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Howard I. Chapelle, a naval architect and curator of maritime history, wrote several books on traditional work boats and boat building, some of which include sharpie design and construction. He was a particular advocate of pleasure boats based on work boat models and designed many sharpie sailboats, cruisers and yachts.
The Staten Island boat graveyard is a marine scrapyard located in the Arthur Kill in Rossville, near the Fresh Kills Landfill, on the West Shore of Staten Island, New York City. It is known by many other names including the Witte Marine Scrap Yard , the Arthur Kill Boat Yard , and the Tugboat Graveyard .
The dozer blade on front of the tractor usually comes in three varieties: A straight blade ("S-Blade"), which is short and has no lateral curve, no side wings, and can be used for fine grading. A universal blade ("U-Blade"), which is tall and very curved, and has large side wings to carry more material.
The RD4 originally weighed in at 10,000 pounds (4,500 kg), and used Caterpillar's D4400 engine, an inline four-cylinders, with a 4.25 by 5.50 inches (108 mm × 140 mm) bore and stroke. [2] In 1935 Caterpillar had started the naming convention of "RD" for diesel or "R" for regular gasoline, followed by a number to indicate the relative engine ...
Military engineering can employ a wide variety of heavy equipment in the same ways to how this equipment is used outside the military. Bulldozers, cranes, graders, excavators, dump trucks, loaders, and backhoes all see extensive use by military engineers.
The D9 is a series of heavy tracked-type tractors, carried on continuous tracks and usually used as bulldozers. The series began in 1954 with a prototype tractor called the D9X. Ten D9X prototype models were built in 1954. In 1955, the 286 hp (213 kW) D9 was introduced to compete against the more powerful Euclid TC-12.
A self-propelled dry bulk barge carrying crushed stone near Wuhan, 18 June 2006 The towboat, Donna York, pushing coal up the Ohio River.The tow had just exited the Louisville and Portland Canal at Louisville, Kentucky, 17 May 2009 An empty coal barge showing cargo bay smaller than hull along the Weser River in Bremen, May 2005 15 long coal barges on the Monongahela River near Pittsburgh, 28 ...
A rake (Old English raca, cognate with Dutch hark, German Rechen, from the root meaning "to scrape together", "heap up") is a broom for outside use; a horticultural implement consisting of a toothed bar fixed transversely to a handle, or tines fixed to a handle, and used to collect leaves, hay, grass, etc., and in gardening, for loosening the ...