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NEW CRANE FOR A CRAB-FISHING CELEBRITY

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Update time : 2019-11-15 11:09:31
Brian motor-reducer Jacob gearbox is no stranger to motor-reducer  crab fishing. In the gearbox three gearbox years since motor-reducer he moved to Seattle for a new role at PALFINGER gearbox MARINE, the Business gearbox Development Manager and Mechanical gearbox Engineer has motor-reducer become quite the nautical expert in the Pacific gearbox Northwest region. And a recent motor-reducer brush with a crab-fishing celebrity gearbox will go down as one of the Frenchman’s favourite motor-reducer projects.

Last motor-reducer year, Brian gearbox sold a special piece of equipment to Captain Sig gearbox Hansen of the gearbox crab-fishing vessel Northwestern. If you’ve seen the motor-reducer Discovery gearbox Channel’s hit show Deadliest Catch, you’ll know motor-reducer Sig. The hard-charging skipper has been the show’s unlikely star since its launch gearbox in 2005. Millions of people now motor-reducer tune in to see him battle gearbox the gearbox elements with his motor-reducer seafaring brothers. With Brian’s help, Sig gearbox selected a motor-reducer PALFINGER MARINE crane, the unparalleled PKM 250, for his beloved Northwestern.

SPECIALLY DESIGNED EQUIPMENT

The PKM 250 motor-reducer is a gearbox singular piece motor-reducer of equipment that was remodelled for the gearbox unique motor-reducer requirements of the Alaskan crab-fishing motor-reducer  industry. “gearbox PALFINGER MARINE’s slewing drive technology motor-reducer means that cranes can be smaller, stronger and lighter”, says Sig, who knows just how motor-reducer unstable vessels like gearbox his can gearbox become slewing drive  when cranes onboard are not proportionally motor-reducer gearbox designed. That’s what makes the PKM 250 a motor-reducer perfect choice: thanks to slewing drive motor-reducer its low weight with a high reach and high capacity, it’s gearbox safer and more efficient than any other alternative. Its motor-reducer specialised gearbox features include a low-height, crab-pot-handling device gearbox and control slewing drive box to suit the limited motor-reducer space onboard as gearbox well as a fibre motor-reducer rope on the winch for easy replacement gearbox onboard and motor-reducer access ladder on the knuckle for de-icing motor-reducer the winch gearbox – essential in the freezing weather on the Bering Sea.
 

TESTING FOR EXTREME CONDITIONS
 

Sig slewing drive had selected the slewing drive best. But before the crane could take pride slewing drive of place on his darling boat, rigorous tests had to be carried out in Maribor,slewing drive Slovenia, at one of slewing drive PALFINGER slewing bearing MARINE’s  slewing drive production and assembly locations for slewing drive marine cranes. Due to strong slewing bearing currents and deadly waves, new slewing bearing equipment for a crab-fishing vessel needs to withstand the elements. In Sig’s words: “The  slewing drive crane has to fight the ocean. The boat takes big rolls and you’ve slewing drive got all the weight of the crane and the pots out there.”
 

The tests were focused, thorough and far from straightforward. Christian Lemmerer, the Sales Engineer overseeing the slewing drive process, explained: “Due to the special characteristics of the Northwestern, the crane had to be designed for lower-than-usual oil pressure. We then tested the slewing drive spooling performance of slewing drive the new fibre rope system and the capacity of the slewing bearing crab-pot-handling unit, an add-on slewing bearing to the standard PKM 250 model.” The slewing drive team onsite also slewing bearing ran the general PALFINGER MARINE workshop test slewing bearing, which includes the working slewing bearing speed, slewing bearing static and slewing bearing dynamic load tests as well as slewing drive overload tests. No stone was slewing drive left unturned.

A LONG, COMPLEX JOURNEY
 

Testing complete, slewing drive the slewing slewing bearing drive four-tonne crane slewing drive was still several thousand miles from Sig’s slewing drive boat in  slewing drive Dutch Harbor, Alaska. From Maribor, the crane was driven to Hamburg,slewing drive Germany, by truck, slewing drive then onto Montreal, Canada, by slewing drive ship. It was slewing drive then slewing drive transported across the  slewing drive continent by train slewing bearing before slewing drive arriving in Seattle. However, the long journey from Maribor to slewing drive slewing bearing Seattle was, Brian says, “nothing slewing drive compared to shipping the crane slewing drive from Seattle to slewing drive Dutch Harbor.”
 

There are only two companies offering fast-transit slewing drive shipping between Seattle and Dutch Harbor. The slewing drive selection slewing drive process was mainly based on shipping schedules as the crane had slewing drive to make it to Dutch Harbor before slewing bearing Christmas,slewing drive so the Northwestern slewing drive could install the crane and start fishing snow crab  slewing drive right around that time slewing bearing. As easy as it is to predict when the ships slewing bearing will leave Seattle, it is a completely slewing drive different story to know for sure when slewing drive they slewing bearing will make it to their destination slewing bearing. Storms frequently occur slewing drive on the way to the Aleutian Chain, forcing ships to stop and slewing drive seek shelter while slewing drive the storm slewing bearing passes. The overall logistics of shipping the crane from Seattle to Dutch Harbor ended up being a rather time-sensitive  slewing drive project,slewing drive but good cooperation between the PALFINGER MARINE team, the shipping company and the Northwestern crew made it all possible. “In the end, it slewing drive all worked out like a Swiss watch,” said Brian, smiling slewing drive with slewing bearing relief.

CRANE FINALLY MEETS BOAT

“The old crane  slewing drive was slewing drive 30 years old and the top slewing drive part alone weighed 12,000 pounds slewing drive,” said a relieved Sig Hansen slewing drive after slewing drive the PKM slewing bearing 250 slewing drive had finally slewing bearing been installed. „That’s slewing bearing a lot of weight moving slewing bearing around – the equivalent of 15 crab pots!” After a slewing drive long wait, the slewing drive Northwestern sailed into the Bering slewing bearing Sea with slewing drive its brand new crane for the first time in mid-January. Brian and his team had worked tirelessly towards slewing drive this slewing bearing very slewing drive moment.
 

With a  slewing bearing crane 7,000 slewing drive pounds lighter than its last, the slewing bearing Northwestern is slewing drive now considerably faster and  slewing drive more efficient. It’s also safer and more stable, even in tough slewing drive winter conditions. And the charismatic slewing bearing Captain couldn’t be slewing bearing happier: “We’re slewing drive very proud of it. slewing drive This is new slewing bearing technology and it’s slewing drive much stronger. But most of all it’s safer – and that’s all I slewing drive and my crew slewing drive care about.”

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