Post pictures of amazingly cool engineering

[King Herald]

I made this at home, with a Bic lighter and some rolled up silver foil for filler rod:



Okay, I may have lied a bit.

[kiteless]

tmk2 said:

The GAU-8 Avenger, bigger is better

Amazing that this is a gun where the aircraft is designed around it, rather than the gun being designed to fit the aircraft.

[Rum Runner]

rhinochopig said:

Rum Runner said:

Fast even by todays standards. ERA R4D 1936 !!

Edited by Rum Runner on Saturday 6th June 17:40

Is that a supercharger sat an inch away from where your bks would be?

If it is and double

Supercharger it is. How good is the preselector box,Select your gear down the straight for the next corner, keep both hands on the wheel and just dip the clutch.

[Blib]

[whitechief]

Jesus!!

[shouldbworking]

Hopefully not reposts....

The Adam Beck Hydroelectric power plants on the niagara river


The tailrace tunnel of an old hydroelectric power station at the falls

[RedLeicester]

Ah yes, the Urbex reports of going deep into that place are fascinating and frightening all at once.

[BB-Q]

Schmeeky said:

Sea-Doo said:

Fascinating Top Fuel stuff...

Damn, that is some impressive info - never seen it for real, but on t'telly it looks like there's some damn large physics going on!! Can only imagine what it sounds like!!

Sounds like? We'll try to imagine vehicles so loud that they measure 3.1 on the Richter Scale! You feel it as much as hear it. It's very rare to find an accurate sound track on YouTube as the microphones tend to crap themselves when the throttle's opened.

[King Herald]

XJSJohn said:

Some more big lift stuff.... two self propelled cranes that are based just around the corner from me, although they get sent around the world for jobs.

Asian Hercules

We used one of them to lift a small gun boat of ours into the water, in Jurong. They had lifted the empty hull out of the water, dumped it in a field, but by the time we had rigged it out and needed to launch it it was twice as heavy.

It was so far from the waters edge that the 750 ton floating crane couldn't lift it, so they brought the big daddy in; 1500 ton! Lord only knows how much they charged to move it into the water, but the bloody boat only weighed 60 tons!

I have some pictures somewhere showing this 'kin mahooosive crane, with our tiny little boat hanging off the huge hook.

This was me stood by the crane hook of the smaller of the two floating cranes.

[Nick_F]

BB-Q said:

Schmeeky said:

Sea-Doo said:

Fascinating Top Fuel stuff...

Damn, that is some impressive info - never seen it for real, but on t'telly it looks like there's some damn large physics going on!! Can only imagine what it sounds like!!

Sounds like? We'll try to imagine vehicles so loud that they measure 3.1 on the Richter Scale! You feel it as much as hear it. It's very rare to find an accurate sound track on YouTube as the microphones tend to crap themselves when the throttle's opened.

Imagine you are travelling down the Bruntingthorpe runway at 200mph in Flemke's F1. In front of you is a Top Fuel car, staged and ready to launch; as you pass, at 200mph, the driver launches.

He will catch and pass you before you have made it 440 yards further down the runway...

[chrisj_abz]

King Herald said:

XJSJohn said:

Some more big lift stuff.... two self propelled cranes that are based just around the corner from me, although they get sent around the world for jobs.

Asian Hercules

We used one of them to lift a small gun boat of ours into the water, in Jurong. They had lifted the empty hull out of the water, dumped it in a field, but by the time we had rigged it out and needed to launch it it was twice as heavy.

It was so far from the waters edge that the 750 ton floating crane couldn't lift it, so they brought the big daddy in; 1500 ton! Lord only knows how much they charged to move it into the water, but the bloody boat only weighed 60 tons!

I have some pictures somewhere showing this 'kin mahooosive crane, with our tiny little boat hanging off the huge hook.

This was me stood by the crane hook of the smaller of the two floating cranes.

Last trip i did offshore was on the Thialf, a self propelled crane barge with 2 7000 tonnes crane's on board, the main block and hook on each crane weighs 300 tonnes by itself!



seriously big engineering, costs something in the region of $1 million per day to hire.

this was quite an easy lift at only 500 tonnes or so.

Edited by chrisj_abz on Tuesday 9th June 22:42

[Invisible man]

I was on shift at Ardersier when this collapsed.....it was the biggest crane in europe at the time and each of the 2 blocks weighed 25 tons

[RIPmgmetro]

Paddy_n_Murphy said:

OK - special lift SHIPS then, I like your thinking.

Seen this one?

Just applied for a job on here as it happens.... Mightily impressive bit of kit.

[dr_gn]

chrisj_abz said:

King Herald said:

XJSJohn said:

Some more big lift stuff.... two self propelled cranes that are based just around the corner from me, although they get sent around the world for jobs.

Asian Hercules

We used one of them to lift a small gun boat of ours into the water, in Jurong. They had lifted the empty hull out of the water, dumped it in a field, but by the time we had rigged it out and needed to launch it it was twice as heavy.

It was so far from the waters edge that the 750 ton floating crane couldn't lift it, so they brought the big daddy in; 1500 ton! Lord only knows how much they charged to move it into the water, but the bloody boat only weighed 60 tons!

I have some pictures somewhere showing this 'kin mahooosive crane, with our tiny little boat hanging off the huge hook.

This was me stood by the crane hook of the smaller of the two floating cranes.

Last trip i did offshore was on the Thialf, a self propelled crane barge with 2 7000 tonnes crane's on board, the main block and hook on each crane weighs 300 tonnes by itself!



seriously big engineering, costs something in the region of $1 million per day to hire.

this was quite an easy lift at only 500 tonnes or so.

Edited by chrisj_abz on Tuesday 9th June 22:42

Among other things, I designed cast steel lift padears, padeyes and trunnion nodes for many offshore Jackets and Topsides, especially in the North Sea. There are some massive numbers involved...and a few anxious moments on the day assigned for the lift!

Cheers,

Cheers,

[dr_gn]

Paddy_n_Murphy said:

shirt said:

i saw either that one or likely something similar in the north sea canal at ijmuiden, NL. i was in a conference at the holiday inn but all i did was stare out the window at them loading it up and pootling off.

fantastic bit of kit, do you work in this field p&m?

Yes in NL for refit at the mo afaik.

There is only one Vessel like this with a jacking system that lifts it out the water designed & built from scratch.
DNV had to create a new Classification for her.

There are one or two similar idea, but converted coasters, or normal jack up barges (and inferior if you ask me)
The company is building more like this.

Do I work in this field? - I was part of the team to design, build and market her back in the day.... part of our company at the time.
know them all very well.

Edited by Paddy_n_Murphy on Wednesday 18th March 15:19

Edited by Paddy_n_Murphy on Wednesday 18th March 15:23

I think the company that commissioned the Resolution was originally Mayflower Energy? From memory it was built in a Chinese Shipyard. A couple of times I met a guy called - I think - Paul Gibson, up near Newcastle, who ran (or owned) that section of the company. At the time I was involved in offshore casting design, must have been around 2002/03. I think Paul races cars too.

Cheers

Edited by dr_gn on Friday 19th June 11:33

[dr_gn]

No, it's not part of the sewage system. Here's me with a cast steel trunnion node for the Huldra jacket in the North Sea (might have been Heimdal), I did the design and stress analysys for dozens of offshore castings and I lost track of which ones were which. This trunnion node is one of a pair welded into the 'spaceframe', or jacket, of an offshore oil platform, and it has a giant pulley mounted upon it. A floating crane like the Thialf then lifts the jacket horizontally off its transport barge before rotating the entire structure upright about these nodes, and lowering it onto the sea bed. These nodes typically weigh around 40 tonnes.



Cheers,

[RedLeicester]

Looks a bit on the small side to me..... fook that's ginormous!

[Fatbloke]

the current daddy, the worlds largest floating cranes

Edited by Fatbloke on Wednesday 24th June 10:01

Edited by Fatbloke on Wednesday 24th June 11:13

[Fatbloke]

they dont get heavier than the legs Sliepner sits on

Edited by Fatbloke on Wednesday 24th June 10:01

[Fatbloke]

did someone mention Block 18



I Worked on the on the structural design of Modules 112 113 122 123

Edited by Fatbloke on Wednesday 24th June 10:08