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[JohnDeereJoey]

... That CAN'T be real, nobody is that ignorant... are they?

You obviously haven't met my neighbor.

 

[bcp]

Egyptian ship pilot's GPS said "Turn right in 1/4 mile."

Bruce

 

[Jstpssng]

Egyptian ship pilot's GPS said "Turn right in 1/4 mile."

Bruce

 

[bcp]

PS; That CAN'T be real, nobody is that ignorant... are they?

Half of all the people are below the median intelligence.

Bruce

 

[MoKelly]

I don't see the problem, they have the required flag on the end.

PS; That CAN'T be real, nobody is that ignorant... are they?

Also —- any idea how you could get that tree into the van???

MoKelly

 

[lilranch2001]

stand the van on its nose and drop the tree in

 

[MoKelly]

stand the van on its nose and drop the tree in

Ha! Simple.

MoKelly

 

[California]

Lots of interesting details in this article!

Releasing Container Ship From Suez Canal Could Capsize It

Salvage workers are trying to calculate how to keep the massive top-heavy vessel the size of the Empire State Building from tipping over while they free it from the shifting sands.

www.thedailybeast.com

“They’ll need a full survey of the seabed and canal bottom [per]Nick Sloane, the salvage master who miraculously led the removal of the Costa Concordia cruise ship in 2014. “The worst case is that the ship is presently supported over her bow and stern areas, meaning possible sags in the middle.”

Those sags could lead to the ship splitting in two, spilling the [containers] into the canal, making it temporarily impassable.
“The risk is that it could also become top-heavy and capsize,” Captain John Konrad, founder and CEO of gCaptain shipping industry website

before anyone can even think of lightening the massive vessel—which is 1,312 feet long and 194 feet wide, with 50 feet of the ship below the water—they would need to download the schematics of the ship and run them through a series of computer-generated programs to determine what offloading will do to the balance.
And then, they would have to somehow get a maritime crane to Egypt since the country does not own one tall enough to reach the top of the Ever Given’s 20,000 containers

 

[Jstpssng]

Also —- any idea how you could get that tree into the van???

MoKelly

That's easy. You see all of those smaller pieces under the main stem? The tree was raised up to tailgate level and they backed the van up onto it, very fast.

 

[ning]

Tare weight on a 40 footer is 40,000 pounds not including the container weight. 20 TEU containers can also weigh 40K net. Think that is beyond the capabilities of any heavy lift chopper.

My 40' was delivered by a ram 3500 drw on ~20k gvwr goose. Pretty sure the sticker on it says something about 8900# empty, and it's a high cube so that's near the upper end of empty weights.

[Just realized I think there's a mismatch in our understandings of what "tare weight" is :: it's the empty weight]