The bridge cranes are going here. 4:15. I'm puzzled by how many more crossmembers this has compared to the rest of the bldg. In internal photos of other GFs I've seen there are struts coming down from the ceiling to brace the substructure below. I'm guessing that this is going to be something similar. Thanks, Randy for the great video and the awesome music.

@17:40 I believe they're taking the panels down to fix an error. The top row should be symmetrical with the other side so that when looked at far away the glass design makes a stylized Tesla logo. They were probably just waiting on the new panels to show up.

@ 2:50, By the size of these monsters, I place my bet on the center section on top of those very large and beefy double columns with those large footings. @12:22 you can see two very long, what I believe are the runway beams to support the bridge girders. Option, they seem too wide to span any opening, so maybe these are the runway beams that will sit on top of those long beams @ 12:22. Time will tell.

The bridge crane is likely for the Stamping building. They never delivered the second crane for the central part of the Stamping building. Only one crane where the Schuler transfer press was installed on the west side of the building. That is the only place wide enough. Look back at videos from December. I would expect to see more large crates arriving soon for a second Schuler transfer press system. There is no way that they would deliver a bridge crane now for installation in the unfinished south central pit. That's a few months off.

Randy, I just realized on the West side where they're removing the perimeter panels what's going on. They're going to replace the current panels with the angle panels in order to make the windows symetrical in size and shape. The window design is indeed the Tesla marquis spread across the entire West side of the building. This is why they never install the tall, full height windows in that open segment. One problem they have is that more angle cut panels haven't arrived yet. I suspect they'll arrive soon.

@fmapls

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, yup, and yup 👍🏻 I suspected this back when the odd shape of the tall windows became apparent.

17:50 five new mini-vans with Tesla logo ready for work.

Two things. 1) They are taking down cement panels on the West highway side on the building. I think they are changing the windows to the tall ones or adding in an angled section of windows. 2) Only one gantry crane, not two gantry cranes. It looks like a heavy duty double bar gantry crane. Giga Berlin has one. It is pretty long. I suspect it will be installed in southern gap where there is only one row of center footings. That is the only place big enough. Also the necessary cranes will be available when the steal erection takes place.

@Tomm9y

2 жыл бұрын

1) That would make sense. I wondered why they hadn't done that initially.

@stevehockey4

2 жыл бұрын

Looks more like the crane for the other side of the castings cathedral before they fully close it in with wall panels.

@musaran2

2 жыл бұрын

*Bridge* crane. Gantry cranes have straddling legs, instead of riding an elevated rail.

Hi, Rady the tall windows north end is changing. In my opinion a Change Order probably has happen, they never look good from the beginning. The relation between the small to large windows was to much of a jump. So probably what we are looking at is a CO in progress and they are removing concrete panels to later add new ones, with a different inclined angle more likely mimicking something similar to the south end to create a gradual slope to the transition in a link of 4 Concrete panels section that they removed in the weekend. that's my humble opinion

@ 17:40 Removal of wall panels. daveachuk suggested that they are going to make the design symmetric by putting in 4 sections of angled windows to transition from the tall to the regular height.

I think you'll find it's the two halves of a single bridge crane. Could be for the old northern gap, but also could be the giga press area - east side.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn

2 жыл бұрын

My vote goes for the northern gap.

My guess for the big crane is for the second Schuler stamping machine

We have to get the south retention pond christened Lago Musceloni (or Lake Muskelon). Let's do it.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn

2 жыл бұрын

That would be a better name for the main sewage pump station :) Sorry Musk fans.. I couldn't resist.

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

LETS DO THIS INTERNET!!!!! Lakey McMuskLake?

Agree, one bridge crane. Two bridge girders, when set side by side they will be connected at the ends and have an over running trolley on top.

Thanks for the outstanding coverage of Giga Texas. 👍

Thanks Randy I did a guesstimate on the length of the crane, came up with 84'. Only places ready for a bridge crane are stamping, or the north alleyway. Guesstimated 70' between the bridge crane rails in the north alleyway. Maybe by the time Jeff flies past we'll know where it goes. If it disappears from view, stamping for sure.

@dalerichardson7202

2 жыл бұрын

so are these crossmembers or are these lengthwise support members?

@DessieDoolan

2 жыл бұрын

@@dalerichardson7202 Those 2 beams are 2/3rds of a bridge crane. The missing 3rd is the hoist trolley that runs back and forth between the pair. At the end of each beam there is a small cross-member with wheels. Those wheels run on rails (like train rails) that sit on top of the bridge crane beams that are supported on the shoulders on the columns. Good view here in Jeff’s 446. The wheels are visible although painted red. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gZd-2M56ZsfLn5s.html View of a hoist trolley here. This is the one that was never installed in casting after it was damaged in transit. Under the blue tarp, there are better shots of it before it got tarped up, I just happened to have made a note of this shot. kzread.info/dash/bejne/kaBmmc6kYdWzfaQ.html

@DessieDoolan

2 жыл бұрын

@@dalerichardson7202 Hoist trolley. Better shot here. On the front of the trailer. kzread.info/dash/bejne/lppkrqpwmpy8lKQ.html

@dalerichardson7202

2 жыл бұрын

@@DessieDoolan I'm sorry.... I was born in Kentucky and on a Monday, after the doctors were still hungover from a party weekend...... I still do not understand. So, I'm trying to translate what you are saying. Is this right? We see two large red "Tesla" beams. Let's assume these are to be installed in the South alleyway. So these two beams will be installed, if in the south alleywyay, from east to west, and a third component, not yet here or visible, is hung between the two that will be the pulley system to lift and lower things? This does not make sense to me.

@robertcase4995

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I think you are right. This crane will go in the north alley. It is wide enough.

9:34 Look in the distance to the east, I believe the white crane is placing the concrete panels on the ground that were removed from the west side of the main building. Maybe a quick look next visit?

I believe that is just one overhead crane as there is a traveling section that goes on top of these. We should see a lot more of these coming soon . The new steel looks as if it has track supports, possibly three cranes in that new space. Also the footers in the center look like the ones that the precast concrete supports where placed on. Be nice to zoom in to those. Great progress thinking that next would be Stoneage lots being paved as this plant is going to need a lot of materials to build cars,trucks at the pace everyone is hoping for especially since the supply chain and trucking is slowed down.

@ariadnelecoutre9453

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, one crane, not two!

Thanks Randy!

Thanks Randy.

@ 12:15 90 degree bend (concrete box by red and white excavator) to take stormwater pipe to other side of columns.

Those two long bridge crane rails DEFINITELY ought to go in the casting area; 6:09 shows the long rows of columns with the supports lined up for a bridge crane. I'm not denying the possibility that there will be bridge cranes at the south end of the south central part; but if that's the case, the columns there will have to be reinforced concrete columns; and where are they? They should be arriving *before* the bridge crane(s) they support. Nah. Look at 6:09; *that* is where this bridge crane goes.

Thank you!

Great footage as always, thanks Randy

Thanks man!

Mind blowing updates !

Love ur videos man very good at describing the construction site especially for those tht do not knw

Those bridge cranes suggest to me that last center row of footings might be all that's left, and that additional rows to the left and right of it won't have footings. If so, we're just a handful of footings from done with this first phase. EDIT: On 2nd thought, I think they're going into the casting cathedral on the east side to accomodate the 8kton presses.

@musaran2

2 жыл бұрын

Eyeballing the size it does seem to fit east casting, with south-south alley being even wider. Plus, south alley is far from ready to receive bridge cranes! Edit: Damn, est casting has no rail yet. As usual Dessie Doolan has estimated the length and given better guesses...

Wunderbar

Thanks Randy for the update! The progress is really ramping up. They have the ledgers in the Giga Press area on the concrete Columns for a Bridge crane. I wonder if it’s for this one? It would seam like you would need concrete columns to support these.

2:35 those concrete panels are being removed

Merci👍👍👍

The are also going to need another crane for the second row of giga presses. I haven't seen the steel rails attached to the concrete vertical supports yet and they are close to closing in the end of the area with wall panels. I would think they would need to get the steel rails and crane parts inside the building prior to installing the outer wall panels.

@bobcallahan2322

2 жыл бұрын

The mobile cranes (probably 2 fifty tonners) and truck loads of parts will easily pass thru the truck access doors in the walls and once inside there will be plenty of headroom to unload and install the rail supports and the rails and the cranes.

Very exciting progress being made! Cars to be leaving that factory soon!!!

@ 14:20 Looks like they may have flipped the orientation of the south pond from what is shown on page 52 of the site plan??? However, the triangular shape remains the same.

I wonder if the new heavy duty bridge crane is necessary for the IDRA 8100 press?

🎵 🎥 👍🏽

#806 😁👍

Great filming, when do you expect the building to be 100% completed outside?

Those are more than likely crane rails for giga presses 3 & 4

@mrschuyler

2 жыл бұрын

No way. They are much too long. They simply will not fit there.

@eltonray2934

2 жыл бұрын

Presses 3 & 4 already have two bridge cranes over them. Only the rails have to be extended.

What is the title of this SciFi movie? Was that Harrison Ford at the Taco truck? This looks more promising than that new Brit movie being heavily advertised.

In the middle-row of footings in the Southern Gap there is one X-large footing. It seems to line up with the double columns to the west, so it could suggest double columns onto this new footing as well to continue an East-West firewall-type separation, but why is the new footer then square instead of rectangular? The mysteries continue to add up..

@dalerichardson7202

2 жыл бұрын

This is the one that had 13 concrete pilings instead of 9.

@hardernl8893

2 жыл бұрын

@@dalerichardson7202 Yes! I forgot. Something else: when Elon says they can produce cars before year end then the "new" construction in the northern and southern gap we are guessing about must be totally unrelated to this initial manufacturing line. Perhaps I should forget trying to match this new construction to things already built.

@eltonray2934

2 жыл бұрын

In all of the construction they have evenly spaced expansion joints for thermal expansion and settling. At these junctures they use double columns which isolates each section. Starting in stamping they have two parallel assembly lines that extend all the way through paint. The West line is now being constructed and is about complete. The flow enters paint on the first floor and exits into GA on the second floor and then lowered down onto the battery / suspension "sled" and then to final assembly moving South. What will be manufactured on the second line ?

Cranes

Anyone knows how much of the land in square meters the actual factory is occupying? Do they have enough land for expansion projects of the factory in the future?

Can you fly low enough to see inside the windows on the freeway side?

2:45 / 19:25 - Giga-press area ## 4-6 are the next obvious choice for a bridge crane. Only thing is there are no rails yet installed in the the ##4-6 giga-press area. So where within the factory are rails likely to already be prepared to accept these massive gantry bridges? They seem too large for anywhere inside the battery area....

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

everything in this factory is 6 months late. The deliveries always show up early despite the fact that all shipping and trucking is 2 weeks behind minimum. What large open space that has reinforced flooring still needs a bridge crane, but isn't necessarily completed yet?

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

the robots showed up 3 months before they were installed in a building that didn't have walls on yet to protect from rain

@LinasVepstas

2 жыл бұрын

Third bay of stamping area never got a bridge crane. So maybe there.

Do you know which brand are more bridge cranes?

So will there be a Tunnel for Semi trucks under it ?

BRIDGE CRANE'S ARE FOR THE ALLYWAY THESE LOOK TO BE 25% WIDER THAN CASTING ROOM CRANE

The central corridor need a fresh supply of new iron beams otherwise they can't go further with framing in this area .. what do you guys think?

@TerafactoryTexas

2 жыл бұрын

All of the beams are being staged in the large Bobcat Project area and then they are trucked over. We actually just missed the beams being taken from the truck in today's footage.

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

nobody uses iron beams my bro. its a different material than steel. they do be taking their time on the corridor tho

@fodiographer

2 жыл бұрын

@@TerafactoryTexas Thanks for the clarification Randy. Great progress last couple of weeks :)

@fodiographer

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidanalyst671 Yes you are right. Stupid mistake of mine .. i knew it was steel. Thanks for the explanation!

Are most of the cars in the west side charging lot manufactured model Y's? They seem uniform and somewhat color grouped. A few, mostly in the row nearest the road, obviously are not. Does this factory appear to need much more charging lot capacity for the volume of their 1st year ramp?

@patrickkenny2077

2 жыл бұрын

Employee vehicles. Likely a separate charging lot for production vehicles eventually, but for initial production it could easily be inside the building.

@tonyvelasco5732

2 жыл бұрын

@@patrickkenny2077 exactly right, those are employee vehicles. Current employees setting up robots and assembly lines and training on the equipment are using those lots, including the charging one!

legacy auto already feels the screws clamping their coffins closed every day tesla increases their footprint and erases debt

@ 12:50 still no visible solution, east or west, for the bridge crane rails or the columns to support them.

@eltonray2934

2 жыл бұрын

David, look at 0:31 they might add support like they have here. They might have to do other work before installing this structure. I believe that the new bridge crane will be placed in the North end of the building on the supports shown at 0:31.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn

2 жыл бұрын

@@eltonray2934 I agree that is a possibility. But as I pointed to Dessie Doolan, the situation is complicated on the westside by the location of the 6' diameter stormwater pipe. He thinks that may be the reason why they switched to concrete. I'm just hoping to see how this works out before they close in the structure.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn

2 жыл бұрын

@@eltonray2934 Regarding the bridge crane, I also agree it will end up @ 0:31 in what used to be the north alley. Which reinforces my earlier speculation that this bridge crane will be used for general freight by unloading containers off flatbed trucks. The battery building already has two bridge cranes. And this bridge crane, and the long space for unloading is probably way more capacity than the battery building needs.

@eltonray2934

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn You could be right that they use this for freight, but I think that they may have injection molding machines here to form the many plastic parts required in the battery and vehicle. On the West side receiving area I believe that they will have warehousing on the bottom floors and offices on the upper floors behind the glass.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn

2 жыл бұрын

@@eltonray2934 If we see delivery of a container lift frame or spreader, we will know for sure the purpose of the north bridge crane. And maybe the south bridge cranes.

How long before it's ready for a PARTY?

Soon we have to look for other entertainment. In a month or so the GigaFactory will be fully enclosed in concrete wall panels and sophisticated window panes. Then nothing to see. Nothing will happen with the Cathode plant. Elon said they will produce enough 4680 batteries in Fremont to supply GigaTexas. The StarLink building (?) nothing happens. It will be great for the Squad to take same time off and maybe have a peaceful Christmas! Well deserved in my mind!

I think the bridge cranes will get in the casting area. What do you think Randy?

@LACHIVA1969

2 жыл бұрын

Too big.

@TerafactoryTexas

2 жыл бұрын

That was my first thought but these look much larger than the ones we've seen installed there, BUT it's possible the west side of the structure is wider than the east side that's currently in operation.

@davidclark2286

2 жыл бұрын

@@TerafactoryTexas I do not recollect the east and west side looking significantly different in the casting area. I thought that all the stamping area bridge cranes were installed, and all the bridge crane rails spotted in the battery area looked smaller so where could a larger one be going. ONLY larger space I can think of is under the space frame roof in northern big gap infill area. Did anyone spot rail mounting points or rails in this area? Only thing I have to pick this location is the extended clear width.

@nickfosterxx

2 жыл бұрын

@@TerafactoryTexas In which case I assume these could be for the bigger 8,000 tonne casting machines for Cybertruck, ordered in March?

@bobcallahan2322

2 жыл бұрын

There is not a place we can yet see that has crane rails installed ready for a crane. I also think that the casting spans are too short for this new crane. I also think the north center crane span is too short. I am thinking that it must go in stamping on rails we cannot see. They would want to get it at least up on the rails before production starts in that area. It does not make sense to store that crane on site so it will be installed soon.

Where are all the parts???????? If they are getting ready to build some cars we should see a large volume of delivery trucks with parts.

@shortaybrown

2 жыл бұрын

They’re not getting ready yet. Still a few months away. They haven’t even finished the roads around the building, or the cement parking lots connected to the building. Low volume production will start by the end of the year.

@helicopterjohns

2 жыл бұрын

@@shortaybrown That could be, but when you get ready for production of any kind parts need to be in place and ready to install or there will be no production.

@patrickkenny2077

2 жыл бұрын

They appear to have been staging material for the past week or two. It might only be 20 trucks per day though, so it is easy to miss.

@shortaybrown

2 жыл бұрын

@@patrickkenny2077 oh, ok, cool--I’m sure in December things will rly get busy in Texas.

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

They have a staging area across the highway/tollroad. They only showed it for a second on this video. On the Annual meeting, musk actually said they were flying parts around just to keep the factories moving. So Im sure they aren't dying to get production moving if they cant keep parts for the factories they have running already

“Tera” supposed to make it cool? -it will be another tesla sweatshop.

They were removing the wall panels on west side

@petergraphix6740

2 жыл бұрын

Ya, I had thought that was already complete. I wonder if they are going to setup a frame work here to lift and move equipment inside.

@Luca-cs8fy

2 жыл бұрын

maybe they will install large windows on that part as well

@enard.h00

2 жыл бұрын

@@Luca-cs8fy they wouldnt have removed the top part if that was the case 🤔

@fodiographer

2 жыл бұрын

@@enard.h00 Good point!

@dan_w3st

2 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing they plan to install slanted windows and new slanted wall panels, to balance the slant to the south. End up with a sort of T image on the west wall.

BOYCOTT Texas and all products and services that come out of Texas!!!.

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Karen.

@LinasVepstas

2 жыл бұрын

What? Why? Because of the villain Greg Abbott? Fight the villain, not the people. This is a culture war. We gotta get the corrupt cronies out of office. A boycott will achieve nothing at all.

Thanks Randy!

Thanks Randy!