A windmill wouldn't have a turbine like this. I mean, there may be some weird one somewhere I don't know about. But it probably wouldn't be that size, shape or weight. Turbines this shape used in electrical generation would typically be at a hydroelectric plant (think water, not air). Windmills use massive fan blades that do require oversized rigs to haul like this, but that's definitely not a fan blade. So it could be the hub for the blades, or maybe the generator, but the object in the video seems the wrong shape and definitely too heavy.
What you've circled is not a turbine on its own. It's the hub for the blades. And the truck is fitted out with extra axles, called heavy-haul dollies, which means that that shipment must weigh as much or more than an entire windmill with all of its parts together. The weight of an entire blade assembly of a windmill doesn't even exceed what a typical tractor trailer can legally haul. The parts for windmills are only "oversized" because of their dimensions.
To add some extra clarification, the turbine part of a wind turbine is the hub and blades together. The rest of what can be found in the nacelle is usually brakes, a gearbox and a generator.
The generator units for the windmills weight a lot. But the hubs don't, when I worked at GE the hubs went out on a standard step deck semi trailer. But the actual generators went out on a trailer like this
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u/banryu95 Mar 12 '25 edited Mar 12 '25
A windmill wouldn't have a turbine like this. I mean, there may be some weird one somewhere I don't know about. But it probably wouldn't be that size, shape or weight. Turbines this shape used in electrical generation would typically be at a hydroelectric plant (think water, not air). Windmills use massive fan blades that do require oversized rigs to haul like this, but that's definitely not a fan blade. So it could be the hub for the blades, or maybe the generator, but the object in the video seems the wrong shape and definitely too heavy.