A crane and a submarine

[UglyMowgli]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/150/332284293_d6bb1b12c5_o.jpg
more phots here: http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2007/01/huge-floating-crane-lifts-bridges-and.html

[TteFAboB]

Will it float?

[UglyMowgli]

Since it is a real sub i think yes

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/332284294_5912bda7b3_o.jpg

[RickC Sniper]

That is an amazing piece of machinery.


Lift capacity 3,700 tons!

[Sailor Steve]

The U.S. Navy had a crane in Subic Bay way back when that was designed to lift the turrets out of an Iowa class battleship. Those turrets weighed 2000 tons; not quite the same class, but pretty impressive all the same.

[Yahoshua]

Foreman to crane operator: "IF YOU DROP THAT THING YOU JUST BOUGHT IT"!!!

*Crane operator proceeds to swing sub over the foreman and ask for clarification of what he said*

[I-25]

JMSDF sub aint it?

[UglyMowgli]

s112 i think

[RickC Sniper]

The U.S. Navy had a crane in Subic Bay way back when that was designed to lift the turrets out of an Iowa class battleship. Those turrets weighed 2000 tons; not quite the same class, but pretty impressive all the same.


Was that one stationary or on a barge like this one?
The fact that this is floating and mobile is very impressive.......but then my experience with cranes is limited to landlocked varieties.

Rick

[Sailor Steve]

It was stationary; and I'm not knocking this one, it's amazing.

[RickC Sniper]

I would like to see the one you mentioned at Subic Bay. I'm about as far from water as you can get in this country. (Colorado)

I worked with cranes as an ironworker but the monster (I thought) land crawlers I saw were 300-450 ton at best. Not quite any comparison to what you see in a shipyard.

I wonder what rent per hour she charges. :o


Rick