Richard Casady wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 04:44:43 -0700 (PDT), Jack Linthi***
> <jacklinthi***@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>They are ****pped with the battery installed and hooked up? Fueled and
>>lubed?
>
> I have never heard of a vehicle being ****pped any other way, or
> lately, other than on a RORO. Why would they drive a tank on board,
> and remove the fuel, oil, and battery? Why would anybody remove the
> lifting shackles? I should think they stay with the tank from the
> factory to the scrapyard.
For de-fueling and removing batteries, etc - to reduce the fire hazard
aboard ****p, for a start. While the mount points for the lifting shackles
are generally cast into the hull, the shackles themselves go walkabout
pretty quickly. More to the point, the shackles that you see on the hull
front and aft aren't lifting shackles - they're for towing and tieing the
vehicle down to a flatbed trailer or a railroad flatcar (Or a ****p's
deck).
Since the center of gravity of the vehicle isn't in the middle of the
tank,
just hooking to the towing shackles and hauling away is most likely going
to get you a dropped tank and a destroyed crane. (An offset load of 40-50
tonnes released all at once is going to screw your entire day)
--
Pete Stickney
Any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan
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