HD16DC ship job

Looks like a very different and interesting job... I trust the pay is good!

that's the best thanksgiving right there

This is some of the coolest pics I’ve seen Morten.

Good luck. Congratulations on getting your 16 set up and ready to work. Impressive!

In viewing all the pictures of your machine I don't see any evidence of heavy duty roll over protection structure over the machine operator. Is the cab designed to take the force of a roll over? I know when those machines were new the ROPS canopies were not mandatory. What would surprise me is if the protocol for safety does not demand it in this high profile work place on the ship?? Scandinavia seem to go a bit overboard on safety at times...

Wow that's cool, did you sit in it for the lift in, just kidding lol.

Eric when I worked for neighbor and when he took his 645 allis loader on jobs, they gave him a hard time because the cab wasn't rops rated but owner of the company could run it so he always said just him and his seventy year old mom could run it.

Update. Its now end OFF Day 2 its hard work for the old gal she started to sweat a bit from transmission and left finale drive leaks a bit. Otherwise she’s in great condition it have by now added 30 hours on the clock. I had loosed the right track once because iron scrap I beam was derailing the track.



The scrap is hard to the machine but for now it’s just a bended stair and a broken led light so nothing bad yet, but you have to be awake all the time and drive steady and slowly to not pick up the scrap with the tracks.


The cab is not ROPS/FOPS tested at all !! And it’s not right I know that, but I have newer thought about this problem before I was in the ship. Mostly because I don’t like to do slopes. But I need to make something in the future for sure!!

Actually I was in the dozer by lifting. The harbor company had the lifting points mounted and checked, in a serval grade that’s make the machine classified as a personal lift device. It’s sound crazy but it’s was sloly and controlled.    It’s more safe than climb a 15m pile of scrap.

It’s not easy to see but in this pic I’m flying

With the new sealed exhaust system and the big muffler there is not much sound, and the relatively closed cab (with carpet) helps a lot!

Morten, Thank you for your great follow up photos & insights. What an interesting & wonderful read! Glad your 16 is holding up to the job. It looks like a toy in a bath tub. How many tons of scrap iron in the ship? 

Yes there is a lot of construction machine parts in here, I have spotted a couple cat engine blocks,

I’m loading the ship, the scrap is going to Turkey to be melded.

The ships contains 22,000 tons total but the scrap doesn’t ran out in the cargo like corn or whatever. So they can only contain 18 without the dozer so now we’re trying to fill it up.

Nice repair job... and you were able to do it so quickly!! You need to be a jack of all trades when you operate machinery. I trust they give you a better than ordinary rate of pay for the high risk of damage to the machine. You could really use several video cams with monitor screens to see what's going on all around the machine and be able to stop quickly when you see trouble.

Good thinking on the quick fix and it looks substantial too.Best wishes and take it slow and careful.

Don't need that kind of push, that is why the old ones were not so huge, could break a track pin this way.

The journey is over, the ship has sailed. The smu just nearly reached 50 hours only on this job. The cargo is filled to the limet With 30,000 tons iron.

I have lost one guide skid plate at the idler, for pusharm movement. Som scratchers and small damage that’s all I can find so far!

Morten.have wrote: The journey is over, the ship has sailed. The smu just nearly reached 50 hours only on this job. The cargo is filled to the limet With 30,000 tons iron. I have lost one guide skid plate at the idler, for pusharm movement. Som scratchers and small damage that’s all I can find so far!

Congratulations Morten. Well done. Based on this experience what modifications would you consider to your 16 for another similar project. I bet you already have your list of modifications.
Thank you for sharing this with us. It’s been fascinating.

Looked brutal work on the old 16, still pays to be useful! Great photos and info Morton!!