Comments by "jpsholland" (@jpsholland) on "American REacts to ALE 475 Tonnes Transformer Transport through Narrow Streets!" video.

  1. Its a Schnabel Wagen, a German invention for extreme transports. There are also Schnabels for railways. Mammoet = mammoth. The extinct large elephant. Mammoet is formed by 3 old dutch companies: 1: Stoof Breda, heavy transport and lifting on land 2: Smit Tak, heavy transport and lifting at sea 3: Van Seumeren heavy lifting on land. But this is a strange world were one company take over the other and then sell parts of it, so there are a lot more companies involved like ALE you see on this video. The dutch heavy lifting and transport specialists started in may 1807 by the 25 years old Jan Goedkoop who bought a 140 metric ton ship for heavy cargo. In the early days of the industrial revolution he saw the need of heavy transport and lifting, especially on sea. He was the first on the world who got into heavy sea tugs. (note: heavy sea tugs at the day was a mere bathtub with a diesel engine compare what we call sea tugs today)
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