40Ton American at work

[Tugger]

The 40 ton has been busy these days

 

[Tugger]

An update on the ship breaking down to the last piece today.End of a good job just in time for Christmas.Merry Christmas all!

 

[CM1995]

OK- question from someone who is not familiar with the process. How do you get the boat on the dry dock?

 

[Tugger]

The cradle runs on 5 rails.Its hauled by a double drum winch,one line hauls up the others hauls back down.1'' line 8 parts on the main 7/8'' on the haulback 6 parts .The vessel is measured by some very talent ship guys to get the hull shape right .blocking is then set to conform to the hull.The cradle is lowered to acomadate the the vessels draught ,its floated in blocks adjusted and winched up.Usually they are repaired and relaunched,this boat was a deralict in danger of sinking.The company I was working for was awarded a contract by the government to decommission and dispose of this once proud ship.Lots of hazmat work and a bunch of plasma and torch work.

 

[alskdjfhg]

Great pics tugger, thanks for showing

 

[hvy 1ton]

Cool pics, only gets better when barges/landing craft are involved.

 

[CM1995]

The cradle runs on 5 rails.Its hauled by a double drum winch,one line hauls up the others hauls back down.1'' line 8 parts on the main 7/8'' on the haulback 6 parts .The vessel is measured by some very talent ship guys to get the hull shape right .blocking is then set to conform to the hull.The cradle is lowered to acomadate the the vessels draught ,its floated in blocks adjusted and winched up.Usually they are repaired and relaunched,this boat was a deralict in danger of sinking.The company I was working for was awarded a contract by the government to decommission and dispose of this once proud ship.Lots of hazmat work and a bunch of plasma and torch work.

Thanks for the lowdown Tugger.:thumbsup

Keep it coming.

 

[OFF]

Nice looking old crane, it must have been really well looked after all these years. I remember the 40T's and 50T's being a real bear to work on because everything was stuffed into a smaller space than the larger Americans.

 

[donkey doctor]

Vicki Lynn ?

 

[Mark13]

Cranes, Ships, and Landing Craft? Yep, you're going to need to keep posting pictures.

 

[Tugger]

Yes it is or was the Vikki Lynn. She was a very well built ship,but she wasn't far from sinking on her own

 

[Tugger]

Heres some more American pictures Actually my 45 ton.

 

[davo727]

Anything new?

 

[Tugger]

Some pictures of the 40 ton at work. An easy vibro job on the lake and then a workout with the drop hammer on some h piles for a building foundation. We are back at the yard resting now.

 

[hvy 1ton]

I love watching drop hammers and diesel hammers work.

 

[Tugger]

I gotta say my favorite is a Vulcan air hammer. I can say that now because its been years since we ve used one and forgotton the noise,broken parts and fuel bills for those 900 compressors.

 

[Hank R]

Tugger are you guys working on the Massey bridge project.

 

[Tugger]

Hi Hank
No im not on that one.Im just a small project guy these days,just enough to keep this old iron going.

 

[Tugger]

Heres another ,all packed up ready for the lowbed

 

[Tugger]

sorry I clicked too many times.And no the boom isn't bent,i put a link in the top pins to lower it a bit and stay underheight on the lowbed.Its an easy way to bring 10 more feet of boom to the site.