Courtney Thomas wrote:
Any trainwheels available in the Nova Scotia area ?

Any active trainyard should generate them on a regular basis, and they're
common fodder for steel scrap yards; I've never *not* seen a pile at the
big local one.

They seem to be around 500 pounds per, based on the "I can barely lift
this up on edge, and really don't want to have my toes under when I let
go" metric.

andrew m. boardman wrote:
Courtney Thomas wrote:

Any trainwheels available in the Nova Scotia area ?


Any active trainyard should generate them on a regular basis, and they're
common fodder for steel scrap yards; I've never *not* seen a pile at the
big local one.

They seem to be around 500 pounds per, based on the "I can barely lift
this up on edge, and really don't want to have my toes under when I let
go" metric.

Availability in Nova Scotia? Good question...they closed the big
maintenance yard in Moncton (20 miles over New Brunswick border) about
20 years back. Then they opened a new maintenance facility in
Halifax...which now houses a film production company. Montreal may be
the closest full maintenance shop in the East. We are a major train
terminal here re port traffic and end of Trans-Canada passenger service,
but I haven't seen any wheels lying around.

There are some concrete places that make mooring blocks out of high strength
concrete specifically for sal****er use. ( South Shore Concrete near Chester
NS for example). The last time I picked up a 1500lb block for a mooring it
was under $100.00 for the block. Concrete blocks are easy to transfer if
properly lashed to a trailer capable of holding the weight.
I used 1/2" galvanized chain for the mooring and a large buoy with spliced
poly rope for hawsers.
Some things to consider are the type of sea bed, mud versus rock bottom and
the size of your boat.
This particular mooring was a guest mooring for a friends cottage.

Some boats will use more than one block chained together if it is a large
boat. If you have a mud bottom the block will sink in the bottom and
increase holding resistance versus blocks located on a hard gravel or rocky
bottom.
I usually service(diving) between 80 -100 moorings a year and can assist
with any suggestions.

-bob
499-0824 cell
bobATfox.nstn.ca



"Courtney Thomas" wrote in message
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Ken Heaton wrote:
I was around when one of the crusher cones went in. We rolled it out of
a pickup truck next to the water onto a floating dock section with a few
small logs in between as rollers. We then pulled the floating dock out
to the position desired (with mooring chain and float already attached)
and pushed it off the dock. It made a pretty splash. There were five or
six guys aroud for this as extra hands are handy. Watch your toes.
These are in the Bras d'Or Lakes, one in a very exposed location. They
dig into the bottom by themselves and DO NOT MOVE. Very nice.

I work with one of the guys who put a train wheel or two in at Baddeck
Harbour so I'll see him Monday and ask him how they got those in.

Ken,

Any chance of your finding out where to get the "crusher cones" and their
cost ?

Appreciatively,
Courtney

I worked at a sailing school that used a variation on that theme.

They would set the blocks in the water and float a 17' Boston Whaler
over it, setting up a sling that would suspend the mooring directly
under the boat when the tide came in.

The trick was to set up a loop so that one cut would set the block free
to drop. The one time the line got fouled it flipped the whaler.

Jonathan

Leanne wrote:
maybe you could get it into a cheap wooden dingy, tow it out to where
you want it, and then use large amounts of 4th of july fireworks to
"dramatically" plant the mooring on the bottom. if enough explosives
were involved i'd pay 5$us to see that lol ...


The way that old Enoch Winslow did it was to back the truck down to the
water at low tide. and dump it.
then he would bring two wooden skiffs with a couple 6x6 lashing them
together, hanging the weight between them.
The chain was attached to the logs by a thick rope. At high tide he woud tow
the skiffs, chain and mooring bouy to where the mooring was to be set. At
the proper place his helper would take an axe to the rope.

Leanne
s/v Fundy




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