This is a job we did last summer in Old Harbor AK. It's a village on Kodiak Island about 65 miles south of Kodiak City. You either fly in or have to take a boat.

Supply Barge arrives from Seattle to pick up the work barge. They tandem both barges to Old Harbor. A 12 hour run.



Crew departs in two Charter planes.



Barges arrive in Old Harbor. The new dock goes where this old relic dock is. The stubs will have to be removed.



After off loading the rolling stock at the old dock we're replacing and anchoring up the work barge the tug goes after the supply barge.



After tying up the supply barge the tug headed back to Seattle and we went right to pulling the remnants of the old dock.









The work barge couldn't reach the shore with the stubs so we had to get the 3000 down on the beach to stock pile the old piling upland.



Start unlashing the material barge.



Sending the material to the beach. The approach was so shallow we had to scoot in at high tide in order to reach the beach. Then shift the barge back out before it set down on bottom.



Driving the bulkhead sheets.



Enough for now. If this interests people I will go on. If not we can let it go away.

Pretty sweet pics

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Lash, Your work threads are always interesting and, the scenery is unlike anything in the Lower 48!!! The wheel house on the work barge looks like part of an old air traffic control tower!! Did you and your crew live on board? Please continue!! TM

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It's pretty sad when the only modeling tool you own is a box cutter.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you start to see every problem as a nail. Abraham Maslow

We remove the spuds when we go out into the open water so they don't hammer sideways in the pockets. The living quarters have 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Four of us lived on the barge and we had a house rented that 3 guys stayed at. We had a cook that came on the Barge and cooked for the crew.
The top house is the old control tower for Merrill Field in Anchorage. It houses the office and control console for the Anchor Gear on the Barge.

Few more. Once the bulkhead was in we drove the temp pile and set the templet.



They would only allow 20' embedment with a vibro on this job. We had to impact the piling the rest of the way.







Back to the Barge with the Vibro.



One more bent.





We didn't have enough Crane to reach the beach with the hammer so had to unhook it and leave it on the last piling we drove from the barge. The next day we had to build a pad for the 3000 so we could pick the hammer up and drive the upland piling.









Setting the first cap.

Enjoyed the pics. More please. 2 questions-what brand of crane is on the barge? 2nd the 3000 was it there or did you barge it there? Bob

Thanks. Amazing what guys 'do' for aliving.

Fantastic Photos! Thanks for sharing! What an amazing project to be working on - the view, the environment, I'm jealous!

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Glad to see you guys get to eat well. YUM!!!

Really enjoying this job progress. Hope you keep it going.

The Fillet table and the smokers got a work out on this job. The smokers ran for about a month and a half.
Back to work.



Prep for cut off.





Setting the first cap.



Welding down the second cap.



Setting panels





Time for a resupply.







Getting close on the main dock.