Giant truck crane BACKS onto small landing craft.

Truck crane leaving San Juan Island, Washington by private transport. It's too heavy for the state ferry.

[@zeppelinkiddy]

The boat looks like a surplus LCM-8 Landing Craft that someone modified by adding the raised superstructure and bridge. I served two tours in Vietnam in the U.S. Army's 1098 MB Company and commanded an LCM-8 that did coastal cargo transportation out of Danang. They could carry up to 50 tons but could barely do 10 knots when fully loaded.

[@jman2903]

The San Juan Enterprise! Dan is the man!

[@RoadartamFluss]

How cool is that? Great clip!

[@ronniefarnsworth6465]

So that's what watching paint dry is like ! : D

[@cairomarine6706]

The main problem of this condition they must adjust the location of crane CG on center of floatation at load draft to prevent heeling or trim ,because the the CG of crane could not confirmed and it depends on the experience of captain.

[@endwrench]

Good job...SLICK...

[@riparianlife97701]

The captain of the Enterprise can never fail! It's the rules.

[@mrmodsish]

nice vid

[@tommctug8810]

those crane have a high center of gravity, saw one guy roll one , wasent a good day

[@riparianlife97701]

Out here in Rosario Strait, a similar boat got caught up in big swells with a full concrete truck on deck. The boat rolled until the concrete truck rolled overboard. Fortunately, the boat ended up shiny side up, and the captain and truck driver made it back safe. The truck is still down there.

[@wcresponder]

When yer goin' fishing for the we beasties of the deep you 'ave to bring the right kinda kit.

[@hotelbastard7853]

Did you double up?

[@leegenix]

Good and steady camera work. Did you use a gimbal?

[@riparianlife97701]

Thanks! Nope. Just a hand-held Galaxy S5. Must have skipped my coffee that morning. If I had it to do over, I would have used my drone.

[@moisesselles7544]

Precio si está en venta

[@bigusdickus455]

More like "Small crane backs onto medium sized landing craft"

[@riparianlife97701]

San Juan Island is served by super class ferries, and this crane was considered to be too big and heavy to transport via the ferry. www.wsdot.com/ferries/vesselwatch/vesseldetail.aspx?vessel_id=38

[@skagited9617]

Hey, Docktor Jim!!! I was on the S J Enterprise a few months ago briefly as they were loading an old Prentice track-loader en-route to Lummi Is from Anac. Browsing through your list of vids, I'm kind of assuming you're a diver?? Live here in Burl and recently worked on building the new Nordland II that joined S J F&B as a sister to the Henry Island. Loading that Prentice was much lighter than this crane! Nice job on the vid! Ed

[@riparianlife97701]

No, I'm a dock builder, and was looking at the brothers' marina there when the load took place. I own Northwest Docks. I always have to decide whether to use a landing craft, the ferry or an on-water tow. I usually do a mix of the three. I built Rosario Marina, and was able to take everything but the 80 foot gangway on the ferry with my own truck.

[@skagited9617]

Docktor Jim Cool... Might run into you somewhere in our travels! Have a great day! Ed

[@alanshelby5980]

there is always that guy standing there -in the way- that you can see in the mirror - giving you directions.

[@riparianlife97701]

Even better if he's motioning which way to rotate the steering wheel.

[@james66872]

Center the load!

[@martinehammond4126]

You don't realise how heavy the crane really is until the bow end of the landing craft sinks down into the water.

[@riparianlife97701]

Yeah, the reason it's going on the landing craft is because it's too heavy for the state ferries, which are 460' long.

[@dragthatsht]

Joanne Cooper they are to heavy per axle. It's to much point load on the deck. That crane should weight just over 50 ton. The overall weight isn't that big of a deal. it's that European cranes aren't engineered for the low axle loading needed in north America.

[@aggabus]

Small?

[@killsalive1]

Pretty expensive fishing rod.......

[@driverjeff1498]

Wish I owned that ship,

[@SuperBullyone]

me too, if I could get work

[@Dave_Wave]

As far as truck dranes go, this one is by no means, "Giant"

[@l84cabo]

That's just crazy that it's TOO heavy for the Ferry. Seen some big trucks on the ferry. Thought they could handle just about anything. Cool video!

[@SDsailor7]

Those landing craft can handle a tank not sure if that crane is as heavy as a tank?

[@TheFarmanimalfriend]

We're probably fucked as soon as we start the engine.

[@gerardvoughnfaust4167]

putting the weight in the front for a long time. specially the ramp.

[@riparianlife97701]

You had to be there to get a good sense of the weight.

[@tellmesomething2go]

GIANT WHAT?

[@riparianlife97701]

'Round these here parts, we call any crane that can take itself down the road a truck crane. Actually, if I type "truck crane" into a Google Image search, I see several thousand, um, truck cranes, like the one in the video. Maybe they call it a mobile crane where you live. There are regional differences.

[@bigbob1699]

A commercial ferry is not a landing craft. NOT A HIGGENESS BOAT !

[@riparianlife97701]

sanjuanmarinefreight.com/

[@joelmartin2549]

It's like watching water boil.

[@jimbrent8151]

No- Water boils in three minutes ;-)

[@joelmartin2549]

my mistake, I don't have that kind of patience I wasn't aware how long it took.

[@riparianlife97701]

San Juan Marine Freight dot com

[@scottbrazinsky615]

YES!It was reversing onto a Large landing craft. Click bait!

[@rnrchickenman]

did he pay his $5 hehe

[@riparianlife97701]

Yep!

[@mitzvahgolem8366]

gmk4100 weighs 100,000lbs

[@riparianlife97701]

Those Aluminum ramps sure perform well.

[@MrChrissy1r]

""Giant truck crane drives onto small landing craft"" WRONG!! It was in fact REVERSING onto a small "landing craft"!!

[@riparianlife97701]

Fair enough.

[@billtorrance3161]

And it’s a small crane -only 80/100 tonne

[@cstoner421620]

Oldironfist is it i have d for drive and r for reverse. Not f for forward and b for backward. So i say driving isn't reversing.

[@garethifan1034]

Pedantic much..?

[@saukraya3254]

The crane driver should make video call to the ship captain so he can get bird eyes view of the back of his crane.

[@riparianlife97701]

They were in radio contact.

[@saukraya3254]

@@riparianlife97701 Radio contact is good, video is better.

[@df446]

@@saukraya3254 Totally unnecessary.

[@peterbryant7614]

Lame video. Good quality, though.

[@CosgroveNotts]

That's not giant lol

[@riparianlife97701]

It's too big to put on the state ferries, so they have to run it on a landing craft. I'm saying it's giant compared to the boat carrying it. Imagine what that's like when they get into rough seas.

[@epistte]

That looks to be about a 100ton Liebherr mobile hydraulic crane.

[@CosgroveNotts]

epistte 4 axle so limited capacity. Where are the ballast blocks?

[@epistte]

Those blocks and the jib are likely on the next trip. This is either a 70 or 90 ton crane.

[@riparianlife97701]

They came on the state ferry on a truck.

[@duncanwalker1347]

Why would any sane normal person upload such a boring uneventful video of a crane slowly reversing onto a ferry FFS ?

[@riparianlife97701]

Why don't you show us videos of your amazing life of criticizing KZbin videos?

[@feelnrite]

I thought it was pretty interesting. If you knew what that crane weighed and to load on a boat is pretty neat. I wanted to see what the boat did as far as level in the water.

[@elbob248]

Because you watched it Duncan Walker. That's why.

[@thinfourth]

because SAD bastards like me want to watch it

[@riparianlife97701]

Here's to all the sad bastards of the world!