This is one pallet, photographed in our warehouse before the wrap went on. Fifty-two parts are stacked on it, and it is going from Belgium to Australia. We do not usually show this side of the business, but it answers a question we get constantly: what actually turns up when you order a wind turbine, and how does something this size cross the world without a crane at either end.
What is on it.
Twelve Atlas bodies. Six Atlas blade sets. Four Magnum blade sets. Ten protection covers, ten charge controllers and ten anemometers. That is the whole manifest, and the mix tells you something about how these machines are actually bought.
Bodies and blades are separate line items, which is why the counts do not match. The body is the same machine wherever it goes. The blade set is chosen for the wind at the site, and an owner who already has a body may be buying only blades. The accessories follow the same logic: a cover for a roof that sees weather, a charge controller for anyone routing the output into a battery, an anemometer for the owner who wants to measure the wind rather than guess at it.
Why it packs flat.
Look at the stack and you will notice there is nothing exotic about it. Cartons, a wooden pallet, shrink wrap, and the blades bagged on top. No crate, no frame, no special handling. That is deliberate. Every part of these machines is sized to travel as ordinary freight and, at the far end, to be carried by two people rather than lifted by machinery.
It is also why a turbine can reach a house at the end of a long road in a country we do not have a warehouse in. A pallet consolidates the journey across the water. After that the boxes go their separate ways as parcels, and none of them needs a loading dock to arrive.
Fifty-two parts leave as one pallet and arrive as a dozen ordinary deliveries.
The other end of the journey.
Australia is a good market for this equipment and a demanding one. The distances are long, the grid thins out quickly once you leave the coast, and a lot of our buyers there are not trying to shave a power bill so much as keep something running where the poles stop. That is the case the anemometers and charge controllers speak to: people who intend to measure what they have and store what they make.
It is also a long way from Belgium, which is the honest reason we ship this way. Consolidating a pallet is the difference between a machine being practical to own in Queensland and being a quotation nobody accepts.
One pallet.
Fifty-two parts.
No crane at either end.
WHAT WAS ON THIS PALLET
Atlas vertical wind turbine — twelve bodies, six blade sets.
Magnum horizontal wind turbine — four blade sets.
Atlas protection cover — ten.
Charge controller — ten.
Anemometer — ten.
The photograph at the top of this page is our own, taken in the warehouse before this pallet was wrapped. The quantities are the packing list for that pallet and nothing more: they are not a production figure, a sales figure or a forecast. We have not named the buyers, the carrier or the route beyond the countries at each end.