A Day in the Life of Boat Driver Using Gigantic V8 Diesel Truck Engine 

southern Thailand used to be part of the Pattani Sultanate.. back than Pattani Malays built wooden boats with ironwood & the planks are joined together with wooden pegs sealed with paperbark as caulking.. this method is still practiced till today in southern thailand

​@@jeremyooi1996our austronesian encestors sailed up to madagascar and easter island with only raft.

they're barely regulated at all in reality

Agree no way is this only 500 pounds. 1 ton likely.

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The engine and the prop tail has been balanced well. They are not wrestling it too much. An unexperienced person would surely struggle a lot to work it.

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Hino is a lightweight engine and probably 500 kg for 500 hp. The arnnison drive with surface piercing prop is for shallow water. In South Louisiana mud boats use a similar design to float in 4 to 6 inches of water in the swamps.

I was thinking the same

If they has a chance to buy a V12 4 stroke modern truck engine....that would be on there.

Probably why they have a cruise ship propeller on the end of the shaft. 500lbs ha ha, ok lady.

@@gottspeed LOL, the "Thaitanic"!!🤣

Kg/lb snafu

500 to 800 horsepower? No way. That non-turbo medium-size V8 might put out 250 horsepower max. What say you?

Bunch of airports in thailand are where they are due to being bases used by usaf. Thais have some.. Interesting views on their military history though particularly on whoever just coming and using their land for a while. Dunno where they would've done fierce fighting? During the domestic communist uprising? The domestic uprising was luckily really limited and the casualties low compared to anything that went down in neighboring countries. You generally don't hear them talk much about it either, not even in esaan, of either the uprising or why the airports are where they are - most of what you have as remnant is just bob marley, chequevara and indian iconography. And country songs. Country roaaaads take me hooooomeeee tooo theee plaaaaceee i beelooooong every week. Bigger problem for them is that stuff in military isn't merit based so they end up buying scam products, corruption is high and stuff like that..

You got that right, I was going to comment, but you nailed the issue first.

They mis quote numbers all the time. To get comment clicks

Yup, more like 1,500kg (3,300 lbs)!

Why, you seem to be applying safety rules from a western world to a make do asian world.

Don't be a moron and you'd be safe around it.

@@couttsw western or eastern, we all have accidents

Then dumb people would continue to survive. This system keeps the gene pool full of careful practical people

Don’t think too much Just go 😂

Maneuverability - you can change the direction of thrust. It also eliminates the rudder. Safety - the wooden boat may catch fire from enclosed engine, the exhaust is as much behind as possible. Cooling. You don't need to build/maintain a sealed passage for the shaft into the hull. Space saving - the inside of the boat is free. Less chance the engine gets flooded (if there is a leak). And in extreme case, probably the whole engine could be thrown away, to make the boat lighter...

@@holtzman72 Thanks for that response - very interesting. Well that sure does seem healthy, and powerful !

its a whole lot easier this way. hard mounting an inboard engine requires more setup and complexity, the boat design is different as well as you have to have a shaft exiting the hull.

They have no gearbox by the look of it, it explains why they said the prop needs to come out of the water to get into ‘neutral’ as it’s directly driven from the engine.

Yes

@@johnnyholland8765 But that stainless steel tube on top of the engine that he was filling up with water at each stop was a heat exchanger...fresh water in the engine...seawater circulating in the exchanger taking heat from the fresh water engine coolant...then the heated seawater being pumped back into the sea.. it never freezes so there is no need for anti freeze or any coloured coolant....

@@JohnSmith-yv6eqNow that makes sense. Fresh water preserves the engine from corrosion and easy to replace heat exchanger takes the abuse of salt water.

@@JohnSmith-yv6eq Even in Thailand you put better anti-freeze in the coolant. It prevents corrosion. But you see seldom anti freeze here.

No

No; just a truck engine.

Its hino my my guy, here in Asia you can barely see any western or any American engines cuz they cost alot. Asian people used Japanese engine because of the availability of parts when it came to maintenance and it's just half the price compared to American or any western engines.

Continuous cooling using the sea water

And I can see the cool jon boat with LS engines racing!!

Now if she said ft. lbs. of torque, I’d be less sceptical. 800 hp is the size of the engine in a small locomotive.

Agreed. No turbo or intercooler and no black smoke?? I wonder if it's detuned or they're not showing the belching black smoke. Plus no Alternator! How do they start that thing? Remote jump box or something

@holtzman72 1 day ago Maneuverability - you can change the direction of thrust. It also eliminates the rudder. Safety - the wooden boat may catch fire from enclosed engine, the exhaust is as much behind as possible. Cooling. You don't need to build/maintain a sealed passage for the shaft into the hull. Space saving - the inside of the boat is free. Less chance the engine gets flooded (if there is a leak). And in extreme case, probably the whole engine could be thrown away, to make the boat lighter...

nope.. it works just like a marine diesel engine.. seawater is pumped and circulated to cool the engine

@@jeremyooi1996 That long stainless steel tube on top of the engine that he fills with water every stop... looks like a heat exchanger using pumped seawater to cool the freshwater coolant? Raw seawater corrodes engines very quickly and builds up salts in the engine....

Lol

OSHA has yet to be invented here....

Dangerous? Wtf😂😂😂

Look well at the propeller. I'ts a diamond type surface propeller made to be aerated. No problem of thrust.

@@pabloricardodetarragon2649 Sweet! I could not see it well! Thank you!

@@physicsguybrian You're welcome.

Rudders stick down where they can get knocked off in shallow water....

It already has a gearbox, with forward and reverse and a clutch, I'm sure it's been modified to deliver the most torque for a given job. Boats have 1 forward gear and reverse, no five speeds, and unlike an outboard, he likely sets the throttle and leaves it alone. Bit like a tractor, pick a gear, set the throttle and play with the clutch to complete the job at hand.

@couttsw i just meant what outboards have, the gearing differential to allow the driveshaft to be bent which allows the prop to be down in the water. You're right, this set up these guys rigged allows most power, I just moreso meant that they have an outboard motor, just with a tad fewer steps

@@drockjr 👍

​@@drockjrit's built this way to allow navigation through very shallow/muddy/lilly areas that a regular inboard or outboard wouldn't

@@brantley1975 and, diesel engine are more cheap to operate than regular outboard motor

Hino V8 engine from a 22 wheeler truck 🇯🇵

No. These are 4 stroke Japanese diesel engines

Interesting perspective. Why isn't it regulated more through permitting? I'm no expert but thought I would ask.

First because it doesn’t work like that out there. Even if there were laws, enforcement can be bypassed with corruption. I got stopped at a roadblock , blew what they said was over the alcohol limit, and then told to follow them to the cop station, driving more on my scooter. We then drank beers until my bribe was agreed upon. I drove home after, in front of them. It’s so unlike the west in most of Asia. Rain forest, fisheries, it terrible, but the people are awesome! @@SirtubalotTX

@@dirkaminimo4836 Interesting, I was thinking that in the back of my mind though. Would like to visit.

If the shaft was short it would push the stern of the boat up wasting energy, that is why they use a long shaft.

Takes water from the water way...

There are two pipes go down to the water behind the boat.

That long stainless steel tube on top of the engine that he fills with water every stop... looks like a heat exchanger using pumped seawater to cool the freshwater coolant? Raw seawater corrodes engines very quickly and builds up salts in the engine....

No turbo=simpler.

Torque and a much longer life

Especially the coldest countries in the world fear the warming most