If you drive cross country as much as we do, you see some weird stuff. Sometimes you look at some big ass tower and wonder how in the hell they put that thing together on site, or if they actually hauled it in and stood it up with a giant crane. Of course while driving along you never get the answer to that question, but it certainly makes you think. Well this video is going to educate and entertain you as this GIANT demethanizer tower is hauled across Texas. How giant? The tower alone is 294 feet long without counting the trucks. It is being carried by multiple trailers, each able to be independently turned, so that this big long beast can make it around corners that are way to sharp for something like this. Oh, and they have to use multiple tractors to pull AND push this sucker down the road and around the corners.

What makes me laugh is the fact that they go through some pretty small towns to get this tower to its final destination. I suppose that is so that they are not blocking heavily traveled routes, but it still seems funny to see this giant pair of rigs, with two trailers, going through towns with gas stations that only have a couple pumps. Not what you expect, that is for sure.

And do you know how you know you are hauling a big load? When your big rig has to have thousands of pounds of weight added over the axles so you don’t spin the tires while pulling on flat ground! Yeah, this is a really big tower. Before you ask what a demethanizer tower is for, keep in mind we know exactly as much as you do. We figure that it is taking methane out of something, and since it is west Texas it is most likely part of a larger system that handles natural gas.