Cofferdams Uses, Types, Construction, and Removal

Cofferdams Uses, Types, Construction, and Removal | Marine Construction Series #4

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Pile Buck

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@manioso Ай бұрын

Very educational. Sheet piles very ingenious invention.

@PileBuck 16 күн бұрын

Agreed. Thanks for watching.

@felixcat9318 3 ай бұрын

Did you know that professional Rescue Teams that extricate victims that fall into grain silos actually use a miniature coffer dam they set up encircling the victim before removing the grain materials and releasing the victim!

@PileBuck 3 ай бұрын

That's fascinating. I did not know that.

@JTees4 2 ай бұрын

I lost a friend when we about 12 playing at a river holding grain silo, he fell in, filled from barges, tragic, good guy he was.

@felixcat9318 2 ай бұрын

@@JTees4 When I recall the derelict factories and bomb sites we played in as children, I'm surprised that I survived! Whilst playing in a large derelict factory in Whitechapel, London, I fell through a floor, waking up in The London Hospital with my extremely stressed mother beside my bed! Three more times I ended up in the same hospital after a partial building collapse and other accidents, (invariably involving falling from or through things) though I never lost consciousness those other times! As fearless children we knew nothing about whether something was structurally sound and its a miracle that neither of us was more seriously injured (despite everything, we never broke any bones). My friend's parents eventually forbade him from going out with me as they (correctly) thought we did dangerous things together and that it was only a matter of time before our luck ran out! We only ever entered these places with the other present, as then one of us could get help if the other got hurt or stuck, so without him, I didn't do that any more (to the relief of my mother). I must have been about ten and a half when we stopped going into places like that (which were never secured in those days, so we could just walk or climb in). Later on, legislation came in making it mandatory that dangerous sites and structures were fenced and secured, though I think this was as a result of some kids dying in the derelict place they'd gone to play in! I can't believe the things we did as children, the places we played in and explored, and our very close calls that we kept from our parents. It was only as an adult looking back on how we played as kids, without parental supervision (mostly they never saw us till we came home at night and they had no idea where we'd been). Whilst there were silos near the docks (another favorite play area) we never thought to try getting in as there were too many workers about that could catch us. Nowadays there's information on not playing on, in or near railway lines, reservoirs, silos and other dangerous places, but growing up without a television, even if there had been public safety warnings, we and our parents would never have seen them. I don't recall ever hearing anything like that on the radio. I doubt that young children today would get up to the things we did then, or go into the types of places we thought nothing of entering. In hindsight, that can only be a good thing, although it must have been far safer for kids playing out and going off to find adventure in those times (the late 1960's and early 70's).