8,000 gallons of oil

LDB · Mar 30, 2016

A ship named Umiak I hauls anything and everything to a nickel mine in the north of Labrador and hauls ore back, one trip per month. She's an icebreaker and leaves a 100 foot wide path of broken ice along her path. The engine is the largest engine in all of Canada and carries 8,000 gallons of oil in the engine sump. Unless there is some unexpected disaster the oil will last the lifetime of the ship. Interesting program.

Slo-Ride · Mar 31, 2016

8000 gals thats alot.
That's kinda the same with a locomotive just less of it. Ya don't dump the oil, ya test it. If it flashes at to low of a point or the viscosity isn't right then ya make adjustments to it.. Rarely does it get dumped, even after several power assembles explode and get changed out. Even water will get drained out of the crankcase. And water contaminated oil would be about the only reason it gets changed out and even then there is limits as to how bad it gets before that amount of oil is wasted.

LDB · Mar 31, 2016

Yeah, my dad used to get re-refined oil during the depression. He always said oil never wears out or goes bad, just the additives do and if it's re-refined it's as good as new again. They aren't doing any refining on that ship but they talked about the testing etc. of it.