new ship !!

What is "one hundred-weight"? Is that like "one hundred-lenght" or an actual unit?

@@leocurious9919stones used to weigh 12.5 and 8 of them would be a 100weight. Now stones weigh 14 lbs and it means 112 lbs but the name is the same.

@@notallowedtobehonest2539 I know that the UK uses "stones", otherwise I would be completely lost with your comment. Even assuming that you are trolling me with "stones" to explain "100weight". Crazy units. Thanks for the information.

Same, just preferred terms used in the areas

More parts to fail, you don’t slow down your car using the gearbox in an emergency stop

@@david667766 I looked turns out they pretty much all have this one big drum brake and some kind of manual handle or wheel for it. It is pretty simple I just seen them fail. Probably pretty rare and had no brake padding left in those ones.

As a Chief Electrician on cargo ships, the deck equipment was my responsibility to maintain. There is a 'dog' (if you will) between the 2 drums. One drum (windlass whatever) has mooring lines one it, the other, the anchor chain. With a lever you can disengage/engage one or the other, or 'neutral'. They are either geared or hydraulically driven. If you tried to drop the anchor with the windlass engaged you would wind up overspeeding the drive mechanism. The anchor is dropped with gravity only. Just like a lifeboat. Picked up by motor. Both controlled with a brake band on a drum to control. One of many tests that the Coast Guard does on annual inspections (COI) is drop tests on both lifeboats and anchors. They want to see them drop, free fall, then stop it with the brake. This is what I am seeing in this video. The guy in white coveralls is probably the inspector. P.S. The anchor windlass and lifeboat hoists are ALWAYS connected to the emergency bus. When all else fails you can drop either one (as required) for safety!

If sea bed is too deep, there is no need to anchor. Its not like the ship will ground or something. Ships are usually anchored in shallow waters where there is a chance of the ship being dragged by the wind towards ground. In deep sea if ships have to stop for some engine repair job they drift freely.

The "governor" is called a "brake." That's the only thing that can stop the chain. When the brake fails, it's good bye anchor. Well, an attempt will usually be made to recover the anchor as it's usually in fairly shallow water.

On very large ships with very heavy anchors arrangements are provided for controlled lowering in addition to gravity lowering. In such ships the electric or hydraulic motor that picks up the anchor can also be run in reverse direction under controlled speed to lower the anchor. But i agree there should have been some kind of centrifugal braking arrangement as well to control the speed of lowering on all boats.

Brother they are testing the anchor of a ship; whether the ship gear,like brake etc. will hold the anchor and its chain .

This is a ships anchor chain. They are testing the braking system of the anchor chain. Ships anchors are lowered by gravity and there is only one drum brake to restrict its motion. By regulation the drum brake should have braking power of 40% of the cable's failing load. The inspectors are here to tst the braking efficiency. Whether the brake slips or not.