Barnhart was hired to receive components from ship’s gears at a steel mill in Indiana. After traveling from Shanghai, China, the ship arrived at the client’s dock. The ship’s crane offloaded the cargo to Barnhart’s Goldhofer using 20 lines of PSTe in single and double wide configurations.
The cargo was not only large and atypical in size, there were also many components. Barnhart handled 10 large components on the Goldhofer while local Teamsters onsite hauled another 60 with a truck and trailer.
The largest component was the Oberbau (German for “superstructure”) which was 70’ tall and over 400,000 lbs. This was used to construct a large material handling device called a stacker reclaimer to move bulk materials like coal and iron ore onsite at the steel mill.
In order to handle these odd-shaped pieces, Barnhart used multiple trailer configurations and utilized pyramid stands to support one component properly without damaging it.