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<p>My longshoreman friend has a few answers:</p> <pre><span style="color:#0000ff;">" Hi Dave I can answer a few questions about our operation that Mike<br /> Lehman has. The rail does not go to the side of the dock here so we<br /> needed to have something to get the pieces from the ship to the rail. <br />The trailers we were using are designed for carrying woodpulp <br />and have a capacity of 70 tons. See attached photo. They just have feet <br />on the front.<br />We hook up like a standard tractor trailer and lift the trailer <br />with the tractor.<br /> These trailers also have air brakes. A mobile crane was brought in to <br />lift the pieces from our trailers to the railcars. The large pieces <br />weigh 55 tons and the smaller one is 38 tons. <br />They are going by rail because of their size." <br />Trevor </span><br /><br /><a href="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/trailer_zpsb9a5f883.jpg"><img src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/trailer_zpsb9a5f883.jpg" alt=" " border="0" /></a><br /><br />and they probably were some form of heat exchanger in the refinery <br />as they were<br /> full of piping and not empty type of tanks.</pre>
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