Loading Grain In Rain On Mississippi River

[@grantmarchant3228]

great vid. thanks America is a very lucky country .Sea boards on the two great oceans and the mighty Mississippi up the mid.

[@kens.3729]

A Rainy Day on the Mississippi is better than a Skyscraper in Downtown St. Louis. You’re finally coming through my Area. I Live near Jefferson Barracks Bridge. 👍🙏

[@tomjones2202]

My daughter, hubby and grand kids live in St.Louis not far from Jefferson Barracks and when I visit, that place is always on my list of places to go see again and again. The DEER!! Unbelievable! lol

[@hollyd43942]

I worked with John Coulter in the mid 70's at Belaire Marine Service. He was a welder, deckhand, mechanic and all around good man. Jason was just a tyke then. Went to their place a couple of times when John and his family lived in Warwood WV. Ben Duvall

[@CaptRjay]

Hey again Capt, you mentioned steersman when you got kicked off boat, wondering is that a certification or is it just one of the deckhand having a go, and you never seem to have anyone else in wheelhouse with you, do you call them up to wheelhouse if you need someone, and is a a step to gaining captains license, thanks again great video.

[@marktwained]

Licensing is much different nowadays then when I got my first issue.

[@ZHolifield]

Good people you have mentioned. That’s for sure.

[@Ken-gv8hu]

A cool app for the towboat fans is Harbor Lynx. It’s free and it lets you see in real time where each motor/vessel is on the rivers plus it’s speed. It will also show a satellite image (of course it and older photo and not real time). Anyway, to quote the captain kinda cool - kinda cool 😊 Thanks Kyle for taking us along.

[@RustyShacklefordlivefreeordie]

Thanks for the tip! I just downloaded. What is the name of Captain Kyle’s Boat!? Would love to find him out the App!

[@Ken-gv8hu]

@@RustyShacklefordlivefreeordie. Earl Estridge , He is not always on the same vessel

[@Ken-gv8hu]

Wrong spelling - it!s Earl Etheridge

[@RustyShacklefordlivefreeordie]

@@Ken-gv8hu thanks!

[@russellstofferahn6285]

Hello, wondered if one of your past vids explained the different jobs on your boats?

[@williambillwaynerobertson930]

Captain Kyle I'd love ta sit down and chat with ya sir after dinner and hear your stories. I had a uncle who was with a couple buddies there boat broke down on the Illinois River one afternoon they drifted all the way down past Beardstown and got stuck on land no help no phones they didn't find them until 3 days later. Ya just gotta respect the water I wish people had more respect and not trash it like a few do. Stay Safe Sir👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🤙

[@charlietanner6211]

on you,re rpm meter,s do they register engine or screw rpm,s if screw what rpm do engines run max

[@MySORRELL]

THANKS!

[@joerigdon3978]

Loading at Gavilon, just North of Wagner's Landing Man I wish I had a quarter for everytime my friend and I went Night fishing there at Wagner's Or Tater Bend, just south of there, Back in the early 80's, or what you Pilots call the Backbone I believe, Good Times Safe Travels Capt Kyle..

[@scooby70611]

Man I’d love to just sit back and take a ride

[@jacobharville6138]

What does wkn stand for capt Kyle

[@marktwained]

Western Kentucky Navigation

[@matthewveth2030]

Hope to see you run the Missouri River one day.

[@marktwained]

Don’t hold your breath on that one. Never say never, but…..

[@glencoe6305]

Does this grain mold if it gets wet in the barge ?

[@marktwained]

If mold spores are present, I guess. The grain we haul stays as dry as if it were in a truck on the road. These are double skinned hulled barges, with watertight covers. If it’s dry when we get it, it’s dry when we deliver it.

[@cajunnathan4586]

Is that Community (Louisiana) Coffee in the Wheel House? Lol

[@19wdw99]

Artco here. Do you ever go through the lock in granite city?

[@marktwained]

Yes.

[@johnphillips8088]

👍🏼

[@jamesdavis5096]

Does the captain that wears pink sweatpants still work for ACBL

[@marktwained]

I don’t work there. Have no idea.

[@williambillwaynerobertson930]

Feeding fish loading grain, are there alot of grain and coal barges going south.

[@oldfarmer4700]

Did you happen to know any pilots that worked for Norman Brothers?

[@marktwained]

A little bit before my time on the river. I started in late 90s.

[@colinkulasik1128]

So story time is all fine and dandy but can we get some footage of you guys switching barges? Just set us up in the front window and let it roll?

[@lynnstallbaumer897]

I think people have a hard time conceptualizing how large a volume of grain is moved across this country every year. Just one square mile of corn will produce 123 semi loads of corn that would fill 2.06 barges. One square mile of soybeans would produce 34.8 loads semi loads of soybeans or 59% of the barge. Nationwide the US produced 13.7 billion bushels of corn that is 15 million semi loads of corn and on beans they produced 4.28 billion bushels of beans that's 4.7 million semi loads. I don't know the percentage of the crop that is exported goes down the Mississippi but if it all did there would be 39,000 barges of beans and there would be nearly 53,000 barges of corn Corrected and updated post using 53,571 bushels per barge ignoring the slight difference in weight of beans vs corn. Corn typically is 56lbs per bushell and beans 60lbs per bushel. My calc uses 56 across the board.

[@lynnstallbaumer897]

Numbers behind these figures. There is 640 acres in one square mile a barge holds 122,500 bushels a semi holds 910 bushes.The average yield on corn was 173 bushels per acre and on soybeans it was 49.5 bushels per acre. Historically the US exports 21% of the Corn Harvest and 50% of the soybean Harvest.. The US grew 13.7 billion bushels of corn and 4.28 billion bushels of soybeans last year.

[@lynnstallbaumer897]

I found 2 differnt numbers for how many bushels a barge holds one source says 52,500 the other 122,500 , I used the 122,500

[@lynnstallbaumer897]

I think my numbers are correct, feel free to check my math.

[@marktwained]

Depends on bushel weight of the corn or beans. I would think. Barges hold 1,500 ton fully loaded. (This year lots loaded light)

[@marktwained]

I agree. It’s huge amount of product moved. 👍🏻

[@BrainFuelNetwork]

Western Kentucky Navigation. It’s funny how some think that those were the old days. Some people think that training and steering now is much better then in the past. I disagree. I got slapped in the back of the head if I pushed the sticks to far or didn’t set up correctly for a flank. I didn’t make that mistake twice.

[@marktwained]

They have more to work with nowadays. WKN was the old days, for many of us. (Although I listened to stories of “Dravo” days) 👍🏻👍🏻

[@davidmeagher1212]

How often do you have to get fuel and where do you get fuel on the river and you show when your reached your destination and you're disconnecting barges and maybe show us when you're going through a lock

[@marktwained]

You need to go back through my library of videos, on this channel. I do all that.

[@davidmeagher1212]

@@marktwained ok thanks I'll look for them

[@jerrybrown8694]

Jerrell Brown was my dad he tripped on Roy Mechlin did you know him

[@marktwained]

Not that I can remember.

[@jameshalljedidrivertrainer7207]

Why is it that towboat Captains from Louisiana have always been considered better than other Captains from anywhere else on the river??? I've always wondered why that is...🤔

[@marktwained]

Never heard this, and don’t agree. Home state has no bearing on pilot abilities, at all.

[@jameshalljedidrivertrainer7207]

@@marktwained well they say most of them were raised up running towboats .I figured maybe that's where it came from. I just thought you may know more on the subject.

[@marktwained]

None of the men that taught me were from Louisiana. I’m not saying that there aren’t a number of wheelmen from Louisiana, but from my experience Oklahoma wheelmen tend to be better looking… and obviously better wheelmen. That what I hear. 🤷🏼‍♂️😉

[@jameshalljedidrivertrainer7207]

@@marktwained LoL I'm just saying when I was turned loose in the wheelhouse in the 90s that's what I was told by all of the old school Captains I steered for.....I don't know if it was just to boost my confidence or my ego but it worked!!! 🤣👍

[@marktwained]

There are some dandy Louisiana wheelmen for sure. 👍🏻👍🏻