petepilot
Senior Member
there` s a guy who could use a couple of those on another site` he`s wanting to pull a 335 out of a mack & is wondering if a one ton crane will do it
The other item was a pallet with unknown working condition chainfalls. 1 1/2 ton to 5 ton. Supposedly 25 of them on the pallet, but they were all in a pile on the pallet. Do any of you realize how much fun it is to untangle 27 chain falls? That means 54 chains with 1/2 of them being continuous loops, and they are all snarled together. Its one huge ball of chain. We have 2 of them pulled out.View attachment 215762
I spent the weekend making lift plans and rigging plans. I had them down to 5 shackles to attach in 80' of water. Coast guard, NTSB, State patrol (who used to be the water patrol), fire/ water rescue from the county. All kinds of agency's. And everyone needed their boxes checked off.
The barge guy is a boat transporter that I do some work with, I provided the rigging and lift plan.
We offloaded it at the storage facility, from the trailer that the barge loaded it on.
It was kind of hard to guess how it would pick- the weight of the engine and tranny is all up front, and I didn't want the front strap coming out of the wheel well half way up (if it was nose heavy). I told them I would try to make it pick nose high by a foot or so- I was close, it ended up being a couple feet high on the front, but that helped roll the water out the back.
Pictures are from the local news station.
Just saw on the news the operator, Ripley Entertainment was charged for not relaying pertinent weather info to the captain. Captain was not held responsible.
The one thing I could not understand, I do not believe the banks in that area are severely steep below water,
The duck boat company in this area had a horrible accident a couple years ago that killed several people in a traffic accident. The issue was a broken steering axle while on a high bridge that pulled the duck into the opposing lane of traffic hitting a couple of cars. After all the stuff has settled the company went out of business.
The vehicles were made for war time activities with projected lives in use being a matter of days before being lost in war time adventures. They were never designed for decades of heavy use and maintenance would have needed to be critical for safe operation. I never saw any reason for their use in a for profit civilian business. I don't understand how they got insured for civilian use in the first place.
Actually, while a lot of them are surplus, a lot of them nowadays were built just for that. One company builds them on F550 chassis.
Progress has been poor. I've got 4 chain falls totally out of the pile, and have most of the load chains out. The control chains are still all in the pile, but its less of a ball and more spread out.
I'm spending time gazing at the cut off wheel on the grinder. Surely I can weld control chain back together.
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