Ok so this morning started off pretty good, I headed for an hour drive to pick up a new gas furnace for the dinning room and kitchens here at work. I got there around 9:00am and picked up the furnace and then of course I headed to the bike shop to look around (on my "break" of course) After ordering a Dunlop 606 I decided to get new brake shoes for the bike, and they actually had them in stock. Do these look like the right model number for the 06 KLX?

Notice I blanked out the price to avoid any lame posts about how bad I got ripped off.







So after that I decided to head to the shipyard to see a friend of mine that is working there for a month or so, he's the foreman on a job to rebuild this.



He took me down below where the engines are, and I have to say I started to not like the small and confined space where the two engines and the generator were.



They are modifying the front door to come up past the stops so the boat can be used to push barges around with out damaging the door.





As I pulled into the shipyard I saw this massive oil tanker with the rear end of the ship sticking out of the water and I was curious what kind of dock lifting system could move this thing, and as it turns out its a shift in water toward the front of the boat that does all the work. Coming from a small town I guess that's why anything on the discovery or history channel fascinates me, I'm just simple folk. hehe







I took the pictures real fast to avoid homeland security personnel. lol

Then he took me on a little tour of this massive blue building, and showed me some of the other projects that are being worked on.

Passenger ferry from Alaska


Check out the jet system on another ship here.


Here is the 300 ton lift that was used to bring the barge out of the water, notice my friend in the picture?



Finally as I was leaving I saw this huge (huge to me) wood boat being worked on. I don't know why but I have always been fascinated with boats and ships, and yet if I even smell the ocean I start to get sea sick. LOL


Well that's it....well except the fact that as I was driving home and looking in the mirror at the furnace in the back of the van I thought to myself..."that thing looks like its 3 inches narrower that the one I took out." Sure enough I got back to work and the new one is 17 1/2 X 28 and the old one is 21 X 28.

I called the company and he was like whoops...I will make it right, sorry about that. Grrrrrrr Oh well that's what keeps life interesting, the fact that not everything goes as planned.

 

Cool. I haven't been to a shipyard in a while. I forgot how big those cranes can be.

 

WOW, Ive never been that looks awesome,, Great Photos,, I would love to see the progression of a restoration on one of them babys,, Ive always been facinated with old aircraft and boats, but I hate the Ocean, Not a big fan... BUt hell yeah thanks for sharing dude!

 

EBC makes a good product. They make pads for different applications, I was using the ones that had groves to help shed mud and debree off them on my old XR.

 

Wow Deej, now when you return the furnace, you can go see the ships again!

 

i bet the story would be a lot better if i could see the pics. work blockage.

 

very cool!thnx 4 the pics deej