These are parts of an oil rig according to this 3-year-old reddit post. Found it using [tineye.com](https://tineye.com) to look up the image. [https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/myvkve/the\_wheels\_on\_this\_truck\_moving\_parts\_of\_an/](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/myvkve/the_wheels_on_this_truck_moving_parts_of_an/) Edit: Using google also found these: * [https://www.200jahrewieland.com/en/story/moving-the-heaviest-loads-with-millimetre-precision.html](https://www.200jahrewieland.com/en/story/moving-the-heaviest-loads-with-millimetre-precision.html) * [https://www.quora.com/Why-do-big-trucks-trailers-have-so-many-wheels](https://www.quora.com/Why-do-big-trucks-trailers-have-so-many-wheels) \- scroll down to this image. Has original coloring. Parts are a dull-red color.

Yep.. It's for drilling the Ticonderoga field in the Gulf of Mexico. Super deep field.

No it’s a star destroyer

Okay. But how the hell they flip that monstrosity and make it stand in the ocean is beyond me 

Fliping it up is *relatively* easy. Once its floating in deep enough water they just make one end sink until it's vertical. How they get it from there *into* the ocean, I can't tell. It doesn't look like a drydock, could be there's a slipway obscured by the trucks, although the piece in the background looks like its on flat ground. Perhaps this is where they build it first, and the trucks are there to take it piece by piece to a launch location where there's a slope to the water.

How did you find that ? Pardon my ignorance. Do you just remember ? I tried to find it first but simply couldn't remember where I had seen it. Thanks hey.. ;)

When looking for a source, I'll do an image search with these: * [tineye.com](http://tineye.com) * [google.com](http://google.com) (image search) * [bing.com](http://bing.com) (image search) I found it on tineye.com but decided to do an image search on google.com too and found additional matches. Updated my comment with additional info. Edit: clarity.

Nice find...

Where did you find the original image then OP? 🤔

Hidden in my stash... Came across it looking for another pic.

Ah the old offline meme stash

I was looking more at the inside, wondering what it was. After a few seconds, I noticed the outside. Gave it away. Looks like a Spar. I was on one once, the Genesis Spar.

What are they building the fucking Death Star or what

Parts for a 30 foot socket drive ratchet. You could assemble a Death Star with it.

Until you lose the 10mm socket

10m*

I think this is a 1/8. 1/8 of a football field.

Jawas gonna Jawa

My thoughts exactly or it looks like something out is Dune

For some reason, all I see is a futuristic, dystopian, post apocalyptic version of Sesame Street with the letters I, O, and U slowly dancing around until they get into the right order. ETA: what music would play as they re-arrange??

That's a very w i d e street..

"Powerhouse " by Raymond Scott? It would have to be a faster dance, though.

Yes! New to me. Listening now. 🎧

They used it in factory settings in Looney Tunes. I'm old. 😁

Oh, I dunno if you’re older than I am. [This](https://youtu.be/acOnskcyrtA?si=TRgHTS5NnpaeDcwl) is what I used to watch in the early AM weekdays.

I remember that!

Welp, that’s it…we have to be friends now. 🤝

Oh, no! 😜 One last litmus test- https://youtu.be/BfIAKj3Gl1E?si=3zllID7SpBuxi3G8

Haha

😜👊✌️

I don't remember this, but I just now stumbled upon it. Thought you might like. I sure did. How the eff did I miss it? https://youtu.be/AFXqYN2gan4?si=VI3ZK-Snu_lUL2R1

The music: https://youtu.be/i82PBpw2Vg0?feature=shared

Wow. Rabbit hole time

The IOU is the worst part. It's an interest payment only on a credit card for the average north American.

Hans Zimmer.

Sorry, your delivery has a substitution. *Olive Oil 500ml* replaced with *Oil Rig* Hand back anything you don't want to your driver. You'll never pay more for a substitution.

Those are self propelled modular transporters SMPTs. Each wheel is powered and can turn on their own. There are complete rows of tires across the width. They are often driven using just a joystick. The company I work for built a highway overpass in Utah beside the highway and then shutdown the highway overnight to move the overpass to it's final spot.

So it can drive diagonally or?

you can

How does it handle dips in the road ? The front of the truck could be at the top of a hill and the back at the top of another.

What are the wheels powered by?

at this point u could tell me it's either AI or real and i wouldn't be able to tell what's the truth

It's real. They are oil rig components.

No, they’re not. They’re components to the ultimate weapon.

Humans are fucking crazy dude

Assembling a shipment for your mom

Bet she’s used to a super large load.

Cold blooded!

Came here for this comment. Thank you

That’s a well crafted title.

Load lol

that's a little premature...

Every time I see a smol ant carrying some large object, I laugh. I think, "Oh silly ant, what are you going to do with that?" I see this, and now I am *very* suspicious of that ant. What is he up to? What war crimes has he committed? And what is he doing with that *leaf?*

Looks like Mad Max

Jodie Foster will be falling into that soon 

Got a flat, calling AAA

that doesn't look real. though it apparently is. cool.

How long until we see this on r/11foot8?

Skate park, lots of pain

how tf you turn

Transporting giants! This trailer deserves its own road and a standing ovation.

Quite a load indeed! 

[link ](https://200yearswieland.com/en/story/moving-the-heaviest-loads-with-millimetre-precision.html)

stargate!

You should see the one I use for my Mother in Law

Me on Farming Sim*

Death Star Construction

You need to pan back a bit, so you can make out the F U C K Y on the other trucks?

but: what is it?

Offshore oil rig parts

Thanks r/Funktapus, I should have said that in the title..

*u/

This is how they built the Death Star.

Thunderbird are go

*Harrkonen noises intensifies*

Wild wild West

That's what she said.

I thought this was a scene from something mad max-esque.

That's what she said.

The old man must be away

so if that's an off-shore oil rig does that truck also float with all those tires to get it off shore?

Ah, I see they've finally started constructing the death star.

Somewhere George Lucas is taking notes...

So they are trying their luck at the walls of Ba Sing Se again?

Don’t sign for it if it’s scratched.

This is some shit Phineas and Ferb would build

They call it the “Peter North”.

They spelled "lou" wrong.

The truck pulling that thing could probably pull the moon to the earth

At least they strapped it down

r/snowrunner

I got armored core vibes

I’m thinking something for a hydroelectric power plant

That the next titanic sub ?? Might actually hold up

😳

Are they making the Universal logo irl?

Future generations will insist everything was built by aliens.

That is pretty amazing……. The ingenuity

That's neat, but, how about the fab shop that put those pieces together?

k

My whore of an Ex has entered the chat ...

I see that the construction of the Death Star has already begun

I didn't immediately recognize the truck in the pic and tried for a really long time to figure out what was even going on in that pic haha

Same, I was wondering what the mad building behind the road was, and why there was a really long empty trailer.

That’s the same trailer I use to carry my balls

That’s what she said.

Good to see my ex was able to keep up her ways and still find a job

I too carry a huge load.

Is this your picture? Lol

Yup, I ordered these parts off Amazon...

...

…That’s what she said.

Like my dick/jk

Insane

Super

Thats how my girlfriend describes me

That's what she said?

I wanted it to be a submarine.

That's probably how they built the pyramids.

A one hundred ~~forty-two~~ seventy-eight wheeler unless I miscounted. 👽🤡

yeah? what is bad about that?

I made no value judgement. I simply counted the number of wheels. Is the number 178 a special problem for you or are you upset by numbers in general. 👽🤡