Utilising our Nooteboom triple extendable Super Wing Carriers, deliveries of the 78 turbine blades (26 turbines in total) destined for Kype Muir Wind Farm are now complete.
Our Teams undertook the planning and delivery of 494 components including blades, towers, nacelles, drive trains and hubs required for the development of Kype Muir Wind Farm. The 80m hub height towers of the Senvion 3.4MW turbines feature 52m blades, and whilst these are not the largest we’ve been appointed to handle, they necessitated the use of our Super Wing Carriers due to the problematic road restrictions and alignments en-route.
Several areas of route modifications were identified ahead of the commencement of the project, this included bridge restrictions, with an emphasis on the Lambhill Road and Brown’s Bridge areas on approach to the site. Excluding the loaded wind turbine blades, each of the components would be loaded to a combination of 3, 4, 5 & 6 axle stepframes, modular low loaders and clamp trailers for transportation to site and with the planned route modifications, including removal of vegetation, road signage and road widening, already having been completed this would not pose a great challenge to navigate.
The challenge arose when it came to the transportation of the 52m blades, which is where our Super Wing Carriers came into effect. The use of these specialist trailers provided us with the ability to shorten the body and wheelbase of the trailer whilst loaded with the use of the bolster arrangement on the trailer deck. Utilising the features of these Super Wing Carriers, extendable up to 64.3m, meant that the proposed access route to the development site became a viable option for this size of turbine.
