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Working the water and land pics

skyking1

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little crawler bucket lift I hoisted to the roof, I think 4600 pounds. It hopped from roof to roof for a while :)
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I did a couple of stints on the water.
Coming back to the derrick after trading tugboats with another crew.
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My station, the deck engineer's crow's nest, as viewed from the top of the crow's nest on the crane.
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Crow's nest controls.
Air operated controls for deck winches, spud winches, throttles for the hydraulic deck engine and two detroits in Skagit deck winches.
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driving galvanized steel to replace old wood dolphins on an active ferry dock.
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From the skiff on the way in from a late night.

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Capstans on the Skagit at idle. We used them to pick apart the old dolphins to get the hammer down over them to vibe them out. They are marked "25,400 pound pull with 5" Manila rope" 5" rope, ouch!

Swapping out a barge of the demoed wood piles for new piling. We were rafted where that other barge is landing. That is the ferry running way around us at the beginning of the video.
Once he landed that we gave that barge a gentle shove in the direction they would take it, and cut loose. Then the contract tug took it away.

Mix of new piles, HDPE sleeves, and old piling on barge.
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The spin fins on the end of the piles.

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cooking the occasional breakfast onboard. Bacon, eggs, scratch pancakes.
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I like that spotter lining up the piles, beats driving false work where you can use it.
 

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Thing about that hemp rope is that it gained huge amounts of weight when got soaked. When the capstan would conk out on the old tug, (built in 1909, put on the reef in 2019 through no fault of her own, just too expensive to meet the new federal towing vessel regs) I would stand up on the fantail and lean back, pulling on the hawser. I could actually lean back flatter than a 45 and pull the rope, and I am 6' and 275.

We popped that hawser twice in the same trip, (once was between the jetties on a rough, cold February day) we got a new Dacron hawser, stronger, about half the weight, and didn't absorb water. I thought I died and went to heaven!
Wonder how many guys backed down on rope like that when things were going sideways and sucked it into the wheel. Kind of like nylon rope we always stayed away from . Polysteel floats and saves lots of trouble.
 

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Looking up the Clyde Frame 10 draw works from the two working lines to the old man in the back. 37,000 pounds line pull max on any drum.
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Looking the other way, 350 cummins to main clutch to torque converter
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20 Kw "glove dryer"
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Here's that Cat tier 4 for hydraulics. I forgot I did work a short job after they took out the perfectly good Cummins 400
The swing motor and boom hoist are hydraulic on those rigs.
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The Cummins in the same spot.

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Lots of room in the house for tools, fluids, filters, parts.
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Spud winches were all hydraulic, which is problematic at times. You couldn't "sell the spuds, which is releasing the brake and dropping them rapidly. You also had to look at the tide charts and peel off enough line so a high tide overnight did not pick a spud and have you drifting all over. (It has happened!) That's one of the Skagits in the background. It has two drums with 3/4" line for anchors.
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We were doing a maintenance job on Coleman docks in Seattle at the same time they were being totally rebuilt. The 400 ton hammerheads with a whole kit of hammers on the right, a crawler setting caps on the left, Smith Tower in background.
We were pulling the hydraulics for the passenger way with the green roof. it was pulled up from that tower I took the picture from.

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Another crawler on a barge, the great wheel in the background looking up the Seattle waterfront.
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One of a pair of 35,000 pound cylinders that hung the passenger way, and a swinging tilting telescoping passenger bridge that was the last step onto the ferry.
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We were exposed to all sorts of wakes and waves, and the hook might go for a ride at any time.

Cap rock operation next door


We drifted that red staging underneath to support the passenger way.
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Last time I worked for this company, they wanted my help in a tight little alley job under power and comm lines. The Trench safety guy and I had to two pick the trench boxes in, in two layers because we had limited rigging height. We put the two boxes together in the alley one at a time.
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Kinda snotty overhead, a little crowded.
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All this to set a fuel tank for a standby genset for a medical facility. Check out this little city crane.

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I would be there in a heartbeat, grinning and working for free because we have no union agreement up there :)
 

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I never had the luxury (or curse, however you see it) of a thumb on a long reach. They have such pee-poor performance anyway. It would save time with rocks for sure.
 

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We ended up only doing one load of rock and the biologist was satisfied with his reef. Theres no way the long reach is any faster than the crane,after seeing what was accomplished my 22B would have done the job no problem.
 

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Yes swing a rock with a cable that doesn't give a care is a lot faster than a noodle stick you can break :)
 
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