Does a video show two big trucks hauling UFOs or bunkers over a bridge? No, that's not true: The convoy is carrying large industrial air-cooled heat exchangers, also called cooling fans. These induced draft heat exchangers are marked with a Fin-Fan logo, indicating they were manufactured by Hudson Products Corporation of Beasley, Texas. Fans like these may be used in the natural gas industry, in geothermal power generation, and refineries.
The video was posted (archived here) on X by crazyclips_ on Dec. 3, 2025. It was captioned:
The show is about to start. Popcorn 🍿 ready
This is a screenshot of the video in the post:
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from x.com/crazyclips_/status/1996308458379846035.)
The sped-up video has the handle of the TikTok account @horologic, an account that is no longer available.
Reverse image searches with Google Lens using screenshots from this video did not point to information about these giant objects, and the logos on the units and the trucks hauling them were not legible. However, a YouTube account, Edwin Sanders policeescortcom, has posted two videos, one on Sept. 12, 2025 (archived here) and one on Oct. 8, 2025 (archived here), which show similar heavy hauling trips, but in a higher resolution. The legible logos (pictured below, at 19 seconds here) in these videos match the illegible logos in the @horologic video, and the Fin-Fan brand logo opened a pathway to identify these large units.
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from youtube.com/watch?v=HOfo8XDx6H8.)
A .pdf document from Chart Industries, which purchased Hudson Products in 2018, gives an overview of "The Basics of Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers". Page eight has a diagram (pictured below) showing the difference between the induced draft and the forced draft configurations. Both contain the same mix of components, the main difference being that the fan in the induced draft system pulls the air past the element to be cooled, and in the forced draft system the air is pushed through.
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from files.chartindustries.com/hudson/BasicsofACHEBrochure-Web.pdf.)
A photo (pictured below) on the archived webpage of hudsonproducts.com shows an elevated view of the manufacturing facility in Beasley, Texas. It's possible to see the fans in the finished heat exchangers staged in a giant lot.
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from web.archive.org/web/20181117134124im_/http://www.hudsonproducts.com/media/images/[email protected].)
On the chartindustries.com page about air-cooled heat exchangers (archived here) these are the applications mentioned for their products:
- Natural gas processing
- Natural gas compression
- Natural gas transmission
- LNG
- Refinery and petrochemical
- Power generation
Lead Stories reached out to Chart Industries for comment and will update this article if appropriate.
