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On the Road Again

kshansen

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hosspuller said:
See a pattern ? Your plant welders doing the job create a risk or liability. Subbing the job out passes the risk outside their responsibility. But, they don't know or care their action costs the organization beyond their silo or budget.
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Oh! I know that very well but still hurt when a job you had been doing for a few decades all of a sudden someone comes along and tells you you are not qualified to do it!
 
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Slidey said:
My old man was on the tools for 41 years and 1 day. Retired on sept the 2nd this year. Lasted less than 4 weeks before going casual for a local mob. Back doing 5 days a week now.

No hobbies, doesn’t take to the drink, and my mother would have him herding cats at a crossroads if she has her way. I don’t think he will properly stop working until he doesn’t have a choice
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Are you sure I’m not your dad.? The description sounds awfully like someone I see in the mirror every day...
 
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Nige said:
Are you sure I’m not your dad.? The description sounds awfully like someone I see in the mirror every day...
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Hahaha.

probably very similar except Slidey senior has peaked at sending photos of the gear he is working on to me over WhatsApp, a forum would be double Dutch to him!
 
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Then last thing in the afternoon we managed to get the LH track under the track frame, wrapped it and joined it up.

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Special Tool #1A for raising the track enough to get the carbody under it, and also for aligning the holes in the track shoes to get the pins in. (Toyota Hilux wheel jack in case anyone doesn't recognize it)

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Working in an area the size of a handkerchief makes planning where everything is placed even more important if you don't want to be constantly rehandling pieces.

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Today's job was to get the lower works off the cribbing and onto the deck, then preparing the surfaces of the swing bearing and all the threaded holes for mounting the revolving frame on the swing bearing (60 x M56 threaded holes0 plus ditto for mounting the LH & RH modules to the revolving frame. Far easier to do on the ground than up in the air. Propel transmission & motor guards also went on. Much easier to do when you don't have a revolving frame over the top of them.

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DMiller said:
I take it threads full of paint and whatever!! Tap to clean them out.
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They're mostly coated with a type of waxy protective grease. Where the protective coating was missed then the threads were generally slightly rusty. I was somewhat surprised when brand-new taps were actually generating hairs of metal shavings as well.

This shovel left Hitachi's dock in Japan in early September IIRC, and it's been on the high seas or docksides (it was trans-shipped twice) ever since.
JPV said:
How are the track pins installed? Big press or slip fit with keepers or something else?
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If you get everything lined up right with Special Tool # 1A and a couple of 5-ton chain blocks the pins can be installed with nothing more than the palm of your hand. The pins are kept in place by a bolt with what looks like an oversized head on it through the lip on the end of the track shoe and secured with a nyloc nut. Each track link joint has two pins each about 15" long and 4" diameter, one installed from each side. The undercarriage on these things is a tad agricultural to say the least.

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Nige said:
I wish they were, then it would be easy to hate them. However they all without exception have an engineering qualification. It’s a shame they don’t have some common sense to go with it.
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In my 44 work years I never met more than 2 engineers or architects that understood planning and delivery schedules. Most think they can be four months late in reviewing a timely submitted submittal which has been in the project schedule since the beginning, even after being reminded and posted in the construction meeting minutes of it in every week, and gasp in horror when they realize the manufacturer was serious when they said a year earlier that it took 3 months to procure the parts and build the damn component. "What do you mean you can't get it in two weeks. Can't you push everybody harder. We can't delay the completion."
 
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Until we see the bucket or stick.... Big Bertha is a backhoe or shovel... This is like waiting 9 months to chose baby clothes :p

At least we know the color .. (Hitachi orange )

Right Nige ?
 
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Shimmy1 said:
You poor souls have to wear masks outside???
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I don’t have any issue with it at all. Transmission of the virus is almost nonexistent here.

EDIT: I just asked about the numbers. Out of almost 2000 employees in the company there are currently just 3 people off work having tested positive for the virus. Mask-wearing in public is mandatory throught the whole country BTW, just like it is in most of Latin America and the numbers seem to be much less unnerving than those coming out of the country to the north.
 
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John C. said:
I was thinking really big excavator until I saw those flat pads. It's got to be a front shovel or a crane. You don't have sprockets on that machine. You have cog wheels:)
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It's the same undercarriage for either excavator or shovel configuration on a 3600. This particular one is going to be set up as a shovel. The boom is visible in the 3rd photo of post #327 above.
hosspuller said:
At least we know the color .. (Hitachi orange )
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Sorry I thought I'd mentioned earlier it was a big Hitachi that was coming.

I thought I'd posted this photo before but maybe not. The shovel boom and arm shipped separately and arrived a few weeks ago.

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Another hazard of ocean feeight. Look what the dockworkers somewhere managed to do to the boom piping. To give it perspective the tubing on both sides of the boom should be a mirror image of one another. Two of the support blocks (welded to the boom) on the left side are missing completely, the thrid is hanging on by a thread. Hydraulic piping bent like pretzels. Shipper's insurance company picks up the tab.

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