quasi Report This Comment Date: August 26, 2012 06:28PM
Rolls of sheetmetal and, if so, probably aluminum - seems like that much steel
would be a problem placed that far forward of the axles.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: August 26, 2012 08:17PM
Plastic wrap.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: August 26, 2012 08:43PM
some kind of giant filter for............gigantic fish tanks?
woberto Report This Comment Date: August 26, 2012 09:36PM
Yeah they are designed like filters but there's no fibre in between the
mesh.
My guess is still filters though.
Monster1 Report This Comment Date: August 27, 2012 03:06PM
Looks like Copper Armature Windings for big Electric Motors (200 HP +)
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: August 27, 2012 03:30PM
Nah, they are rolls of some material. The positioning of the strapping
indicates that. The color looks like rolled up plastic sheeting.
Armature windings look nothing like that. The armature is the part that spins
around inside a motor or generator and the windings are done in two or more
axial loops, not radial. You're probably thinking of field coils that are on the
outer structure of a motor/generator and they aren't that either, as they are
not wound radially either. Both armature and field coil windings have visible
laminated metal cores as well and there are none.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 27/08/2012 03:40PM by BlahX3.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: August 27, 2012 03:36PM
my sized flesh lights are on the way!!
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: August 28, 2012 01:53AM
quasi more or less got it, they are rolls of coated steel (called simply,
'steel coils'). I don't know what they are coated with. you can see see several
other steel coils in the background. These 3 coils total just over 41,000 lbs,
the front 2 weighing roughly 15,000 lbs each and the back one 11,000 lbs. They
are loaded near the center of a 48' step-deck trailer. Hauling steel coils is
alot of work, beginning with setting the dunnage in place, you can see the front
of a 'coil rack' by the front coil, before these were invented you would have to
use more wood and build a cradle for them, this load required 9 chains and
binders, and had to be fully tarped. the whole process from backing into the
loading bay to finishing tarping and ready to leave the plant was roughly 90
minutes.