My dad was Director of Port Facilities for Conrail many years ago. One of his facilities was the former Reading Railroad Port Richmond Terminal on the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Conrail secured a contract to load scrap metal ships in much this manner. One of the problems they ran into was dropping scrap from deck height instead of lowering the bucket to the bottom of the hold. This resulted in a lot of friction and heat being generated, to the point that the scrap was heating up to combustion temperatures. They had a heck of a time figuring out how to lower the temperatures and extinguish the fires that erupted. Putting water on board wasn't an option due to the potential of capsize. I don't recall what the fix was. My recollection is that the railroad chose to not renew the contract due to the liability concerns, plus the expense of having to "delicately" place the scrap in the hold.

I can't imagine how long it took to load that ship, at the speed in which it took to load one bin it must have taken a month!

I'd love to see the UNLOAD..

Great job! please make longer video! Keep up the good work!👍👋

Could it get any more inefficient? How much does a ship cost per day? I’m glad I’m not paying the bills.

Muy vien exelente teransportar chatarra pelasticos 🇺🇲🤝🇨🇴

Seems very inefficient...conveyor or electro magnet would work better...

Grab bucket on front end loaders to load the skips, would have been so much faster, and the grab machines to pile up for the loaders, would be my obvious choice to speed things up!

Wy didn't you show the bin dumping

I keep thinking the Terminator is going to emerge from that pile of scrap 🤣 - “……I said I’ll be back….” 🤣

Really thrilling

Bring the bloody dumpster closer!

Looks like a fulfilling career to be apart of

I wonder if this is a ship wrecking yard in some third world country ?

How come they didn't even think to move the dumpster container closer to the loader and scrap pile to make it more efficient and to speed things up . Must be some kind of union reasoning thing. Stretch the job out ,way, waaaaay....out.

There should be large front loaders filling the hopper, not a grappling claw. Or a conveyor running material from the ground to the cargo hold on the ship. This is the least efficient way of bulk material loading I ever seen.

What a painstakingly slow way to load scrap

Strangely relaxing

Couple bulldozers with large lift buckets and several heavy-duty conveyor belts would have loaded this in a fraction of the time !!

I'm glad they are not in a hurry .

Everyone has this idea everything always has to be done fast all the time. Do it fast and you will run out of metal and everyone would be sent home.

That is a long winded way to load a ship - in the past when I loaded scrap it was from crane to hold and I bet we loaded in half the time it took for this ship. 🧐🇬🇧

Super, dass das auskippen vom Container nicht gezeigt wurde. Wäre sicherlich zu aufregend.

Seems very inefficient. Obviously a brand-new operator and the machine as well!

A conveyor would make the life much easier and fast

So someone gave that dude the job of playing in the scrap metal.

Id think there would be a faster and more efficient way to load the ship...

It's a pity this can't be recycled here in uk

I can't imagine the cost of the ship and workers and equipment. And then to unload at destination. Why can't this be recycled where it's at?

Was the grab driver on a go slow?

The excavator looks like scrap

conveyer belt

Honestly looks extremely slow, would big scoops not work better

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Why are those bins not being loaded with a bulldozer or front loader?

Why don’t they use a front end loaders on the wharf, ?? Why not use a small bulldozer in the ships hatch, instead of the totally inefficient little backhoe,?? Are these people sleeping on the job,?? Is the crane operator, still learning,?? Geez, so much time and $$$ wasted. Unbelievable, !!

Who buys shiploads of scrap? How can iron prices be so stupidly high when there are shiploads of scrap metal around ? who is hoarding all the steel? it darn sure isn't car makers, their all plastic.

Slow moving union people...

Does anyone know where this is at?

There has to be a cheaper and faster way...Hint Hint to an entrepreneurs out there who want to put people out of jobs on the Name of financial Gain....no wonder recycling isn't a popular it's profitable to the companies doing the labor

Brilliant video thank u 😍😀😀😀😀👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Loaded in record time 4 months and 21 days...............

WALL - E

That’s ships crane was sooo slow!

Best part is missing....

My scrap channel 👇

Perhaps you could say where this is? This scrap is leaving where? and going where?

Is het niet beteren Fuchs kranen in te zetten ,hier zit toch totaal geen snelheid in

How slow can you go?

This is more than Painful to watch.. 😴 😴 🥱

Loading seems somewhat slow?🐌

Guess who gets to pay for their extremely slow work?

where is this place

😝😝😝מה הם עובדים או משחקים ? מזה ,כמה זמן עד שהם מעמיסים,זזים כמו צב🐢🐢🐢🐢

Painful to watch

That is monkeys ucking a football there , I see a lot of spent money but not from this .

Too slow to watch. Bye.

Jesus this is slow, you'd think by now someone would have figured a quicker way