out the drink,

[snowcat]

Just a quick fix this one, tho' there's a patch to put on the bow when she' returns from Finland... the anchor had come detached simply down to a striped D shackle, and droped in the drink, but we managed to retreve and place aboard for welding (in the end)...

The salt and the corostion, makes for a terable weld, I now use 6010s to acheve pen, overwise iv found all the weld sits on the surface.....

It was a 2hrs, geting the anchor, and 20mins welding....

 

[bill_gj]

Baltic Wharf, Mr S?

 

[snowcat]

correctly identified, bill, seam to spend half my life there, I cant really moan unlikely to get work much more local....

 

[MrFluffy]

How the hell do you retrieve a anchor off the seabed???
Do you have to get divers to go down and hook it onto a cable or something? How can they find it in the mud?
Im seriously fascinated by this, I always figured when it fell off it was gone and that was the end of it.

 

[snowcat]

No your quite Right Fluff once its gone Its gone, This anchor had snagged in the holding tube, by the adrift pin thus allowing us to lash it before we attempted to free it, It wasn't quite as simple as that because it dropped far further into the water than we wanted and kept wanting to "hang" on the bow as we attempted to pull aboard with the Crane...

It makes you realize how much opth the winches on the ships must have to drag 7' Cast out the mud, the Crane driver was in a real flap about having to shake it loose, I guess a large weight snagged on a floating vassal and a fixed crane is not a good combo..

Its been a real eye opener, doing emergency jobs on those old bulk carriers for the last few years, They really are little better than floating skips, often by the time they request a welder on board the problem has turned into a bloody disaster, The turnaround times are so tight, theres no possible way of making a proper job its just patch up and go, that vessel has a gash where the pins chewed the side out, which is now 6" hole seaside....there was no time to do a proper fix until next time in port so I was forced to lay upside down in a bulk head a weld best I could in 4' opening inside, just so know one could see daylight!!!!!

 

[Luke]

we lost an anchor overboard in the marina once. we decided it was worth spending £15 on a grappling hook to fish out the £200 ish anchor. It took bloody ages tho! I was at my wit's end but we got it in the end.

 

[Stuggi]

That ship wouldn't happen to be carrying cellulose, would it?

 

[snowcat]

That ship wouldn't happen to be carrying cellulose, would it?

Timber, It'l be back to your part of the world by the end of the week

 

[Stuggi]

Do you know what port? If it's Pietarsaari/Jakobstad I might go and check out your welding

 

[snowcat]

Do you know what port? If it's Pietarsaari/Jakobstad I might go and check out your welding

Il have an ask on Tuesday just dont look at the botch I had to make on the inside

 

[Stuggi]

I'll try, but I'm ain't promising anything!

 

[peterd51]

Hi,

we used to get Russian ships on the Trent wharfs bringing in wood...

suddenly I noticed one day that I couldn't see any cheap Ladas for sale in the town and all the wrecks disappeared out of the scrap-yards. The crews were buying the cars here for £50each and selling the parts back in Russia for vast profits.

Unfortunately, as usual, I got to hear about it much too late...

As I keep telling my wife, I only need one 'deal' to work and we can retire...

Regards
Peter

 

[nellway]

Years ago we lost an anchor in some very murky water off Hong Kong, donned scuba gear to fetch it and found a Volvo saloon car that had obviously fallen off a passing ship a loing time before - I've got a photo of me in the drivers' seat somewhere.

We also found two anchors - ours and one almost identical.

 

[MrFluffy]

Hehe neil, as kids we used to go fishing off the local wharf at the manchester ship canal and near the bridges on the shropshire union canal. We found a lot of stuff, mostly things that someone had assisted the owner to loose
One prolific day we pulled up 8 motor bikes with our rope and butchers hook, when the police turned up. They told us to bugger off and they'd contact all the owners to come collect their bikes. We hid round the corner and watched them load 3 into the van including a c90 covered in water snails that looked like it had been there a LONG time, and then push the rest back in while they thought nobody was looking
Another occasion we managed to "catch" the heavy armoured cable that fed the power for all the signage and lighting on the m53 motorway and decided perhaps our hobby wasn't as safe as we thought and retired when the rope broke loosing the hook trying to pull a mini out with a plank windlass winch on a tree...
I loved fishing as a kid

We had a nigerian container vessel come into port in ellesmere port when I worked at a white goods place, and the boss used to flog them no end of fridges too battered for the shop to recondition. The garage down the road sold them all their scrap cars for a small profit and after nearly a year in port for repairs, they scrapped the ship because the lloyds bod wouldn't give it a clean bill to sail without more work, and the company had ran out of money.
The ship by now was full to the bows of old fridges and cars and lots of nigerian sailors went home very unhappy . I went aboard a couple of times delivering old white goods, and it was in a shocking state so I can well believe the state of some of the barges...