The Official Status Update Thread: Part 135 - #cheeseburgerswithTim

[actaeon277]

I guess after working in heats like that, you have no fear of going to hell???

One of the ways I least want to die, burning to death.
Probably a bad career choice for me.
I've caught fire once, 5-10 years ago.
Recently a production guy was using an Oxygen Lance. Something happened with the valve, it blew oxygen into the air surrounding him.
then it ignited.
Brief but brilliant flash washed out every camera on the floor.
Only 1st degree burns to parts where the flame got into his clothes.
But it cause him to run. He almost went over the railing to the floor below.

 

[actaeon277]

I couldn't do what you do ACT..........Not enough pay at $100 an hour...

Even with benefits I don't make that.
Speaking of which.


12 days left on the contract.

 

[MrsGungho]

Even with benefits I don't make that.
Speaking of which.


12 days left on the contract.

praying for no strike.

 

[SEIndSAM]

Keeping our fingers crossed for ya ACT...

 

[actaeon277]

Ever see Frankenstein? The old ones.
Remember the old electrical stuff. Sparks and big throw switches.

this is what I was working on my last maintenance down turn.

And I work on the temperature sensor on this (below). To see it, look at the center top of the pic, in the smoke. You'll see the "Pantograph" that dips the sensor, and the wiring. That's mine.

 

[actaeon277]

praying for no strike.

Keeping our fingers crossed for ya ACT...

Me too.
I finally have money in the bank. Not a lot.
But if we strike very long, it'll go fast.

BP Whiting had a strike for 3 months.

The mills up here last had a strike in the mid 80s. for NINE months.

 

[actaeon277]

Ok.
Done boring with the pics.

 

[MrsGungho]

Ok.
Done boring with the pics.

not boring. stuff I normally don't see

 

[SEIndSAM]

Ok.
Done boring with the pics.

I enjoy the pics, post anytime.. I love the pics of old equipment

 

[chocktaw2]

Me too.
I finally have money in the bank. Not a lot.
But if we strike very long, it'll go fast.

BP Whiting had a strike for 3 months.

The mills up here last had a strike in the mid 80s. for NINE months.

9 mo. is a long time. One would have to get a big raise to make up that lost income.

 

[chocktaw2]

Hello Mrs.G

 

[actaeon277]

not boring. stuff I normally don't see

I enjoy the pics, post anytime.. I love the pics of old equipment

Then I'll post these last 2.

When I'm at work, and I'm on INGO (which means I'm having a good day), this is the view in my shop.


Looking south

Looking North (you can see those Blast Furnaces in the remake Pearl Harbor. They used them for the Doolittle Raid, when they bombed some Jap mills. They digitally changed the surrounding area, but the blast furnaces are ours)

 

[MrsGungho]

that north view I could watch for a while.

 

[actaeon277]

9 mo. is a long time. One would have to get a big raise to make up that lost income.

Well, a lot of guys try to get temporary jobs. Of course, there's a glut on the market when over 10,000 people are on strike. 5,000 of them from my mill alone. Actually, that's what we have now. Back then we had more like 30,000 just at my mill.

Craft people were pretty lucky. They were building a Nuclear Reactor in Illinois, and they needed temporary workers. A lot of our craft guys got jobs there.

But, yes, people were hurting.
A lot of the guys only had 10 years or less didn't even come back. They moved into other careers.

 

[actaeon277]

that north view I could watch for a while.

The sun wouldn't let me get a pic, but to the left of the pic (West) is Chicago.
40 miles away, by road.
20-25 miles away straight across the lake.
On a clear day we get a good view of the Chicago skyline.


Old timers tell me about when the Museum of Science and Industry brought in an airplane on a barge.
They could watch it going to Chicago.

 

[MrsGungho]

Well, a lot of guys try to get temporary jobs. Of course, there's a glut on the market when over 10,000 people are on strike. 5,000 of them from my mill alone. Actually, that's what we have now. Back then we had more like 30,000 just at my mill.

Craft people were pretty lucky. They were building a Nuclear Reactor in Illinois, and they needed temporary workers. A lot of our craft guys got jobs there.

But, yes, people were hurting.
A lot of the guys only had 10 years or less didn't even come back. They moved into other careers.

Father In Law was one of them guys

Hubby talks about that now and then

 

[MrsGungho]

The sun wouldn't let me get a pic, but to the left of the pic (West) is Chicago.
40 miles away, by road.
20-25 miles away straight across the lake.
On a clear day we get a good view of the Chicago skyline.


Old timers tell me about when the Museum of Science and Industry brought in an airplane on a barge.
They could watch it going to Chicago.

I love the Chicago skyline. I don't want to go to Chicago though

 

[actaeon277]

Pulled this of the net. My view of Chicago from my window looks like this

 

[chocktaw2]

Well, a lot of guys try to get temporary jobs. Of course, there's a glut on the market when over 10,000 people are on strike. 5,000 of them from my mill alone. Actually, that's what we have now. Back then we had more like 30,000 just at my mill.

Craft people were pretty lucky. They were building a Nuclear Reactor in Illinois, and they needed temporary workers. A lot of our craft guys got jobs there.

But, yes, people were hurting.
A lot of the guys only had 10 years or less didn't even come back. They moved into other careers.

I have seen it before. Oilfield went the same way. And quickly.

 

[Sylvain]

I enjoy the pics, post anytime.. I love the pics of old equipment

QFT