Octang Frye

I need to get a 30 ton T-34 tank from Grand Junction to Boulder and back again.
It's a 600 mile round trip. Width of the tank is nine feet.

Do I need a pilot car, and how would much would this cost?

tom169

FedEx it

scottyvisa

I don't have an answer, but this is the coolest question I've ever come across on this site!

steveq

I can't for the life of me remember the name of the site, but there's one where you give the addresses, and the cargo, and folks bid on the job. You will probably find someone delivering heavy plant one way and looking to make some cash on the way home

RICH

Apparently it is not easy, but having googled I found a rabbit hole of fun videos about tanks.

scrubbedexpat142

Well don't try & drive it, you'll wear the tracks out! Try a tank transporter!

scrubbedexpat142

Forgot to say - I am quite flattered by this bit of attention!

ddsrph

scrubbedexpat099

My first thought is check with the laws in Boulder, I believe they banned 'assault rifles', can not imagine they would be OK with a 85mm maybe a 76mm?

T34's were not built certainly during WW2 with that sort of driving capability, well beyond their life expectancy.

There is a hauler based in Silver Plume who I know moves railroad equipment for the Loop so no doubt could do the same thing. I doubt you could go through the tunnel?

scrubbedexpat099

No pilot car and I would budget $2,000.

MidAtlantic

Watch the A&E TV program Shipping Wars. They make bids on U-Ship.

steveq

That's who I couldn't remember

Pulaski

Hypothetically, because as already noted above you would damage the tracks driving that far, and I suspect also the engine and transmission, ... and the amount of fuel used would be insane, you would need a flag car, not because of the width (nine feet is barely more than the eight feet width of two standard pallets, so the interior width of a standard freight container and a commercial HGV (US & UK), but because of the speed it can travel - I guess that it won't "cruise" at more than about 30mph, and so would he a hazard to traffic on highways if travelling at only a half to one third of the speed of most other traffic.

scrubbedexpat142

I've just noticed that this is no ordinary (metric 10) T34 at 9'10" wide - but clearly one of the very few surviving specials built for Operation Bagration. To use the corduroy roads laid through the Pripet Marshes a. narrow track version of the T34 was required, maximum width 9'. 96 were built at Chelyabinsk & delivered to equip 3 brigades of Rostrimov's 5th Guards Tank Army, tasked with breaking through south of Minsk. Unfortunately most were lost near Baranowitchi. To assist field maintenance Engineers an identification mark was set into the glacis plate which read пизда -translated from the Cyrillic it stands for Tank With Adjusted Track.

scrubbedexpat099

30mph would be pretty much flat out and not sure CDOT would be happy tearing up I 70.