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原文传递 Big Ben Pays Tribute To Long-Serving Luhr Bros. Operator

题名：	Big Ben Pays Tribute To Long-Serving Luhr Bros. Operator
正文语种：	eng
作者：	SHELLEY BYRNE
摘要：	For 42 years, Ben Jackson was an operator on a line-stripping rig, unloading more than a million tons of rock a year for Luhr Bros., the most in company history.Now Luhr Bros, has honored Jackson with the launching of its new barge named in his memory, the Big Ben."As soon as we started working on designing this new barge, Jay said we wanted to name it after him," said Cody Shields, port captain at Luhr Bros, in Columbia, Ill., of his initial conversation with company president Jay Luhr.Shields called the 615-ton barge a "jack of all trades.""It's the heaviest barge that we've ever built," he said. "It's going to be designed to work off anchors and spuds. It's the only barge our company has that's set up that way."The Big Ben is 210 feet by 45 feet by 11 feet. After being outfitted with equipment, it will go to work between St. Louis and New Orleans, on the same stretch of the river where Jackson worked maintaining navigable waterways, generally performing work for the Corps of Engineers in dike and revetment management.Heartland Fabrication Inc. built the barge in Brownsville, Pa., and hosted a launching ceremony for Luhr Bros, on August 12.
出版年：	2021
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	135
期：	26