I like how hard working machines look like hard working machines. The bits of rust, all the dents, the creaking and groaning. I feel the same way after working hard...which I just don't do enough anymore.
I saw a documentary about it, they collect the logs while they float in the water, they chain and count them up walking on them and sht. It's pretty cool.
@@SinfulShrimpMoMwatched it right in front of my home for years..my Brother worked on the booms on Fraser River and Sunshine Coast BC, the other on the tugs and barges in 70s before scaling for a mill..
I thought it was an accident...then I realised it was by design! Imagine being the first to suggest this idea and then test it out for real. Balls of steel.
@@kinodurtoten9325 I got a box fulla ball peen hammers. All sizes. Wooden handles. I put one in the bath... it didnt float. Life !.. what can you do eh ?!
This was so interesting! Something I have never, and would never, have thought about, and it's a human bloody marvel. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to learn something new today
@@INFJ-ThaneTr Besides learning how they transport massive amounts of logs oversea? Unless you already knew about this, you'd have to be incredibly stupid to have no idea boats like this exist, see one, and still not know what the boat is for. Seeing this for the first time and having that little tick of knowledge added to your brain is called learning. Maybe you should try it sometime.
One reason why these self-dumping barges evolved, especially in BC, was to protect the logs from damage by marine borers like shipworms during their transit from forest to mill.
Some logs are transported to the mill in salt water where mollusks like shipworms will initiate their attack. Another way to avoid them is to bring logs in to freshwaters for staging.@@nos9784
When l was a kid we'd go down and ride the docks from the wave. As a late teen my favorite job on the tugs was breaking down jackpots, the pile left after a dump basically a big iceberg of logs. Tailing the dump was nerve wracking as you had to stay connected until she went then release or get rolled and sunk as the barge jumps a fair ways as timber slides off.
@@rickkolesar9163 haha that is pretty awesome. Im from Kansas myself. So we have nothing like that here. More akin to something we read about from the 1880s to be honest.
Not sure why RU-vid thought I needed to see a 10 year old video of a barge dumping logs in the river/ocean or whatever but I watched it so I guess they were right 😂
Thank you sea span king, for posting such an interesting video. I admire your patience in respect to answering the many questions in the comments section. You are a better man than me. The bathroom jokes and the people who could not figure out why this was done, and thought it was some random act of destruction did my head in.
I was thinking the same thing...at first with all that load bearing down on the ship. Then when it tilted to slide the logs off, I wondered at first if it was going to capsize. Can also imagine the crew having to lean sideways with the ship while dumping the logs. Interesting.
Nope, full logs floating away in the ocean invariably are actually full trees blown down by a storm and washed out to sea. the cut logs are carefully gathered by boom boats and secured hen towed to mills.
@@HamStands loaded up coast , transported , dumped and re-sorted for local mills to process or loaded onto freighters for raw log export. Now BCs forrest industry is controlled by foreign mega corps and or trust funds..
I presume this is on the Great Lakes, or other inland waterways? I couldn’t see a vessel of that design lasting long in the North Sea, so it’s an enclosed water somewhere? Phenomenal concept though & kudos to the designers, & even bigger kudos to the first crew to trial the prototype (whose brass ones must clang together when they walk quickly!).👏
British Columbia's coast, including the west coast of Vancouver Island, and according to other commenters around Haida Gwaii. Search "seaspan log barging 101" for more info.
Can someone explain how it works? does the ship fill some tanks with water on one side so the boat stays leaning and then releases barges? how the barges are kept in place not falling before releasing? Thanks
There are tipping tanks that are filled to dump the barge. The towing tug is attached to the barge at all times. There is a smaller tug attached to the stern of the tug that disconnects when the barge dumps. As the tipping tanks are filling the two tugs work together to keep the barge in place.
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My father in law alf olsen was an engineer at seaspan for years ,love the sound of those electromotives
I always watched these self dumping barges when I was a kid, growing up in the Port Moody area during the 70's! Now 61, and still being that "70's" kid watching them dump logs👍 Looks like they could use a few coats of Zinc,Red Oxide and some Bar Rust on it too 👍lol!!! (I use to sandblast and apply marine coating for FRPD and other outfits in the early, to late 90's)
Anybody know how the logs get to their next destination for processing or to the mill? I don’t see anything on the shore that indicates they just float there and get collected
I want to meet the man who came up with that unloading method! I imagine it was some thing like this: Carl: "Wow this is going to take all day Jim, that's a lot of logs" Jim: "Nahh, I'll get er done quick" Jim: "Hey Pete, if we half sink this sucker they should slide right off" Pete: "That sounds like a really bad idea" Carl: "Yeah I agree" Jim: "Fine, hold my beer"
trackhoe23 There are two left working and two have been decommissioned the rest have been scraped. One self propelled was turned into the first barge on this video, the second was scraped in China.
Joseph Astier that is the tow line from the tug to the barge. It did not break when the barge dumps the deck hand releases the brake on the winch so the tow line can peel off the winch till the barge slows down. Once the barge slows we winch the line back aboard.
@@donziperk some camps just send " camp run " wood, a mix of everything, so sometimes the logs are de-watered, scaled, sorted and cut to particular lengths a customer wants, then back in the water - delivered to a mill or Vancouver harbor for export.