I just throw my bk wrappers out the window right thereHas anyone laid fresh flowers on the BK memorial lately?
Those levers don't pull themselves.I'm at work and contrary to popular opinion, crane operators actually do work.
Most, but not all, of the mill cranes are ANCIENT.Those levers don't pull themselves.
You still got electro-mechanical controls or have they moved to joysticks? AC or DC?
Most, but not all, of the mill cranes are ANCIENT.
So, DC.
Sometimes it seems repairing is more expensive than replacing.
On the other hand, they do pretty heavy lifts.
And most are elec/mech joysticks
It was always a fight to get a department/area specific safety briefing.Part of the "let's save money by bringing in people from other areas and not training them".
At safety briefs, they DEMAND that you push for safety and get the briefs, and paperwork.It was always a fight to get a department/area specific safety briefing.
I remember being sent to a department where the dept. safety orientation was 4 hours. We got there 5 minutes before the line went down for a 2 hour down time window and when we asked for the safety orientation they just loaded us back on bus. Great planning.
Midnight turn in the summer. We spent the night washing trucks and cleaning up tools.
Coasting to a stop sounds horrible. Pretty decent brake for the bridge? Trolley stop quick? Worked on cranes for many years (electrical) till about 5 years ago. Only here and there in the last five. Most all were 250 VDC. Really don’t like, mostly cause I’m not that well versed, AC cranes.The controls are sticks I would call them levers more than joysticks. You pull them to go one direction and push to go the opposite direction. There are separate controllers for each function(trolley, hoist, bridge and in some cases, aux hoist). They also have variable frequency drives on most of our cranes which makes them slower than they originally were and removed the ability to plug them(now you just have to let go of the controller and it coasts to a stop)
This is one of those Good Idea Fairy "improvements" that Act always used to talk about. Oh and all those drives have their own Air Conditioning units to cool them(they're computers basically) and those AC units regularly crap out because the company bought ones that are supposed to be used for like server rooms or electric panels that are stationary and ground level.
The last STEELWORKER death working on a crane was a young guy from crane repair on one of the cranes in the department I work but a few years before I got there. I don't know the details but my understanding is it was a LOTO error. Last summer, however, a contractor died up on one of our cranes from the heat.
Cause u r ooooolllldddddd.And how can I find my Minutes from May, June, and July, and then misplace my August and September Minutes?
WTF
How can I lay my keys down and not be able to find them 5 minutes later?And how can I find my Minutes from May, June, and July, and then misplace my August and September Minutes?
WTF
But I suspect you didn't hug him.Met up with CrookCountyGo.
Poor guy.
I think I talked too much.
true.But I suspect you didn't hug him.
So that makes the meet up much better than any encounter with Jedi.