Equipment and Personnel Requirements 



Component preparation and fabrication of the floating breakwater 

 subassemblies involved certain tasks which were best handled sequentially. For 

 example, tire, steel tube, and belting preparations were best treated 

 independently as a sequence of operations involving the logistics of moving 

 about massive amounts of material from one location to another and the setup of 

 a reasonable, well-planned work area for the execution of single tasks. Only 

 rarely was sufficient space available to execute tasks simultaneously, such as 

 those associated with tire and belting preparations, or tire and steel tube 

 preparations, etc. As the work progressed to the assembly stage, it became 

 necessary to perform some operations simultaneously with the result of some 

 additional loss of prime marina space for recreational purposes. 



Within the foregoing constraints, the number of personnel assigned to the 



project varied from two to six. A crew of three or four was considered optimum 



for accomplishing most of the tasks. Six people were used in the final phase of 

 launching, towing, and on-site assembly. 



A list of principal facilities and equipment and their prime use follows: 



1. Dry indoor storage and work area - used primarily for indoor 

 activities such as belt cutting, punching tires and belting, 

 branding tire casings, storing clean dry tire casings prior to 

 foaming, and for storing foam components (foam components must be 

 kept at a cool temperature because of their volatility). 



2. Fork lift truck - used to unload materials, move coils of 

 belting, move groups of truck tires, lift ends of steel tubes, 

 and load truck tires onto steel tubes. 



3. Traveling boat cradle crane - used to lift and move steel pipe, 

 hold pipe in position while cladding with tires, lift and move 

 tire cladded tubes, and lift and launch floating breakwater 

 subassemblies. 



4. Punch (10 hp pneumatically driven) - used to punch tires and 

 belting. 



5. Branding iron and gas heater - used to brand tires to US Army 

 Corps of Engineers specifications. 



6. Foam mold - used to mold foam slugs for filling steel tubes. 



7. Open stake-bed truck - used for hauling tires, belting, and 

 supplies. 



All tasks relative to the fabrication and installation of the breakwater 

 subassemblies were effected on-site at Gem City Marina, Erie, Pennsylvania, 

 without appreciable disruption of the marine's normal business activity. At 

 times this required prompt attention to certain tasks and careful scheduling 

 around other marina activities. 



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