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nope went to dmv today and licensed the truck for 25000
then went and got the c channel needed to finish it
have other stuff going on tomorrow such as a dodge cummins transmission tomorrow afternoon

im ok hows you todd its coffee time

enclosed building ?
if it gets cold in the plant its time to turn the mother up
winter time in the plants i work at are probably 70 degrees inside in the winter and 130 in the summer time
only good thing is its a dry heat no humidity
Its a southern thing. Lower elevations and closer to the equator= higher humidity. Filters and separators help, but wont get it all.
 

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The aluminum plant here has 11 giant smelting pots my friend was telling me.
Above the pots on a central beam with a crane riding on it
What happens is a big wrecking ball looking atachment is lowered
Into each pot to stir the molten aluminum.
It takes skill to get it swinging before you
Drop it in the pot to stir.
You rock it back and forth to get rotation started.
Well a know-it-all new hire claimed to be
All man and fully experienced
In this operation.
Unbelievably they turned him loose on this crane with no supervision just a walkie
After he finally got it swinging
And way too fast by the way
He got scared and terrifyingly raised it
Out of the pot
at full speed and rotation
You're have to let it wind down before pulling it.
Not this guy
Much screaming from the foreman on the walkie went unanswered.
And when raised that wrecking ball was swinging inches from the
Cab of the crane
On the surveillance camera it swinging looked two inches from taking it off the beam.
He got it calmed down finally
And procedded to hold the crane wide open
They move at a pretty good speed and he was in reverse
He started at pot 1 and passed 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10a 10b
Don't ask I have no idea why they are numbered as such.
After passing 10b it's 40 some feet until you hit the rubber puck on the
rail stop
And the block wall.
He never slowed and when he hit
It blew all the windows out
The camera showed him looking like a pinball bouncing
and bottom of his boots
Flopping around and sticking out where the glass used to be.
He got on the walkie and said I'm good
What do you want me to do next.
Typical "Ace" crane operator.
Tear the balls off a brass monkey with a plastic hammer.
Sounds like a monorail hoist.
Been in several foundries. Some have multiple ladle hoists with ride in cabs for pouring cast iron and cast steel. Hoist actually carry the ladles around to the different pour chutes.
 

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Typical "Ace" crane operator.
Tear the balls off a brass monkey with a plastic hammer.
Sounds like a monorail hoist.
Been in several foundries. Some have multiple ladle hoists with ride in cabs for pouring cast iron and cast steel. Hoist actually carry the ladles around to the different pour chutes.
Even the veteran worker's came running
It's incredibly loud in
The plant and they knew over all that
Something bad happened.
 
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