So we have this little project where we have to change out a 50,000 pound washer drum

[2Far]

Two weeks of meetings, discussions, gesticulating, and trial runs with dummy weights, etc., b/c while the building was originally designed to change out the drums, they needed another drum, so they filled the change-out bay with the new drum.

We put 4 x pneumatic hoists on the existing overhead crane rail, modified the rail so we could swivel a section 90 degrees & trolly it out of the building (70' feet above the ground) and lower it into the cradle so it can be modified, or whatever they're going to do to it.

First problem was that there are some vertical structures in the formerly open bay that require us to lift it over them. the swivel beam is too low to allow this. Second plan is to get 2 more hoists & transfer the load while suspended, to a crane rail that runs perpendicular to the original direction of travel. 

Everybody signs off.

Everything goes more or less smoothly, nice & easy, good lift, good transfer, everything working properly.

They run it outside where we have to lower it and low and behold it won't clear a drain pipe and personnel platform. Not even close.

WTF? DID NO ONE LOOK OUTSIDE?

Standing around looking like how the British looked like at the coin toss between them & the settlers.

[12string]

You didn't have to go to all that trouble just to try to win the "Who's funnier" poll.  I don't think there's a prize.

[TrentonMakes]

50,000 pounds?  That sounds expensive.

[parodybot]

jsharr was reading over my shoulder.  He laughed and said 'those morans just need a couple of sky hooks"

 

[TrentonMakes]

1 minute ago, parodybot said:

He laughed and said 'those morans just need a couple of sky hooks"

[VladyP]

57 minutes ago, TrentonMakes said:

The Lakers are my favorite team!

[maddmaxx]

1 hour ago, TrentonMakes said:

l always like watching Lou play.

[Longjohn]

When my son was the basketball star he gave me all the credit for him figuring out how to shoot over a tall guy.

[TrentonMakes]

2 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

l always like watching Lew play.

FIFY.

I enjoy the fruits of his acting career as well.

 

[TrentonMakes]

When I paid attention to the NBA I was a Celtics fan.  The Celtics-Lakers rivalry in the 80s was so much fun.

[maddmaxx]

3 minutes ago, TrentonMakes said:

FIFY.

I enjoy the fruits of his acting career as well.

 

^^^ What he said.  I actually watched him play in a high school game.  That was long enough ago that I forgot how to spell his name.

[VladyP]

Sounds like you need a 50,000 lb drum dryer.  Just move the wet drum from the washer to the dryer, but remember until you fold it and put it away, the job is not done.

[maddmaxx]

No job is ever finished till the paperwork is complete.

[Longjohn]

52 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

No job is ever finished till the paperwork is complete.

And don’t have shoulder surgery on both shoulders at once unless you like asking for help to wipe your butt.

[Further]

So are we finding solutions or scapegoats ?

[Thaddeus Kosciuszko]

3 hours ago, 2Far said:

They run it outside where we have to lower it and low and behold it won't clear a drain pipe and personnel platform. Not even close.

So?

It's a 50,000 pound drum.  It's not like it's a 50,000 pound drain pipe or a 50,000 pound personnel platform.

Let fly, and let the drum win, already.

[Ralphie]

31 minutes ago, Further said:

So are we finding solutions or scapegoats ?

I thought that type of thing was the safety guy's job.

[Chris...]

[Rattlecan]

5 minutes ago, Chris... said:

You skootch yours over that way a bit, and we're good.

[petitepedal]

50,000 pound washer...that is one hell of a date night laundry!!! 

[Longjohn]

49 minutes ago, petitepedal said:

50,000 pound washer...that is one hell of a date night laundry!!! 

It’s a commercial model, like they used to wash our work uniforms at the forge.

[Further]

So what the hell are they washing ?

[2Far]

Before:

 

[2Far]

After:

 

[2Far]

On the ground:

 

[petitepedal]

Looks like the ball or rod mills in a taconite plant in northern mn...I had to work inside one of those once

[2Far]

33 minutes ago, petitepedal said:

Looks like the ball or rod mills in a taconite plant in northern mn...I had to work inside one of those once

Was it just a little bit LOUD??

[2Far]

8 hours ago, TrentonMakes said:

50,000 pounds?  That sounds expensive.

The planetary gear box we had to cut off with a torch costs $50,000. 

[MickinMD]

" WTF? DID NO ONE LOOK OUTSIDE? "

It's amazing how intelligent people overlook easily checked key things.

During the Peninsula Campaign of the Civil War, U.S. General McClellan and his staff sat their horses alongside a very wide creek and argued for an hour about how deep the creek was and if infantry could wade across it.  Finally, a frustrated new West Point graduate assigned to McClellan's staff rode his horse into the middle of the creek, showing the water was only waist deep.

"This is how deep it is," said the new captain, who would soon rise in rank to become General George Armstrong Custer.

Fourteen years later, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer himself overlooked easy examinations that showed Sitting Bull's and Crazy Horse's camp was too big to take on, like the size of the pony herd that terrified Custer's Crow scouts.

[MickinMD]

This was a duplicate - Internet service running real slow this early AM.

[Ralphie]

20 minutes ago, MickinMD said:

" WTF? DID NO ONE LOOK OUTSIDE? "

It's amazing how intelligent people overlook easily checked key things.

During the Peninsula Campaign of the Civil War, U.S. General McClellan and his staff sat their horses alongside a very wide creek and argued for an hour about how deep the creek was and if infantry could wade across it.  Finally, a frustrated new West Point graduate assigned to McClellan's staff rode his horse into the middle of the creek, showing the water was only waist deep.

"This is how deep it is," said the new captain, who would soon rise in rank to become General George Armstrong Custer.

Fourteen years later, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer himself overlooked easy examinations that showed Sitting Bull's and Crazy Horse's camp was too big to take on, like the size of the pony herd that terrified Custer's Crow scouts.

Well you can say that twice!

[pedalphile]

13 hours ago, Longjohn said:

And don’t have shoulder surgery on both shoulders at once unless you like asking for help to wipe your butt.

Think about how bears do that? All you need is a tree or post.

[pedalphile]

16 hours ago, 2Far said:

Standing around looking like how the British looked like at the coin toss between them & the settlers.

I don't even know why I like this line?

[Longjohn]

5 minutes ago, pedalphile said:

Think about how bears do that? All you need is a tree or post.

 

[2Far]

2 minutes ago, pedalphile said:

I don't even know why I like this line?

It's a part of a comedy routine from a guy who is no longer funny. 

What the coin toss sounded like at the beginning of famous events. Referee:

"Captain of the British, this is captain of the settlers. Captain of the settlers, this the captain of of British.  Captain of the British, this is an away game for you call it in the air  

Heads? It's tails. You lose. Captain of the settlers, what will you do?

OK. Captain of the settlers says they will wear natural colored clothes and hide behind rocks and trees while shooting at the British and that the British must wear red and march in a straight line."

 

[tybeegb]

Pulp washer?  Does no one (engineers) ask the people who work around stuff like that day to day ask if what they (engineers) might want to add in the area would affect maintenance/repair/replacement of certain equipment?  I saw that a lot at the paper mill.   

[petitepedal]

It was hot inside...and 1/2 of the mill was filled with steel balls about 4 inches in diameter... stood in there with a hose..I think to keep it cool..I don't quite remember....I know it was one of the strangest jobs I had of the many little clean up jobs they gave us...

[2Far]

1 hour ago, tybeegb said:

Pulp washer?  Does no one (engineers) ask the people who work around stuff like that day to day ask if what they (engineers) might want to add in the area would affect maintenance/repair/replacement of certain equipment?  I saw that a lot at the paper mill.   

OH, the original building had an empty bay that could facilitate the removal/replacement of the 3 washers. Then they decided they needed a 4th washer and the empty bay went away.

[pedalphile]

2 hours ago, 2Far said:

It's a part of a comedy routine from a guy who is no longer funny. 

What the coin toss sounded like at the beginning of famous events. Referee:

"Captain of the British, this is captain of the settlers. Captain of the settlers, this the captain of of British.  Captain of the British, this is an away game for you call it in the air  

Heads? It's tails. You lose. Captain of the settlers, what will you do?

OK. Captain of the settlers says they will wear natural colored clothes and hide behind rocks and trees while shooting at the British and that the British must wear red and march in a straight line."

 

It makes more sense and I like it more  as to stuff no longer being funny, it's funny how that happens, isn't it? For example, Shakespearean comedies used to lay them in the aisles, or would have if they'd had aisles.

[Scrapr]

1 hour ago, 2Far said:

OH, the original building had an empty bay that could facilitate the removal/replacement of the 3 washers. Then they decided they needed a 4th washer and the empty bay went away.

Seems like it might be easier/cheaper to build a new bay, move the 4th washer to that & have easy access to the 3 remaining for servicing.

but wadda I know