Have a little project in Larsen Bay to go do. Its about a 16 hour run with the tug. Storm has held us up until Saturday. Barge leaves in the am. We have a plane chartered for the evening. Be off the air about 10 days. Next time you feel picked on for having to chain down your equipment, remember it could be worse.
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Holy crap how big of seas is the barge going through Makes me gratefull that anything we move is on the inside passages and stuff doesn't need lashing down. Have a good trip :thumbsup
Looks like it takes as long to load, unload, and load again as it does to to the job. I am sure you are getting paid for the trouble. I will never again complain about how long it takes me to load and tie down on my equipment trailer. Good luck with the job.
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For the amount of chains on the crawler shows you how rough the barge ride is going to be. For inside waters like what happens around here a crane would have 4 chains lashing the undercarriage to the barge and the house would be cross chained on the back to keep the house swinging side to side. The main hoisting cable would be hooked to a lug on the barge deck or to a bollard and snubbed up tight it keeps the boom from flopping. Alot of work lashing all the stuff down I imagine it was a all day job fighting with those rotten turn buckles.
I'm hoping for a decent ride but have to be prepared for the worst. The seas in the Shelikoff Strait were running about 16' coming down to 5'. Its supposed to be that way for a day then come back up. The tug is going to try to get though while its down. However, if the seas don't come down or the next storms early its going to be a ride. I've seen the tide change stack seas up enough that we had green water on the wheel house windows. I put the counter weight on blocks. Snub both lines down. Put 10 ton of pull on the two line then pull 3 ton on the whip line. Then chain er down. I'd rather have 10 to many chains than 1 to few. By the time you find out you never had enough its to late. There are cranes all over the ocean bottom from Baja Mexico to the Barent Sea.
Looks like you'd have to consult an engineer just to have it chained to the barge.
And yall wonder why he calls himself "LASH"lander...... Great pics Lash. Godspeed, on your trip. :thumbsup
Nice pics and very professional look on the chain down. That stuff aint going to move none. Trbo