So something interesting about the "Mv City of Nat-chess ( phonetically) is that she was recently acquired by Kirby in a buyout of Savage Marine which was a recent bought from Setoon marine. All that to explain why the barges were blue/black and green/black. Kirby scoops up companies like Monopoly squares and often the barges and boats barely have time to get painted before they change hands again. Another cool note, of the chemical barges you see, typically if the majority of the top is painted black, then it is designed to heat the oil. I push primarily heater barges on my boats.
I have to travel 60 miles to get to the Ohio river to watch towboats,river town folks are lucky to live by the Ohio river's wherever, yeah I'm jealous because I don't live by the Ohio river some were, I'm aka shepherd of the river when I'm there watching towboats.
Already subscribed to Timelapse Towboater, Jeff is a fountain of knowledge!! Enjoying your flypasts of the boats passing upstream and downstream. Hope you get no more bird strikes sir !! 😬😬😬
Really cool video, nice photography👍. I’m a pilot/Capt. currently working for Excell (National Maint.), although I spent several years tripping (freelance pilot) for several companies. There aren’t many channels devoted to what we do, nice to see yours at such a high level of production quality.
@@RiverIndustryAdventures No, but we have vacationed in Derby several times, and almost bought a house across the river in Concordia KY a few years ago. Love the area, and still hope to make it our home some day!
Richard Cox they are called towboats in the name of tradition primarily. Whenever the railroad took hold on passenger travel in the US the passenger stern wheelers were hurting for revenue, so they would tow a barge off to the side which is where they got the name tow boat. As the industry developed the stern wheelers starting pushing barges in front but the name towboat stuck. Some companies will refer to them as push boats. But the industry standard still seems to be tow boat
Hi Walter, so to expand on Kleemans description a little, we connect the barges together with cables, this last tow could have up to 26 cables ran across. Plus we also use a cable made into a circle, these are called hoops or slings and they typically come with a few links of chain on them and then there are the ratchets. Our ratchets look just like the ones Kleeman uses on Dirtperfect's truck except much bigger and we don't have fancy speed binders...all hand tighten. Many barges also use large winches in place of the ratchets and slings. Next we use ropes or "Line". We will wrap the various bits in a few patterns and specific knots that will hold but not bind down to tight.
Hi Walter, im currently uploading a new video and spend a few mins describing our towing gear. Once the Internet decides to cooperate that is. Should be up sometime today.
South Texas two boats under contract with Dow chemical both boats wheel houses raise and lower hydraulically old push Dow Hustler I do have to admit the boats are impressive sincerely dear. anel
I know this sounds stupid but it is coming out of me so it should. The government builds roads where no road should be and then won't build one where it does. What if they got into the business of making river channels and started straight roads to different cities and rivers as tributaries? I know they need water but seems like a lot of extra water going all down one so borrow some for the other one or something like that. Talk about jobs, we doggie, that would take a passel of men to make a trench like that I got a even dumber one... how about east to west or vise versa... it sure would dig up some real estate and it might find where jimmy hoffa is buried .. just saying... might not even be the guy their looking for... ramblings of a seventy three year old dummy logger
Hey everybody, my info cards wouldn’t work for whatever reason, But I put Jeff’s TH-cam channel in the description!
Thank you so much Capt
So, a cool note, Im FB friends with the Captain of the Mv Ned Merrick. He has a pretty cool page on FB called Inland Waters River people page.
Time Lapse Towboater that is really cool. Think I should reach out and send him this link?
Yes for sure.
@@TimeLapseTowboater What happened to your videos? I don't see any on your channel...
It looked like the type of day that you just want to stick your feet in the water.
Thanks Kleeman
I am up in the sticks from Pennsylvania and love this channel.
TheCelltek glad you’re enjoying it and thanks for tagging along!
Excellent footage and relaxing music accompaniment......Thanks for posting Captain
mrmikeyd hey and thanks for watching sir
NAT CHEZ
Awesome tow boats and awesome river! 👏👌👍🌞
So something interesting about the "Mv City of Nat-chess ( phonetically) is that she was recently acquired by Kirby in a buyout of Savage Marine which was a recent bought from Setoon marine. All that to explain why the barges were blue/black and green/black. Kirby scoops up companies like Monopoly squares and often the barges and boats barely have time to get painted before they change hands again.
Another cool note, of the chemical barges you see, typically if the majority of the top is painted black, then it is designed to heat the oil. I push primarily heater barges on my boats.
🤔 Didn’t see any info cards.
Seeing the empty tow at the end really shows the purpose of the tall push bumpers with the barges riding so high.
I have got to come down there ,looks so awesome.
dwayne morrow it’s a beautiful area !
I have to travel 60 miles to get to the Ohio river to watch towboats,river town folks are lucky to live by the Ohio river's wherever, yeah I'm jealous because I don't live by the Ohio river some were, I'm aka shepherd of the river when I'm there watching towboats.
wow this is stunning my friend, love this
Already subscribed to Timelapse Towboater, Jeff is a fountain of knowledge!!
Enjoying your flypasts of the boats passing upstream and downstream. Hope you get no more bird strikes sir !! 😬😬😬
Thank you Alex
Really cool video, nice photography👍.
I’m a pilot/Capt. currently working for Excell (National Maint.), although I spent several years tripping (freelance pilot) for several companies. There aren’t many channels devoted to what we do, nice to see yours at such a high level of production quality.
Sorry to hear Jeffboat closed. I had to look up to get more info.
MV is "motor vessel" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_prefix
Steve Runyan fair enough
I see the river is clearing up. What a beautiful place to live. Any fish in there?
What cargo would the barges being pushed by the Ned Merrick be for ? Neat wheel house as they are sometimes called in Canada.
Gerald Heitman most likely a type of oil.
The Ned Merrick in this video is pushing for Marathon oil. Not sure of the cargo but I do know they are down in New Orleans preparing to reload.
Are you shooting near Derby, IN? Great area for boat watching.
Glenn Lechner most of the videos are in the derby area. You seem familiar with the area. From this region?
@@RiverIndustryAdventures No, but we have vacationed in Derby several times, and almost bought a house across the river in Concordia KY a few years ago. Love the area, and still hope to make it our home some day!
M/V stands for motor vessel not marine vessel.
Why are they called tow boats? They should be called push boats. That’s what they do push things up and down the river. Love the videos
Richard Cox they are called towboats in the name of tradition primarily. Whenever the railroad took hold on passenger travel in the US the passenger stern wheelers were hurting for revenue, so they would tow a barge off to the side which is where they got the name tow boat. As the industry developed the stern wheelers starting pushing barges in front but the name towboat stuck. Some companies will refer to them as push boats. But the industry standard still seems to be tow boat
How are the barges fastened together so they stay side by side. I don’t see any ropes or anything holding them together.
walter mattson cables/rope or portables, which are oversize versions of ratcheting binders.
Hi Walter, so to expand on Kleemans description a little, we connect the barges together with cables, this last tow could have up to 26 cables ran across. Plus we also use a cable made into a circle, these are called hoops or slings and they typically come with a few links of chain on them and then there are the ratchets. Our ratchets look just like the ones Kleeman uses on Dirtperfect's truck except much bigger and we don't have fancy speed binders...all hand tighten. Many barges also use large winches in place of the ratchets and slings.
Next we use ropes or "Line". We will wrap the various bits in a few patterns and specific knots that will hold but not bind down to tight.
I'll try to do a video segment on our gear to show some better detail.
@@TimeLapseTowboater thank you guys for all the details. I guess I just haven’t seen all this stuff yet.
Hi Walter, im currently uploading a new video and spend a few mins describing our towing gear. Once the Internet decides to cooperate that is. Should be up sometime today.
South Texas two boats under contract with Dow chemical both boats wheel houses raise and lower hydraulically old push Dow Hustler
I do have to admit the boats are impressive sincerely
dear. anel
I know this sounds stupid but it is coming out of me so it should. The government builds roads where no road should be and then won't build one where it does. What if they got into the business of making river channels and started straight roads to different cities and rivers as tributaries? I know they need water but seems like a lot of extra water going all down one so borrow some for the other one or something like that. Talk about jobs, we doggie, that would take a passel of men to make a trench like that
I got a even dumber one... how about east to west or vise versa... it sure would dig up some real estate and it might find where jimmy hoffa is buried .. just saying... might not even be the guy their looking for... ramblings of a seventy three year old dummy logger