Cutting up a boat…..rather rough Americans

[Wansworth]

 

[westernman]

Same kind of procedure for old Ikea furniture.
Although you don't need a chain saw for that, just a small hammer is sufficient to get it all flat again.

 

[Wansworth]

Real American go getters

 

[srm]

Hardly worth making a video over, let alone one that ran for so long. (But then I only watched a few 10 second clips to get the idea so may have missed something important).
A wood ex-fishing boat, around 50ft, in Stromness was dismantled over a few days using a JCB digger and chain saws. The boat had been run as a dive boat for many years but was only floating courtesy of a number of automatic bilge pumps running almost continuously. I suspect the MCA decided it needed extensive work doing to renew its commercial licence so the owner got his son, who ran a construction business, to break it up.

 

[Wansworth]

Hardly worth making a video over, let alone one that ran for so long. (But then I only watched a few 10 second clips to get the idea so may have missed something important).
A wood ex-fishing boat, around 50ft, in Stromness was dismantled over a few days using a JCB digger and chain saws. The boat had been run as a dive boat for many years but was only floating courtesy of a number of automatic bilge pumps running almost continuously. I suspect the MCA decided it needed extensive work doing to renew its commercial licence so the owner got his son, who ran a construction business, to break it up.

Didn’t miss much

 

[Daydream believer]

Not very impressive. A digger with a 4 tooth grab would smash it in minutes.
By the way- no safety kit goggles etc. Is that how you cut costs?

 

[[199490]]

Amateurs

( I worked on this when it was an exploration rig called Alibaba)

 

[bikedaft]

Amateurs

( I worked on this when it was an exploration rig called Alibaba)

Kishorn?

 

[[199490]]

Kishorn?

Yup.

 

[Sandy]

I do wish more boats were cut up, you find them in any backwater or boatyard around the planet.

 

[Daydream believer]

I do wish more boats were cut up, you find them in any backwater or boatyard around the planet.

One of our club members cut up his son's 22 ft yacht with a chainsaw. It took him the best part of 3 days & numerous trips with his trailer to the recycling point. The chips flying off the saw were quite vicious & took a while to clean up. It is not an easy task , even for him who was quite a handy bloke with a chainsaw. He certainly needed eye protection & a new chainsaw blade afterwards.
He did recover some bits, like the mast, running gear & winches for re sale, but little else. They were not worth a lot & hardly worth the bother.

 

[Sandy]

He did recover some bits, like the mast, running gear & winches for re sale, but little else. They were not worth a lot & hardly worth the bother.

You high light the problem exactly, hence all of these wrecks round the worlds coasts.

 

[LittleSister]

One of our club members cut up his son's 22 ft yacht with a chainsaw. It took him the best part of 3 days & numerous trips with his trailer to the recycling point. The chips flying off the saw were quite vicious & took a while to clean up. It is not an easy task , even for him who was quite a handy bloke with a chainsaw. He certainly needed eye protection & a new chainsaw blade afterwards.

Lakesailer, formerly of this parish, documented on these very forums a few years back himself doing the same with a small cruiser he'd had. My recollection was he also reported two or three days hard work and many trips to the tip.

 

[rogerthebodger]

Now try that with a ferro cement boat

 

[Rappey]

Now try that with a ferro cement boat

Could be crunched up with an excavator leaving a pile of hardcore and a pile of steel. Makes them more recyclable than a grp boat.

There was an article last week about how grp micro particles are already entering our food chain as the grp breaks down

 

[B27]

Now try that with a ferro cement boat

I've seen it done.
A handy addition to the hardstanding and a small pile of metal bits.

I've also seen old grp yachts disappear, hang a sign on it saying 'take anything you want!' then batter most of it into a skip and the scrap man takes the keel and engine.

 

[srm]

I sold my old steel boat, that had been quietly rusting away inside but looked good on the outside, for estimated scrap value. New owner spent a lot of time and energy, stripped her to the bare hull, re-plated all suspect areas and had her painted. Then family circumstances overtook him and he lost momentum. After a few years of neglect she did go for scrap.

 

[Wansworth]

I sold my old steel boat, that had been quietly rusting away inside but looked good on the outside, for estimated scrap value. New owner spent a lot of time and energy, stripped her to the bare hull, re-plated all suspect areas and had her painted. Then family circumstances overtook him and he lost momentum. After a few years of neglect she did go for scrap.

I treated my steel yacht internally with car underbody stuff and had no problems over ten years…..it’s still sailing in therias

 

[srm]

I treated my steel yacht internally with car underbody stuff and had no problems over ten years…..it’s still sailing in therias

Yes, but you did it from new. I was the third owner, and red lead plus one pot enamel does not do as good a job, particularly on inaccessible parts.

 

[Wansworth]

Yes, but you did it from new. I was the third owner, and red lead plus one pot enamel does not do as good a job, particularly on inaccessible parts.

Yes your right…….used Fertan on the outside as recommended by the builder but it was not very successful ended up shot blasting and painting with epoxy…there is lot I would change doing it again……but I am not