I'd love to see that in action

Ahem! 90 pound, good sir. :v

From my time onboard CSL vessels this is accurate haha

I can only imagine the hell it takes to replace/ repair the conveyor belts! And to keep it from running of track. I know...I've worked on similar equipment. Conveyor belts can be a nightmare.

@Gerardo Deandre qqqqqqq

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Same here 😆

same… i thought it weird, but then found it quite interesting!

whats that

@@hebirb it is a very old mechanical grabber that used to unload these ships before self unloading. They are very big en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulett

@Bigga Nigga I don't know what you mean by CSL, But it was a ship in the American Steamship Company.

definitely

Yeah let’s go back to a horribly slow and inefficient process in the name of nostalgia, brilliant!

jstoli996c4s Never said we should go back, just that the old ones were fascinating to watch, like my other nostalgic favorite, steam locomotives.

@@jstoli996c4sI hope you do not lose your job in the name of automation

@@MatzeB111 Change is inevitable, adapt or die. This applies to all of us.

You should see the one inside of the Stewart j cort or the presque isle on the Great Lakes. They have a rotary type elevator that works similar to a backward water wheel

I also work a siwertel unloader in coal

how long is your average lifetime?

So? We've all unloaded semen to last several lifetimes.

And how many times are you. Going to repost the same comment???

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R.I.P. Rene Meloche

Mike P. Yeah let’s go back to a horribly slow and inefficient process in the name of nostalgia, brilliant!

How much does the ship owner gets of he gives a ship to a company annually?

I m going to join one wsm Algoma Valour

And noisy. My cabin was on forward side of accommodation. Just aft of the boom. No sleep while discharging.

They all have to be the same cargo. IIRC.

They carry one cargo at a time....then clean the holds before picking up another.

one of these things is not like the other....

Mitch McConnell wants to have a word with you.

Grancitoz, With ice over coming,they just load the whole thing with cocaine this time of year,long winter 'ya know...

I really doubt it. But for whatever reason, business would rather buy 50 things that cost a million dollars than pay 50 million in salaries...

@Wes W 50 things that cost a million don't complain. 1 person out of the 50 million in salary can case the company to shut down.

Barbara Hammer up to 30 and 11 million. Captain and shift commander LaBonte

Barbara Hammer looking for a job

I worked on this new build vessel.. This ship have 32 crew members.. Ship cost is 58 million us dollars..

Looks like it has to compromise a lot of cargo space for this system

I'm looking for a job, experienced loading cargo on floating crane with conveyor belt

Slow and in efficient. Plus add in all the over the topunion wages they don't have to pay.

They have been in use since the 60s. Not that unreliable.

That's why there are two conveyors, one each side, I guess if the ship lists then that side will get emptied a bit faster to right it again.

I'm not sure a boom that length would be enough to roll a ship that size. I could be wrong.

Amazing how you're trying to put words in my mouth, perhaps to accuse me of anti-progressionism. So I start by returning another question: are you against the preservation of classic ships you can only find in the Great Lakes? But no, I am not against 'progress and improvement', but against the consequences they are bringing upon those classic ships. Sometimes it's simply not right to sweep the old in favor of the new, especially when it comes to things you can only find in just one place. That also explains how some Hulett unloaders were disassembled to be stored, and later on be reassembled elsewhere in the vicinity.

I worked at Bay Ship back in the 70s and 80s and back then we converted the older ships into self unloaders so none were taken out of service and are still sailing today

Actually many classic ships which were retrofitted with self unloading gears midway in their lives have been sent for scrap up until today. Some notable examples were the Joseph H Frantz, Calumet II and Mississagi. Just because they are retrofitted with self unloaders doesn't mean they will 'last forever'.

@@kazukikashiwazaki4823 and now you are putting words in my mouth I never said they will last forever and you are correct some have been scraped but there are also some that are still sailing over the last 10 years Bay Ship has replaced the oil burning steam engines on the older ships with Diesel engines so for the owners to invest that much money I would think they plan on using them for a while

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