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 Boiler inspection date: July 25 2006 Year built, 1927    There were older ones i took myself but the pictures are gone 
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Explosionface posted:Right. I meant to only speak in the context of boilers since so many are gas fired these days. Oh yeah definitely both parts are very good at exploding
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Synthbuttrange posted:
Safer than what Larry Walters had at least.
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Explosionface posted:Yeah, people are always afraid of natural gas explosions, but steam explosions are a hundred times worse. I may be directly attached to the boiler industry and have heard so many stories. We have a big boiler that runs our steam kilns and it is uncomfortably close to where I work on the plant site. Though it seems well maintained, each year it shuts down for a week and we replace lots of poo poo on it
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Aug 29, 2019 15:58
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Imagined posted:The worst "first day on the job" story I've heard, from these forums I think, was the teenage kid who got sucked feet first into a wood chipper he was operating on his first day on the job. aww, he felt chipper on his first day at work!
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So what does that "Boiler blow down line" sign mean?
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:So what does that "Boiler blow down line" sign mean? If boilers turned all the water that went into them to steam, it would constantly build up minerals boiled out of it on the inside of the boiler. They dump a portion of it as extremely hot water to flush the water impurities out. that water is so hot, it almost instantly turns to steam. It's basically, don't hang around the death tube if you don't have to. make sure nobody is around the death tube when you open it. The water in the oilfield is usually just sucked straight out of rivers or creeks, so often has a bunch of bonus goo in it. modern boilers have cooldown tanks and everything so people don't loose like, skin and flesh and stuff. Powershift fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Aug 29, 2019 |
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Aug 29, 2019 16:05
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I work a lot with low pressure marine auxiliary boilers and the old guys freak out about them because they're used to old time propulsion boilers and meanwhile in the oilfield people run donkeys on creek water lmao
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Aug 29, 2019 16:10
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Powershift posted:
Beautiful. A side benefit of blowdowns is you can use them to check your (water level) safeties. Most incidents occur when someone runs the boiler dry and suddenly tries to add new cold water to the mix. It flashes to steam with a great big boom.
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    I don't usually scream holy gently caress out loud but i screamed holy gently caress out loud. holy gently caress Powershift fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Aug 29, 2019 |
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Aug 29, 2019 16:23
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Powershift posted:
IDGI, is the weight of the (whatever that is) forcing the tail-end that low or is doing that to pickup trucks some sort of "thing" like rolling coal these days?
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Aug 29, 2019 16:27
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The weight of the cable reel has nearly picked the front end of the truck off the ground and has bottomed out the back suspension. That's really something for a goose neck and a fifth wheel. edit: I'd say put it over the trailers tires but it looks like if they moved it back the fenders would just tear them up. Guyver fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Aug 29, 2019 |
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Aug 29, 2019 16:30
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Guyver posted:The weight of the cable reel has nearly picked the front end of the truck off the ground and has bottomed out the back suspension. also tie downs because if it gets froggy that 18 gauge steel isn't gonna stop it.
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Guyver posted:The weight of the cable reel has nearly picked the front end of the truck off the ground and has bottomed out the back suspension. Shouldn't the spool be over the triple axle and not at the front of the trailer? edit - efb
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Aug 29, 2019 16:36
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The cable reel looks obviously warped. I'm guessing it was originally secured in the center of the trailer and broke free. E: or "insecured" in the center, if you will.
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Aug 29, 2019 16:37
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I bet that would be fun to drive
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There's a reason that the actual trucks that haul that poo poo at 80,000lbs gvwr only haul 3-4 when there is room on the trailer for a lot more.  It probably started out over the trailer axles, but quickly chose a more comfortable spot.
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Canuckistan posted:Shouldn't the spool be over the triple axle and not at the front of the trailer? Yeah, but look at it. It only has like three inches of clearance with it on the tongue moving it back would probably drop the trailer down onto the tires. If you actually got the trailer moving it'd probably cause enough friction to destroy the tires. I doubt it was ever tied down or moved.
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Aug 29, 2019 16:42
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That is some proper truckfuckling. Kinda curious what the story is on this one, reverse GIS isn't coming up with much but that looks like a surprisingly clean split.quote:That Cat seems to be roughly 16-18,000 lbs so it comes down how much the trailer weighs. I'd guess it'll be over given the tandem duals, but probably not nearly as bad as it looks at first glance. It's not like there's an Econoline with one of the 6.8L V10s screaming its spark plugs out up front. wolrah fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Aug 29, 2019 |
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Aug 29, 2019 18:52
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Does that mean it's possible to be a migrant cat driver living in an RV because I might have found my new goal.
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Aug 29, 2019 18:59
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Photex posted:Not sure if this got posted already it was making the rounds on a lot of production Facebook groups jesus. guess a motor got stuck. proper way would be to swap motors and keep going? even though swapping a motor would be a royal pain in the rear end.
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zedprime posted:Does that mean it's possible to be a migrant cat driver living in an RV because I might have found my new goal.
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CannonFodder posted:There are giant sleeper cab road tractors that are spacious inside, they only lack a bathroom. Those have a proper 5th wheel and ability to gross 80k. Heck, you can get 'em with a bathroom easily enough: https://www.renegaderv.com/renegade-classic-sportdeck-2019 http://www.showhauler.com/products/toterhomes/ http://www.powerhousecoach.com/coch11ext.html All three of these vendors do mostly custom and semi-custom builds so if you have the money to spend you can get your truck and RV body configured any way you want, the only limits are the size of your wallet and 80,000 GCVW.
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zedprime posted:Does that mean it's possible to be a migrant cat driver living in an RV because I might have found my new goal. The life of an excavator ronin is one of disgrace and poverty.
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I would like to print and frame this.
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Schadenboner posted:Grovertruk
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Powershift posted:I've brought this up a few times, but i found some oilfield boilers put together in the 70s that had boilers built in the 1800s as trains and tractors inside the shack. There is a chain wrapped around that Christmas Tree attached to a truck 
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wolrah posted:
    
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Willfrey posted:each year it shuts down for a week and we replace lots of poo poo on it Is it still the same boiler then?
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The Boiler of Theseus
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Saw this on the road today  e: pic kinda sucks but that's another big rear end log on top under the fronds with one ratchet strap holding it Dave Grool fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Aug 29, 2019 |
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Aug 29, 2019 21:10
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definitely cant call him one of those phony truck owners
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Aug 29, 2019 21:12
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Yeah, that one makes me wonder a bit. Obviously the chassis itself is capable of handling basically anything legal to tow, but hanging that far off the back on a set of extendable rails seems like it should have a significant impact on the rating. Probably fine when towing anything that'd normally go behind a pickup truck though
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shame on an IGA posted:Found the full vid on youtube, lower right leg is definitely bent in the straight places. goonsire i pass the crown of thread titleship to you with the most humble of obsequiances fine work. fine, fine work.
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Powershift posted:The truckfucklers won't forget this insult. We will have our revenge. It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, it might have even been yesterday, dispatch hasn't made up their mind yet. Leaked screenshot from the new Civilization game, Modern-era Settlers now spawn automatically with a Builder.
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Aug 29, 2019 21:32
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zedprime posted:Does that mean it's possible to be a migrant cat driver living in an RV because I might have found my new goal. You could make it happen right now, bud. 
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Aug 29, 2019 21:42
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Powershift posted:You could make it happen right now, bud. I knew a dude who bought one of these right out of high school and would tow it all around town doing all the small jobs that backhoe operators would turn down. He made a poo poo ton of money and paid his way through school with it. And I bet it was sort of fun playing with an oversized sandbox digger arm and getting paid for it.
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Rad-daddio posted:I knew a dude who bought one of these right out of high school and would tow it all around town doing all the small jobs that backhoe operators would turn down. Wanna know a secret? They only cost 6 dollars. Bobcat uses the same key for everything they build, you can go down to the bobcat dealer and buy a key for 6 dollars, and then go find one of your own.
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