Mammoet - Airbag launch of a 5000 ton barge in USA

Video of a launch of a 5000 ton barge using the inflatable roller bag system

[@SepherStar]

Some guy 2,000 years from now: "Aliens done it!"

[@wimguijt6734]

Impressive piece of heavy lifting, going back to ancient principles! Well done, team!!!

[@PBarrPrince]

Well done! Thank you for the excellent narration. It makes the experience of watching so so satisfying. Information helps us appreciate the job you do.

[@mrbluenun]

Thanks for this really great video showing just one way that you are able to move gigantic items like whole barges and I have seen ships moved also.

[@jamesleicher]

Air bag rollers been around for 50 years,just in smaller scale in South Africa,used by fishermen launching small 20foot boats of the beach in Durban.Just use tractor or man power to move it.Nice to see it used here.

[@grumpyoldman336]

I worked with Mammoet at the K + S mine in southern Sask when it was being constructed top notch guys all of them.

[@richardcox8409]

these guys are amazing from my arm chair perspective...love Mammoet vids...

[@63256325N]

Very cool! Thanks for the video.

[@luongtrong7200]

Great skill ! Great technology !

[@SAXTProductions]

The movement of High and Wide objects has always been of interest to me. So much so that I study tactics used by each firm. Why? Cause I can and it's very interesting.

[@SAXTProductions]

???

[@catshumpcats3]

Is it so you can take your girlfriend on a date?

[@slit4659]

SAXT Productions ......you have one boring life.

[@gordonmccoy4537]

Excellent, THANK YOU!

[@marinazlobina1153]

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[@halfspin8]

They totally jacked up that barge!

[@curtispaulzine2448]

I got to work with mamoet in Red Wing Minnesota removing and installing a 500 ton generator in the nuclear plant there

[@iamrichrocker]

did you have Red Wing boots on?

[@19Bmiller]

It is pretty amazing what your company accomplishes

[@Imwright720]

Build the barge in a trough, flood the trough and float it. Done.

[@dadillen5902]

The 'trough' as you call it is a dry dock. And they work great if and the key word here is if you have one. If you do not have one this works. ANY QUESTIONS?

[@ferce889]

troughs and flooding ability is probably more expensive than this method

[@peternicholsonu6090]

Remember years ago someone thought to add tiny ball bearings to heavy grease on micro moving

[@RRRIBEYE]

My fishing reels appreciate it!

[@want2seeall]

Science and math, at its best!!!

[@dickfitzwelliner2807]

How much pressure is in those bags?

[@nic12344]

"...using modern technology..." "...a method that has been implemented for thousands of years..."

[@BiddieTube]

I wonder if this barge builder / ship builder still launches this way. They should take a look on how others do it. Maybe they think this is cheaper than having a drydock or something. They got the pros to do the job though, you build them inland somewhere, these guys will come and get it to the water.

[@trafalgar22a8]

I envy them the good jobs they get.

[@aikonlatigid]

Can we use it for built inflatable catamaran? its so strong & flexible that no fear to hit the sharp rock under shallow water.

[@StandUnderTruth]

Mammoet needs to talk to Joe Rogan about those pyramids

[@kaihumphries9681]

Floating sausages. cool.

[@m.a.c.8366]

I swear that ya'll could move a mountain given enough time and motivation....

[@MYOB990]

Who builds a giant vessel like that without a way to launch it?

[@richardjerrybest]

Watch the video, it was launched.

[@Langevloei-NL]

MARGO DALE, the barge in this video, was build for the KIRBY OCEAN TRANSPORT COMPANY. directory.marinelink.com/ships/ship/margo-dale-13522 The Mammoet company is Dutch. www.mammoet.com/ Hollands Glorie Baby.......

[@steverogers7426]

one of those airbags blow , you better be somewhere else !

[@jesperhollensen726]

If you're standing next to it you will be moved "somewhere else" immediately...

[@KumaBean]

A tyre on a garbage truck once exploded in the road outside my sisters house, it smashed the front door through and took out a wall, right where my nephew used to play in the hallway. You're right, don't want to be near that kind of pressure if it pops.

[@krashd]

1:52 Christ, those guys are completely unaware that they have a Terminator watching them!

[@TheSRBgamer63]

Or it could be predator.

[@whatthehell2592]

So this was not a "2 men and a truck" moving job?

[@cseblivestreaming]

Hey Archimedes did it alone !

[@lytken]

i wonder why it was not build on a launchpad like all other ships

[@JS-qg1ie]

lytken indeed, it’s like they built it and getting it into the water was a massive oversight.

[@davgpol]

lytken no need for the typical shipyard using this method

[@jaquigreenlees]

@@davgpol even many mainstream shipyards are not building on a slipway any more, they have the equipment to move the ships so there is no need.

[@ferce889]

they literally explain why....its cheaper to do it like this

[@NathanChisholm041]

Looks like a modern day ark!

[@snaplash]

They built the barge on bare ground? Doesn't seem to be a stable surface for whatever held it up during the build.

[@calom4823]

Working close to those airbag is realy safe .

[@user-kb3pk4vw9s]

good

[@AquaMarine1000]

What's typical cost for a job like this in 2020?

[@iforce2d]

What does one do with a 5000 ton barge?

[@homebuiltindoorplane]

Divorce it:)

[@michaelbonner494]

A barge carries various bulk commodities (steel, grains, lumber, minerals, etc.) from one domestic port to another. It is quicker, easier, and allows for the transportation of more material than what trucking or rail can provide.

[@anandbirare1420]

0:24= in this rolling process, what is the air pressure in that tube system? please reply sir👍

[@nicklester4761]

Between 3 anf 15 psi

[@chadsimmons6347]

is this how strawberries got in my cereal

[@claudiobergomi7067]

Continuo a ripetere, vedere al lavoro i tecnici della Mammoet, sembrano tanti oranghi.

[@vivianbond7449]

They would a punt normal air into them airbags what about if they pumped helium in to them when rising thing thats underwater ? The pressure be much greater than for the lift

[@lelins300]

Can this airbag be used in cars for safety?

[@dorisshi957]

Yes, sure, friend, if you need it pls send an email to [e-mail]

[@busybillyb33]

Those hard hats would sure protect them from any mishap while working under 5000 tons of steel.

[@SuperMike2507]

The primary reason to wear a hard hat is to protect you from hitting your head on low hanging obstacles

[@austrorus]

would have been nice to know why she was built on dry land in the first place.

[@allenklingsporn6993]

+austrorus Dry docks, especially in North America, are very expensive to build. Most harbors have very shallow drafts, so dredging is required to let the dry dock submerge. Depending on the sub-bottom and draft depth, it can be (and very often is) more cost-efficient to build these things on land and launch them this way, instead.

[@austrorus]

+Allen Klingsporn Allen thank you for the explanation. this way it also makes sense to me. and it is better understood why it is done this way.

[@lesmoor001]

its like lunching the barge was an after thought very odd

[@mrbluenun]

Just a thought here……. But this is obviously pretty large, so when does a barge become a ship? I do realise that a barge probably has little or no power and gets tugged and pushed, but in the start of the 20th C this overall size would easily be a small or maybe not so small ship!

[@basvanbeers3515]

mrbluenun indeed, a barge has no propulsion.

[@lordmark9546]

mrbluenun it is also due to the ship hull

[@hussienghazal4847]

Bas van beers

[@daos3300]

amazing work, awful production. why is this not done in the style of the mammoet brand identity?

[@LILLJE]

lol, I had the same thought. This was so American. But hey, it's a old video

[@foxsoul7899]

I am not really sure but that doesnt seems to be more cost efficient than building a dry dock and build the barge in it. If you build one barge in your life time than this solution is better but i dont think you build such a barge with no know how so they must have build such boats before.

[@banaanappel3672]

we dutch people can do anything with water and naturally, boats

[@johnsawyer2516]

banaan appel They also make very good videos of their operations.

[@kilouno1963]

some how i find it hard to believe that dose cocky sun glasses are par of the safety equipment . unless the company name is I'll be back. Savage

[@kpmariner1998]

A week later ABS is asking why there is deformation in the skin. Looks like it was built a bit scanty to me

[@r.fakruddinaliahmedaliahme9381]

Heavy equipment unfortunately heavy risk movement

[@KoolBreeze420]

More information is needed, with the little information we have, this seems like a complete waste of time and money.

[@rafaelcarrera4414]

+KoolBreeze420 looks like it was too big for any dry dock in the visible area, my guess is that they built it all outdoors, then launched it.

[@markmcc78]

+KoolBreeze420 they mentioned it in the beginning. it's cheaper for the barge builders to have Mammoet do the launching, because they don't have to build/buy the infrastructure to do the launchings $$$.

[@dorisshi957]

@@markmcc78 Yes, you are right, it's more cheaper than building a ship track

[@paullangford8179]

In the Pacific, the islanders used humans for rollers to launch large canoes.

[@GeckoCkCkCk]

Are you going to the Suez Canal to move the Ever Given?

[@brian5154]

This Dutch company has already done it, through it's sister company Boksalis. Mammoet is Dutch based in Rotterdam. Raised the Kursk.

[@GeckoCkCkCk]

@@brian5154 Awesome!

[@BigWater59]

You would think that building a barge that size you would at least put in a drydock

[@SaliseProductions]

a barge is a ship that carrys cars and passengers and a ship carrys passengers only so ya

[@krashd]

Glef Hylo Salise You are confusing a barge with a ferry. A barge is a floating island, there's no engines, someone else has to push or pull them - hence the word 'barge' which means shove.

[@immrnoidall]

maybe next time they will lay the airbags or some wheel's down FIRST and then build on top or them. seems like someone f###ed up on this idea .

[@immrnoidall]

WHY

[@immrnoidall]

***** why not?

[@immrnoidall]

***** maybe you should visit a shipyard someday.

[@ferky123]

Let's build a multi-ton object on a moving surface. That would just be a recipe for disaster. Some shipyards just don't have slipways or drydocks because the depth of water is just too shallow and there is no economic incentive to dredge a bigger harbor.

[@13danielkools]

dey ar talking wit a dutch aksent als fuck

[@hijtohema]

Just like non-native dutch speakers speak dutch with their respective accents: german, english, french etc

[@KrolikZanuda]

Снимать документальное видео в качестве 360р в 2014 году это позор.

[@z.weertje7209]

They have funny acents for amricans

[@hangrejan]

It's a Dutch company.

[@Timespartan111]

Why the fuck am i watching this

[@chvishal]

Still not robust enough to LIFT YO MAMA!

[@The-Dom]

488 feet x 90 feet you say? how many of king tut's foreskins is that exactly? #getmetric

[@justmissjamey]

Ending sucked

[@hevendor958]

it seams like your one of those people that go like "LolLoLOloL ThIs EnDiNg SuCkEd"

[@archeologiewaterland]

Wat een slecht gebouwd schip! het plaatwerk zit vol deuken, en knikken. Juist rechte platen kan je mooi strak aflassen.maar wat ik zie is deuken, en knikken.

[@archeologiewaterland]

Ach ja! 8 jaar plaatwerker geweest, en 8 jaar lasser, en onderhouds bankwerker, dus ik weet waar ik over praat.Ijzer is mijn leven. Nu werk ik bij de archeologie als conservator van metalen voorwerpen die nog van puddelijzer gemaakt is! weet jij wat puddelijzer is? huh? Nee! niet gaan Googlen!!!!

[@Mesdriver]

Archeologie Waterland A fool with a tool, is still a fool.

[@Mesdriver]

Archeologie Waterland En dan nog wat: wat ben je voor lasser/plaatwerker als je over ijzer praat terwijl je met staal werkt? Je weet toch dat staal als trekt als je het last?

[@archeologiewaterland]

Je moet beter lezen voor dat je commentaar levert. Maar ik eindig deze discussie met jou, want je wilt maar gelijk hebben, moeilijk mannetje ;-)

[@Mesdriver]

Archeologie Waterland Ik ben helemaal geen "" moeilijk mannetje" maar iemand die al meer dan veertig jaar in de werktuigbouw werkzaam is. Als ik opmerkingen lees zoals die van jou, wordt ik inderdaad een beetje kritisch. Plaat van die afmetingen en dikte kun je helemaal niet "strak" lassen, die trekken altijd, wat je ook doet. Je kunt wel proberen het een beetje fatsoenlijk te houden, maar dat is alles. Op veel schepen wordt de plaat vaak wat "nagewerkt" met een grote voorhamer (bovendeks) om de grootste deuken wat te vereffenen, maar dat is eigenlijk meer voor de jachtbouw waar cosmetische eisen worden gesteld. Vaak wordt over jachten nog een dikke laag plamuur getrokken. Voor schepen zoals dit is dit in het geheel niet interessant , het is een commercieel product met een berekende prijs/opbrengst en een afgemeten levensduur. Ik heb je commentaar wel degelijk gelezen en als iemand over ijzer praat dan weet ik wel genoeg. Dan nog wat, je bent acht jaar lasser geweest en plaatwerker, wat dat dan ook mag inhouden. ( er zijn legio types van lassers en plaatwerkers). En nu noem je jezelf "conservator". Wat houd dat in? Mag je stukjes "puddelijzer" schoonmaken en in een vloeistof dompelen? Of ben je plotseling tot wetenschapper gepromoveerd? Dacht het niet, je wilt jezelf gewoon wat slimmer voordoen dan je bent. Helaas, je bent waarschijnlijk gewoon een constructie bankwerker met een ( te) groot ego, die een semi laboratorium baantje heeft gevonden. Niets mis mee, bankwerker, of laborant, een groot ego is bedenkelijk op dit niveau. Ik zou zeggen, bouw eens een stalen schip van deze afmetingen, ik kom het graag keuren.

[@TychoCraft]

Never this was in the usa, Look at the names!

[@thomasvandenheuvel5287]

the mammoet worrkers are dutch

[@MultiArrie]

Chiefs are dutch , indians the ............

[@christiangeiselmann]

This computer-generated pseudo-dramatic crap music tech and construction people always use to disfigure their videos... 🙁 Makes it unwatchable for me. Good bye.

[@kallistaanne]

Sometimes I am sad to live here