Local Heavy Equipment Fab Shop

[Sieg]

Just because I thought this was really cool. A good friend of mine went to work for them not to long ago and I took a personal tour two days ago. A really small part for this shop is like 15 lbs. Last month they shipped 3,500,000 lbs of 'finished' product.

There are 5 flame cut tables in this building up to 16' x 24' capacity, one cuts up to 13" thickness.
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-QGJG2x8/1/XL/i-QGJG2x8-XL.jpg

http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-J6jXhLR/1/XL/i-J6jXhLR-XL.jpg

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This building is plasma and flame bevel cutting, the material in the foreground is 5/16" plate.
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-2mwwxdd/1/XL/i-2mwwxdd-XL.jpg

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Yard inventory of 8' x 20' x 1-1/4" plate.
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-vbHSB2X/0/XL/i-vbHSB2X-XL.jpg

The 500 ton press that bends that 1-1/4" plate.......they have a 1000 ton press on order.
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-S54kTCf/1/X2/i-S54kTCf-X2.jpg

[Sieg]

Templates for the excavator buckets they build.
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-BwmGGGV/0/XL/i-BwmGGGV-XL.jpg

Thumbs for excavator bucket.
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-ZXKZdGW/0/X2/i-ZXKZdGW-X2.jpg

A few of numerous milling machines on site.
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-8zWZwJC/1/XL/i-8zWZwJC-XL.jpg

Not your average drill index collection!
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-mDdFfw4/1/X2/i-mDdFfw4-X2.jpg

Scope and scale.
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-sS3q4Wx/1/X2/i-sS3q4Wx-X2.jpg

Surfacer
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-25MvxWR/0/XL/i-25MvxWR-XL.jpg

Beast!
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-H5SdLJT/0/X2/i-H5SdLJT-X2.jpg

This cutting head alone pegged my cheapskate-meter.
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-QK6FkfH/1/X2/i-QK6FkfH-X2.jpg

They go through 2,000 of these 4" 36 grit discs a week.
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-MmQzJJD/1/X2/i-MmQzJJD-X2.jpg

That is all........

[glassman]

Thats pretty cool Sieg, thanx for sharing. I think there's only a handful of us on this planet that can appreciate those machines....

[Shmoov69]

WoW!!:waveflag:

[GregWeld]

I used to work at American Gear --- where we cut and broached 5' in diameter gears. My job was to unload the truck with an overhead crane and load the raw "discs" onto this HUGE rotomill that would surface one side -- flip it and surface the other side... the chips alone from that work could hurt you! LOL


Everything in that shop clunked - pounded - whirred - ground or otherwise made some kind of loud noise.... and everything you touched was black filth (we cut a lot of ductile iron!).

That's a really cool tour -- I love stuff like that!


I'm so happy I got into sales.......

[Ketzer]

I've never had to work in a place like that... so I am totally fascinated by it.
Just the sheer size and weight of what they're making... wow.



Jeff-

[Sieg]

I've never had to work in a place like that... so I am totally fascinated by it.
Just the sheer size and weight of what they're making... wow.

Jeff-
Those 1-1/4" x 8' x 20' sheets weigh 8,160 lbs!

The scope and scale was so different than anything I'd seen before.......totally fascinated. It was a remarkably clean facility too!

[tones2SS]

Thanks for sharing. That was a cool photo tour.
I enjoy stuff like that.

[BMR Sales]

Big Toys for Big Boys!

Thanks for the Tour!

[waynieZ]

Some serious machining going on there for sure. Thanks.

[Revved]

Wow... definitely puts our dinky little 16-20g stuff we use on the cars in perspective!.

Thanks for the photo tour Seig!

[dug]

I assume a lot of the material isn't your regular mild steel? The excavator teeth and buckets aren't mild steel are they?

Nice pictures. That stuff is awesome.

[out2kayak]

Thanks for sharing!