I was hoping he'd bring that up. Hard to forget that smell...

You get used to it; Some people can't smell it at all, also its usually worst in the morning.

To be fair, all of idaho is a hole

​@@kenetickups6146 Y?

​​@@UHaulShortsbeen there?

Both of those states not only have major ports on the Mississippi River system but also ocean-going freighter ports (for bulk commodities as well as for containerized goods) on the GREAT LAKES /ST LAWRENCE SEAWAY, THE WORLD'S GREATEST and most commercially important INLAND WATERWAY for actual ocean-going international vessels! 'Certainly not landlocked like all of the other Great Lakes States, as well as the massive Province of Ontario! 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🌎 🇺🇲 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳 🔱 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳 🔱 🚢 ⚓️ 🇺🇸 🌎 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦

Since when are RIVER BARGES pushed by tugboats classed AS OCEAN-GOING VESSELS? 👎 👎 👎 👎 'Simply ship wannabes! 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳 🔱 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳 🔱 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳 🔱 🚢

Damn feels like people haven’t been this touchy about ports since Russians got themselves a warm water port in Port Arthur lmao

We cope how we can.

@@markpimlott2879 did you not watch the video? They load ocean-going barges there, not just river barges

What's even more interesting is what CREATED the Columbia Gorge.

@@fredinit Yeah God is super fascinating

​@@fredinityeah the missoula floods were crazy Edit: I misremembered, the missoula floods were because of an ice dam that spanned the gorge failing. The gorge was already there.

How massive is it and why does it make it possible?

I also call my big gorge "Columbia" because it is Massive.

Also we have the 5th deepest lake in the US

I’m sorry that you live there.

@@chimoshi3393why?

I’m pretty sure Salt Lake City or Ogden Utah is about to take that but there’s is an Inland so idk if it’s the same?

@@chimoshi3393it’s great living here.

Out on gun club road is one of their old houses, pretty sure his wife is from orofino Idaho just up the river

​@@daelinblack6681-- No, she came from Lapwai.

@@markmh835 Didn't her parents work on the Nez Perce reservation? I have heard that she donated a good amount of money to schools there.

As an Uber driver, I'll remind everyone that's not really how it works. They might have two full-time drivers. But there are often many drivers that are dormant. I don't go out unless the timing is right. Sometimes it's weeks at a time. People say the same thing in my smaller city that there are only three drivers. I laugh because when I'm on the app I see way more. Not only that, but my city connects to another city about an hour away. So we will often have less drivers, or even more drivers. Depending on if they are looking for rides back to where they started.

I couldn't get an uber there just last week. Had to walk.

They should have a faux beef with each other and constantly be trying to outdo one another.

Yeah, 'cause the whole world would be offended at seeing barges on the Seine... 🙄. News flash: we could care less!

@@jasonhurdlow6607 It's mostly a security concern, since the opening ceremony and some swimming events wills occur in the river.

Typical politician response.

@@PlutoktaMaybe they should have thought twice about planning swimming events in a maritime highway. 🤦🏼‍♂️

@@johnlacey3857 Right?

🥔tater gang🥔

i SEE what you did there ya genius motherfucker

You seem to be an Idaho native so you surely know best but wouldn't it be "my Idahos and Idabros"?

@@John-tx1wk kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g71zo9ycktiWgnk.html

Used to be an Idahomo (I have a sticker on my car that I got from the downtown Boise flying M lol) but I escaped to Oregon late 2022

Not to mention the Cumberland River was gone as well

There's plenty of 195 ft barges too. And tank barges, which are 52 x 250 or so and in and around Memphis the corps of engineers operates work flats, crane barges, spud barges, and dredge barges of so many different sizes they don't even bother with the specs. In my admittedly limited experience working on a tug in the port of memphis, typically the box barges were 195 ft and the rake barges for leading the tows were 200 footers. And the tows dev get huge down here. Biggest one I can remember working on is 56 barges, but 35 to 40 is quite normal. Usually 15 barge tows were coal tows coming from the Ohio river or anywhere else north of Cairo cause that's max size to make a lock.

@@philbert006 Chemical barges are normally 297x54. That’s what I’m currently pushing. When I did dry cargo most of the time the 195’s went on the head because their lengths would mess up couples in the tow. Plus they were normally rakes.

@@GetThemLyrics Huh. That probably _is_ the kind of job that leaves you with a lot of time to watch YT videos.

wait you work with tow boats you can drive? like amphibious boats? sounds cool.

I was amazed this wasn't mentioned in the video.

And they were both named after Lewis and Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition because they stayed there and traded with the Nez Perce during their Expedition.

Thank you! I live in Clarkston and although the map was labeled correctly I was still thinking, man, not even a shout out for the other half of the community. It's called the LC Valley for a reason. 😂 (By the way, for those who didn't know, Clarkston is the town directly across the Snake River from the one labeled Lewiston. Extra bonus, there's actually two rivers, the Snake River and the Clearwater River that join together and continue on as the Snake. So technically, if the river is in Idaho it's the Clearwater, not the Snake.)

The perfect place to live if you love pot and permitless conceal carry

New York is more dynamic and fun loving than both of them

Until the Snake River floods and then you have the eastern most Dairy Queen in Washington

Not true DQ in Seattle area

That's not even close to being accurate lol. I live in Washington state and literally pass 2 DQ's between my house and work

@@jerrylivasy1744and Oregon and I'm sure California. Probably Alaska and perhaps Hawaii as well

I drive past a Dairy Queen (DQ) every weekday that is 300 miles further West than Lewiston. But, hey, everyone needs to validate their existence, right?

Yes, and we'd tell the people living there to "Va te faire foutre".

It would be Louis-sur-Serpent (as it's not a fortified city it could not be Louisbourg ; not Saint-Louis because no major church; and it's on the Snake river) ;

@@DjesonPVstop making us hate France even more.

Louisfert

Lol, I like how its still technically pronounced the same way

Awesome, that's where I was born! I still have relatives who live in the area. I've lived most of my life in Oklahoma, though, and haven't visited Vancouver in 24 years.

I missed the smiley face part? What was it? I live in washougal and was curious.

I was a toddler in West Richland, which is near where the Snake and Columbia meet.

@@dirtyjoe1317 at 4:44 the barge that falls into frame. It’s a reference to a Tidewater Barge that frequents the Columbia River

Dude I literally lived the first 20 years of my life in lewi and never realized there's a face on the barge. I've spent days watching them from across the river as they fill it up, yet I've never noticed

But Lewiston is higher

Facts

@@JoelRipke lol

Duluth doesn't contain Idaho's westernmost Dairy Queen

Duluth is ON the great lakes. Calling it “land locked” is cheating

I'm betting some people on the team were directly or indirectly influenced by his videos. Whenever some big fact explaining channel spreads something unknown, it does the rounds around the internet.

Was one of the questions about the westernmost Dairy Queen in Idaho?

I competed in the national geography bee when I was in middle school and I grew up right across the river from Lewiston

That 'fabulous smell' smells awful in reality.

Like CCI Ammunition, who's cheap junk turns my Beretta into an expensive jamming machine

2nd amendment freedom says you gotta have ammo !

do it ourselves

“.. is one of America's most unique features” is the most American thing I've heard all day. Sam has been to Europe. And crossed many rivers and canals. A feature isn't unique, when you've copied it from somewhere else.

actualyl I think coing the verb "To Riv" is up there for me.. and I'm multilingual and studied linguistics! LOL

that's just good logistics. Never move an empty platform if you can avoid it

Was it iron ore shipping? That's the big thing for cargo coming from the upper great lakes (Minnesota Wisconsin UP Michigan)

That's because those states are on the great lakes, which have direct water access to the Atlantic Ocean via the St Lawrence River. Basically, they are no different than any other coastal city in the United States like San Francisco and New York, etc. Because the Great Lakes act as an extended version of the ocean...

​@@evanneal4936Does no one know about Niagara Falls?

the legendary Edmund FItzgerald was a major ship on the rountes from Duluth/Superior all the way out to TOldeo at upper end of Erie. SHe wasnt built for Sea so then cargo got trans shipped to an oceangoing vessel for traveling the lower Saint Lawrence seaway.

@@evanneal4936 Right but the work that went into making it navigable on the St Lawrence river was immense but the ship size is very restricted because the lock system cannot handle full size ocean going vessels.

And I was just wondering where the westernmost Dairy Queen in Idaho was!

Actually, there is a RIVER BARGE PORT in Idaho! 🥔 🍠 🥔

that is misleading, there is a port that leads to the Pacific Ocean, not on the ocean

ME TOO INWAS JUSS GHEREEEE

Love Lewiston, the whole area really

Did some of those containers possibly originate from Lewiston, ID? I mean, you probably know Hamburg Sud is a huge shipping line; you see their containers all over the world.

I think Basel is similar to Lewiston. Lewiston doesn't actually have ocean going ships traveling to it just barges. Hamburg is like Tacoma.

@@DesertTOON Tacoma is in fiords more than 100km from the open ocean. However it is deep seawater and dredging is only done around the quays.

In Europe you have more ports like that. Antwerp is one of the biggest ports in Europe (2nd or 3rd I think, Rotterdam is at 1) and it's also about 100km inland. It can receive ships too big to fit in the Panama and Suez canals and it's linked by road, rail and canal to ship stuff further along (stuff gets loaded onto those barges for further move and they bring stuff back to the port to then be shipped along).

Way to barge in with that correction.

To be clear some barges are oceangoing, but not these ones

You sound... Vaccinated

I spent time in the villages of Bristol bay and they are supplied by Barges from Seattle so barges can 100% be ocean going vessels. I’ve seen one in the middle of the gulf of alaska

​@@tonycoryell2566what?

Idaho is far enough north we happily don’t have fire ants. Which if you’ve ever been stung by them, you’d understand my meaning

Lewiston is full of fire ants. I remember going on the jet boats down hells gate and getting into a hill on accident as a kid

@@daelinblack6681 … their terrible

Go Oilers!

They have multiple clips and photos of the actual barges that go up and down the river!

Yeah. I sometimes just listen to it as a podcast, but this one was visually pretty good.

' Right on, Mariner! 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳 🔱 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳 🔱 🚢 ⚓️ 🛳 🔱 🚢

In general though there are a lot of ocean going tugs, mostly for the oil industry.

@@luipaardprint yep mostly for towing huge objects like platforms. OSVs are kinda tugs but aren’t anything that would service an inland port

@@jakebrod7 OSV's are NOT tugs,unless it's an Anchor handling Tug/Supply.As far as servicing an inland port,Venice Intracoastal City Port Aransas and to a degree Port Fourchon.Depends on your definition of "Port to Port" trade.

a ship is merely a vessel where its center of buoyancy is below its center of gravity. A boat is where its center of buoyancy is above its center of gravity

,eh?

But which province we talking about tho

Habitable? ... only just.

more insulted, maybe?

Well you certainly need lots of insulation up there

Except France moves way more goods by truck than the US does. The EU as a whole moves 45% of freight by road, 37% of freight by water, and only 11% by rail. In major part, that's because they chose to focus on rail use for passengers, while the US focused on rail use for freight, something that people don't think about when doing comparisons.

You also don't want to be Canada. Worst of all, *French Canada.*

still you move wheat on river barges, just like France do on at least 2 different rivers that I am aware of. and probably did even before your country was even invented.

Please don't tell your fellow Californians about idaho or Montana.

@@marcvalliant8131 I don't think you have much to worry about. Most people I know have no desire to move there, though I'm aware there's a fair amount of people from CA who have moved to Idaho when they retired. I also went in the summer, not the winter. So I can't speak to what it's like in the winter, but I'm sure a lot of people from CA would be afraid of the winter there. And things like dating and job opportunities are a lot less there. That's why I don't feel like moving to a rural state, as nice as they often are (and those are probably my friend's two biggest complaints).

Only the SE corner, part of the Bear River drainage, has no real connection with the grater Columbia/Snake drainage.

@@ZakhadWOW Yes, you are correct. I forgot about that little corner. :)

And the Wallowas themselves are gorgeous. It's an underappreciated part of the country.

Don’t tell anybody about Hells Canyon and the wallowa’s. Please please please.

back in the Fall of 1982 I was doing roadtrip work for a small drama company and Eastern WA/OR and all of Idaho was our zone. I remember discovering the insane beauty of The La Palouse, and then that drive down the clifframp form the Columbia Plateau surface to Lewiston is amazeballs.. The drop from plateau down to Wenatchee is pretty dramatic also

It’s also virtually correct, or at least that’s the impression given🤷‍♂️

the poorest US state lol

Sam just desperately wants to start a war.

Tbf the farming areas of Canada would get along well with the midwest US. Both harbor a shared hatred of the big city dwellers in their countries.

The sooner canada ceases to exist and the land ks folded in usa portfolio the better. We usa should have the land all the way from the panama canal to greenland and alaska. We need alaska for the oil, resource, and wildlife reserves etc, plus greenland will be key for things like science, storage of things that need cold places. Archeology sciences etc. As well as if we build things like a roadway or train up there its closer geogrsphically to like germany and denmark sweden norway. Gives us a bigger presence in the arctic regions that all others will struggle with because other than us russia will be closest by land and they have half the population and theyre strugglin. We can open up all these lands and so if you dont want to buy 10 million dollar house in florida yet you can go live anywhere on the nkrth american continent withoutncrossing an international border and we can atop playing these games where canadians steuggle to go shoot gums in texas and we struggle to run mining operations on canadian lands they dont even have the people to handle that was lands intended for usa anyway. These canadians could sell out and fold and they will only gain not lose its kinda jacked because we will have to buy yukon we will have to buy vancouver and northern territories and that will be a large chunk of the job done already right there. By the time we buy all tbe land they have more freedom and money than ever because of us in our country by selling out theres and that might ojtntjem in positions over us we dont want to be in so part of ke wants to shame the cansdians for proping up their illigitimate tyranny which was designed to hinder the expansion of the only country in the world thats capable of making a real difference. Hogging up half of north america with the population of california amd half of them are living next to new york above montana and abive oregon. Theyre border hogs man. Most americans live on coast and coast they got all this land no people. They live at the birder steuggle to drill the oil they dont eben have enough people to prospect effectively man they need to give up all there land and become usa so we can all go from alaska to greenland to florida to socal on a train if we want or a car or a plane or a campervan. We only love once

Nice. My fam likes to go stay in the yurts. Miss the wolf center, that was pretty cool.

SAME!

The rail has been ungraded to Lewiston to take 100ton grain hoppers in a 110 car unit shuttle train. Done partly in case a dam lock is out of service for work, whether planned or unplanned. All but 1-2 grain terminals on the lower Snake are track side so an up past, then load up downhill with a shuttle (and extra high speed loading gear) is feasible.

Yeah no. When I worked for the PNW farmer co-op, the majority of my job was loading grain into railcars Pause the video at 3:42 and in the top center of the screen is the rail terminal leased out to that co-op

I had read somewhere that they mostly produce white wheat in the Palouse, which is primarily exported to the Asian regions, where it is in high demand.

​@@user-en9qd5nx8w yeah thats what we grow here. Soft white wheat that goes to Asia for Ramen noodle flour. We farm 3,000 acres of Palouse farm ground

I got stuck in Colfax once and that was pretty apparent.

The Palouse is gorgeous. Too bad Washington is no longer a livable state.

Dry land farming does not yield more grain per acre.

Ah yes.. the ones paying for it are lying. 😂😂 Why use a cheaper mode of transport when they can use this "construct."?

The M/V Tustamena was built in Wisconsin I believe. But it came via the St. Lawrence. It is still active and the only way to transport goods out to Alaska's Aleutian Island chain. Except you know airplanes. Wisconsin and Minnesota built a shitload of wood-hulled tug boats in WWII and transported them in two parts to Seattle via railroad. edit -- M/V Tustamena is a ferry boat for the state of Alaska Marine Highway System.

Tug boats do not push barges, they assist with port work, tow work, and docking boats. Line boats, or tow boats push a tow of barges.

no wonder there isn't many ships whenever I commute through 84 highway.

Sounds like there are some regulatory issues causing increased prices that and or potentially the Portland port would need a redesign to increase efficiency.

@@jds1275 Too many bridges are too old. Oregon and Washington state do have plans to rebuild them but it's going to take another decade at least.

Grain doesn't get moved on container ships. Plenty of bulk carriers still get loaded in Portland, and Lewiston does not have any significant container operations.

@@PNWParksFan I never suggested that grain got hauled on container ships or made any claims to know what resources are shipped out and through Lewiston, to be fair. But things like meats in example would require that, and, Idaho deceptively has a high output of tech hardware, which itself needs containers. Other things like paper need them too. Each of those things are goods that Idaho not only produces in high quantities, but surrounding states do as well. Essentially the bulk of things we ship (literally) require containers, so it's not too surprising if the Port of Lewiston does in fact have at least some container ops. I'd have to look into the operations of the Port in order to learn the details, which of course like most people, I didn't even have the thought of doing, nor what does or doesn't go through it.

I've never heard so much talk of Idaho's ag exports without ever hearing of so much as a single potato.

What's idaho, I only know potato nation

Are you threatening my supply of potatoes? 😅

Nope, we all no Idaho is the nice one. Not like it's naibor Montana at all! This place is basically like if you lived in the arctic circle during the winter, and in Death Valley in the Summer. All the trees got killed by the beatles and their fungus so now there is no shade anywhere, and the wind runs wild and free all year. Uhhh... Oh! The bears, they have learned to work together and now we live in constant fear of roving groups of grizzlies and bands of blackbears on bicycles. Sure, the black bears sound funny, and it was. But then we made the mistake of laughing at them and they said "Gurrr Grraaa Gra" which means "I will see to it that your blood line ends at you." in black bear. Now they took all the guns. And that is how a state has legal weed and super open gun laws at once. To cope with and to protect from an existential threat of bears. Also, moose are just kinda scary anyway.

It's too late. Give up. People still throw shade, then pay $600k for a starter home here to get away from the hellscape they helped create in Portland. Like, thanks.

It's already the "jet boat capital of the world" already has many government ammunition contracts, why not?

​@@daelinblack6681 youre thinking of CCI/Speer, and unless they lost their contracts since I left, they hold the contracts for both the NYPD and Orange county (the two largest police forces in the country I believe), FBI, Border Patrol, DoD (several smaller groups pooled under them for bulk discount), and I remember loading a test contract for one of our military groups wanting hollow points. Iirc, there was also contracts with various gov groups for France, Finland, and Sweden,Hong Kong (revolver ammo), I think maybe Japan to. There are many more but I don't remember most of the foreign stuff I made. Being there I can say the ammo shortages that happened some time ago were entirely bs. Fear buying crested the shortage and my job security at the time.

Not to forget that, upriver, overlooking the Clearwater, is one of the premier "shooting optics" manufacturers in the US, with several military/ defense industry & police contracts keeping them busy year around..."Nightforce". They keep a low profile, but I've done contract deliveries and pickups there - both raw materiel and finished products. Trijicon optics also has a significant presence in the area though I'm probably not supposed to know/be aware of that. I love living out here. Contrary to some of the sniping/snarking from the big city leftists progressives, people in the L-C Valley & surrounding environs are - in largest part, genuinely nice, & fundamentally truly decent human beings. I moved here more than a decade ago in part to escape what I foresaw to be the looming, burgeoning madness/lawlessness of Portland; I was correct about it all - far moreso than I even knew at the time. I saw more racism, hatred, & generally irrational behaviors and ideals in the PDX metro area than I have ever encountered in Lewiston/Clarkston, either per capita, or raw numbers. Glad I got out/away when I did! Love the friends I've made out here. Good, very hardworking, salt-of-the-earth folks who inspire me to do and be, a better man!

English is my first language and I heard the same

Oh don't worry, Idaho exports that too.

Your English comprehension is probably still superior to half the American population

Lmao. The way you worded it made it seem like you're saying Americans have the worst reading comprehension and while you struggle, you're at least better than an American. (As an American, this may not be far from the truth...) You may not be "fluent" but you're writing KZfaq comments and watching English videos. That's pretty impressive in my book

@@Trenz0 I agree, he's doing great!

Smell sucks but driving through that mill is wild. It is absolutely massive.

I'm very surprised they have that.... That is half as interesting.

Well, half as interesting. Not full interesting. That would be too interesting.

Shout out to Marine Highway addicts!! My sympathy for the celiac.

Private boats can transit any lock on any inland waterway in the united states. Even then big ass ones on the upper Mississippi and Ohio rivers. They'll pump it up or down for a guy in a kayak if you're polite and follow the instructions.

@@philbert006 That oughta be fun, doing it in a kayak.

USA's frosty cap 🇨🇦

@@JoeJaJoeJoe where the geneva convention is more of a check list lmao

Technically a foreign nation, but functionally, a state without representation.

@@jds1275 kinda like the Southeastern US

Crazy how much of our country has ocean access even 1000+ miles away

Exactly correct.

Nerd

its the old "reno is further west than LA" angle again

@@ZakhadWOW San Diego's pretty far east. Downtown is at about the longitude of Spokane. So yes, small parts of Washington State and Oregon are further east than that coastal city, and even parts of Montana might reach further east than the San Diego-Imperial County line. The Lower 48 are basically the shape of an upside-down lampshade.

Is that further inland than Duluth/Superior? I'm too lazy to measure on earthy google

@@scotchbingeington6761 Yes, thanks to the Great Lakes screwing them, but they're also closer to the Atlantic.

World peace

Now we're talking, but that might also lower prices, and I don't think the government is interested in that

Exactly. I knew it was Washington-centric bc potatoes was never mentioned.

The Palouse. always reminded me oif the idea of the Creator taking a handful of lumpy mud and just splatting it there.. That geography is insane. I still remember how impressed I was at the adapted combines ot work on slopes.