This morning while we were at McDonalds, we noticed some uniformed guys buying lots of hot chocolate and coffee- from thier logos, I recognized that they were with the outfit that has been hired to move this huge generator from the South Carolina Coast to somewhere up around Charlotte, NC. We had passed them on the side of the road on our way down to Beaufort on October 8th, and it has taken them this long to get it up here. They said in a news release today that they are parked for two to three weeks while they move the load to another trailer so it can make the trip to Charlotte. One of the guys said there are over 500 wheels on the dollys that are moving the load- my big question is how do they move it over the roadways without squishing them!- Or how they move over bridges without collapsing them.... maybe they shore up the bridges as they pass over. Anyway, it is quite a big time operation- costing over a million dollars, according to a press release, and they guys said that after they finished this one, they had another one to move from a harbor in Texas to Waco Texas. Wow, what an operation! These folks are the same folks who move the space shuttle to its launch pad, I'm pretty sure. The company is called Mammoet. They are a Dutch company that does lots of things about moving, salvage, and lifting. Their company was the one that salvaged the Russian Submarine the Kursk, I discovered. We may stroll out and take some more photos tomorrow- big deal for Greenwood!
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