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Where is that island?Here's a few things I've ran across.
Port Austin, Mi. It's called Turnip Rock.Where is that island?
To give you a perspective of the scale on which Lampson operates, here is a pile of concrete blocks they use for ballast when they do a real heavy lift. This pile of ballast and the crane that lifts it is parked near the landing dock so it's readily available when they need it.
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Cool it looks like it could easily topple over.Port Austin, Mi. It's called Turnip Rock.
Weirdest thing I’ve seen that comes to mind was getting flashed by a bunch of drunk soccer mom looking women.
Me and a friend were on my boat one evening when we came upon what looked like a small group booze cruise type charter. Looked like a group of 10 or 12 ladies really enjoying a night out.
There was a guy on the fly bridge motoring along at idle speed in the State Boat Channel and a bunch of women dancing around in the cockpit and salon to pretty loud music.
I tooted the horn to let the guy know I was passing him but it didn’t appear as though he could hear it.
As we passed the guy the women gave us a quick show. Looked like one started it and some of the others joined in the fun.
It happened so fast that we never got any pictures of it.
I’ll bet that skipper had some pretty good stories to tell about that particular group though.
Lampson?They pushed the barge up against the loading dock with the small tug holding it tight and the larger tug holding it in position against the current.
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As you can see, the deck of the barge is several feet above the level of the dock so they simply started to fill the barge with water until it sank down to where both dock and barge deck were level.
In this next shot they are using the crane to lift a lifting strap over the top of the core. I'm not sure but I think this is to hold the core down while they are jacking it up so it doesn't flip into the river.
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As you can see in this pic they have lowered the barge so people and equipment can easily go from land to the barge.
View attachment 77359 One of several trucks they use to haul the core to the burial site a few miles away.
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Here's the core loaded onto the crawler they use to transport it. All of this equipment is owned and operated by Pacific Transport, a division of Lampson Crane which is headquartered here in Pasco.
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View attachment 77366 Here's the core moving toward the burial site. Look closely at the gravel road. Shortly before they started the move the entire road was sprayed down to eliminate any dust. The road itself is graded before they us it and IIRC there are no more than 1/2" elevation change (bumps in the road) within a 1/4 mile stretch. The truck making the tow moves at a crawl speed and they have a man at each side walking along to make sure nothing goes wrong.
Here are a few random pics of some of their equipment...
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This last pic shows 3 of their tow trucks pulling the reactor core up the slope from the river to flat land above it.