I saw a documentary about it, they collect the logs while they float in the water, they chain and count them up walking on them and sht. It's pretty cool.
I like how hard working machines look like hard working machines. The bits of rust, all the dents, the creaking and groaning. I feel the same way after working hard...which I just don't do enough anymore.
I thought it was an accident...then I realised it was by design! Imagine being the first to suggest this idea and then test it out for real. Balls of steel.
@@kinodurtoten9325 I got a box fulla ball peen hammers. All sizes. Wooden handles. I put one in the bath... it didnt float. Life !.. what can you do eh ?!
This was so interesting! Something I have never, and would never, have thought about, and it's a human bloody marvel. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to learn something new today
@@INFJ-ThaneTr Besides learning how they transport massive amounts of logs oversea? Unless you already knew about this, you'd have to be incredibly stupid to have no idea boats like this exist, see one, and still not know what the boat is for. Seeing this for the first time and having that little tick of knowledge added to your brain is called learning. Maybe you should try it sometime.
One reason why these self-dumping barges evolved, especially in BC, was to protect the logs from damage by marine borers like shipworms during their transit from forest to mill.
Some logs are transported to the mill in salt water where mollusks like shipworms will initiate their attack. Another way to avoid them is to bring logs in to freshwaters for staging.@@nos9784
When l was a kid we'd go down and ride the docks from the wave. As a late teen my favorite job on the tugs was breaking down jackpots, the pile left after a dump basically a big iceberg of logs. Tailing the dump was nerve wracking as you had to stay connected until she went then release or get rolled and sunk as the barge jumps a fair ways as timber slides off.
@@rickkolesar9163 haha that is pretty awesome. Im from Kansas myself. So we have nothing like that here. More akin to something we read about from the 1880s to be honest.
Not sure why RUclips thought I needed to see a 10 year old video of a barge dumping logs in the river/ocean or whatever but I watched it so I guess they were right 😂
Thank you sea span king, for posting such an interesting video. I admire your patience in respect to answering the many questions in the comments section. You are a better man than me. The bathroom jokes and the people who could not figure out why this was done, and thought it was some random act of destruction did my head in.
I was thinking the same thing...at first with all that load bearing down on the ship. Then when it tilted to slide the logs off, I wondered at first if it was going to capsize. Can also imagine the crew having to lean sideways with the ship while dumping the logs. Interesting.
Nope, full logs floating away in the ocean invariably are actually full trees blown down by a storm and washed out to sea. the cut logs are carefully gathered by boom boats and secured hen towed to mills.
@@HamStands loaded up coast , transported , dumped and re-sorted for local mills to process or loaded onto freighters for raw log export. Now BCs forrest industry is controlled by foreign mega corps and or trust funds..
trackhoe23 There are two left working and two have been decommissioned the rest have been scraped. One self propelled was turned into the first barge on this video, the second was scraped in China.
Joseph Astier that is the tow line from the tug to the barge. It did not break when the barge dumps the deck hand releases the brake on the winch so the tow line can peel off the winch till the barge slows down. Once the barge slows we winch the line back aboard.
Can someone explain how it works? does the ship fill some tanks with water on one side so the boat stays leaning and then releases barges? how the barges are kept in place not falling before releasing? Thanks
There are tipping tanks that are filled to dump the barge. The towing tug is attached to the barge at all times. There is a smaller tug attached to the stern of the tug that disconnects when the barge dumps. As the tipping tanks are filling the two tugs work together to keep the barge in place.
I want to meet the man who came up with that unloading method! I imagine it was some thing like this: Carl: "Wow this is going to take all day Jim, that's a lot of logs" Jim: "Nahh, I'll get er done quick" Jim: "Hey Pete, if we half sink this sucker they should slide right off" Pete: "That sounds like a really bad idea" Carl: "Yeah I agree" Jim: "Fine, hold my beer"
@@donziperk some camps just send " camp run " wood, a mix of everything, so sometimes the logs are de-watered, scaled, sorted and cut to particular lengths a customer wants, then back in the water - delivered to a mill or Vancouver harbor for export.
I presume this is on the Great Lakes, or other inland waterways? I couldn’t see a vessel of that design lasting long in the North Sea, so it’s an enclosed water somewhere? Phenomenal concept though & kudos to the designers, & even bigger kudos to the first crew to trial the prototype (whose brass ones must clang together when they walk quickly!).👏
British Columbia's coast, including the west coast of Vancouver Island, and according to other commenters around Haida Gwaii. Search "seaspan log barging 101" for more info.
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Now I see where Lowes gets all their warped boards from lol
You gotta make friends with the fork lift guys. They tell you where the good stuff is
Your problem is going to lowes for wood.....
Haa haa great comment
😂😂😂
@@dixienormous126 couldn't have said it better myself
>intentionally floods itself
>dumps cargo into the water
>refuses to explain
>leaves
I saw a documentary about it, they collect the logs while they float in the water, they chain and count them up walking on them and sht. It's pretty cool.
I like how hard working machines look like hard working machines. The bits of rust, all the dents, the creaking and groaning. I feel the same way after working hard...which I just don't do enough anymore.
DO YOU FART DUST...?
Rust is never good (unless you are making thermite).
@@chadlimestall9201nobody said it's good, it's simply present along with dents etc. Unavoidable part of heavy use machinery.
Healthy looking lad like you, creaking and groaning? I think you're being overdramatic.
You’ll have a different idea towards the machines in manufacturing.
I love how in the 21st century our best method for moving lumber is still "that shit float dont it?"
Yeah lets also reinvent the wheel
I thought it was an accident...then I realised it was by design! Imagine being the first to suggest this idea and then test it out for real. Balls of steel.
Well wood floats do you have a peen??
@@kinodurtoten9325 What? The wood floats but the FIRST time this was EVER tried must have been nerve-wracking.
Gavin H so you don’t have a peen then??
@@kinodurtoten9325 I got a box fulla ball peen hammers. All sizes. Wooden handles. I put one in the bath... it didnt float. Life !.. what can you do eh ?!
Designed by a witch.
This was so interesting! Something I have never, and would never, have thought about, and it's a human bloody marvel. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to learn something new today
Seen those masses of logs and timber floating along the river in Canada,but not this before.
You didn't learn jack from this video, it offers nothing
@@INFJ-ThaneTr
Besides learning how they transport massive amounts of logs oversea?
Unless you already knew about this, you'd have to be incredibly stupid to have no idea boats like this exist, see one, and still not know what the boat is for. Seeing this for the first time and having that little tick of knowledge added to your brain is called learning. Maybe you should try it sometime.
That's some nicely controlled chaos on a pretty big scale. 👍
Thats how I felt after 3 cups of coffee this morning ...same song..
After 3 cups of coffee, I drop anchor.
Coffee gives me the blams. 🤮
Were you listing to one side afterwards?
@@NovaScotia300
Aye, he be swigging Listerine in the loo!
One reason why these self-dumping barges evolved, especially in BC, was to protect the logs from damage by marine borers like shipworms during their transit from forest to mill.
So, they are transported down a river, across saltwater, and back up a river to a sawmill again?
Or are they cut quick enough not to get damaged?
Some logs are transported to the mill in salt water where mollusks like shipworms will initiate their attack. Another way to avoid them is to bring logs in to freshwaters for staging.@@nos9784
@@nos9784Most BC mills are on the coast and the logs are used VERY quickly. The record cut for our mill was over 1M BF in one day.
We ran wormy logs in New West for carrier blocks, you could smell the lumber coming! Had to throw our gloves and aprons away after the cut.
@@rickkolesar9163 stunk like sewers .. we were sent 2x10 and 12 .. that was riddled during the big strike in 86, boom logs.
When l was a kid we'd go down and ride the docks from the wave. As a late teen my favorite job on the tugs was breaking down jackpots, the pile left after a dump basically a big iceberg of logs. Tailing the dump was nerve wracking as you had to stay connected until she went then release or get rolled and sunk as the barge jumps a fair ways as timber slides off.
Nice
That's actually one of the coolest things I've seen in a while
Miss the days up and down BC's coast .. to Fraser River.. never got old watching them..
When you could smell the sawmills , jobs .. now ghost towns..
what happened and what is it like now?
@@geronimo5537 Full of indians
im just kidding, I dont know
@@geronimo5537It's still happening. There's a barge that dumps every few weeks a few miles away. The logs feed many thriving sawmills in our area.
BC forestry is still doing very well, just fewer mills on the mainland.
@@rickkolesar9163 haha that is pretty awesome. Im from Kansas myself. So we have nothing like that here. More akin to something we read about from the 1880s to be honest.
Not sure why RUclips thought I needed to see a 10 year old video of a barge dumping logs in the river/ocean or whatever but I watched it so I guess they were right 😂
Log barges rock. I never knew they existed. Never even gave them a thought. TY. ~Brian.
They rock? Yeah, they wood!
They rock back and forth
@@christopherwellman2364 Like rock and roll?
@@brianinthepark5429 They rock and roll out (was what I originally thought about typing)
That's one scary way to move timber, excellent footage
When you have a dump like that you start the log rolling contest !!!!
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STOP HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA
Thank you sea span king, for posting such an interesting video. I admire your patience in respect to answering the many questions in the comments section. You are a better man than me. The bathroom jokes and the people who could not figure out why this was done, and thought it was some random act of destruction did my head in.
Oh yeah. Fascinating. Then stop reading and go away.
Terrifying. I know it’s all under control, but that’s gotta be a wild ride.
I was thinking the same thing...at first with all that load bearing down on the ship. Then when it tilted to slide the logs off, I wondered at first if it was going to capsize. Can also imagine the crew having to lean sideways with the ship while dumping the logs. Interesting.
@@nicolebond3992 actually looks like its just a barge being pulled by a tug boat
@@matthewwilson5019 it’s remarkable to watch though.
@@nicolebond3992 yes indeed, its fascinating and interesting 😀
@@nicolebond3992 it is a barge, the tipping is done by remote control, bo crew on board we are all on the tug that is pulling the barge.
Interesting, one never stops learning new things. Thanks for posting this video.
Skilled workers
I love it.
Today I learned this is why there is full logs floating in the ocean
Nope, full logs floating away in the ocean invariably are actually full trees blown down by a storm and washed out to sea. the cut logs are carefully gathered by boom boats and secured hen towed to mills.
Это очень круто, я представляю как одреналин зашкаливает! Респект судоводителям! Тонкая кабота.👍🏻
что такое тонкая кабота?
Logging feeding families for hundreds of years!
What does the wood taste like?
@@MehYam2112 It taste like green money
@@ProjecthuntanFishI'm no expert, but I would have used the money to buy a burger instead
@@ProjecthuntanFish
You walked right into that one
So much better than trying to pick everything off with choker cables.
Frikken brilliant.
surprised! It's amazing.
I don't lean near as bad when I dump my logs.
i do, just like that.
Pat MyGroin
Funny
You need a squatty potty. The dumbest gimmick ever.
That was really neat!!! Not at all what I was expecting!!!
i use to assist the dumps in howe sound, crazy when the load dumps and your shackled in to the bow.
ONE LOG OVER THE LINE
Now that's what I call, dropping the kids off in the pool.
Now this explains why lumber is so expensive! Thanks got it
imagine how expensive lumber would be if all of these were driven to the mill by trucks...
Looks like a wild ride! 😁👍
crew spilled coffee
That was something new and amazing.
That was just plain damn impressive!
That's exactly how I dump every morning. ..
solid log dumpage
*your funny*
Those sound like EMD engines winding up on the tow-boat just after the dump. The turbo sounds awesome! Am I correct about those being EMD's?
Yup, that's an EMD. I'm a freight train engineer and nothing sounds better then when I have 2 or 3 EMD engines spulling up. Music!
NO
Icdean86 Finally, someone just like me. Now I know there are people like me who think EMD engines are music.
Woo that's so cool cool never seen that before
Same here.
That turbo spooling up though 🔊💪🏼
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Awww yes now I hear it... Big bad daddy turbo
its the winch from the tugboat, lol
You're hearing an EMD 645 or 710 V16 diesel, same as used in a lot of locomotives.
Wow Super Ships video !
Amazing how the vessel was squirted in the opposite direction to rhe departing logs .
Something about "an equal and opposite reaction" comes to mind here...
Aye, yee canna change the laws o physics Jim.
Newtons 3rd law of motion.
It had me wondering, do you tjink they might have sone kind of jets on the side to help it move
Vectors baby
Very clever idea, is it using ballast tanks to tilt
it must be i think
what a badass rig
What’s the purpose for this? Amazing to watch!
It's like a dump truck
Most likely, it’s to float the logs to a sawmill close to the water. Pretty easy work when water makes everything basically weightless!
@@ezicarus8216 8 to 10 hours to load
@@HamStands loaded up coast , transported , dumped and re-sorted for local mills to process or loaded onto freighters for raw log export.
Now BCs forrest industry is controlled by foreign mega corps and or trust funds..
wow !!!
Love the engine sound ❤️
Nice clean dump.
NICE
thats what it feels like after eating at mcdonalds
Taco bell*
What kind of McDonalds do you go to?
Love a barge log dump, extremely skilled seamen right there 👏
i got some semen for ya
Sea people + sea men = sea-ciety.
Buoyancy is pretty fricken cool...
I'd also be screwed if i ever got it in a spelling bee.
I wonder if they use ballast tanks to level the ship or tip it?
That baby is pushing some water.
Love the sound of those engines.
This is actually very interesting
now that's a cargo delivery......20 kilotons of wood....all at once!!!
Ship said yeet, then had to reel back from the force. The logs were like “guess imma float now”
Very good!!
My father in law alf olsen was an engineer at seaspan for years ,love the sound of those electromotives
I think your father in law and my dad where workmates and friends. My dad worked for Seaspan from the early 70s to 96.
Ya dropped something
Only realized that it was tug towing a barge the second time I watched
That's a ship. The tug is towing the line that has the logs.
This is the kind of energy I need carrying my groceries!
Seen a few beavers along the shore there taking notes....
I saw it and still don't fully believe it
I gotta taka Ship Dump
Right on Scotty ,🖖🏼
“Ship goes in the water. Logs go on the ship. Logs go in the water… Our logs…”
How many barges are still working? I seem to recall hearing about several getting scrapped along with the self-propelleds.
trackhoe23 There are two left working and two have been decommissioned the rest have been scraped. One self propelled was turned into the first barge on this video, the second was scraped in China.
Thanks! Glad some are still going, though I'm sure it's only a matter of time...
trackhoe23
@@SeaSpanKingThere's one that dumps near Chemainus every couple of weeks..
Dad ran the cranes on the monarch since it was new
Wait...that's not an accident is it? That's part of the design, dumping the wood next to shore
I love the idea of the first guy proposing this idea… “ok so here me out” 😂
It was in the thumbnail but I still didn't believe it until I watched, crazy what machines are capable of
I have a good log dump every morning! 💩
so much that you clog your toilet
The logs didn't move their place! It's ship that was moved
Post a new video! I used to watch your vids!
Time to dump some logs brb ☕️
Bloody hell good video.
0:45 What was the line that snapped?
Joseph Astier that is the tow line from the tug to the barge. It did not break when the barge dumps the deck hand releases the brake on the winch so the tow line can peel off the winch till the barge slows down. Once the barge slows we winch the line back aboard.
wow..incredible!
Damn cool!
“This is for Endor you damn Ewoks!” -Galactic Empire
Can someone explain how it works? does the ship fill some tanks with water on one side so the boat stays leaning and then releases barges? how the barges are kept in place not falling before releasing? Thanks
There are tipping tanks that are filled to dump the barge. The towing tug is attached to the barge at all times. There is a smaller tug attached to the stern of the tug that disconnects when the barge dumps. As the tipping tanks are filling the two tugs work together to keep the barge in place.
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If they are strapped down right that ship will never sink lol
omg i thought this is from movvie Waterworld
That reminds me....
Huge load and very cool ship
I want to meet the man who came up with that unloading method! I imagine it was some thing like this:
Carl: "Wow this is going to take all day Jim, that's a lot of logs"
Jim: "Nahh, I'll get er done quick"
Jim: "Hey Pete, if we half sink this sucker they should slide right off"
Pete: "That sounds like a really bad idea"
Carl: "Yeah I agree"
Jim: "Fine, hold my beer"
Curious how they get them release all at once
These things are just out of imagonation for the common man
This is really cool to watch. What happens after? Are the logs recovered? If so, I wonder how? They are so huge
Yes they are collected into booms and moved to the mill.
@@donziperk some camps just send " camp run " wood, a mix of everything, so sometimes the logs are de-watered, scaled, sorted and cut to particular lengths a customer wants, then back in the water - delivered to a mill or Vancouver harbor for export.
That's insane! 😮
Very cool 👍 Very efficient 👍
horible, I thought that ship will drown
Release the Kraken!!!
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That’s about how I unload/dump logs too.
Meanwhile a family of beavers on the bank had a massive stroke
"Transit and two dumps"
Oh that was intentional?!?
:)
Well, you could handle every log, but why?
yes my when we get to our dump site I flood one side of the barge to about 20 to 30 degrees and the logs slide off.
@@SeaSpanKing what tonage license do you have? How long did it take for you to captain a boat like this?
@@chadjohnson5917 500 ton masters ticket. 7 years as Chief mate before going as master.
@@SeaSpanKing thanks. Just have a 100 ton here. What rating we're you as the chief mate?
I hope can work on this tugboat
I presume this is on the Great Lakes, or other inland waterways? I couldn’t see a vessel of that design lasting long in the North Sea, so it’s an enclosed water somewhere? Phenomenal concept though & kudos to the designers, & even bigger kudos to the first crew to trial the prototype (whose brass ones must clang together when they walk quickly!).👏
British Columbia's coast, including the west coast of Vancouver Island, and according to other commenters around Haida Gwaii. Search "seaspan log barging 101" for more info.
I'm guessing West Coast of North America. Too mountainous for great lakes.
Just look at the river on Google Maps that flows through Vancouver
There's just one still operating..dumps off the east coast of Vancouver Island.
Amazing....this is the real deal....a REAL job....
Billy Matthews