The Genius Techniques Engineers Found to Tightly Secure Massive Container Ships

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9 ай бұрын

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@gdshiplashing8239 9 ай бұрын

Also thanks for crediting me for the clips you used. I only make videos to help new people to the industry and am glad to see it also used in the way you did.

@ashley2108 9 ай бұрын

We use to do this in 3 man teams. Trust m,e, ships do not look this pristine! They are rusted oily and freaken dangerous. two high lashing bars are very heavy and you have to balance them and watch your footing and keep and eye on the penguin (hook you have to insert into the conttianer) it needs to attach to.. Broken foot herniated disks and fracture hip, also dislocated shoulder. Once your body is destroyed, you are then fired and left for dead.

@Gademet 9 ай бұрын

very well said dude,

@Dirkadew 9 ай бұрын

That’s why it’s best to be unemployed.

@Neo-po2xw 8 ай бұрын

how much you used to get

@Metalborn710 8 ай бұрын

Guess you should have got an office job.

@andrewholdaway813 8 ай бұрын

The sad truth behind the _'genius techniques'_ nonsense.

@AlanTheBeast100 2 күн бұрын

Always love a 5 minute video packed into 15 minutes.

@thehark6247 9 ай бұрын

kudos to the little mentioned humble stevedore. His job is deceivingly dangerous, even deadly at times, i know the feeling. Trust me, 30 yr steel rigger/climber.

@Barmaley80x 28 күн бұрын

У бурового станка безопасная работа. Болванка может как сверху прилететь, так и из под ног отправить в небеса.

@TheDavidlloydjones 4 күн бұрын

"Humble" stevadore? Um. What planet do you have in mind?

@Rhacman 9 ай бұрын

Kerbal Space Program: This part is moving too much. Cover it in struts! Container ships: This part is moving too much. Cover it in struts!

@redpug5042 8 ай бұрын

some people talk really slowly to increase the video time. This just straight up adds space between sentences. I swear the voiced audio can't be longer than 5 minutes.

@Max_Marz 9 ай бұрын

The AI forgot to tell us what PMPH stands for.

@MrKh4Ot1k 3 ай бұрын

Probably pieces moved per hour.

@davidwilliams1086 19 күн бұрын

Google it.

@tacomator2895 16 күн бұрын

Perpetual Morgification Per Home

@c.m.7037 9 ай бұрын

Interesting! Props to the workers that help us get our stuff!

@tgood5527 12 күн бұрын

It’s a tough job, but I love it.

@johninnc9893 9 ай бұрын

Interesting, but way too long. Should have been more like 7 minutes long.

@innercityprepper 9 ай бұрын

This was a cool video, I enjoyed the "how it's made" feel of the twist lock maintenance section.

@jamielee9350 9 ай бұрын

I will call BS on this bit ... we had some twist locks that never got maintained, apart from a squirt of oil every 6 months.

@jknight441 6 күн бұрын

I operate the cranes most of the time can’t unload the containers because the twists locks on most ships are over used falling apart

@abdul-qf2fe 9 ай бұрын

Twistlocks is such a genius tool that tightly secures containers,the maintenance is outstanding 👏 👌

@qa1e2r4 9 ай бұрын

Why is he cleaning almost brand new perfectly clean "demo" twist lock? He should be cleaning the old and dirty one first!!! Also how many he can clean with such non-specific equipment? A boat have how many of these? Hundreds maybe thousands? Will he be able to clean a full set by his retirement? He does one in 5-6 min each container needs 4 so 30min per container so 16 containers in a 8h day. 15000 containers on avarage as per google so for him to do a full ship he needs almost 3 years for a full rotation....

@abdul-qf2fe 9 ай бұрын

@qa1e2r4 it's only a demo pal😎

@Pocketfarmer1 9 ай бұрын

@@qa1e2r4quite right .the demo is complete bs. I work on a tug that regularly moves barge loads of containers. The only maintenance those locks got was getting washed when they were float tested.

@maxpool162 9 ай бұрын

Whole world economy relies on containers transport and we still have some dangerous and old schools solutions, this is amazing. And we want go to Mars.

@pete5534 9 ай бұрын

Clever design. Fascinating.

@petenikolic5244 9 ай бұрын

Yea right i bet those twist locks are lucky to be looked at once every 5 years in life

@markissboi3583 9 ай бұрын

r.i.p the cartoon characters that fell off the ship or hit by steel poles

@firstlast1047 9 ай бұрын

I had occasion to be on a container ship while it was loading. The two lashers were incedible. Working in unision, they applied the lashings without falling behind. The noise was deafening, very loud. I wonder how a person would know if a stack was collapsing. I discovered, during the short time i was on deck, there was a distinct noise pattern indicating a successful placement. Also, the ship's crew, every 2/3 days, while the ship is underway, are required to inspect lashings and remove the slack

@brucherrin8947 8 ай бұрын

The hand drawn first-aid sign with masking tape was funky ....SAFTY FIRST

@TheDavidlloydjones 4 күн бұрын

Corner locks provide "increased efficiency," when we haven't mentioned any efficiency yet, so it's not clear what's increased. It's automatic so there's no manual labour involved. We have no idea why the video shows that guy putting those castings in the slots in the corner of the container by hand.

@warrenbrownartndesign 9 ай бұрын

nice.... im a lasher trainer and Gantry driver. i know a few of the guys in the bcmea training part. 😊 ILWU 505✊

@wycliffeojuka1253 9 ай бұрын

Hello sir

@warrenbrownartndesign 8 ай бұрын

@@wycliffeojuka1253 hello :)

@wycliffeojuka1253 8 ай бұрын

Can I get a chance in your port

@gdshiplashing8239 16 күн бұрын

I'm a steward in Seattle. We were trainers earlier this month.

@tgood5527 12 күн бұрын

ILWU. 13 ✊🏻

@rollydoucet8909 9 ай бұрын

The methods of moving goods all over the world have seen advancements comparable to those in the airplane industry.

@D-B-Cooper 9 ай бұрын

I’d be impressed if you told us why he is called stevedore.

@robletsdoit5886 4 күн бұрын

Lashing them 1,2 and 3 highs!!!!! Your arms feel like jello after 2 or 3 bays of 1,2 and 3 highs lol hopefully you don’t have high cubes!!!! Local 333 baby ILA ALL THE WAY

@bhyydy6353 24 күн бұрын

They picked a very clean twist-lok for the show.

@tgood5527 12 күн бұрын

Twist lock aka cone. A longshoreman calls them cone’s. How do I know this I’m a longshoreman.

@adriansue8955 9 ай бұрын

Who owns the hardware? all those thousands of twistlocks and lashing rods do they come with the containers? the ship? on loan from the dock? how do they keep track of them all so they get returned after use? or is it a communal thing?

@FloGrelot 9 ай бұрын

Every ship provides their own pins. They usually have 10+ pin boxes that get unloaded when the ships arrives. Every pin that gets removed from containers goes in those boxes to be reused later for loading the ship then when it's all done the ship loads up the pin boxes aboard and does the same thing at the next port.

@CrazyCook1 3 күн бұрын

Well, we've certainly have a lot of shipping containers fall off ships where I am. We get our Crocs from the beach, not the store.

@andrewhansen4092 9 ай бұрын

They don't fix or even care about the locks. All the ones I've used have been so worn out they barley did anything. They do not care about anything on these ships

@johncraig9869 9 ай бұрын

Still, over a thousand containers a year are lost over board

@garymiller5937 9 ай бұрын

Looks like the lashers have a very dangerous job. 😮

@tgood5527 12 күн бұрын

Most lasher only lash for like 10 years then do something else on the dock.

@davehann8178 8 ай бұрын

prevent theft? Every longshoreman watching this must be laughing his head off!

@chaddentandt9868 9 ай бұрын

Very interesting Dr. Jones. Good video.

@nancyfernandez-wl1me 6 күн бұрын

Interesante estas técnicas geniales que los ingenieros pueden hacer

@devinledesma5005 8 ай бұрын

Looks like it will make it harder to find the human traffic being knocked unconscious in those containers

@Calico5string1962 Ай бұрын

I spent nearly 27 years working at a US west coast port. Calling stevadores "skilled workers" might be a bit of a stretch. From my experiences, with the exception of the crane operators, the rest are largley simply over-paid forklift operators.

@christopherb4744 9 ай бұрын

You might sometimes get the impression that companies desire outside high placement to claim a loss at sea? Don't know but seems like a possibility.

@jcarlo331 9 ай бұрын

Check out the containers eroded lock loops , lol , twist lock pull it apart eventually, yea the twist locks are bombers but def not the containers connection loops .

@argentum530 27 күн бұрын

All of those genius techniques and the darn containers still fall off in the middle of the ocean...

@Suvendu450 9 ай бұрын

Love from India🇮🇳🇮🇳

@DanBurgaud 9 ай бұрын

7:08 WOW! I gotta look out for this scenario too.

@ronbelanger4113 22 күн бұрын

Semi skilled at best.

@agontop1 Ай бұрын

Absolutely well done video. Ty

@MitchM240 9 ай бұрын

There is a great documentary about Stevedores. It’s called “ The Wire”.

@DaveEtchells 9 ай бұрын

It never occurred to me before just how precise the crane operators have to be; they have to align the containers to within inches to get them to stack properly. Does anyone know if the crane has any systems that help with the final alignment?

@brianluck84 9 ай бұрын

I'm trained in ship to shore cranes. We have controls that will allow us to skew the load in most directions for final alignment but it's still all sight and feel. Really isn't that hard. The hard part is doing it fast

@DaveEtchells 9 ай бұрын

@@brianluck84 Wow, I’m mega-impressed. - And yeah, I could maybe do it given 30 minutes and a new set of glasses, but in the videos, they just seem to drop them in place.

@okymek 9 ай бұрын

The interlocks are tapered for self centering, they need to be within inches of being perfectly aligned for all four corners. The weight of the container will do the rest if you got it close enough.

@tgood5527 12 күн бұрын

The hard part is looking down all day. The floor is glass. The pay is good but good luck to your back.

@DaveEtchells 12 күн бұрын

@@tgood5527 Oh man, I can imagine! Must be a lot of back problems or spend 10% of your salary on massages. (I somehow suspect the construction companies don’t have on-site massage rooms 😂)

@ytzpilot 8 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t have a problem living in a shipping container home in a region prone to earthquakes, because they are designed to remain standing rolling around on a ship and high winds they would hold up very well in an earthquake

@armando_az1 9 ай бұрын

Moral of the story, twisty locks. 😂

@RonLWilson 9 ай бұрын

Quite interesting!

@rogerbrandt6678 8 ай бұрын

I bet within 3 months I can devise a system that saves 30% time loading ships.

@kkfoto 9 ай бұрын

To call that *Genius* is surely an exxageration

@DMSparky 8 ай бұрын

I like how there are giant unnecessary gaps in the narration just to make the video longer….

@gdshiplashing8239 9 ай бұрын

I see you use some clips from my videos. 😃

@docferringer 9 ай бұрын

What is this, a union operation? Who thought, "Wow this twist-lock maintenance sure is fast. What can I do to drag it out for a couple of shifts?" Freaking impact wrenches for speed and torque wrenches for safety.

@tgood5527 12 күн бұрын

Someone wanted in the union and couldn’t get in 😂 At the port of LA and Long Beach we handle that work no job security BS going on.

@RogerGarrett 9 ай бұрын

This seems like a perfect opportunity for an automated twist-lock insertion (and removal) system. When the overhead crane lifts the container off of the truck that's brought it into the port, the crane momentarily sets it down on top of an automated twist-lock insertion mechanism that instantly, safely, and with no human intervention, inserts the twist locks into the container. Similarly those twist locks can be removed at the destination port with a reverse system. It's just so incredibly inefficient to have people manually handling, inserting, and removing those locks.

@buzz-es 9 ай бұрын

Automate.....

@michaelmeichtry316 Ай бұрын

The video does show and described a few automated systems... please review entire video.

@user-pi2fj6xs6q Ай бұрын

Informative and helpful video, thanks a lot

@peterjansen7854 9 ай бұрын

If used correctly not many containers will be lost overboard 😉

@Formaldehydex 8 ай бұрын

Then explain why so many shipping containers end up in the ocean where they occasionally sink pleasure boats.

@user-mn9be6qq3d 2 ай бұрын

We are not called Stevedores. We are Longshoremen. Stevedores bring the ships into our ports and the Longshoremen do the main work. Without us the work won’t get done

@vladimirmilutinovic8057 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic !!!

@conradnelson5283 8 ай бұрын

Is this an employee orientation Film.?

@Deecups510 8 ай бұрын

Is the dude at 0:53 seriously walking right directly underneath the load? I worked around a lot of ships loading a lot of cargo and that is a HUGE no no. Nor would a sane person do it. Containers fall all the time, and you don't want to be anywhere near it when it happens.

@user-ki8fq7cj6i Ай бұрын

Muy buen video 😊

@tacomator2895 16 күн бұрын

That camera guy not saying anything to the guy who fell through the hole... Camera man: this shot will be perfect for the video!

@user-nr9te2hj4z Ай бұрын

Awesome technology of container secure

@fr3dr02 3 ай бұрын

The gantry operator, she sure can work them sticks😮

@noexcuses6727 8 ай бұрын

been in this industry over 45 years. this is not genius just common sense

@user-fc6to6ex5q 8 ай бұрын

This twist lock is a product of our company

@corvavw6447 Ай бұрын

Ja het moet gebeuren, en veiligheid is niet altijd gewaarborgd. Voor diegenen let goed op.

@andreweppink4498 9 ай бұрын

Dunno. AlI sounds good and is good. But there's GBux awaiting the man who comes up with a method for securing tail stax athwartships. So they don't keel over in bad weather with heavy rolling.

@raymondstemmer887 9 ай бұрын

The thing we can all use more of is smuggled drug proffits

@borisbadaxe9678 Ай бұрын

Now if they can only figure out how to keep the ships from colliding with bridges. 🤔

@kamalzoro 8 ай бұрын

the lashing is a dangerous work

@tgood5527 12 күн бұрын

Most lashers only lash for 10 years and move on to other dock jobs.

@kamalzoro 12 күн бұрын

@@tgood5527 yes i work inbthis job about 1y ,then i change to truck driver ,,yes ,,

@BADSEED13 9 ай бұрын

Lashing is a good workout. Those who know...know.

@pahedkavlog8298 9 ай бұрын

The. Imagine the owner of that ship yard earn billions while sitting on his house while workers, work there asses little 🤣😂

@unicorns778 8 ай бұрын

This is not engineers product but century old technique to secure any items at sea. Only thing new improvised material that's it.

@vijaykumardahisaria7325 9 ай бұрын

Very good

@aljock6927 Ай бұрын

It didn't say this is a corporate safety video

@donaldpetersen2382 9 ай бұрын

I hear the crane job is terrible

@pahedkavlog8298 9 ай бұрын

Then buy all automatic twist lock if you dont want anymore powerman

@rogerbrandt6678 8 ай бұрын

I hope lashers make more than crane operators. If not you are under paid.

@keithnichols7926 9 ай бұрын

Imagine all the ingenuity and disciplne expended in securing and shipping the tons of cheaply made electromechanical crap that will sizzle, short-circuit, and otherwise malfunction in thousands of American homes and offices next week.

@peterjansen7854 9 ай бұрын

Dont forget Lashing bars🙄

@Mr.DMZ. 8 ай бұрын

A bit different from GTA V

@Barmaley80x 28 күн бұрын

Это все инженеры, всегда что нибудь придумают.

@canvids1 9 ай бұрын

inland container ports with railway connections

@yagonezfromhell 8 ай бұрын

4:43. i know this guy. He is the singer on the sepultura huh. Derrick green.

@envitech02 9 ай бұрын

Stevedore is pronounced Ste-ver-dore? Wow I didn't know that. I thought it was Steve-dore. As in Steve Jobs. And I thought my English was good.

@davidgrigg472 9 ай бұрын

My whole family were stevedores. Until containerization through them out of their jobs. The London pronunciation was Steve e door

@RaftYosrYmahmod-ck5gz 8 ай бұрын

How az awut marsk sahn And pahrn motwst azkandr

@b0rd3n 9 ай бұрын

Propaganda i say, propagandahhh! Nice video, thanks!

@ITilBiondo 4 ай бұрын

I lost 70 pounds since i started lashing..😆

@rainerk7851 9 ай бұрын

Schade, betimmt sehr interesant. Leider nur englisch und ohne deutsch Untertittel.

@arybudianto9147 8 ай бұрын

Berapa gaji pekerja lashing

@bigbob1699 9 ай бұрын

They all signed their organ donor card , right?

@user-ps5cg5bj5x 8 ай бұрын

니들 일당이. 얼마나되지 알여주

@OutdoorFreedomDk 9 ай бұрын

6:54 ?

@cascadianrangers728 9 ай бұрын

I always wondered about this stuff! Now I know that I don't want to be a fucking Stevedore!

@ilovemyhonda250ex 9 ай бұрын

moar struts

@colinclift7486 23 күн бұрын

Did it with wire hausers donkeys years ago,stopped trying ta save time in port nd money,rear end of these 24k ships not stable,stacked to high!!!

@paulleon4467 4 ай бұрын

😊😊😊

@topthings6702 9 ай бұрын

👍👍👍

@timregan1005 3 ай бұрын

safety is always a bullshit lie, nice crayon drawing of the first aid sign. all about $

@yeasinjabed3630 8 ай бұрын

It's waste of resource and risk to put women in this kind of work

@shahrulnizam1390 9 ай бұрын

Good of skil worker work❤🫡