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RE: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR WORK EVERYDAY?!? - 4/25/2008 4:37:50 PM   
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school. that is all, sometimes i help my mom walk a friends dogs when my sister can't, I plan on majoring in some kindof engineering, prob mechanical


I was going to go for a mechanical engineer, but all the math, trig, and calculus wasn't for me. so know I'm looking at maybe going into electronics.



you think there's less math in electronics?

sorry, but there's as much, if not more
and you'll probably have to take a fair amount of chemistry too
as you'll have to have a grasp of electron configuration and quantum mechanics

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RE: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR WORK EVERYDAY?!? - 4/25/2008 4:41:21 PM   
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RE: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR WORK EVERYDAY?!? - 4/26/2008 5:31:03 AM   
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RE: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR WORK EVERYDAY?!? - 4/26/2008 5:38:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		Factory rat in a paper mill. My main job is on one of 3 machines that process paper for products such as the backing boards for bacon such as Oscar Mayer and Hillshire Farms. We also do the paperboard for the boxes that Bounce and other dryer sheets come in. One job that we rarely run (and I'm thankful for that as it's a pain to run) is the base stock for Pringle's cans with the foil lamination.On the weekends I work out of department driving what we call a clamp mule hauling paper off the paperboard machines. Most of what they make there will end up as cereal boxes for General Mills and Kellogg's. At out facility we also make the "Roni's" cartons, Rice-A and Pasta Roni's.
A couple of pix that I can show as some of our equipment is one-of-a-kind.
That's not me on the clamp mule, I was sitting on another one when I took that shot. Aslo shown is a roll of paperboard freshly made. That baby is 10-1/2 feet high and a little over 12 feet wide. The rolls awaiting shipment in one of 4 of the storage rooms

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RE: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR WORK EVERYDAY?!? - 4/26/2008 5:44:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		Holy crap, Ron, those rolls are huge! Cool pictures, though. I remember when you posted in another 'career' thread some time ago, but it's interesting to see the pictures.

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RE: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR WORK EVERYDAY?!? - 4/26/2008 6:04:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yeah, they are big-un's! We use a 70 ton crane to move them. The whole front end of the board machine was redone along with the back end of the rewinder/slitter to handlw them. Even the 18" thick floor had to have more reinforcement. That is now the only paperboard machine in the US that puts out the most square footage per minute/hour/etc. and they're still working on upping the machine speed.
Yeah, that's a lot of future cereal boxes sitting there. They will actually make 3 set of 72-73" diameter rolls from that and slit them into the smaller rolls in the other pictures. We can make them from 5" wide on up. Most average around 40" wide.
Sorry that I don't have any shots of the paprboard machine itself as it is huge! From wet end to dry end it's probably 300 feet long. A rebuild some 10 years ago cost a mere $100 million. The printing presses that the cartons are made on were state-of-the-art at the time they were installed at 6 Million a pop for 3 of those.

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RE: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR WORK EVERYDAY?!? - 4/26/2008 6:13:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		That's cool. One of those items we see every day that goes right on by our vision. It's interesting to put these things together and see just exactly how much engineering and manpower goes into what seem like simple mass-produced products.

Thanks for sharing Ron!

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RE: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR WORK EVERYDAY?!? - 4/28/2008 12:57:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		thats pretty cool. do you know what a roll actually weighs?

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RE: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR WORK EVERYDAY?!? - 4/28/2008 2:49:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		I would guesstimate one at around 45,000 pounds or more, I'm trying to do some rough math in my head.
There was a typo earlier as I should have said that it is a 70,000 pound capacity crane, not 70 ton.

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RE: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR WORK EVERYDAY?!? - 4/28/2008 5:16:46 PM   
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RE: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR WORK EVERYDAY?!? - 4/28/2008 9:29:08 PM   
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RE: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR WORK EVERYDAY?!? - 5/2/2008 1:15:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		i'm a district warehouse manager. not very physically exhausting but mentally exhausting

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RE: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR WORK EVERYDAY?!? - 5/3/2008 5:13:56 AM   
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RE: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR WORK EVERYDAY?!? - 5/3/2008 5:22:18 AM   
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i build high end sand rails for extreme performance.


Oh yeah? thats great - I'm just getting into the hobby of dune and beach bashing. Do you have a website?

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RE: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR WORK EVERYDAY?!? - 5/9/2008 3:28:06 AM   
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