Giant tubes on the Carlisle Pier

matt-dublin · 20-02-2013 2:24pm #1

Has anyone seen them or know what they are? are we entering the space race or making nuclear bombs???

homer911 · 20-02-2013 2:40pm

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/02/19/each-container-holds-a-million-pints-of-stout/

ted1 · 20-02-2013 10:26pm

Guinness vats, why they used dun laoighre I don't know.

zagmund · 20-02-2013 10:38pm

According to the man on the radio they didn't come via Dublin Port because of bridge clearance problems on the route.

z

Cookie_Monster · 20-02-2013 10:38pm

ted1 wrote: »

Guinness vats, why they used dun laoighre I don't know.

Possibly berthing costs? Maybe DL are finally starting to get pro-active in seeking business

EDIT: never mind, explanation above. What bridge do you have from Dublin Port but not Dun Laoghaire, the Loop Line is the only one I can think of.

ted1 · 20-02-2013 11:35pm

Kind of makes sense, but I doubt these has being the only high delivery since 1988

Fratton Fred · 21-02-2013 7:49am

1 million pints of Guinness!

Reminds me of the old joke "your uncle drowned in a vat of Guinness, six men tried to save him, but he fought them off bravely!"

Guinness posted pictures of them on Facebook by the way.

zagmund · 21-02-2013 9:46am

Yeah, I was trying to think of what the clearance problem was myself, but that was what he said on the RTE morning news the other day. Mind you, he was from marketing . . .

Maybe there's some issue getting the length of the vessel around 90 degree bends to get over the bridges? Although it's not like there's a whole lot of straight lines between DL & Dublin so maybe that wasn't it.

z

coylemj · 26-02-2013 5:14pm

The first few are moving tonight (Feb 26th) from 10 p.m. The rest will move on the nights of March 5th, 19th & 26th.

The route the convoy will take is as follows:

Dún Laoghaire Harbour – Monkstown Crescent – Rock Road – Merrion Road – Shelbourne Road – Grand Canal Street Upper- Clanwilliam Place - Mount Street Lower - Merrion Square North - Clare Street - Contra Flow will be in place on Leinster Street South - Nassau Street – Grafton Street Lower and College Green. Convoy will then continue along Westmorland Street – Aston Quay – continue along South Quays and enter the Diageo Plant at Victoria Quay.

http://pmlivedrive.blogspot.ie/

ted1 · 26-02-2013 5:35pm

It's be great if they used a heavy lifting helicopter or actual fabricate them on site

Larbre34 · 27-02-2013 3:14pm

ted1 wrote: »

It's be great if they used a heavy lifting helicopter or actual fabricate them on site

'I'm a brewer, not an engineer Jim'

zagmund · 27-02-2013 8:48pm

Having seen then trundle by last night I think the clearance might have been width (they're spherical so the same width/height when on their side on a low loader) related as much as any length or height. They weren't exactly struggling to get through traffic lights without hitting stuff in the middle of the road but you wouldn't try fitting them through a gap in a hurry. There may well have been some narrow parts of the route from the port up towards Guinness.

I hope nobody on the Air Coach last night which was following them (at 10kmph or so) along the Rock Road was tight on time for getting to the airport.

z

coylemj · 01-03-2013 1:36am

zagmund wrote: »

they're spherical so the same width/height when on their side on a low loader

They're cylindrical, not spherical.

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Larbre34 · 01-03-2013 11:43am

Apparently the journey from Dun Laoghaire Harbour to James' Gate took 4.5 hrs. Speedy!

zagmund · 01-03-2013 5:36pm

Have you nothing f'ing better to do with your time?

z

coylemj wrote: »

They're cylindrical, not spherical.

TheVoodoo · 01-03-2013 10:33pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

Apparently the journey from Dun Laoghaire Harbour to James' Gate took 4.5 hrs. Speedy!

A solid 4-8Kph was the speed they were moving! (When they actually were moving) I went out to look at them going past, and it literally took and age. It was very start stop.