Well, hopefully you kept good notes. If so, then combined with all the knowledge and experience you gained the first time around, it should be much quicker and easier to do it again; like many things. Maybe this time you can even do it better, without being constrained by what was already there?

 

Actually, the vendor that sold the equipment now incorporates many of my mods and ideas into their new products. Such is this industry: There are no royalties for better ideas, just job security. If you think about it, there are no royalties on FTE either - just the reward of camaraderie.

 

"If you think about it, there are no royalties on FTE either - just the reward of camaraderie."

At least we say:

THANK YOU TUGLY!

for all your help!

 

I realize I'm dragging out an OT thread, but I've had some time to absorb the carnage of the fire from one week ago. I know there are many fire fighters out there, and bearing in mind we had a 50 yard sterile barrier between our plant and the nearest foliage:

Have you professionals ever seen damage of this size and intensity before?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPJ5AlEjAHs

Hydrants were located throughout the facility, but the power poles all burned down in the wildfire and there was no power for the pumps that pressurized the hydrants. This is what happens without safety infrastructure. Aerial bombardment by a DC-10 with fire retardant prevented the plant 2 roof from catching fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG62sgvGBlY

 

1989 Loma Prieta / SF Quake, not only messed up my World Series, put me on 6 month Overtime when most LAFD headed north to help out. What a Mess....

 

Oh sure. Use an earthquake to top my fire.

 

Oh No, just as Bad, different scenery..Then throw in the fact that the Horror up and moves in a different direction swiftly. When I moved back to Wa I had a chance to work on a Hot Shot crew.....Went to Eastern Ore. on 1 Forest/Wildfire for a week. You only have to look Death in the eye once to say HELL NO..... Went into Cable TV. Now I just try not to fall out of My Bucket ( 50 ft. Hy Lift ). Nothing but Respect for those guys, They Got Giant ***** of Nomex!....

 

Damn Rich, I hate to see that happen. Has the rebuilding started?

 

I just returned from a trip to Kittitas....with the requisite stop at Reeds Point. It was smokey has heck in the valley.

 

The crews are still working out a plan on how to safely drop what's left. We have a steel recycler across the road, but a job of this magnitude may be handled differently.

How is our friend in Reed's point doing?

 

After our dramatic carnage last year when we lost 750,000 square feet of production and storage facilities, the powers that be decided we were going to recover within 12 months. I thought everybody had taken full advantage of the new Washington state law regarding herbs, but it's starting to look like we may make it within 13 months. The construction methods of today are very interesting - everything is modular now. Components are constructed off-site (including 30-foot-high walls) where they can employ mass-production methods, then they are trucked in and erected on-site.

These pictures are now ancient history (as of the morning I clicked it), but the building is nearing completion as of July. We still have to populate the building with a ton of electronics and equipment (including massive robotics), but it's already well under way as the construction crews build around equipment installation crews.

http://www.chelanfruit.com/chelan-pl...build_361.html

My previous experience with automation helps me with the 7.3L, and that, in turn, helps me with robotics. Many of the same controls in modern vehicles - even as old as ours, are employed in factory automation. I could do a whole series of videos (if I had the time) on how cherry sorters discharge the cherries very much like the way our HEUI injectors discharge fuel. In the case of cherries, the solenoid opens an air valve at a precise time and duration, with the air quickly pushing the cherry where it's supposed to go.

 

Pretty amazing on how fast they can rebuild. They have come a long ways sense the fire.

 

it is truly amazing how fast a building can be put up with the concrete panels.
in 6 weeks time you can go from a field of soy beans to a weather tight 1 million square foot 35 foot tall warehouse