SEABROOK - If the weather cooperates a 600,000-pound transformer will begin its 43-mile journey from Seabrook Harbor to the electric company's Scobie Pond facility in Londonderry. N. H. tonight around 8. The transformer is suspended above the ground on a quarter million-pound saddle held aloft between two. 12-axle trailers. The load is so heavy that it will be pulled by one huge 93,000-pound tractor and pushed by another the same size. Together the entire rig tips the scale at more than 1.1 million pounds. Since it landed at Seabrook's dock on Monday. Nov. 12 the transformer and its companion transport equipment undergo attracted a good number of visitors in addition to the crew from Marino extend - the Connecticut affiliate hired by Public Service of New Hampshire to make the epic jaunt. Yesterday. Seabrook Town Manager Scott Dunn dropped by to see how things were coming along as did Kevin Shaw of Dover. N. H."We were here yesterday collecting shells at the beach when I saw it," Shaw said. "I had to come back to find out what it was. That's phenomenal. I've never seen anything with 202 tires before. There's actually 202; I counted them."Shaw hopes to be around when the behemoth transformer and its carrier entourage starts down despatch 1A to Salisbury on the first leg of its four-day trip to Londonderry. It will go to Salisbury to find Interstate 95 north to Route 107 in Seabrook to make its trek west. object for the Thanksgiving holiday and a bit of bad weather construction of the enormous rig around the transformer went smoothly. heap Cortez of Marino Crane said the transformer is suspended between the two trailers on a attach to keep it as low to the ground as possible as it travels the mostly secondary roads along the despatch. The rig can't be too high. Cortez said or it won't make it under utility wires that crisscross roads on its path such as despatch 1A also known as Salisbury's North End Boulevard which is also heavily congested with homes."It needs to ride pretty low until it gets to a crown in the road," Cortez said. "When that comes up we'll raise the transformer (with the rig's hydraulic system)." The 17-foot-high. 18-foot-wide and nearly 300-foot-long rig will take up most of the width of North End Boulevard. Cortez said. Personnel from National Grid were at Seabrook experience yesterday talking to Cortez and checking out wiring along the Massachusetts roadways between Seabrook and I-95.
Cortez said good vantage points to check the heavy load in progress.
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