#8 some years back now I had one of my GSPs do the same thing with $400 in 20s she grabbed off the middle of the kitchen table. Turns out my bank made good on anything I could give them with an intact serial number. I think I only lost out on 60-80 bucks from that pile. Great in the woods but what a nutcase…I still miss her though.
#1- Aluminum flatbeds have an arch that's built into them. That one has been compromised.
If that guy's a gypo it looks like the place he was off-loading owes him a new trailer. I know if it was me I'd insist on it, even if I had to get a lawyer.
#10 is almost the same thing that I ran as part of my job in our steel making facility. It was called a horizontal continuous caster, and we cast a bar 75 mm round, down line to a flying cutoff wheel, that cut the bar into about 15 foot lengths, while the bar kept casting, then the bar ran on powered rollers to a 100 ton press that cut it into the lengths that the customer required, usually about 18". It then ran through a water tank, then a shot blast, and a printer, then was inspected and packed into 55 gal. drums or whatever the customer asked for. The first 10 feet or more inside the bar was liquid, with just a skin covering the outside of it. It was not easy to run the machine, as you had to pull the bar a certain distance, speed, and then stop, back up a tiny bit, to make up for shrinkage due to inertia and cooling, and then pull again, continually monitoring via thermocouples. There was a water cooled sleeve that made the entire thing possible. And of course, the temperature of the metal in the holding tank, called a tundish, had to be monitored, and each alloy was different, in how you had to run it, as to the % you pushed back in relation to how much you drew forward. Making alloys for the investment cast industry is not as simple as just melting them and then pouring them into a mold and shipping them out. The process of getting the alloy into spec. is also complicated. And without computers, it is almost impossible to do. I have seen things like the video happen probably hundreds of times, and it is always expensive, and always a lot of extra work.
#7: She's impressively bad. I especially love how she seems to have her purse with her taking an at bat. BTW if your wife ever gets a black eye, just don't go anywhere in public with her AT ALL. People will assume the worst and it gets ugly.
#10: He seems to be looking that way when it goes, but for some reason he gets distracted for a couple of seconds there. I wonder if he made it, that last bit came down pretty damn fast.
Argh..35 ton problem, right there. I was with my foreman, in a mill located east of Oakland. We were stopped at a pass-thru from the coil cleaning section to the rolling mill floor, waiting on the mag crane to carry a scrap coil to the rail car on the right-hand side of the opening. The magnet failed right in front of us, and when that scrap hit the floor it popped us up a wee bit. Foreman looks over at me and says, a little shakily, "You see why we always wait to walk on through?" Ohh, yeah...
Re: #1 - Had a buddy who worked at a coil distribution company, He always had some interesting tales to tell. One of the best was when somebody failed to chock a 60,000 pound coil and it rolled out the door across the parking lot and headed for parts unknown. It finally stopped on an uphill grade a quarter mile back in the woods. I wouldn't want the bill from the heavy movers on that recovery.........
#10 - College roommate worked summers for US Steel in Pittsburgh. The rolling mill was like that but a 20-odd mph sheet of white-hot steel. It was a disaster if it got out of control. Every fall he had stories of men who lost their lives in the works.
#2 Put it in Neutral BEFORE towing.
ReplyDelete#3 When it's that small, just pick it up and put it on the ground.
Change of underwear for #10
ReplyDelete#10. Fire snake chase me at work, again!
ReplyDelete#8 some years back now I had one of my GSPs do the same thing with $400 in 20s she grabbed off the middle of the kitchen table. Turns out my bank made good on anything I could give them with an intact serial number. I think I only lost out on 60-80 bucks from that pile. Great in the woods but what a nutcase…I still miss her though.
ReplyDelete#1- Aluminum flatbeds have an arch that's built into them. That one has been compromised.
ReplyDeleteIf that guy's a gypo it looks like the place he was off-loading owes him a new trailer. I know if it was me I'd insist on it, even if I had to get a lawyer.
#10 is almost the same thing that I ran as part of my job in our steel making facility. It was called a horizontal continuous caster, and we cast a bar 75 mm round, down line to a flying cutoff wheel, that cut the bar into about 15 foot lengths, while the bar kept casting, then the bar ran on powered rollers to a 100 ton press that cut it into the lengths that the customer required, usually about 18". It then ran through a water tank, then a shot blast, and a printer, then was inspected and packed into 55 gal. drums or whatever the customer asked for.
ReplyDeleteThe first 10 feet or more inside the bar was liquid, with just a skin covering the outside of it. It was not easy to run the machine, as you had to pull the bar a certain distance, speed, and then stop, back up a tiny bit, to make up for shrinkage due to inertia and cooling, and then pull again, continually monitoring via thermocouples. There was a water cooled sleeve that made the entire thing possible. And of course, the temperature of the metal in the holding tank, called a tundish, had to be monitored, and each alloy was different, in how you had to run it, as to the % you pushed back in relation to how much you drew forward.
Making alloys for the investment cast industry is not as simple as just melting them and then pouring them into a mold and shipping them out. The process of getting the alloy into spec. is also complicated. And without computers, it is almost impossible to do.
I have seen things like the video happen probably hundreds of times, and it is always expensive, and always a lot of extra work.
Nice backstory/explaining
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Delete#1-5: Stupid people in action
ReplyDelete#7: She's impressively bad. I especially love how she seems to have her purse with her taking an at bat. BTW if your wife ever gets a black eye, just don't go anywhere in public with her AT ALL. People will assume the worst and it gets ugly.
#10: He seems to be looking that way when it goes, but for some reason he gets distracted for a couple of seconds there. I wonder if he made it, that last bit came down pretty damn fast.
Argh..35 ton problem, right there. I was with my foreman, in a mill located east of Oakland. We were stopped at a pass-thru from the coil cleaning section to the rolling mill floor, waiting on the mag crane to carry a scrap coil to the rail car on the right-hand side of the opening. The magnet failed right in front of us, and when that scrap hit the floor it popped us up a wee bit. Foreman looks over at me and says, a little shakily, "You see why we always wait to walk on through?" Ohh, yeah...
ReplyDeleteHandling coil steel with magnets is a very bad idea.
DeleteThe dumbassery is strong.
ReplyDelete#9 That guy got tired…
ReplyDeleteRe: #1 - Had a buddy who worked at a coil distribution company, He always had some interesting tales to tell. One of the best was when somebody failed to chock a 60,000 pound coil and it rolled out the door across the parking lot and headed for parts unknown. It finally stopped on an uphill grade a quarter mile back in the woods. I wouldn't want the bill from the heavy movers on that recovery.........
ReplyDelete#3 At least the end of the handlebar missed his nuts.
ReplyDelete#10. rumor has it that guy ran all the way to the unemployment office to go find a new job.
ReplyDelete#4 must have been raised by his grandparents. Despite the pink Hoodie he was taught to walk that $hit off
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ReplyDelete#6 That's what you get when you have all of your eggs in one basket!!
#10 - College roommate worked summers for US Steel in Pittsburgh. The rolling mill was like that but a 20-odd mph sheet of white-hot steel. It was a disaster if it got out of control. Every fall he had stories of men who lost their lives in the works.
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