Hello Captain Kyle. What you consider rambling is educational and interesting to me. In my opinion you can never ramble to much. Explaining what you do and why you do it most likely helps Captions with less experience then you. Thank you for taking the time to make, edit and post your videos. We do understand your day job is top priority. Please don't edit out your struggles it would be very interesting to see how you remedy the situation with your skill and knowledge. Another Awesome video Captain Kyle 💙 we really appreciate you taking time to show us your profession 🤎🤎💙🙂👍👍
I work in Quincy Illinois every few months. Love taking lunch on the river bank and watching you guys. Appears to be a pretty busy area on the river. Awesome video Captain!
I vacation in Trempealeau Wi. and love watching you guys lock through. Love the on board perspective, thanks! (BTW, when I learned to run steam locomotives back in the 70s an old hogger taught me " the larger the machine the lighter the touch it takes to operate it")
I live on the upper Mississippi at nauvoo Illinois I often sit on my front porch and watch river traffic going up and down and wonder if you’re piloting the barge I’ve been watching your videos for sometime I love them good job.
In 70s and 80s I would go stay on barge with my dad he was a dragline operator for Atlas construction it was in Vidalia La but closed my brother ran dragline then trackhoe till he retired at Pine Bluff sand and gravel
@@marktwained Well either way I dig it. My great grandfather was a captain all around the world. I have mad respect for that profession and great lakes captions.
Our Great Lakes Freighters have bow thrusters. Is there any bow thruster on the front of your barge or does the tug do all the twisting left & right? How many crew?
I guess there is such a thing as Double, Triple and Quadruple Parking on the Water. People with your Office don’t complain much about their surroundings. 😬👍
@marktwained Thanks for taking time to answer! I grew up on the Mississippi river at Keokuk Iowa and own a river view cabin in Lagrange MO. Was asking wondering if we would see you pass through our bend in the river.
it refers to horn signals. one t port and 2 to starboard. if you arent on a radio you blow the horn to signal intention. you blow 1 to signal that you are passing with your port to the other vessel
It all goes back to Paul Revere when he was in the old north church in Boston 1 if by land 2 if by sea so in towboats terms 1 is Port side 2 is starboard and in lock and dam terms if a dam has 2 chambers 1 chamber would be closest to the bank of the river and the 2 chamber would be farther out in the river
I have some drone footage posted from a few years ago, on my channel. I don’t have it catalogued very well, but I have over 1,000 videos. I traded my DJI Mavic Pro to a cheif engineer for a Brietling watch. 🤷🏼♂️
An articl Anar tic😅 Your good! You can grasped the power of the river on your total hall,Square footage. As You drive🤔!As a pilot you need to out maneuver the currents🤓 they call it the “Mighty Mississippi “ for a reason.
I was fortunate to ride a tug boat and a large supply/grocery boat up/down the Amazon River in Peru. My dad was working with Bechtel, Inc. I rode each boat for about 1 week on each trip, pushing large barges of pipe. Bud Davis was the captain, my dad liked him and Bud offered to my dad to take me along, which he agreed. What a great experience. The last night on the tug boat, I had too many Pilsner cervezas playing cards with the crew. Woke up the next morning, walked out of the captain's cabin, puked all over the deck below, the crew laughed and washed the deck, that happened twice. I radioed my dad on the shortwave, he had a twin otter on floats land on the Amazon, pick me up to return me to the OU9, as jungle work camp on the banks of the Amazon. With the Bell 206, 205 and 214, the twin otter and tug boat trips, you couldn't pay for a trip like that... I'd love a captain's job on a tug. Great vid... Thanks
