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Originally posted by DanStokes View PostIt's great to hear from you and to see the car again. I hope all is well and you're having fun.
Dan
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Originally posted by DanStokes View PostStill working with cranes? That seems interesting but I'm no good at heights so it wouldn't have been my cup of tea!
Dan
We are also having 2 small tug boats,so we are often out at night helping boats in and out of the dock.
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If I'm looking at the pics correctly are the cranes are mounted on a barge? Interesting. You might want to Google Earth the Port of Wilmington, NC, where I live. Our tower cranes are permanently mounted to the docks (at least I think they are). As I understand it we can do Panamax ships but nothing bigger unless we dredge the river more deeply. Interesting that we live half a world apart yet both of us are in port towns. I guess stuff from China gets shipped EVERYWHERE!
Love the port pics and thanks
Dan
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Originally posted by DanStokes View PostIf I'm looking at the pics correctly are the cranes are mounted on a barge? Interesting. You might want to Google Earth the Port of Wilmington, NC, where I live. Our tower cranes are permanently mounted to the docks (at least I think they are). As I understand it we can do Panamax ships but nothing bigger unless we dredge the river more deeply. Interesting that we live half a world apart yet both of us are in port towns. I guess stuff from China gets shipped EVERYWHERE!
Love the port pics and thanks
Dan
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I guess it was just the angle of the shot.
So I guess there are steel mills in your area? Heavy industry is truly awesome! Ours here in the US are much depleted in the past few decades.
Since 9/11 the port here is now secured to the point that you can't get very close to look at it or take a pic. There's a tour boat up the river (the Port of Wilmington is 25 miles or so up the Cape Fear River) and it used to take you down to State Port to look at it but now it turns around down stream of the Port so now you can see it but not up close. The old timers tell me that you also were able to drive up almost onto port property in the Olden Days but again, no more. That's why I suggested Google Earth - probably the best pics available.
DanLast edited by DanStokes; November 17, 2014, 12:11 PM.
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A lot of the big port cranes are on barges. The Port of Los Angeles had a massive one we took from the Germans after WWII. It was nicknamed Herman the German and was literally floated to Long Beach, through the Panama Canal, and reassembled.
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Originally posted by Scott Liggett View PostA lot of the big port cranes are on barges. The Port of Los Angeles had a massive one we took from the Germans after WWII. It was nicknamed Herman the German and was literally floated to Long Beach, through the Panama Canal, and reassembled.
http://portoflongbeach.blogspot.com/...an-german.html
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