Some of the wind farms in the Montagne Noire are having their wind turbines replaced. The turbine blades are transported by a ‘blade lifter’ which I saw this morning. Amazing things. There’s a depot north of Carcassonne where they are being stored along with nacelles and huge sections of the towers.
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It really does look as though it should topple over. I’m going to try to get some piccies next week when they start transporting more blades.
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I think I followed one a year ago, couldn’t believe how long it took to overtake it.
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I hope they’re avoiding low bridges. 
You don’t realise the scale of them until you get close; I remember seeing them from the A61 as they put them up near Lézignan.
…and overhead power lines!
How is that even possible?!
They’re clever bits of kit - in fact far clever than most people realise:
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Need to show that to French shops when they say they can’t deliver 
Fortunately, I came along it, at the back of a long tailback of traffic not far from where I needed to turn off. Looking ahead, there was a large layby about 100m past the turnoff full of lorries that came from the other direction. I think they were sending smaller vehicles on a diversion and stacking lorries in laybys or other convenient places. It was far too big for any traffic to be able to come in the other direction.
The weight of the blades is relatively low and given sufficient power in the lifter the blade can lifted. The problems come with cross winds that could tip the blade and truck over.