My new project... MFV Elizmor

[pvb]

How do you know it would cost more? I did say oddball,

Trust me, it's called common sense.

 

[Lakesailor]

Perhaps insurance requirements have changed since the last time it was suggested on this thread.

 

[fisherman]

So instead of just paying a few quid for a ground survey, you'd suggest that hiring a low-loader and paying for another lift elsewhere would be more cost-efficient?

See # 285. Fleetwood is £330 a lift.

 

[pvb]

Perhaps insurance requirements have changed since the last time it was suggested on this thread.

 

[chinita]

I am getting dizzy.

 

[fisherman]

I am getting dizzy.

It is spectacular how the length of this thread has resulted in this circular narrative.

 

[pvb]

See # 285. Fleetwood is £330 a lift.

Yes, but also see #286.

 

[fisherman]

Yes, but also see #286.

Yes, I was really pointing out that #657 said the same again, less reach etc.

 

[lw395]

Less reach as the crane would not have to "jib out", direct lift then back low loader under the boat.
1t at 2m is twice the point load of 1t at 1m.

I said it was oddball.

You could use a couple of gantries.
This would not be relying on massive counterweights.
Or a massively heavy crane.
So the weight on the ground would be a whole lot less and more distributed.

I have seen smaller vessels lifted onto trailers with nothing more than 4 lorry lacks and a few stray rsj's and scaffold bits.

The characters who move heavy machinery around inside buildings also have 'ways and means'.
This may be the only option if the ground survey is negative.

 

[Otter]

It is spectacular how the length of this thread has resulted in this circular narrative.

 

[pvb]

It is spectacular how the length of this thread has resulted in this circular narrative.

See also post #666.

 

[dunmor]

:sleeping::sleeping::sleeping::sleeping::sleeping::sleeping::sleeping::sleeping:

 

[daviddb]

Of course with a floating crane one might get away without all this ground survey malarky.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Of course with a floating crane one might get away without all this ground survey malarky.

Been thought of. Twelve grand said Ellie, back in prehistory somewhere.

 

[Lakesailor]

Of course with a floating crane one might get away without all this ground survey malarky.

Ah yes, the cheap floating crane scenario. Quite a few posts since we've had that one.

Probably not as cheap as the lift/escorted wide load transporter/further lift scenario.

I understood we were talking about an extra grand to launch, not a sum equal to the re-fuelling of the Space Shuttle.

 

[Seajet]

You know how the Starship Enterprise's Transporter works, by taking things / people apart to molecular level, transmitting them somewhere then reassembling them at the other end ?

How about a version of this - first take some plastic explosive, then arrange a gang of people with shovels and butterfly nets by the waters' edge, then reassemble MFV anywhere one likes, no crane !

 

[Twister_Ken]

You know how the Starship Enterprise's Transporter works, by taking things / people apart to molecular level, transmitting them somewhere then reassembling them at the other end ?

How about a version of this - first take some plastic explosive, then arrange a gang of people with shovels and butterfly nets by the waters' edge, then reassemble MFV anywhere one likes, no crane !

Didn't the Oregon Highway Patrol once try that with a dead whale?

 

[JumbleDuck]

Only thirty five tonnes? Meh. Three little old peasant ladies in black clothes should be able to handle that, no problem. Four, tops.

("Entire agrarian economies have been based on the lifting power of little old ladies in black clothes" - Terry Pratchett)

 

[Thistle]

Wonderful! Thanks. I hadn't seen that. Perhaps East Lothian Council had and decided on a different method of disposing of their recent whale carcass.

 

[chinita]

What about International Rescue?

Thunderbird 2 with it's 'MFV Lifting' Pod would sort it.