This is what 400,000 kg's looks like. Brand new KOBM steel making vessel just devivered from Spain!
reddit.com/gallery/n70d9dPosted May 7, 2021, 2:54 PM UTC
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Nothing against the Spanish, but it sucks we've let go a lot of this type of steel works out of North America.
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Steel and every other industry. At this very moment we’re building 2 production lines to go to our China facility. Our company is like proudly made in America, while sending more and more equipment overseas. The hipocrisy is unreal.
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I work at a steel mill in Southern Ontario and we're setting production records, we can't get the coils out fast enough.
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Which plant do you work at? I work in a mill down there as well.
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Nanticoke
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Arcelor mittal was poised to start making steel with a new type of foundry in the US. Their stock tanked when there was a fatal accident several months ago and I haven’t heard about them since. Was supposed to be way more efficient and high tech.. I lost some money there
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Only new foundry I know of in the US for AM is the EAF going in just north of Mobile that keeps putting out press releases that it is on-going.
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I wonder how they got it on the Post Office scales
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I miss heavy hauling, I wasn't quite on that scale but I used to roll 70 tons of payload street legal in a tractor trailer that tipped in at 45 tons by itself.
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Man I can't imagine! I enjoy the devils lettuce so I'm not allowed to drive a truck (obviously good reasoning there) but I love trucks. I worked for Chiquita in Wilmington and would be on the ground when regular loaded shipping containers went by and was always impressed at how much the ground shook. I'd love to hear about what that was like. If I ever strike it rich I'm buying a fully loaded Pete from Fitzgerald just to have.
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This was an Army truck, the M1070/M1000 Heavy Equipment Transport system (HETs). The tractor had 8x8 drive capabilities and the trailer had a fully articulating hydraulic suspension with 40 tires yet we could turn from a 30' wide road on to a 30' wide road without leaving the pavement. The truck was also designed as a recovery asset so we had a pair of 55,000 lb PTO driven winches. The truck has long since been declassified and the manual is "approved for public release; distribution is unlimited" (look for TM 9-2320-360-10-1). There truly is nothing like a HET.
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Thats so awesome. I'll have to check them out. I was blown away by unimogs when I found out what they can do but this sounds basically like a giant unimog. Thank you for your service by the way.
It must be really awesome to look at a load like that and say yeah we got it. I was eager to serve when I was younger but failed my physical twice and started to understand they can't invest all that money into training and have my knee shit out. I would have loved to have been a motorpool guy... I think.
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I spy a Mammoet!
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You definitely do! They've got the job to install it as well.
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I miss working there, was a great internship.
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What office were you out of? I have a buddy out of their main yard in Guelph, Ontario.
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That's the one! Well their previous office in Cambridge before they moved. If they're looking for a Mech Eng I'd apply in a second.
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Those guys rock.
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Man just imagining the work of getting that from Spain to wherever it is now is boggling.
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Right? I wonder where OP is located just to give the scale of the logistics required in this case. 400,000kgs by boat and land?!
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ArcelorMittal Dofasco is a steel company based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Dofasco is a standalone subsidiary of ArcelorMittal, the world's largest integrated steel producer. Wikipedia
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That is beautiful. I can only imagine all the neat things it'll make.
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Alot of steel!
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Do you know what the yearly tonnage is on that bad boy?
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Sorry, I'll have to ask around for that answer.
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As someone who worked in a steel mill, all I have to add is:
It’s not going to look that nice ever again! But honestly I prefer the weathered look on heavy equipment. New stuff looks too much like an ad.
Everything looks new when it has never been used.