skyking1
Senior Member
little crawler bucket lift I hoisted to the roof, I think 4600 pounds. It hopped from roof to roof for a while
I like that spotter lining up the piles, beats driving false work where you can use it.I did a couple of stints on the water.
Coming back to the derrick after trading tugboats with another crew.
My station, the deck engineer's crow's nest, as viewed from the top of the crow's nest on the crane.
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.
driving galvanized steel to replace old wood dolphins on an active ferry dock.
From the skiff on the way in from a late night.
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.
The spin fins on the end of the piles.
cooking the occasional breakfast onboard. Bacon, eggs, scratch pancakes.
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.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!