How to operate a STS Gantry Crane? Joystick CAM!! Loading a BIG vessel in the Port of Antwerp
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2016
- This cabinview video shows how to control a STS crane, there will follow a video were I show you all the buttons and joystick controls. Lot of people request these video's. This shows how to operate en ship to shore crane with a joystick camera! (DUAL CAM)
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/ @container_world - Auta a dopravní prostředky
This job sure does have it's ups and downs
Ba dumm tsss
There's a fair bit of back and forth too...
No god please no 🤣
I don't like crane operators. They always look down on other people
Booooo 😂
ive just converted this video into 1 year experience
I’ve been doing this in the port of Los Angeles for a few years now. I have never enjoyed a job more than this one. It’s not even like work. I look forward to coming in every night now. I have to say you’re driving a beautiful crane! We have steel grating over the bottom window. You’re a great operator 👍
How did you get into it? I've been applying to the GA terminal for 10 yrs.
@@sillykanji my family has been working on the waterfront since the 1920s. I got a casual spot in 1997, got a book in the union in 2000 and finally got crane trained three years ago. It's been a great career.
Thanks for helping that stuff reach me!
@@PumaPete did you ever drop a container from high bye accident?
@@charlie6751 not yet.
I’m a retired vet but I know work for Maersk in one of their distribution warehouses. This is an outstanding view of what goes on down at the ports. Thanks, this was very cool.
Thanks for your awesome comment!
Cool video. Love how you recorded it and splice the video and placed the joystick frames on the side like that. Super cool
Finally someone noticing! It is a 2 camera setup and not that easy to make! But I wanted to show the viewers what I see from my position! I have a few more videos like this in other type of cranes!
I was noticing that too
Watching your video from Jamaica, love it 🇯🇲👍🏼
Love how its got actual channels for the containers to drop into. Always wondered how they locked together.
I dont know about this ship but others will load containers into the hull which has these channels. Then when the hull is full, they stack on the deck and use locking pins to keep them together.
@@nolancorrado2317 Yeah I was gonna say how the fuck do they fall overboard then... But yeah I've seen ships that just stack them. Like our trucks, or the nobhead who didn't use the twistlocks and set off and the container slid off the skeleton 🤣
The crane operator is loading the containers in the hatch where there are cell guides to hold the containers in place. Once the hatch is full, the hatch covers are placed and containers continue to stack on deck. Usually the first 2 to 3 tiers of containers on deck will be secured with twist locks and lashes. Higher containers are secured with twist locks only.
As someone who used to watch this from the deck (officer in maersk), I quickly got an eye for the good gantry crane operators. You're up there man, nice hourly rate. Very smooth 👍
Great video.
brings back memories of 20 years ago and the shaking,rattling you in your seat when hooking and unhooking LOL
The high pitch whine of the hoist motor over your head. Great editing sir.
Thanks, I appreciate your great Comments! Yeah I also like the sound of the hoist motors!
What causes the shake when hooking on? And when lowering how do you know when you’re near the bottom?
This guy is a smooth operator! The efficiency and accuracy are amazing
Thanks! I loved this job, it was very challenging for me! I'm not working in the cranes anymore..
@@Container_Worldwhy not?
This guy must win all the prizes at the claw machine.
I love my job and the challenge. I have been a crane operator at Port Newark for 15 years. Excellent video!!!! It puts you right in the seat
Thanks! I love reading comments like this! 15 years is a lot! Did you switch job or?
Newark port? Like to connect with you ...
Seems like an interesting career. Can you point me in the right direction to land a crane operator position at a port?
nice to see this perspective, i am aseafarer and normally i'm only seeing this from the ships deck
Hello, I'm working as a crane operator in Korea. I'm watching a good video. Gantry crane is a difficult and difficult job, but you are calmly good.
Someday I want this job cuz it looks pretty cool and I like the way the crane works
That is insanely accurate hand-eye coordination.
Super interesting video! Are you planning to film more of these?
Thanks! Yes I'm will make more Dual Cam video's! check my other video's, I have a few more Dual Cams like this one!
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Nice video! I used to haul containers, beeing loaded by these cranes at the docks and train stations. Always wanted to see it from this perspective! Good job!
Thanks!! Nice to meet you! Make sure you subscribe, so you won't miss any new video's!
You are a great crane operator 👍 you definitely have spent a lot of time in that seat 😎
Job Is Another Level Of Real Life Games
You got it😁👍
Very cool video, love those ACL CON-RO vessels as well as the cell guides topside!
Damn. That is fast.
☝️😁
and easy , I could in reality , givig those jog to 12 yo , and would do it fine .
A 12 Yo could never concentrate the amount of information a entire work shift
@john jones -_- , no one sit 500h , there are shifts , and no one work more that 2 h at the time , they pull 8 h day but theu have 20min break every 2 h.
It depends on what country you work. I'm operating in Belgium and we do 4hour breaks in 8hour shifts! We work 4hours, we pause 30min and we work another 3,5hours.
I’ve always wondered how this was done thanks for the video I know you don’t learn to do this overnight👍
Glad you know it now thanks to my video! These Cranes work day and night.
Nizze, crane op. Safe driving skills and making 35 boxes x hour.
EXCELLENT JOB..!!
Lol, I didn't notice the "Antwerp" in the title and was wondering why the voices over the radio sounded so familiar.
Honestly, I'd love it if the VRT bought this as our entry into the slow tv genre made popular in the Nordic countries.
Because the best place for a flammable tank is within the loading area of the crane and right next to its legs.
For this kinda job, you will need good Tetris skills! xD
I would like to make a living off of stacking containers.
+Jak343 hahahahaa, Yes. It is all about Tetris! Maybe I should add Tetris music to my videos?
well it's not the driver to decide where to stack containers :-)
I bet you have to have really really good vision. All the videos I've seen I haven't seen a crane operator wearing glasses??????? So that probably would have left me out even though I wanted to get into it. 😕😕😕.and mad respect for these guys. I know it's not easy job. It's looks Awesome but really really hard on your neck and shoulders. I would have loved to do this. Thank you for keeping our country moving 🇱🇷🇱🇷
the best container port channel on youtube right now
+NBSCrew thanks, I appreciate it!
I love how things work in industries, this is so cool to watch!
Left joystick controls forward and backward movement and right joystick left to right controls some sort of locking mechanism so you can lift the container, pulling back lifts and pushing forward lowers, shifting JS right unlatches?
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed watching this video! You are 100% correct. Right joystick left-right is for unlock-locking the container. Left joystick left-right is for moving the entire crane left-right.
I have more joystick videos in other type Cranes!
@@Container_World it's very satisfying watching that! I subbed and will check out more, be safe out there bro!
@@Container_World What cabin is fitted. The port I work at has Merford ones on our 3 cranes including 2 Liebherrs
I have no idea why watching this is so cool and satisfying but its dope!
There's a game called quay crane commander I believe it's called for android and iOS.
This crane is very fast and modern,greetings for the crane operator ,good job bro
Thanks a lot, I appreciate comments like this!
really interesting, I used to work on heavey plant, like the container stacker in your video. always wanted to see how things looked from up there. great job.
+vansien Thanks! More videos will come, feel free to subscribe if you are interested to see more ;) greetings JC
Nice dual camera setup!
Very cool to watch! I know it's a lot of repetition but it looks like a considerable amount of skill is needed to be this smooth and fast. Impressive!
Wow Bro. Excellent job. Smooth as butter.
Great filming and edit ....thankyou
How easily it moves them just blows my mind. It's like a kid picking up legos...
Enjoy your job while you can, it'll be automated before long. That's a very simple task to automate.
True! There is a lot of power in that engine room! (All electric!) They tried automation but the hardest part is that the ship moves because it floats on water....
What kind of degrees/certifications do you need to do this? How long did it take you to become an operator?
beautiful smooth operator
The speed the crane lifts the containers off the truck into the ships hull area is very impressive
They have most likely got dual 500kw motors driving the hoist based on other Liebherr container cranes
Love this video! I'm a truck driver now and want to persue a career in this!! Heard it's hard to get into
Yup, not so easy... but nothing is impossible!!! I did help one Guy in Sri Lanka on a crane operator job! All thanks to me!! 6 months I've been teaching him every detail!! They were stunned in the port where he did a interview for job.
How much do these operators get paid ? I’m operating a Peiner right now but I’ve always been interested
I'm in crane training now. This video was very helpful.
Great comment! Good luck with your new job! Always stay aware of your responsibility as a crane driver and keep it safe ✌️
@@Container_World Thanks my friend. Will do!
Strange recommendation, but cant say i didnt enjoyed it. Nice to see this perspective.
Lovely vessel, I know this design is taking maybe more steel than an ordinary container vessel, with lashing bars and twist locks, and to not forget about wind resistance, but this design is much safer for cargo securing, maybe for extra safety to use some lashing system on the last tier but I think this tall cell guides will solve problems that more and more ships are having lately - loosing containers in adverse weather.
True that! And no more wasting time on malfunction twistlocks
And the number of jobs that are lost in the process of making a ship of this kind? Many repercussions because of this design.
I can imagine this takes months to train before you're vene able to put one container in a ship or on a truck without it swinging all over the place! Imagine how they do this in Antwerp and Shanghai where the terminalcranes can pich up 2 40' or 4 20' containers in one go.
People are either operators or they aren’t. My training was a month long. I was working ships after a few weeks under the supervision of my trainer. After that month you pass the production test or you don’t. If you don’t pass then your not going to be an crane operator. They make sure you’re safe and know safety rules continuously the whole time.
Obviously you constantly learn and prefect your skills after the training is over. Especially for the first few years. Your not as productive as the other operators for some time. But it’s about safety and not speed.
Other unions and other countries do it different I’m sure.
2 weeks you get in liverpool haha
20 minutes training in my country and you are ready to go.
@@Bossix84 Safety first 🤦♂️
20minutes? That is impossible... Like forward backward up down, good luck my friend bye!
great! but you edited out the container size shrinking at 9:20 I was waiting for that!
Wow very cool!
Balls of steel brother. 🍻
1 min 15 seconds per container with each container arriving in sequence. That's efficiency!
The best moves I can get are 55seconds! On these ships with these cranes
Felicidades me gustó mucho tu genial talento desarrollado con mucho profesionalismo....el vídeo fantástico....
great video
I just played the mission in GTA V where you do this and that's why I looked this up on youtube lol
Wow the crane operator works very fast. I don't see stevedore or signal guys onboard the vessel.
+Thanh Vu thanks! I'm the operator and the signal man walks in the tunnels next to the cell guides . Thanks for watching!
Exactly! Union!?
not all piers do that. I know mine does not.
Man I've been applying for one of these jobs for 10 years now. Suuuuuper hard to get into.
It depends from port to port, where do you live? Maybe I can help
Very good and informative
He's speedrunning the loading process
This is some serious patience
Is it? 😁
Longshoremen 100 years ago: "That's IT???"
Yeah the crane is very cool but I’ve read that each container has to go to a specific slot due to weight and destination among many things. I like to think about the coordination to have the right truck pull up to the crane at the right moment to load in a specific slot. I’d think that if one truck got out of order, had a breakdown, whatever it could cause delays up and down the whole time critical operation. But I suppose they have computer programs that can make adjustments. Just amazing to watch.
Absolutely brilliant , a lot more fun than the reach stacker i operate👍👍👍
Yes, definetly! At first reach-stackers are a great challenge but after a few years you need to get up in the cranes!
@@Container_World , id love to, i only operated the small rail gantry cranes, not as high as those beasts, good luck mate and all the best👍👍
Rail gantry cranes are a good step up to the big STS cranes! Good luck with your career! What port do you work?
This is amazing engineering and is pivotal I imagine to daily commerce
This looks so fun..
Hut ab vor deiner Arbeit , sehe ich zum ersten mal wie du arbeiten must .
Great video
I never saw those walls with slots before but they make way more sense then open stacking them
great video!!!!
+Сергей Ларин Thanks!
No over weight limit problem.
No windy problem
No objdct swing/turning problem
No need to consider the core of the weight
Easyyyy job.
Geweldig deze Kraandrijver, super snel... Topper... Groet uit Holland
Bedankt vriend! Eindelijk iemand die er iets kan kent😁👌 ben je ook een kraandrijver?
I oddly love when the seat shakes
You wouldn’t think in a big crane like that that it would shake. But after a while you get used to how they shake and you can tell when the can doesn’t sit down right.
Good job ❤❤
that was awesome
Thanks for watching!
This looks both fun and terrifying.
Love watching this type of video. This ship was damaged by a gantry crane in Liverpool a few years ago.(my home town) I see these vessels regularly as the company I work for is based on Liverpool docks, great site to see. Do the racks make loading easier?
Thanks! Yes, the ''racks'' or cell guides makes it very easy for us. The only downside is that these cellguides are 30meters high! So lots of going up and down to get the ship loaded!
great vibeo!!!!!!
3:20 are you dutch, I am from belgium, I really like the video and the dual camera setup! Keep it going
Nice video and i love the perspective, seeing what your hands doing with the joystick in relation to the containers. 2 questions though- how do you know where to put the containers on the ship and 2. Is it all hand eye coordination to fit the lift to the container from the trucks?
Thanks!! Glad you enjoyed it!!! I have radio communication to know what container has to go in what cell guide. It is very strict planned.
It is all manual! Only at the Quay side is An automatic Brake/slowdown
Finally! At least I'll know how container ships are loaded.
Have you seen my video how they unload brand new Cars from a ship?
@@Container_World No, please give me a link.
Starts from 00:18!
czcams.com/video/Wf8XBuIpsyI/video.html
I would like to see 1 of these in operation in my hometown of Marystown NL, largest ice free harbour in North America. With ships getting bigger it would make sense to use that port as a transfer station to let smaller ships fit into many eastern seaboard ports.
Once you get your head around the huge sums of money you're moving around, in all honesty, operating one of these looks decidedly simple...
Back and forward, up and down, and into guided slots which you'd have be an absolute clown to get wrong...
I'm ever so slightly OCD however, and the remarkable symmetry of this kind of work would be an absolute balm to my soul 😁😁
I believe I got the controls figured out! Right stick inward is Lock, right stick out is Unlock, right stick forward is Down, right stick back is Up.
Left stick back is Backwards, left stick forwards is Forward. Also noticed there's about a 2 second delay in the response of the controls.
How am I doing so far?
I'm ready to come to work brother!
Awesome 👍from qc malaysian
Thanks!!
Great video showing real skill, but not my sort of job, driven lorries with containers, but could not do this
great crane operator
+Agostino LANGELLOTTI Thanks!
what's your best prize?
Probably made by our sister factory in Ireland...we've done some parts for these cranes before in Sunderland
Cool! What sistor factory do you work?
Awesome
Nice job thanks
Where are you from?
YES MAPS HAS UPDATED!!! The newer version of IMT is on maps with 2 grey painted gantry cranes and a lhm 400, and AET has 2 lhm 550s and 2 liebherr gantry cranes mounted to the shoreline. cant say the same for earth, on golgle earth AET still rellies on gottowalds and there is an orange gantry crane at IMT
I operate a over head log crane in Texas for a large papermill, have been thinking about taking a port crane job for Georgia port authority but scared to pull the trigger on it and make the move ! Lol looks very interesting though
You gotta do what you love to do! I have seen People move to the harbour cranes but it is a different world in Belgium. Some People do go back to the private industries!
Very cool
Thanks James! Do you work in the port?
@@Container_World No I just marvel at the scale of it all.
His wrist game is strong with the force
Lol
Very cool. Does the yellow carriage ride along the vertical ribs of the ship so the alignment is perfect when setting in place? Thank.
looks fun
It is Fun😁
Nice video. Always wondered how you know where to unload the container on the ship and which one to pick up when unloading from the ship. I don't see any marking of the bays on the ship.... BR Adam / Denmark
Thanks for the video..always wanted to see how this is done. Do you get sore neck looking down all the time?):)
How is the order of containers determined? Like what goes all the way down and what stays above. Or is everything unloaded at every stop?
Super bro
Hey! Where are the swingmen, dock aloft and the rest of ILWU 13?
Are real time communications telling you which column to stack or do the containers come your way sorted for a specific load pattern?
I have always wonders how they know what containers to get from the boat, and how they know where they are
So, do you have a camera display to help you determine when you are close to the container, or is it all by eye?
Something about this is fascinating! What kind of training is required? presumably lots right? How hard is it to get all the way up into that crane? how long does one stay up there? It seems like one misstep could cause seriously ridiculous amounts of damage, are there automated safety measures for that?
Very good questions! It takes up to 2 years of training to work productive with these cranes. The training starts in a computer simulator to get feeling of the standard controls. When the trainer thinks it's safe enough you can get in the real cranes up to 165feet!(50m) The hours in the cabin depends from port and country. In Belgium we work in 2 parts: first 4 hours of operation + 30min break +3hours of operation!
You should check my other video: "life of a crane operator"! You can see in that video how I enter different types of cranes! These gantry cranes have their own Elevator! So it's pretty easy to go up and down.
It is true that a small mistake can make cause huge damages or human injuries/death... I saved 4 lives in my 13 year career at the port... You have to keep your eyes open and stay focussed every second!
There are a few safery features in these cranes, they brake automatic when hoisting down on the trailers and the ground. And it is impossible to hoist down on the crane legs. The rest is in our hands..