Time Lapse Tug Boat Towing Barge ,Then 700 truck loads of logs are dumped in the water in 2 seconds ,Filmed in Ladysmith Vancouver Island Canada,
A better video of the log dump coming soon.
Awesome video! Can you imagine being on the barge after the logs slide off and she goes flying in the opposite direction? That must be one freakin weird ride!
Anyway, lots of other great maritime type vidz on the Tube as well
I got to ride a new 1x4 off the ways at gunderson in Portland, OR a few years back it was a fun expirence!
I would like to film from inside the crane.This Barge is huge ,I have some other videos of the action will post soon,
Here’s one of a 440kdwt ULCC that was built at Daewoo in Okpo.
The shipbuilding skill of the Koreans is incredible and I salute them for that…they are the best and truly deserve the title of world champions!
Damn that’s a lot of steel and paint! Thanks for posting that link.
It looks like Seaspan has some new equipment. I’d heard awhile back that they were building new tugs and barges in China. Is Seaspan still owned by the railroad guy from Idaho?
How much money do you think that log barge would cost to build ,Just wondering
Yes they built a bunch of 250’ barges in china and had a few tug hulls built there, but not completed. Dennis Washington owns them the railroad guy. They recently just got a few tractor tugs that were built in turkey as well. And one I think from martinac in Tacoma that is a z-tech.
My guess would be around 14 million usd.
The only guess I can make is that most of the value is in the cranes. I thought it might be Dennis Washington, but I really couldn’t remember. It looks like Seaspan has been a good long term investment for him, and that he has been very good for Seaspan too. Didn’t he buy a transportation company in Seattle too?
He may have have, if he did it was not a tug and barge outfit to my knowledge.
[QUOTE=rshrew;70235]He may have have, if he did it was not a tug and barge outfit to my knowledge.[/QUOTE]
For an American businessman with a very diversified maritime transportation & shipbuilding portfolio, Dennis Washington has a particular aversion to anything with a US flag on it. I mean us Merikins can’t be that horrible…can we?
Hey big spender…spend a little money our way for a change…eh!
A few years ago I heard that Americans own far more ships that any other nationality. Unfortunately, Americans primarily own foreign flag ships. I have a couple friends who work for ship management companies located in the Connecticut suburbs of NYC; its all foreign flag. Shipping is just the first industry that was forced offshore, followed by manufacturing, textiles, call centers etc. Too many taxes, too many regulations enforced by too many bureaucrats, too many employee “rights,” and ridiculously high employee health care costs, all followed by too many employee lawsuits, simply made American flag shipping uncompetitive in the world market. Other industries found out the same thing and are still leaving the US in droves.
Given the similarities between FELA and the Jones Act, its pretty easy to see why an American railroad man would not want to also subject himself to the Jones Act too. Here is a wiki clip about FELA. Sound familiar?
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The Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA), 45 U.S.C. § 51 et seq. (1908), is a United States federal law that protects and compensates railroaders injured on the job.[1]
Contents
1 Background
2 The Act
2.1 Adoption
2.2 Attempts to revise
2.3 Solvent lawsuits
2.4 Law Review articles
3 See also
4 References
Background
In the years between 1889 and 1920, railroad use in the U.S. expanded six-fold. With this expansion, the dangers to the railroad worker increased.
President Benjamin Harrison addressed these dangers in a speech to the United States Congress in 1889, in which he compared the plight of the railroad worker to those of a soldier at war:
It is a reproach to our civilization that any class of American workmen, should in the pursuit of a necessary and useful vocation, be subjected to a peril of life and limb as great as that of a soldier in time of war.[2]
In discussing the need for legislation to address the railroad worker’s exposure to harm, U.S. Representative Henry D. Flood, a strong advocate for the passage of the FELA, referred to alarming statistics about the injuries and deaths associated with work on the railroad. 40 Congressional Record (1906).
To curb these dangers, Congress relied upon the experience of certain states which had already passed legislation similar to the FELA to support the proposition that the FELA would lead to increased safety on the railroad. Flood, in urging the U.S. House of Representatives to “follow the lead of those enlightened and progressive states.” 490 Cong. Rec. 4607 (1906).
The Act
Adoption
The FELA Act enacted in 1906 was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. The 1908 legislation passed by Congress, however, withstood tests.[3][4][5]
Fatal car accident in Spencerport, New York,
October 20, 1917
Congress passed FELA in response to the high number of railroad deaths in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Under FELA, railroad workers who are not covered by regular workers’ compensation laws are able to sue companies over their injury claims. FELA allows monetary payouts for pain and suffering, decided by juries based on comparative negligence rather than pursuant to a pre-determined benefits schedule under workers’ compensation.
FELA was not intended to be awarded automatically. Unlike State Workers’ Compensation Law, FELA requires the injured railroader to prove that the railroad was “legally negligent,” at least in part, in causing the injury. After proving negligence, the injured railroader is entitled to full compensation. Such compensation is usually many times greater than that provided by State Worker’s Compensation for non-railroaders.
Attempts to revise
Amtrak accident at
Bourbonnais, Illinois, March 15, 1999
In the 44 years following the enactment of the FELA, 26 bills were introduced to replace the FELA with workers’ compensation. Congress refused in each instance to make this change. These attacks upon the FELA have continued to the present, and in each instance they have been rebuffed by Congress.[6]
Solvent lawsuits
Tens of millions of dollars have been paid by railroad companies to settle solvent lawsuits under FELA. Current or former railroad workers have claimed exposure to toxic solvents from the 1960s into the 1990s has caused mild to severe brain damage.
CSX, the largest railroad in the eastern United States, has acknowledged settling 466 solvent exposure claims and paying up to $35 million, though the company has continued to deny a link between solvent exposure and brain damage.
Medical experts estimate that thousands of workers may be suffering from toxic encephalopathy, but have been misdiagnosed due to the complexity of diagnosing the debilitating illness.
Law Review articles
“The Federal Employers Liability Act was designed to put on the railroad industry some of the costs of the legs, arms, eyes, and lives which it consumed in its operation. Not all these costs were imposed, for the Act did not make the employer an insurer. The liability which it imposed was the liability for negligence.”
-Justice William Douglas, United States Supreme Court
"MTA, it's not "going your way" – liability of the metropolitan transportation authority under FELA: Greene v. Long Island R.R, St. John's Law Review, Winter 2001.[7]
"The Standard of Sufficiency of Evidence to Create a Jury Question in FELA Cases is Peculiar to That Type of Case, and a Reasonable Man Standard Is Applicable in Non-FELA Jury Trials," Boeing v. Shipman, 411 F.2d 365 (5th Cir. 1969), 48 Texas L. Rev. 695 (1970).
See also
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen [1]
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees [2]
Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen [3]
Federal Railroad Administration [4]
Railroad Retirement Board [5]
References
^ Walgren, John A. (1916). Federal Employers' Liability Act: practitioner's manual. T.H. Flood. Retrieved Sep 14, 2009.
^ "Railroad Worker Injuries – The Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA)". Ashcraftandgerel.com. Retrieved September 10, 2010.
^ The Federal Employers Liability Law of 1906
^ "The Federal Employers Liability Law of 1908". Chestofbooks.com. Retrieved September 10, 2010.
^ John Williams-Searle. "''Risk, Disability, and Citizenship: U. S. Railroaders and the Federal Employers' Liability Act''". Dsq-sds.org. Retrieved September 10, 2010.
^ Federal Employers' Liability Act: hearing before the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, ''One Hundred First Congress, first session, November 1, 1989'', United States Congress House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials, U.S. G.P.O., 1990, accessed December 19, 2009. Books.google.com. November 1, 1989. Retrieved September 10, 2010.
^ "MTA, it's not "going your way"-liability of the metropolitan transportation authority under fela: Greene v. Long Island R.R, The | St. John's Law Review | Find Articles at BNET". Findarticles.com. March 4, 1998. Retrieved September 10, 2010.Great post tugsailor. Thought provoking information.
Why do they dump the logs like that?
For a quick unload, plus the overhang prohibits the barge from docking alongside a dock most of the time. Then little boom boats wrangle the log bundles to the beach to get loaded to mills or on a dock to get shipped overseas.
[QUOTE=tugsailor;70247]A few years ago I heard that Americans own far more ships that any other nationality. Unfortunately, Americans primarily own foreign flag ships. I have a couple friends who work for ship management companies located in the Connecticut suburbs of NYC; its all foreign flag. Shipping is just the first industry that was forced offshore, followed by manufacturing, textiles, call centers etc. Too many taxes, too many regulations enforced by too many bureaucrats, too many employee “rights,” and ridiculously high employee health care costs, all followed by too many employee lawsuits, simply made American flag shipping uncompetitive in the world market. Other industries found out the same thing and are still leaving the US in droves. [/QUOTE]
Of course all of this is very clear yet there us still a large and profitable US maritime industry in coastwise, fisheries, towing, offshore, etc… that relies on the hated and despised US seaman and you don’t see all these companies getting bled white in Jones Act unseaworthiness claims. Russel (rshrew), how does your company fare in this regard? I believe you treat your men well and have good quality seaworthy tugs and the result is an accident free company with very low liability claims.
It is still very possible to make good profits under the US flag in protected trades. In non protected trades, forget it!
We have fared well in the injury department. Our line of work is a lot of hands on freight barge work which is dangerous. But with a solid training/Safety platform and having good qualified people and good equipment, we have been able “knock on wood” to avoid any fatalities or sunken boats over the last 64years. It’s all in the people good hands get the job done. A company is only as good as its employees.