Big Loads - Post Photos Number 2

Well unloaded today beside the other one. Looked pretty much done!

 

Yep. Got there and it was still in the grinder. Then it wouldn't balance. They said it's always a hassle with the Mexican rolls. They can't put on weight like ours, they have to remove weight. Something about bolt covers in the way.

 

When I was a kid, the shop my Old Man worked for did all that stuff in house,,,
Now they farm it all out....
They had huge lathes and milling machines that would handle that big of a piece,,,
The operators stations where little platforms that rode, or moved with the tool holder,,,
Very, Very impressive!!! Big pits in the concrete floor for all the tracks and cooling fluid handling systems, etc..
All that tooling is now long gone and they filled the pits full of concrete,, very sad knowing what once was!!!!

I remember them shrink fitting the head into one of those rolls, no welding, totally interference shrink fit!
That big outer tube or drum sitting in roller stands being turned slowly and three guys with the biggest rose buds I've ever seen heating the end of the tube then another three guys with the head hanging from the overhead crane,,, then just slipping it in there and as the tube cools and shrinks around the head,, bingo acts just like it was machined out of one solid block!!! no keyway or spline or weld or anything and they would drive that drum with a 150 hp electric motor... through that shrink fit!!!
Also Very Impressive!!!

 

Sounds like it.

 

Rear electrical room. The back portion that sits on top of the counterweight boxes. There is a small something or other that ends up on top center of this...

The first 4100 is almost done?
I'm parked, having a beer in Grassland if you get here before closing...or breaky in the morning...

 

Makes sense. Didn't realize all the electrical components came assembled like that. Probably some air ducts and filter housings that bolt up on top.

 

Yea looked pretty complete too me if that one I unloaded beside was a 4100. I'm all the way in barriere tonight. Was outta Fort hills by 8 this morning and booked er for home. One of these days though the beers on me if the timing ever lines up.

 

Not my load. I see the rear chains make contact with the bucket before hooking to the tracks. Is this ok? I wonder because the bucket is only held where it is by hydraulics right so if the bucket were to move at all, the chains may loosen. Although it's probably sitting on the deck.

 

That's a piss poor lazy way to tie down a machine. Sadly, it is the norm for a lot of guys and even more so for local move guys, as that's how they've "done it for years without any issues"...until the day someone pulls out in front of them or cuts them off will they realize it was wrong. But even then they will still blame the person that cut them off, because laziness always looks for an excuse over responsibility.
OMG, was that his outside voice!
But what do I know...I've only had a head-on, had one chain break, and my load still didn't move. That's load securement.
30 miles or 3000 miles, the physics don't change. An evasive manouver is still an evasive manouver. The chances of having to make one increase with distance, but they aren't zero for 3 miles either...
If this statement pisses you off, you're probably in the lazy category. Part of your job is to PROPERLY secure your load, so DO IT PROPERLY.

 

I wish they would get another job. Go be a doorslammer at a megacarrier and never have anyone call you lazy again!