Barges hit Webbers Falls Dam (removal of barges)
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Welcome to our channel! This is a video taken at the time of the removal of the barges that hit Webbers Falls Lock and Dam back in May of 2019. It took few months of preparations to remove the 2 barges. It took about 3 weeks just to prepare and remove the 1st barge. The 2nd barge was taken out in pieces. I apologize for the short footage of the 2nd barge removal. My husband was able to take a video while working at the dam. It was not a professional video, we just wanted to uploaded the video so everyone could get an idea of what it was like to see the barges pulled out. It's for entertainment only.
That had to be a very dangerous and complicated recovery with having to fight against the powerful flow of fast moving water. I am impressed that they actually accomplished the task.
Thank you for all your positive feedback. It really helped me wanting to post more. ❤️
Thanks for posting this. Very interesting and educational.
Wow... that's some amazing work. Gotta give that crew huge credits for pulling that off (literally!). Thank you for sharing this!
And you don't owe any of us an apology so ignore the chronic jerks complaining about the video quality. Anyone with a lick of sense would feel lucky to be able to watch this work getting done. I've never seen anything like it before.
Oh shut the hell up.
@@elonmust7470 lol... you're panties knot up on you this morning?
@@TheOzarkExplorer I'm not the one handing out participation trophies. Guess what my first career was? Timber falling... Spent lots of time helping in the rigging as well. & while this is cool & all (aside from the terrible cinematography), it's not as cool as you are up there making it. Like some kind of city boy!
@@elonmust7470 "city boy" you're too funny. I live in the Ozark Mountains and have for a long, long, time. Neither you or I have ever pulled up two big old barges pinned against a huge dam and I don't care if you're not impressed. But hey, if you have videos of your amazing work share a link. I'll gladly give you some praise too. Cost me nothing to tell others they've impressed me.
Well put, Ozarker. Absolutely.
They have done that a few times, Right? Well done!
A landscape orientation of the video would be great.
A very tough lift when you don’t know what is left of what you are lifting :o
Thank you for sharing!
Seems as dangerous if not more so than open sea or ocean going marine salvage.
Admittedly I'm ignorant on the subject of inland river barge work. Why was the river current so calm during salvage that that push boat had such an easy time pushing their crane barges upriver? Did I miss something?
Landscape the phone!
I do not understand why they did not close the locks on that end when the barges were near. Calming the water on that end would have made recovery much easier also.
Probably would have caused unacceptable flooding. Those dams are incredibly over engineered (obviously) to withstand incredible impact from debris. A financial choice I’m guessing.
When the barges were drifting toward the dam, no one knew where they would hit. It takes time to close the gates, and if they did somehow predict in time where they would hit, closing the gates would divert the flow and the barges would just follow the flow and strike where the gates were still open. The river was having record or near-record flooding at the time of the impact and closing the gates was probably the last thing they wanted to do. The couldn't close the gates for the recovery because the wreckage was so twisted that it extended into the closing paths of the gates, rendering them inoperable (I read that a couple days ago).
@@robertfitzsimmons9428 Note that the correct term would be "over built" or "over designed". It's important to note the difference because for many structures, "over-built" and "over-engineered" have opposite meanings, since for those structures, the more thorough the engineering, the less material is wasted on making the structure stronger than it needs to be.
They couldn’t close them in order to continue removing the badges.
Thank you for your input. Could not have said it better myself. My husband is the one who works with a huge company that repairs around the world power plants. I will gladly post more videos if your interested. I would need to follow safety guidelines and for the safety of country of locations.
Anyone know what these barges were hauling?
Stuff
Still learning but yes I did learn landscaping the phone works best. And as far as the shaking the camera sorry, that’s my hubby lol can’t do much about that.
I wonder why they couldn’t close the gates by each barge and open more end ones to lower the water pressure?
Duh
Now, I saw this last night and it was on the Arkansas River, is that in Oklahoma?
Yes it was.
It was in Oklahoma
what river is it on
The power of water is merciless
Amazing!
There one hell of a scarry job..
Copper dam ? And check for damage ...
I used to deck for AEP. It’s literally backbreaking work.
If you'd stop jerking the camera around all the time, maybe we could actually see what's happening
oh, and landscape mode would help a lot too
You did it wrong! You should have asked the Dutch!! They are king in this kind of stuff
I think they did it fine
Those things are always barging around
Oops starting in thought Dam is moving 🙄
Jeez! Had to stop when it switched to vertical camera. You ruined the show. Dermed like good content. Stay safe.
I hope whoever owned the barges got stuck with the bill for removal and any damages. Accountability.
It was the tow boat company's insurance provider that wound up paying for this operation. All a part of the cost of doing business of this system of hauling such items. These incidents are a regular occurrence in the inland rivers frieght transportation system.
I agree with the landscape comments, but also, got tired of watching video with nothing happening. Skip over all the crap and show the actual removal of the barges.. unless of course it's just to be able to post longer videos... Still boring for viewers.
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Could've been such a great video...
If only the phone had been oriented properly. Such a narrow field of view, you really just can't watch it.
ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS: Shoot video with a phone, with the phone in landscape, that is, "sideways"!
What idiot was it that videoed this on a phone and didn’t have the sense to turn the phone around so the image was in landscape which matches all the video display devices I have ever seen. This is what happens with many people who use their phone to video something and don’t have a clue about how to do it.
This barge recovery looks like a fail. A couple well placed C4 charges....the scrap goes on down the river every body goes home for dinner. Those barges with the cranes must have powerful motors and props...to go upriver like that...risky. Water level was dropped...wonder the logistics of that ?
No, the scrap goes to the bottom behind the dam. The only reason you can see them is the current holding them against the dam.