished photographs.

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Autokran & Schwertransport: Berichte aus früheren Jahrzehnten

Nowadays, heavy goods weighing several hundred or even thousands of tons can be moved with apparent ease by mobile cranes and heavy transporters. Around fifty years ago, much smaller loads posed a real challenge. At that time, the heavy athletes, who today seem small, made a name for themselves with their creative pioneering achievements.

In this book, Wolfgang Weinbach presents completed truck crane and heavy load stories with previously unpublished photos from the era of roll film photography:
- Large module transports at Krupp in Wilhelmshaven
- Truck crane 120 GMT
- IMONTA trade fair premiere 1974
- NPP steam generator loading 1973
- DEMAG TC 1000 S
- Krupp lattice boom cranes.

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