Photos from the Great Lakes.

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Getting fuel waiting for dock to be clear 92 degs!

 

[Bodhisattva]

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Heat like that makes you feel like you're at home!

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Had some severe weather. Capt had to start the engines and thrusters, to keep us from coming off the dock. Was so bad it tore the gangway off the boat. What a shit show. Now have cables, tow lines and plasma out. Shut down unloading till 9am. On watch till 0730. We were on anchor waiting for another ship to finish, should have stayed on anchor.

This is supposed to be on the end of the ladder thats now crumpled on the dock

 

[Viking1204]

Well the passing of that front after those storms should cool you down some! I can't wait until those cold fronts make it to us down here in NW Florida!

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Well, we snapped the forward roller shaft on the unloading boom roller. Luckly, I was doing my job, not posting and aggravating you guys and saw it happen. Had to do an emergency shut down. Had to put the boom back in the saddle, then shift back +1100 feet and tie up because another ship was due in. Repairman arrived about midnight. They arrived, ate and went to bed. Lol.
So now we sit. Shaft that broke was about a 6 inch steel shaft. Appears it had cracks and the rust got into the crack. This was probably over a decade of running before it failed. Piece that actually snapped was only about the size of my thumb.
I initially thought it was on fire because it was shucking smoldering bits on the deck. Luckly it wasn't. Could have been worse. A full failure of the + 500 foot belt ( breakage, destruction) would have sent us all home for +2 weeks.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Shaft in upper area of pic.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

More pix

 

[Raven]

Praise King Jesus nobody got hurt

 

[TK5o]

Wow awesome pics and great insight into your career field. Thanks for this thread.

 

[woodsy85]

Dang, be careful!


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[Rebel_Rider1969]

Finely repaired and unloading. Headed north to other repair dock tonight.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Loading the boat with ore for Gary, Indiana. 28 feet forward.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Quad waffle! Fixin to goto my 2nd job, dishwasher, steward for 2 hours of OT. ( actually my 3rd job, of the day. I was reading drafts while loading, 3rd Mate's job)

 

[Cd627]

Some of those photos on the first, original post ring a bell. I see that house that looks like a boat whenever I go out to Put-In Bay. Great scenery!

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Some of those photos on the first, original post ring a bell. I see that house that looks like a boat whenever I go out to Put-In Bay. Great scenery!

The freighter house is on the St. Mary's river in Michigan. We go by it about once a week.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Ugh. Been busy as hell. Someday if I work hard enough, pay enough taxes and build my social credit score I'll be able to live in the Great Utopia.

 

[MarkS]

Ugh. Been busy as hell. Someday if I work hard enough, pay enough taxes and build my social credit score I'll be able to live in the Great Utopia.

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To hell with the not so Great Utopia lol
You know you love the piney woods in the South just like most of us do