Indonesian timber ship

MASRIPIN - Indonesian timber ship Indonesian timber ship timber ship is a ship that all construction is made of wood, there is also a wooden ship wheel of his house (Wheel House) uses aluminum. Timber ships are usually built to perform fishing and transportation. Timber ship has a displacement size and relatively small but has a higher buoyancy than steel vessels.

The ingredients in the manufacture of timber ships

Because the main wooden boat building material used is wood, the wood should be considered in penggunaannya.Maka for important parts of the construction must be used wood with minimum quality strong class III and class III durable. Besides wood used must meet the requirements of the wood that is used for parts of the wooden boat construction, namely:

1. good quality wood

2. Wood no gap defect and not cracked

3. Wood is not perforated in the circle

4. Wood should be resistant to water, weather season, fungi insects

  5. Wood is not easy to eat oysters and not easily lengkun

While the binder used for binding-amplifier sections wooden boat construction is nails, screws, bolts and clamps. Material is being used to ensure watertightness between the connections of construction (wood boards) are pitch, putty and paint. Materials used for employment pitch pendupulan among others:

1. Ter plus a little sand

2. resins + kerosene + oil paint for the construction of curved wood diperelukan yag melengung,

here's how to bend wood:

  1. How to warming (with the help of fire) that is curved wooden beams will be heated by the fire (which is obtained from the burner flame or fire blander)

2. How to evaporation (with the help of water vapor) which will be curved wooden beams inserted into the box, then the water vapor was added to the box. How to evaporation takes approximately 2-4 hours

Stages Activity Wooden Ship Docking. No.

Type of Activity Time required Total Workers Specification

1. Raising the ship onto the slipway 6-10 30-45 minute boat size affects the long-raising

2. Washing Ships 1-2 hours 6-8 workers while raising the same with the ship

3. Pemakalan and pendempulan 5-8 Depending on the size of the ship

4. Ship Repair 5-7 people depends on the level of damage done by a group of craftsman ship

5. Painting ship 1-2 days 5-7 people Depending on the size of the ship

6. Decrease of the slipway ship 6-10 people 20-30 minutes while raising the workers together with the ship, however, if the ship owners want it done by the shipyard then after a mutual agreement, the repair process will be done. Maintenance and other improvements such as boat engines, propellers, anchors, and other electrical installation can be done by the shipyard.

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