Fri Skien
Date
21 August 2018
Location
Campbeltown, Kintyre, Argyll and Bute
NR 72150 20344; 55.42384°N, 5.60224°W
Information
Fri Skien is a general-cargo ship operated by Norwegian shipping company Høyergruppen AS. Constructed in the Netherlands in 2000, the vessel is 89m long with a beam of 13m. Its hold has a capacity of 5,669 cubic metres and its maximum deadweight (the weight it can carry) is 3,792 tonnes. Pictured here on 21 August 2018, she arrived in Campbeltown on the 19th and her next port of call was Rostock, Germany, arriving there on the 26th.
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I’ve always wondered what it’s like to walk around on one of those big cargo ships!
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🙂
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I see lumber being loaded – which looks familiar because we see that here – but the hills in the distance look like they have no trees….are there forests being cut further inland?
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Hi Blue. If you have a look at the Ordnance Survey map – https://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&lvl=12&sty=s&eo=0&cp=55.42384~-5.60224&where1=55.42384%2C%20-5.60224 – you can see that although it is clear in the immediate area of Campbeltown itself, there is a fair bit of forestry on the Kintyre peninsula. We saw quite a lot of lumber trucks on the roads when we were there.
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That’s what I was thinking. Logging brings up contradictory feelings – I hate to see it happen but if it’s done right, it isn’t so destructive, and where would we be without wood products? The area where I live has had a huge logging industry for many years, though less now than in the heyday in the 1800’s. Not far from home there’s a huge holding facility for logs going onto trains, and they have an interesting “grabber” like the one you picture above that’s attached to a horizontal boom riding on rails along the edges of the log piles. THey can stop it where they want, lower the arm and grab a load of logs, raise it and move it down the row. Pretty cool to watch – I think you’d like it. 🙂
MAYBE this link will work & you can see a bird’s eye view:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sierra+Pacific+Industries+-+Burlington/@48.4491314,-122.4365289,725m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m8!1m2!2m1!1sfidalgo!3m4!1s0x54856e34ac25e073:0x1206253c7f5fa694!8m2!3d48.448526!4d-122.4355821
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Many thanks for the link, Blue. That does indeed look like a fancy contraption. And you are right – I would be fascinated to see that in operation.
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🙂 Just passed by today….it was moving….someday I have to figure out where I can pull over to photograph it. It’s not in a good place but I’ll try, one of these days.
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I’ll look forward to that 🙂
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