Ship cut and shut.

[DuffyBB]

Stolen/spotted on another forum...linky...would like to see a documentary or something going into more detail about the process.

 

[madkayaker]

Wow very impressive (wife liked it to)

 

[the snooper]

some nice engineering gone on there

 

[Shox Dr]

Bit of a bugger if it cut your ensuite off and moved it 99 feet

 

[the snooper]

Bit of a ****** if it cut your ensuite off and moved it 99 feet

that's the new cheap travel class they added you have to share a bathroom

 

[ronan]

There was a documentary about this exact type of job on the uk channels about 15 years or more back, it was in one of the tyneside yards, hawthorns or swan hunters, a ship came into the dry dock to be chopped in half and a length added in. Not the sort of job you do in a weekend with a halfords mig and a 4 1/2" grinder.

 

[rtbcomp]

Bit of a ****** if it cut your ensuite off and moved it 99 feet

Or if it ended up too big to get out of the dock.

 

[julianthegypsy]

I've seen it done with a narrowboat (took three days, which I thought was some going), and I've seen a combine harvester chopped in half down the middle to be widened two feet and I thought that was pretty good too, but that is on another planet. Fantastic.

 

[rory1]

I did a little work for a firm wich operated the RRS DiscoveryIII which is/was a oceanagrapgic research vessel operated by the national environmental research council. She had ten meters added to her length back in the 90's which was impressive but nowhere near as impressive as that time lapse! That's a cool clip

 

[brightspark]

glad i wasnt the electrician or pipe fitter on that job

 

[Wallace]

Seam sealer over the welds, no pride in their work.

 

[Robotstar5]

At least it all fitted, we wanted 2 transfer lines modifying (by the original Dutch manufacturer) so they built all the new parts from their drawings and arrived to fit it during a summer shutdown, there were a few red faces when they found the extension steelwork was 1 metre too short!

 

[mfletch]

Wow that's good cant see any of us trying to it in the shed

 

[madkayaker]

Depends on size of shed

 

[the snooper]

glad i wasnt the electrician or pipe fitter on that job

the pipes would all be straight, no corners to go around