The MS Moby Drea & MS Moby Otta former MS Tor Britannia & MS Tor Scandinavia built in 1975-76 is both installed with 4xPC3 12 V480 Pielstick engines, and still reaching 27 knots to date.
If you are an oil sheik = good news - you'll find oil wells everywhere.
If you are in oil retail buisness = good news - you'll break all-time-high-record-sale at your office and can retire next week with a great bonus
If you are an engineer and have to work with these engines = born loser
Seriously - These engines are user-hostile with severe leak problems. Unreliable and with a moody attitude. Have you ever anything positive about a thing which have the label "made in France"?
@mareflos well this engine has it pros to 1 it will never rust 2 it is well lubricated both inside and outside 3 you never have to change oil just fill it up
Ughh..., I remember me bones cracking on 4 pieces of 6cyl. inline crude oil burning! Pielstick trial! engines that were the main engines on the big ferry boat
OLAU HOLLANDIA. These engines were good for constant headace and they were literally "man eating".
After 3 month in this engine (with countless hours of overtime) I was this exhausted and this distressed that I needed to take Beta Blockers for one year!!! This was like a glimpse to hell!!!
I hate this sound! In Split sisters (Amorella, Isabella etc..) same sounds can also been heard in passenger cabins on deck 6. Impossible to sleep there.
What type boat motived by this? So U hate the pielstrick modell engine? Whats the wrong with this? Cause in my land many locomotive running with this engine, just check it out: M41 start
What Ur opinion, nowdays which manufacturer make the best hi-performance diesel engines?
@gergely007 In Finland, VR OY has some pielsticks in Dr16 series diesel-electrics and they suck. Only 2 prototypes build with Wärtsiläs, but they have been scrapped already and engines installed to some boats.
I hated math with a burning passion, and still do!
Obviously you're a bean counter and NOT an engineer or an oiler. Go spend six months in the engine room of an EMD-powered vessel and then sail on some HFO-burning POS for six months. BTDT!
Free trees don't mean diddly dick after you figure in the cost of chainsaws, logsplitters, trucks and/or tractors to haul the wood, gasoline to run all the aforementioned equipment, and last but not least all the BALL BUSTING LABOR involved in cutting, splitting, and stacking the wood! Personally I've got better things to do than slave my ass off on a woodpile.
Now, now, calm down and go down to Greka's and have another Old Milwaukee. And save a case for that deer camp at Posen when you get off the grey boats.
Wait a minute! how did you know I worked on the gray boats? Is Grekas still in business? I still have a T shirt from there. Thanks to boatnerd I recently found out that the Taylor is now razor blades! My how times change...
Yes, Greka's is still there, but no longer the "grey boat" union hall. Rent-a-wreck steamship junked the Taylor (aka the "Calumet") at Port Colbourne a year ago.
I'm a deck officer on the lakes and elsewhere in the world. My boat got laid up in Toledo early this year under the Bush Econonic Recovery Plan (BERP).
interesting to read in these comments that Pielstick engines are all crappy. In Germany, they were also used in diesel locomotives and are ... you guessed it - all replaced now by MTU´s.
Any fleet that thinks they're actually saving money by burning heavy fuel oil in a diesel engine has about as much common sense as a homeowner who thinks he's saving money by heating his home with a woodstove.
First ship I ever worked in the engine room on had two 16PC2V-400's every time I knocked off for the day I was tired, sore, and flammable. I have since become a big EMD fan.
But i LOVE ppielstick:)
jocika99 3 months ago
Total 'fun' to work on. BE bearing change only took 2 secs.....
ciaranjefferies 5 months ago
I ve had three Pielstick generators,and same number of blackouts per day
robertostefanovic 9 months ago
engineers nightmare in Pielstick street. engine designed to break beck, suck power and destroy nervs
robertostefanovic 9 months ago
SHITSTICK
ginlonken 9 months ago
The MS Moby Drea & MS Moby Otta former MS Tor Britannia & MS Tor Scandinavia built in 1975-76 is both installed with 4xPC3 12 V480 Pielstick engines, and still reaching 27 knots to date.
kzbxvz 1 year ago
Pielstick? never heard before! What's so bad about these? Could somebody tell me? :/
gregordiesel 1 year ago
@gregordiesel
If you are an oil sheik = good news - you'll find oil wells everywhere.
If you are in oil retail buisness = good news - you'll break all-time-high-record-sale at your office and can retire next week with a great bonus
If you are an engineer and have to work with these engines = born loser
Seriously - These engines are user-hostile with severe leak problems. Unreliable and with a moody attitude. Have you ever anything positive about a thing which have the label "made in France"?
mareflos 1 year ago 5
@mareflos we use them on the lsd class in the navy they are very hit or miss i agree with u
barman882007 3 months ago
@mareflos well this engine has it pros to 1 it will never rust 2 it is well lubricated both inside and outside 3 you never have to change oil just fill it up
roger1anderson 2 months ago
Awsome engine served my time on these! It takes real engineers to work on these not people who think they are and complain all the time
j22tur 1 year ago
Big "csörgő" motor, in a boot?
Hungary trans M41 in litle Pielstrick motor.
szoszi870617 1 year ago
Ughh..., I remember me bones cracking on 4 pieces of 6cyl. inline crude oil burning! Pielstick trial! engines that were the main engines on the big ferry boat
OLAU HOLLANDIA. These engines were good for constant headace and they were literally "man eating".
After 3 month in this engine (with countless hours of overtime) I was this exhausted and this distressed that I needed to take Beta Blockers for one year!!! This was like a glimpse to hell!!!
XELA2T 1 year ago
pielstic or apelpistic???
beastperama 1 year ago
I've seen Pielstick diesels only once, and they leaked almost as much oil as my friend's Peugeot. French technology at its best ;-)
tupsumato 1 year ago
Pielstick engines needs a lot of care and love.
mareflos 1 year ago
im having horrible flashbacks of a terrible 4 months
timthepartypimp 1 year ago
I hate this sound! In Split sisters (Amorella, Isabella etc..) same sounds can also been heard in passenger cabins on deck 6. Impossible to sleep there.
landsbergprison1925 2 years ago 8
Wonderful sound from the "F1" engine of the seas.
kzbxvz 2 years ago
ha ha lookin for leaks already
eatmypies 2 years ago
Not lookin' for leaks I think - just checking lubricating of the turbines. Right?
FunSubaru 2 years ago
Is really a Pielstick engine the engineers nightmare??
kzbxvz 2 years ago 4
god i hate v engines,what a workup
eatmypies 3 years ago 2
I feel sorry for those who have to maintain the 32 units on those shit engines.
FunSubaru 3 years ago 4
Yep, it was four months in hell, well at least a test of it.
mareflos 2 years ago
What type boat motived by this? So U hate the pielstrick modell engine? Whats the wrong with this? Cause in my land many locomotive running with this engine, just check it out: M41 start
What Ur opinion, nowdays which manufacturer make the best hi-performance diesel engines?
gergely007 2 years ago
@gergely007 In Finland, VR OY has some pielsticks in Dr16 series diesel-electrics and they suck. Only 2 prototypes build with Wärtsiläs, but they have been scrapped already and engines installed to some boats.
FINRUSEXP 1 year ago
they sound sweet got a really nice grunt to them
kgc20goober 3 years ago 2
is that the 10,500hp version???
railfanman 3 years ago
You can have it. Gimme a light fuel burner any ol' day, or better yet, a turbine plant.
michigandon 3 years ago
I hated math with a burning passion, and still do!
Obviously you're a bean counter and NOT an engineer or an oiler. Go spend six months in the engine room of an EMD-powered vessel and then sail on some HFO-burning POS for six months. BTDT!
michigandon 3 years ago
Free trees don't mean diddly dick after you figure in the cost of chainsaws, logsplitters, trucks and/or tractors to haul the wood, gasoline to run all the aforementioned equipment, and last but not least all the BALL BUSTING LABOR involved in cutting, splitting, and stacking the wood! Personally I've got better things to do than slave my ass off on a woodpile.
michigandon 3 years ago
Now, now, calm down and go down to Greka's and have another Old Milwaukee. And save a case for that deer camp at Posen when you get off the grey boats.
choirboyfromhell1 3 years ago
Wait a minute! how did you know I worked on the gray boats? Is Grekas still in business? I still have a T shirt from there. Thanks to boatnerd I recently found out that the Taylor is now razor blades! My how times change...
michigandon 3 years ago
Yes, Greka's is still there, but no longer the "grey boat" union hall. Rent-a-wreck steamship junked the Taylor (aka the "Calumet") at Port Colbourne a year ago.
I'm a deck officer on the lakes and elsewhere in the world. My boat got laid up in Toledo early this year under the Bush Econonic Recovery Plan (BERP).
choirboyfromhell1 3 years ago
interesting to read in these comments that Pielstick engines are all crappy. In Germany, they were also used in diesel locomotives and are ... you guessed it - all replaced now by MTU´s.
NThusiast 3 years ago
Any fleet that thinks they're actually saving money by burning heavy fuel oil in a diesel engine has about as much common sense as a homeowner who thinks he's saving money by heating his home with a woodstove.
michigandon 4 years ago
What metric are you using?
jenssoderberg 4 years ago
I must give you an A+ for having a Pielstick that runs well! Good video, 5 stars.
SpeakerPolice 4 years ago
Nice to see the word "Pielstick" and "5 stars" in same sentence! :)
(Back to reality...:
The ship was built in 1978 in Japan and the movie-clip was made in 2004.
mareflos 4 years ago
It actually sounds quite good, now that I listen. :)
SpeakerPolice 4 years ago
Pielstick = JUNK
swazcotaz 4 years ago 6
I agree!!
mareflos 2 years ago
First ship I ever worked in the engine room on had two 16PC2V-400's every time I knocked off for the day I was tired, sore, and flammable. I have since become a big EMD fan.
roundthirteen 4 years ago
worst engine ever made broke many an ENGINEER and sent him to an early grave
DESSIEWISLEY 4 years ago
pielstick, utvändig stänksmörjning? ;)
yoshi80ms 4 years ago
Pielstick... the worst engine out there... there isnt any oilier engine room than one with a pielstick running... =)
mannemytenlegenden 4 years ago
Håller med dig! Vad har du för erfarenhet av Pielstick. Btw... glo gärna på mina övriga filmer. Hör av dig!
mareflos 4 years ago
jobbade en kort period på ms götaland, 1972 års modell me 4 pielstick, 2 8cyl o 2 6cyl... :P
mannemytenlegenden 4 years ago
Hé Józsi! Add mán a collstokot! Nézek egy szelephézagot! :-D
FlexLuthorHUN 4 years ago 2
These engines are to be find in a world-wide RO-RO ship. To find more info about the vessel, try to search on google with following words:
faktaomfartyg tosca_1978
The result will be in Swedish but you'll understand anyway, I know...
mareflos 4 years ago
those engines really aren't too big, ship-iwise.
douro20 4 years ago
French-designed SEMT-Pielstick V16 Pc2.5 engines rated at 7.5MW/10,060hp each built by Nippon Kaiji(NKK), located on-board a diesel tug (i believe).
douro20 4 years ago