Alright boys and girls, if you ain't been at work for 2 hours and on your first coffee break you're late. We done pulled a 12 ton turbine out of the building and are waiting for the replacement that's supposed to be here at 8:00. It left Odessalate Saturday at noon. That plus trying to figure out who gets to go to Arizona as some one blew out a compressor on a gas pipeline. God I Love My Job.

 

Whoa! You posted at 0404AM and you're up and going to work already?!?!. The worms aren't up yet LOL. Hell, gravity is just waking up. That's more like a Gone Fishin' time.

Man I love summer coming...First Light was at ~0510 this morning and gaining a few minutes every day. It's NICE.

G'morning back atcha'

 

Lol Eric C have a little mercy, you're three hours earlier than usn's. Wrestling with a big turbine had to be fun for morning muscles to wake up to, ugh. It'll be nice in Arizona too if you're the one going...travelling across America in the Spring time has got to be one of the most beautiful sights these eyes have seen.

And get paid for it too

 

Hey this is a baby, The big ones I work on now weigh in at 30 tons for the compressor section of the rotor only, almost 70 tons complete. Yea to many things going on right now, this one, a start up in Boston, a unit acting up offshore, pipeline compressor in Arizona, startup of 2 generators on gas in Australia back at the copper mine in the desert (don't want to go back there if I can avoid it).

 

That's a lot of potential TAD time...an Ouch! or a Woot! depending on if you still like travelling. Those're monster turbines you're working on, post a picture when ya' have a minute.

 

Morning boys!

 

Hi gal! How's Truckin' this fine morning??

 

Better than ever! Did an oil change yesterday and she sure was purring this morning! It always amazes me that I can notice such a difference in her with fresh oil. We were both quite happy today!

 

Ye! A happy truck is a....happy truck!

 

I don't know if they'll be there long but I put some pictures in my gallery of some of these beast iu work on now.

 

Is that you by the big green "GE frame" ? Nice generator, can I have it?

 

No that was a millwright that came in to do some welding. That was a Jenbacher 6-16 Gas engine. 1750 KW. The frame is the big beast hanging on the hook 160,000 KW (160 MW). I also did some time on wind turbines in Minnisota and Colorado. The one with my back to the camera I had an all Philipino crew with Ghanian helpers.

 

Good Morning west coast, is there anybody out there and awake. I can tell you the lights are on but nobody is home.

 

G'morning! You were keyboarding early this morning, even for a right coastie.

That might power my house and shop

 

Get to the plant here at the University of Maryland at 6:00 local. Work till 6 or 7 every day except tomorrow will be ugly as we have to align the new engine and it don't move easy.