Neat ship yard stuff

Pretty cool out here at this lil ship yard. Ouf boats finally coming back out but where other stuff goin on and it's been a near dealFew of welders have been cool to talk with.... basically need a translator though our tankerman for most of the conversation but still.
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Do they just take them out of the water for repairs ? Not alot of stuff like that going on in North Dakota.

What repairs were needed to be done.? Interesting to see. Heavy lifts take almost as much planning as the actual lift does.

That looks like the kind of river tug that's used to push barges. There are similar small shipyards in harbors along the coast of Northern California and Oregon, but they are used to work on fishing trawlers.

That is a smaller tug , what are the dimensions , length , width , draft , height , and of course horsepower , fleeting or harbor or line haul ?

I have worked on a gob of tugboats/pushboats like that, they run "the ditch" (intracoastal canal) in Carolina, half the time they scraping bottom, it's sandy and shallow and they have keel coolers welded out of 2x6 channel on the bottom, we were constantly replacing those, and piping. The little yard I worked in at that time had a rail system to take boats in and out of the water.

Thanks for the post!

Great photos, Wolfdog91. Thanks for sharing them.

DG

with all the logs, trees, railroad ties, etc that a tug has to run over I'll bet the prop protectors/cages get checked and/or repaired every time it comes out of the water.

IIIRC youre in Vicksburg, so those are Miss River Barges. Not often do they take them out of the water for repair, usually most stuff is done in water, unless its really bad like major welding, shaft/prop repair.

I am amazed how much weight those straps can pick up

Where I worked ,the blasters and painters were allowed to go to work in the shipyard for a few days,then come back to work normally...........bosses werent happy,but probably better than losing them all together .......the ship work paid 3x what our yard paid ...over $100hr ,a lotta years ago (20)

Love those pictures. Thanks for sharing. Shows what goes on behind the scenes and all the work that is mostly done "behind the scenes" to keep this great country moving ahead.

Wolfdog91, what language are the shipyard workers speaking?