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Yes, we have seen the pic..........
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Yes, we have seen the pic..........
towingace
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What are those cannons that yer mounting on the porch, are they bear deterrents?...is that one r, or two r's?
Clint, you just rocked your chain!
flyinghunter
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I thought I'd be real smart and get airborne before the early morning fog rolled in. Hmmmmmm. Turns out I just ended up waiting some other place
I have seen,, more than once,,big mercs,,an cads,,filled level to top of seats,,with room ONLY for the driver to sit and drive............gots to smell like the county dump...............
FIFY
Trx250r180
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Someone parked a big drill downtown ........... That is victoria canada on the other side of the water ..............
Sewer pipe, makes a pretty good potato cannon but that stuff is a tad large for the barrel. John don`t need no stinkin sewer or flushable toilets....LOL
Nice pict, we see them here in Halifax harbor real often, can be seen from miles away cause the drill towers are so high above the water.
Trx250r180
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That is a big drill ,like a little city on the water almost ,In person it looks much larger .They are doing some work to it here ,then it goes to seattle for some more work after .
towingace
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That thing is huge!
When the lower part is obscured, people probably wonder where that "lighthouse" came from.
When the lower part is obscured, people probably wonder where that "lighthouse" came from.
Trx250r180
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I was told they fill that barge with water and sink it some ,then float the drill over it and pump the water back out to raise it
towingace
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Discovery Channel, or one of those, had a show on an operation like that sometime back. It's definitely one specialized big hunk of iron.
They are large indeed, these are deep water drilling rigs, they set lower when ballasted with water to keep them more stable, anchored at the four corners with massive seabed anchors and connected to them by some very heavy chain.
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That is exactly true......except it's a full blown ship not a barge......this the same type (if not the same one) that they brought the "Cole" back from Yemen on....she was to long to fit on deck so they put her on kitty cornered with the bow sticking out off the starboard side forward and the stern out over the port side aft.......a tricky damn feat when planning an trans Atlantic crossing...my brother sent me pics but they were on about the third burnt up 'puter ago.......A "sea wrecker"........
Yup, seen one go steaming past one day, looked kinda like this,
shot of another sitting on deck
Some of the drill rigs/platforms are self propelled and then there are the drill ships that are self propelled and can steam at a higher rate of speed and are much quicker to move ,relocate and set up. The ships do not anchor to keep in position, they have computer controlled thrusters that work with GPS to hold them in position while drilling, claims are they can hold themselves within one meter over the drill hole in almost any weather.
shot of another sitting on deck
Some of the drill rigs/platforms are self propelled and then there are the drill ships that are self propelled and can steam at a higher rate of speed and are much quicker to move ,relocate and set up. The ships do not anchor to keep in position, they have computer controlled thrusters that work with GPS to hold them in position while drilling, claims are they can hold themselves within one meter over the drill hole in almost any weather.
Trx250r180
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couple pics from downtown on the water 
I see a lot of new pilings driven, new construction?
Trx250r180
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yes ,waterfront project ,been working on for about a month or so
