# What large object am I seeing?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-large-object-am-i-seeing/412246>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 18, 2007, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-large-object-am-i-seeing/412246 "2007-07-18T11:45:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-large-object-am-i-seeing/412246/1 "2007-07-18T11:45:26Z")

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On the side of I-95 near Baltimore for a couple weeks have been these large “tubes” and “wing tubes”. They’re parked on tractor trailers marked “oversized load”.

Wing tube: a thing that looks like it’s about as long as an airplane wing with the same shape. You might even guess it was a wing except it doesn’t end “flat”. It ends in a cylinder about 10 (?) feet in diameter, which has a set of pins extended from it.

Tube: a giant tube that is as wide as the tube-end of the “wing tube”. It has a matching set of holes for the wing tube’s pins.

They look like they might be made out of concrete, but they’re wrapped in white shrink-wrap (like you see boats in).

I would almost have guessed that they were parts of a giant windmill, but again, the wings terminate in a tube that would fit onto these other cylinders.

Could be some sort of sewer pipe thing, but I dont’ get why the one set of tubes are shaped like wings.

There are 3 tubes, 2 wing-tubes.

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**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-large-object-am-i-seeing/412246/2 "2007-07-18T12:03:12Z")

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giant windmills for windmill farms…to generate electricity

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**Author:** ![MrFloppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@MrFloppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFloppy)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-large-object-am-i-seeing/412246/3 "2007-07-18T12:10:50Z")

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I am in the Baltimore area and have also seen them on 95. I assumed that they were windmill blades.

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**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-large-object-am-i-seeing/412246/4 "2007-07-18T12:11:01Z")

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[here’s](http://www.eurotrib.com/files/3/050710_pale_sur_camion.jpg) a picture of one of the “wings” on a truck

[This](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.protectpendleton.com/photos/cefncroes.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.protectpendleton.com/photos.htm&h=346&w=459&sz=43&hl=en&start=203&tbnid=x-Tzq1xnbOEHyM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbuilding%2Ba%2Bwind%2Bfarm%26start%3D200%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN) shows the tubes used for the base being moved to the construction site.

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**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-large-object-am-i-seeing/412246/5 "2007-07-18T12:25:49Z")

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That’s it.

I was thrown because I couldn’t figure out why the wings would end in a tube. Further throw by the fact that they looked like they fit directly onto the tubes. If you look at the picture on that page (above the words “another monster. . .”) you can see the holes I was talking about.

Trust me that the blades have a matching set of pins (seemingly).