Heavy haul gone wrong 

Heavy haul company that brought something in off a barge here in tn a while ago. They actually hauled a bunch of rock and gravel and built the ramp up instead of using mats. Then they used d8 cats with winches to hold the barge. All comes down to budget and who has the cheapest bid ain't that right?

410,000# mill stand, made in Korea, off-loaded from ocean going ship at New Orleans, loaded on barge, traveled Gulf of Mexico to Mobile, Alabama then North on Alabama River, Tombigbee River and Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway to near Columbus, Mississippi. One of many parts to be installed at the new Aluminum Dynamics Mill, Columbus. Mill will be producing aluminum plate. Aluminum plate is commonly available in 1/4" to 16? thickness and varying lengths and widths...industrial, transportation, ship building, architectural application, etc. Boat ramp is Leroy's Landing and owned by Lowndes County, Mississippi.

Mr. Gorge isn’t going to be very happy about this. Lol.😝

It was the new guys fault!! Low Bid didn't include hauling in dirt to make the ramp level. Motocross tracks are routinely built from scratch on NFL fields, and the Sunday game is played the next week. Low Ball=High Consequences!!

I’ve seen many times where they actually sink the barge at the pier so that it doesn’t float up or move when the heavy load is moved off.

Rolling Mill stands like this were machined in Salem, Ohio. They were assembled to be sure all dimensions were correct, square, etc. I started working there in 1969, The E W Bilss Company, Heavy Equipment Division of Gulf + Western. We have off shored our own demise.

The big blue thing is a Toroidal Induction Coil. It is used to melt metal in a forge.

Those wagons are called SPMT's (self-propelled modular transporter) or sometimes refered to as a "Goldhofer" as they are the most prolific SPMT manufacturer out there. In the industry we refer to each axle as a 'line' and most are manufactured in 4 or 6 lines per frame that can be connected in series indefinitely. I've worked with 12 and 18 line machines, and have seen pics and videos of units up to 30 lines. These units can move whole ships if configured to do so and under the right ground and load securement conditions.

In my expert opinion, 60 years of moving heavy things with my keyboard... you can absolutely believe someone is getting a bag of coal and a rake for Christmas 😂😂😂😂😂

Alright, here is what I think transpired. The weight of that object is substantial, someone is saying 100 tons down in the comments here, plus the weight of the trailer to move it as well, this causes a certain amount of set to the barge in the water. A proper company knows to ballast the barge to counteract the weight shifting as this object rolls off the barge. When the trailer and item hit a certain point on the ramps, the weight shifted off of the barge and the barge lifted and floated back against the force pushing down on the ramps. Neither of the excavators is set in such a manner for the barge to come up as it creates slack in the lines, there should have been operators in the cabs of those machines at the time but who knows. that weight shift happened so quickly they did not react quick enough with moving the ballast or tightening the lines and the wild ride started. I bet when they started those ramps were close to level, i would not imagine that those trailers have that much adjustment in height for going over the hump that the ramps are currently making, that is the height difference between loaded and unloaded though. Ballasting problem? I don't know, they could have changed things after the accident happened, but I imagine it is something like that. Like you said, the boat moves when you step off of it.

That is a rolling mill stand. Probably weighs close to 100 tons

Shoot that looks like a cake walk compared to when that big pipe thing fell off the wagon for the Kemper county coal plant. Took them a long time to get a game plan to get it out of the ditch

That’s one big “ah shit” right there! 1 “ah shit” cancels out 1000 at-a-boys, just for reference. Glad no one was hurt other than their pride!

Goldhoffer modular heavy haul decks, unitized units that are controlled and powered by the unwheeled unit on the front, Some of the axles may be powered or nit all are jacking units with each axle being fully steerable and independently jacked and steered right, left, crab or circle mode 2 complete 4 tire units per row of axles can be configured end to end and or side by side. To see some good videos of them in action look up MAOMETT heavy haul and rigging

Barges and heavy machinery are a dangerous combination. A couple of years ago we had a major accident here in the Netherlands in a town called Alphen aan den Rijn, with two large cranes on a barge that fell over in the middle of the city while performing a super heavy lifting operation of a bridge section. (there is spectacular video footage from it) Even engineers can make mistakes. And when things start moving with those type of heavy loads there is no stopping it. Some houses got severely damaged, but luckily nobody got fatally wounded.

This is pure incompetence, probably low bid on the transport. They should have used mammoet or even barnhart to haul.

200t and not a chain in sight

This looks like the result of going with the cheapest quote. No way a 200 ton load should be driven down such a steep angle off a poorly secured barge and then up a steep boat ramp. I've seen these used at mine sites and they are only used on flat ground and if the ground wasn't flat, they made it flat. I would imagine once this load went beyond the balance point at the top of the ramp and teetered down, it ran away out of control suddenly stopping as it hit the transition at the bottom of the ramp.

Now, imagine the ancient Egyptians moving all those big granite stones with ropes and wooden carts, in the sand.

They are called goldhofers. Heavy modular remote control units. That looks like a 6 line and 4 line connected together with the power unit. Mammoet, and a few other heavy haul and rigging companies uses this stuff. I haul those off and on for a few companies that uses them

Heard about this the other day. Right down the road from the house and havnt even gone to check out the damage

Kind of erie no one else is around, kinda like everyone quit!

Should have called Mammoet.

You said something about how the excavator on the right of the screen should have been more to the left or closer in line with the barge. At 10:44, the ground angles down too much for that to have happened. The workaround would have been to have the excavator closer to the parking area and a longer line to the barge.

Great footage. Some cool stuff glad no one was hurt.

Wow, what a major snafu. I feel for the entire outfit, this will be hard to bounce back from.

I sucks when youre whole day becomes a training video

Omg! Please everyone learn how to speak english correctly! The word Excavator is not spelled with an S!

By what I see the strap on the Port side of the barge seems to be at the starboard/bow corner of the barge. I wonder if the load coming down the ramp caused to much tension on the strap and maybe how they had it hooked to the excavater cause the strap to be cut and quickly releasing the tension on the excavater on the right side of the picture. If this happened, then the barge shifted to starboard causing the load to fall.

Why can’t we see straps or chains anywhere ?

I think there in a meeting pointing fingers at each other to blame it on 👍🏻🇺🇲

This often happens when someone is “saving money”. Will be following the outcome here. Thanks for the video. Take care. P.S. Was looking for info on the field use of forestry mulchers, excavator mounted and tracked. P.S.2 Found some of your mulcher posts. Will be looking back for more. Thanks.

*crash* - that's lunch boys. Hopefully nobody got in the way of flying debris.

It's quite suspicious that it seems there's nobody around, everyone just run away from the scene, not a single soul left. Wonder what is inside of those blue packs. Is it radioactive or what.

Just like people tried to unload a Harley off a pickup bed with a piece of plank too short, but in much bigger scale.

Thats awesome that no one got injured, thats the important thing. Scary, a load that big gets loose, and there's not much you are gonna do about it.

That's a Self Propelled Module Transporter (SPMT). The one in the background with the drawbar looks to be a modular dual lane transporter.

Do you know if the barge has pumps to take on water or pump it out for ballast

These dunderheads are destroying that entire park area. From the ramp itself to the nice grassy area on both sides of the ramp. That big brown square patch of dead grass is where the wood cribbing was resting. Now they are driving excavators all over the grass tearing it all up. This is obviously a small boat ramp intended for very small watercraft and bass boats not for machinery of this size. I just found the follow up video to this one where it looks like they assembled a gantry type crane and they had to tear up half the ramp to do it. I'd be willing to bet dollars to donuts when they are done and they leave, they don't bother repairing any of the damage or restoring it to the way it was.

Houston we have a problem.

Why didn't they use the ship yard or container dock?

Not a call I would have wanted to make.

Looks to me like the trailer slid down that steep ass ramp. Sketchy set up.

That ramp looks too steep for that heavy hauler to negotiate.

That's gonna cost someone a lot of money.

That ramp isn’t made for that. NASA does this kind of thing but the barge is level with the ground it’s off loading to.

My take on what happened is that they came off the barge and ramp just fine but when they started going uphill the cribbing between trailer and load folded backwards and made the load move off the side and back down the hill some. Too narrow cribbing or not enough chains stabilizing the load.

I’d compare those excavators to trying to pull a trailer load of logs up over a mountain logging road with a Polaris ranger winch

I didn't see any pilings there to secure that barge. Looks like a bad plan.

Seems like they would have shored up that end of barge and had more equipment holding barge tight against ramp? But IDK maybe would have crushed barge where it was shored up?

Now they'll need a 300 ton crane, which would have done the work in the first place.

No, they were evidently using the excavators as bollards. As you say, the weight transfer shifted the entire barge, breaking the strops to the nearest anchor. A more correct mooring would have also run from the rear of the barge to shore, reducing the leverage.

The excavator on the left has a strap, where the other one has a chain. There looks to be a bunched up strap on the deck of the barge. Maybe the right hand side strap broke?

Y’all should have called Berard Transportation, the best in the game

Front of that barge needed at least 4 points of tie off to keep it from shifting side to side

I wouldn't want to make that phone call

They hired the wrong company. Having worked with companies that move very heavy items one thing I saw was overkill in preperation. This didn't happen here.

My take is they need deep anchors and anchor chains,but I see a very expensive f up.pouring a cement dock would have been cheaper than deal with the fallout of what you see.

Lerroy jenkins at lerroy landing

Where and when was this?

Looks like a whole bunch of hold my beer when they should have just gotten even multiple cranes to lift the load off of the barg and put it on trailers?

Oh, and there's no way they weren't recording this process.....

goldhofer's aren't designed to traverse steps like they made with the mats. They're designed to be operated only on flat decks. wouldnt take much to shift a load that heavy

Is this the Ohio River? If so where

Trying to save money= incompetent.

My dad worked for E.L. Bruce Lumber Co. Back in the 50's and early 1960s. We lived in company housing until 1962. Every spring, the Tombigbee would flood, and we'd have to relocate for a couple of weeks. When Howlin Wolf would stop by to visit with his friends and family who worked at the Bruce Sawmill, he'd park his black sedan under a hackberry tree in our front yard. He was a character. When Ed Gilbert lost big on celotex stock and looted the Bruce Company treasury, he lit out for Argentina. President Kennedy sent Gore Vidal and the Whiz Kids to see if they could use the Bruce Company Federal Credit Union (founded by Truman Ward) in other places because the Bruce Credit Union actually worked. While the Whiz Kids were there, I introduced Gore Vidal to Howlin Wolf (Howlin Wolf was old school) it was a train-wreck. Gore was left kicking rocks and mumbling Chester Burnett doesn't know everything. BTW, Truman Ward was in the Guness Book of World Records for over 15 years for sawing the most hardwood lumber on a bandmill in an 8 hour shift, at the Bruce Sawmill on Old Macon Rd. It was broken by a gang mill in the middle 1970s. No one ever came close on a single. The Guness people thought he was just showing off when they came to see if he could back up his record. When Rayburn Zinn showed them the books, they got in their car and drove home. Howlin Wolf used to sing a song about working on the green chain in the summer heat , Truman Ward setting world records, soaked in sweat from his head to his feet.

But saved in crane rental! Or was gonna save

They should’ve got the Amish to get it off

Looks like it was not strapped to the trailer properly. Or maybe the trailer flexed and they came loose enough to let it slip some.

That is a Modular Trailer that it was sitting on.

My keyboard expert opinion might be that there was still too much of an incline and when it started down the barge probably moved like you said and then the load shifted and slid off the trailer.

Somebody obviously didn't appreciate the forces involved in getting that much weight off a barge via a ramp. Seems like they were only relying on the tug pushing the barge rather than actually securing it to the shore properly? Guess every day is a school day. Can't believe they didn't have a better moving plan in place though, you woulda thunk they guys doing the move would have a little experience?

Oops . . . The vehicle is called a modular transporter. I'd be guessing but I'd say the items are induction heating coils in which case they are very, very heavy for their size. That ramp is way too steep, that barge needed to be ballasted down at least 4 feet or so, the angle of attack is just insane, you can't do stuff like that with loads that heavy. It was that or build the ramp up at least that far with dirt before the mats went down. I have friends who own heavy haulage companies and as a result, I know a bit about the doo's and don'ts and that is by a serious don't at that angle.

Great stuff Tim, makes for great footage, but yes, as You said, nobody really wants that kind of hassle👌👍🙏

It will buff out

The excavator on the right looks like it was drug forward if you look at the grass behind it!

I'm no expert at all but seems it would have been better to pull up to the bank rather than that steep ramp.

Mill stand side

Why wasn't a mooring built into the ground on both sides to attach chains to hold the barge to the shoreline??

Did you notice the steep drop beside the excavator probably best they could do

I wonder if something happened to the right side anchor line. I did not see it in the drone video. Somebody done goofed.

Wish I had the $ sitting there. Ty 4 sharing this. That's gonna take a min to straighten out

Perhaps they should have chained the transporter to the corners of the barge.

Interesting. SHIT HAPPENS

DEI run amok?

that puppydog is heavy

Dang....!!!

Wow!