Working the water and land pics

[skyking1]

Posting up some photos from jobs I have done. This post is glass I have hung with a National 1100

Last panel on a couple of sky bridge jobs done with suction cup rigging. Not a warm fuzzy rigging!
We had to pull the panels up into a track, then kick the bottom into a lower track. Very possible to rip off that rigging or shatter the panel in the up maneuver.
I put my free hand on the drum to feel it for that, and watch the LMI. We'd get the panels in the track and then take half load so the glazers could shimmy it tight sideways. The last couple are actually openable doors. I wonder how many birds are getting in the building ?

 

[skyking1]

Raw edge glass on suction cups in a closure. The big stuff to the right was all unitized on picking eyes.

Setting form panels at sunrise, Mount Rainier in the background.

 

[skyking1]

Terex HC 150 setting down onto the lowboy

a couple of 400 ton hammerheads on a 400x100 barge.

 

[skyking1]

National 1195 all out, jib swung and pulled.

hanging canopy frames up under existing glass wall.

Column steel on parking garage

More remodel work around existing finishes.

 

[Natman]

Those stair assemblies are fun to rig! If I know in advance I'll be messing with them, I'll bring my chain fall to use as a balance, but that's cheating.

 

[skyking1]

I had that set of gunnebo 4 ways off a tower crane, they are sweet for adjustment. A little overkill in the toolbox but I loved the adjustability.

Those guys in the first glass picture, about the 6th panel in he's up there tied off and jumping on top of the panel for a while, and I knew it was not going to end well. Pretty soon they come over ( this is the first day working with that crew ), and ask if I remember the panel weight. LOL.
Then they ask for panel plus 200 and start prying on it. Kept adding a little and warned them this is not a big crane, it is a fishing pole and be prepared for the jump. It never jumped, they prybared it all the way out fighting it. There was a bolt head sticking out.

 

[skyking1]

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.

 

[skyking1]

Hot crane on crane action!
picking the Bucyrus Erie 30B with boom minus counterweight, about 85,000 pounds. Off the beach as 65' radius and then onto a barge.

 

[Tugger2]

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.

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.

The 5" rope is not as bad as it sounds ,back in the days of hemp rope I think they rated it by circumference not diameter. That 5" would around 1.5 " . I like the look of that derrick makes our little sectional rig look pretty primitive.

 

[skyking1]

It has a nice chart, 185' boom. That 30B was not a problem at 65', but it did list a couple of feet when he had it over the corner to put it on the barge.
Built for the Department of the Army in 1944, it was a originally a portable rig. It got all welded together and morphed over the years, repowered a few times. When I left the company they had a new Cat tier 4 to go in for the hydraulics, pulling a really nice 400 Cummins that had absolutely clean oil at 250 hours each change. I'll post up pictures of the draw works.

 

[skyking1]

finishing that little story, one of the two yard whirly cranes setting a 150 excavator on the other end of the barge. The whole works went through the locks into Lake Washington and then those two were set on the beach on a little island to do some restoration work, then it all came back. I have a few hours in the whirlys, all electric.

 

[farmerlund]

Cool stuff skyking. Definitely not something I will see around here. LOL. can't get more land locked than me.

 

[skyking1]

That derrick got all the way inland to Lewiston Idaho!
I did a night dredging gig on the Duwamish river.

Tucked up against Ivars on the Seattle waterfront. There was a wicked storm, and the tug was pitching up and down in front of the restaurant windows about 4 feet. I don't know if I would want a window seat for that show. The spuds were seriously stuck after that weekend.

One of the derricks was a 200 ton all electric rig from the 60's, the newest floater they had.
it had a pair of Waukesha 6 cylinders that made 250 volts DC.
My hardhat is on there for scale.
How many horsepower?

 

[Tugger2]

The material scow with the pilings on it looks like Navy surplus, I had one of those 40 X110 X12 . It was areally nice barge ,still painted white inside. You guys have some really nice military surplus barges working down there.

 

[skyking1]

The material scow with the pilings on it looks like Navy surplus, I had one of those 40 X110 X12 . It was areally nice barge ,still painted white inside. You guys have some really nice military surplus barges working down there.

That was the stilly, 30' x 110' . I don't know her pedigree. Most of the big rigs were ex-WWII rigs, the tug above was 1945 also and built by the yacht builder Burger boats. It has the sweetest wooden wheel in it.
The dump barge in the Duwamish river picture was from a shipyard in Tacoma that my neighbor worked at when he came home from Viet Nam. It had been repowered with Cat tier 4 recently. Seems silly to reduce pollution on an engine that runs so little.

 

[skyking1]

I was back and forth with them, I was one of two guys with boom truck and current CDL so I did jobs with the little 8 ton boom trucks.
This job I tossed the skiffs in the water every day. We had no place to tie them up. Job was putting up staging under a container terminal dock.

Osprey hunting from the tip of the boom.

Here's a cool tug. Twin cummins and an 11 ton boom truck crane welded to it. flat end with push bars and a deck winch to cinch up the tow. Everybody wanted it

 

[Hank R]

Skyking1 what great pictures you have thanks for sharing.

 

[skyking1]

the waukesha 6 in that picture above was only 315 HP at 720 RPM. The procedure was open the sea chest valve, start the 40 Kw detroit genset and wait for a compressor to build air for the air starter.
Open the fuel up and start it. It ran at the rated 720 right off.
The crane was limited to one function at a time, either boom or hoist. It could swing while doing either.
It lumped along quietly knock knock knock knock
The operator moved a lever and the rpms stayed the same but the rack opened up, she chugged smoke, KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!
Then quiet again. Earplugs plus earmuffs below decks.

 

[skyking1]

First day on the National boom truck job and this rolled by on the drum. They didn't complain when I wanted new rope.
Might be OK but I wasn't liking it. Something happened there.

 

[mitch504]

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!