r/BeAmazed • u/freudian_nipps • Aug 27 '26
Technology The Hyundai-10000, the world's largest shear-leg floating crane, built by Hyundai Heavy Industries. It has a lifting capacity of 10,000 tons (11,000 short tons)
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u/One1moretyme Aug 27 '26
teasing us to expect a drop into the water
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u/idkidd Aug 27 '26
Any second now. Any second…<clip ends> WTF?!
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u/Marshal-Bainesca Aug 27 '26
Ive never seen how that ended!
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u/One1moretyme Aug 27 '26
Right!!??!! I was expecting and it turned into unexpected NO drop 😅
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u/freudian_nipps Aug 27 '26
I know you're taking the piss, but to answer seriously, this machinery is not built to drop a payload of this size. It would cause irreparable damage to both the crane and the cargo ship. There is also no practical use-case for dropping payloads, the crane is built to gradually lift and gradually lower.
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u/idkidd Aug 27 '26
You’re letting reality get in the way of Reddit expectations.
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u/JakeEaton Aug 27 '26
Apparently Gerard Butler did that version on the last take, after lots of takes saying the line normally. That’s the version they used.
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u/Fynn_Forster Aug 27 '26
Gotta love rule34
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u/DeerMysterious9927 Aug 27 '26
If I worked there I would get called in to HR for having this on my wall.
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u/free2beme247 Aug 27 '26
But how many shit tons is that?
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u/SloanWarrior Aug 27 '26
Forget shit tons, what about imperial fuck tons?
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u/nothing_911 Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26
shit-tons are a measure of volume (262 gallons) so it doesent count for this.
Imperial Fucktons are about 1.6 (metric tonnes) Metric Fucktons are heavier than that at 2.2 (metric tonnes)
so this beast can lift 4545 Metric Fucktons. thats really impressive.
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u/davewave3283 Aug 27 '26
264 gallons of your shit weighs a ton? What are you eating?!
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u/nothing_911 Aug 27 '26
its not about what is being carried but how much liquid, its all based on old English measurements of wooden casks.
a Barrel is a small cas with around 32gallons in it a Hogshead is twice that at around 63 gallons Then a Butt is about 136 gallons. then the largest cask is a tun at around 252 gallons.
these can all be turned into a "load" generally meaning how much liquid you can bring.
example: Fredrick can bring you a barrelload of wine on his back, but if he hitchess up the horse he can deliver a buttload.
now for the old proto germanic work "skit" meaning both to split or deficate.
so in this use Fredricks customer wants a tun of wine but Frederick only has the Tun cask at his vinyard and he has no wagons big enough to bring the whole thing. so he decides to deliver a skit-tun of wine (the equivalent amount but delivered in two butt casks)
and since language evolves the word skit turned into shit and tun turned into ton (old English long ton).
hope it helps clear things up.
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u/GermanShepherdsVag Aug 27 '26
One gallon is about 8 lbs. 264x8 is close to 2000 lbs, or 1 ton. Your shits would average 1 lb which isn't insurmisable.
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u/davewave3283 Aug 27 '26
I did the math and surprisingly you’re right on. Also I’m probably on some lists now.
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u/TheBSQ Aug 27 '26
Not that you asked. But the difference between a short ton & a ton is this:
Both a “short ton” (US) and a “long ton” (Imperial) are 20 “hundredweights.”
A U.S. “hundredweight” is 100 lbs, so a U.S. ton (aka a short ton) is 2,000 lbs.
But, in the imperial system a “hundredweight” is…112 lbs, making the imperial ton (aka, a long ton) 2,240 lbs.
And if you do the math, you’ll see that 10k tons is actually 11.2 short tons, but I’ll forgive them for rounding.
And if you’re curious a metric tonne (1000kg) works out to be 2204 lbs…just a bit less than the imperial “long” ton.
Anyway, a “hundredweight” being 112 lbs is one of the funnier quirks of Imperial measurements to me. (It’s because a hundredweight is defined as 8 stone, and a stone is 14 lbs, making a hundredweight = 112 lbs.
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u/NotTukTukPirate Aug 27 '26
I asked Google how many shit tons in a butt load and it said:
Because a buttload weighs about 1,000+ pounds and a shit ton weighs around 2,000+ pounds, one shit ton is equal to roughly 2 buttloads.
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u/GoblinWrangl3r Aug 27 '26
How does it not tip over? Is it weighted? Dug 500000 ft into earth?
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u/freudian_nipps Aug 27 '26
Ballast systems and mechanical counterweights, in other words, magic.
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u/Ocronus Aug 27 '26
The amount of water being pumped around while it lifts must be incredible. I'm way more curious what's under the water line than what's above.
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u/pharmer_wsu Aug 27 '26
Bringing the sexy back to incontinence
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u/MeiMouse Aug 27 '26
Quite. Biggest reason to not drop the ship is that the pumps won't be able to resteady thy platform fast enough.
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u/Nizdaar Aug 27 '26
Magic is just something science has no explanation for yet. One day we may understand how this magical marvel does not just tip over.
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u/kushari Aug 27 '26
Thanks for the post. Just showed this to my dad who was a naval engineer dealing with ships like this.
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u/physicsdude1 Aug 27 '26
Found this is in comment to a reddit post about this crane from 5 years ago. Not exactly the right setup, but it's a set of statics engineering problems for craines. :-) https://imgur.com/a/fz8Ho59
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u/taintedcake Aug 27 '26
It's floating... as said in the title.
You just stack weight on the back of it like nearly every crane does
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u/GoblinWrangl3r Aug 27 '26
Ok so theres some concrete or something huge behind the cranes we cant see in this video im guess?
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u/RolloDumbassi Aug 27 '26
I was on the Saipem 7000 once, it was semi-submersible so it sank lower in the water to be more stable.
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u/Playboyinpjs Aug 27 '26
What’s a short ton?
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u/alsokera Aug 27 '26
In general 2 pounds is seen as a kilo. So 2000 pounds is a ton, although it's only about 900 kg, so a short ton is 2000 pounds or 900 ish kg
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u/IDontNeedHelpMom Aug 27 '26
This is one of those Reddit comments that will live in my head rent free until the very specific talking point comes up to reignite those old neural pathways.
I have accumulated hundreds of Snapple facts no one asked for ready to inject unnecessarily into a conversation. Reddit is to blame for my poindexter personality.
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u/clvnmllr Aug 27 '26
Short ton (US): 2000 lb Metric ton (“tonne”): 1000kg / 2204.6lb Long ton (British): 2240 lb
A long ton is 20 “long hundredweight”, where a “long hundredweight” is 8 stone / 112 lb. 1 stone is 14 lb but was previously defined as 12.5 lb until 1340. Despite the change to the unit of “stone”, the hundredweight definition remained as 8 stone; hence, short hundredweight 8x12.5=100 and long hundredweight 8x14=112 are 1/20 of the short and long ton, respectively.
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u/theoldkitbag Aug 27 '26
Oh my fucking god Imperial, get your shit together.
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u/Vandal_A Aug 27 '26
Part of the issue you're seeing here is that US Imperial diverged from British in terms of actual sizes while not in name in quite a few ways before the Brits started trying to move on to metric
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u/TheBeatGoesAnanas Aug 27 '26
Today I learned that a short ton and a ton (US) are the same thing. Neat.
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u/OutrageousRhubarb853 Aug 27 '26
But can it lift yo mamma?
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u/Mahaloth Aug 27 '26
Yo' mama so fat, the Hyundai-10000 shudders when she appears.
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u/TalonCompany91 Aug 27 '26
You mama so fat she uses the highway as a slip-n-slide!
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u/ElGabalo Aug 27 '26
I don't understand; top minds of the internet assured me modern people can't even move moderately large rocks. /s
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u/CousinWalt Aug 27 '26
I wasn’t impressed until you mentioned the short tons.
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u/AdvancedSandwiches Aug 27 '26
Today I learned that global shipping uses the absolutely ludicrous long ton (1016 kg, 2240 pounds) for historical reasons.
Which means long tons are important here, but not what normal humans expect, so a clarification to either short tons or metric tons was probably a good idea.
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u/Legitimate-Cow5982 Aug 27 '26
That's about 60,000 t in lunar gravity if anyone wanted to know
Edit: note this is only for actual lifting, inertia doesn't change so lateral forces are the same as in terran gravity
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u/cubesncubes Aug 27 '26
I am baffled by how they would balance that. I work with cranes a little bit nowhere near that size obviously and it's nuts to me.
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u/Otto_von_Grotto Aug 27 '26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jPq5-mP5JM a bit more, uh, good information.
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u/inGenium_88 Aug 27 '26
Hyundai presents, The Hyundai Crane, by Hyundai Heavy Industries, powered by Hyundai Motors, copowered by HDC (Hyundai Development Company) Group, Hyundai Corporation.
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u/Roselia77 Aug 28 '26
You forgot "In Hyundai city"..... Ulsan is a weird place, everything is Hyundai branded
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u/Adept-Target5407 Aug 27 '26
So is the back half of the crane just using shadows to hold it up?
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u/TeamFluff Aug 27 '26
I thought so too, but if you look really closely, you can see that they are HEAVY shadows. Hope this helps.
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u/firedog7881 Aug 27 '26
Everything about this is impressive from the size of the crane to all the cabling and how level that ship is.
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u/Ali80486 Aug 27 '26
Hyundai, Hitachi, Mitsubishi - Asian heavy engineering is a marvel. Even my mum loves her Hitachi
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u/onclegrip Aug 27 '26
When I see clips like this, I quickly look at the check if im in That Looks Expensive thread.
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u/xForcefulEntryx Aug 27 '26
If it can lift 10k normal tons and 11k short tons, then how many long tons can it lift?
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u/scricimm Aug 27 '26
I was t.y.old, when i found out we have short tons....also long tons apparently...🤷🏻
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u/marc512 Aug 27 '26
I wonder how many of those lifting wires could be cut before it fails completely.
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u/coozin Aug 27 '26
Thanks for adding the translation to short tons. I was thinking “pfft only 10,000 tons” then I read 11,000 short tons so I thought “wow that’s a lot more”.
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u/CastorVT Aug 27 '26
22 million pounds and change, if you're wondering. or 9 million kilograms and change.
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u/TechTier Aug 27 '26
Nah that's what they want you to think. According to my barber we still can't make cranes big enough to lift the 80 ton blocks of stone used to build the pyramids.
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u/Grrimafish Aug 27 '26
Good thing they told us the short tons weight or I just wouldn't know how much this was.... /s
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u/KnightOfTheBlackRose Aug 27 '26
Tell me like I'm 5, how doesn't it not tip over?
Thank you
(Sick in bed and scrolling on Reddit)
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u/Fit_Kangaroo_3437 Aug 27 '26
I'm more amazed that this ship has enough and strong enough mounting points to be lifted.
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u/cororona Aug 27 '26
What is a freaking short ton ? Who uses that unit ? Why ? What is the purpose of it ? Where is my car ? So many questions ?
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u/QuerulousPanda Aug 27 '26
The fact that the crane can lift that much and remain balanced and not collapse is cool.
But, the part that really impresses me is the lifting eyes or other mounting point on the ship, that's an insane amount of weight to be supported on a pretty small number of concentrated small points.
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u/NoAd3740 Aug 27 '26
I worked in the HHI shipyard for a few months, it was awesome seeing that thing do lifts!
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u/foreverpeppered Aug 27 '26
That’s 80 Million Quarter Pound cheeseburgers in case you were about to ask
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u/Anxious_Boat_5081 Aug 27 '26
Pioneering Spirit is the current largest vessel. It has a lifting capacity of 20,000 tons
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u/exgiexpcv Aug 27 '26
"And this, Tommy, is why you need to do your homework. You will absolutely need maths later."
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u/Vandal_A Aug 27 '26
Not gonna lie: this gave me a little megalophobia and I don't normally get that
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