Process Area Activities – [So That’s How It Is-02]: Tank design and manufacturing also require consideration of transportation aspects

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Talking about those grooves again, well, these grooves didn’t just cause problems later on; there were difficulties even earlier on as well. They got stuck on one side of an overpass near the workplace, and it was impossible to pass through. So everyone went there to take a look and come up with solutions. Upon going to the site, I saw it – oh, now I understand one thing: when designing and constructing channels, transportation must be taken into account! The trough just can’t get through – it’s a trough with a diameter of 3.6 meters, and it’s completely blocked by the bridge arch. Some people suggested removing the sleepers, others said to deflate the tires, still others proposed digging a hole in the road surface, while some recommended using a different trailer. Others suggested cutting the trough in half, transporting it across, and then welding it back together. All these suggestions failed to solve the problem. But what no one else thought of was something that came to mind to me, this naive young guy: it’s such a simple solution – just demolish the bridge above, and then it will be possible to get through. When I said that, everyone burst into laughter. Youthful ignorance isn’t really a fault. But in the end, the problem was resolved – there was no damage caused, nor was a trailer needed; we simply paid the required fee to get past the obstacles. Since it was impossible to proceed otherwise, we had to pay to hire a crane, which was used to remove the obstacles so that the equipment could be loaded onto the vehicle, and eventually it arrived at the destination successfully. However, there’s still one thing I don’t understand: although the distance to be traveled was only a few dozen kilometers, there were so many height restrictions along the way (from power lines to telephone lines, etc.). How did they manage to get through all those obstacles? It seems that the manufacturers also learned a lot from this experience; as it turned out, they realized that the manufacturing process has an impact on transportation, and this factor needs to be taken into account. Indeed, in subsequent shipments, the equipment was transported in halves and then assembled on-site.