JB COMP

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.

NitroVenom

Dude..., aren't you like 14..?

sheograth

Lol I thought the same thing...

pythonfan

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from the thread truckz a few posts down

JB COMP

[sm=lol.gif] way to go pythonfan[sm=lol.gif]

Yup thought I trow that in there and see if anyone would catch it.

To bad its not April fools[&:]

Also I turned 15 the end of March.[8D]

iamnot

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

The Hedgehog

Yep plenty of math in any technical or engineering field. Heck for my bio engineering degree I had to go through all levels of calculus and more [&:]

vote4nitro

school here too.

Ron Olson

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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

Anomie

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.

Ron Olson

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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.

Anomie

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!

VIPER458

thats pretty cool. do you know what a roll actually weighs?

Ron Olson

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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.

VIPER458

wow![X(]

dsales

The worlds biggest diaper [X(]

hotrod1

Well I am senior in high school but I work part time at the UPS Store.

aero750rider

i'm a district warehouse manager. not very physically exhausting but mentally exhausting [&o]

captain hobbies

i build high end sand rails for extreme performance.

sheograth

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

captain hobbies

web site www.extremeperformance1.com

brett65

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I just finished my last class, so I got a fall internship to do for my forensic science degree. I work full time though at a company balancing accounts for medical billing. Got a free laptop out of it and I get to do this!

[link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCjXd3UV8Jg]hard at work[/link]

Ron Olson

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WOOOOO, that's some spensive buggies!
I had a Berrien 902 shortback with an 1835 street legal that I bought years ago. It wasn't all trick but got me around the streets and the Silver Lake sand dunes.

Hardin Valley Magic

I am a carpenter.
Ron I used to drive otr. Those rolls were a pain.... Oh so very heavy and always worried about one shifting in the trailer and causing serious problems.

Ron Olson

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I've seen it happen. We used to make sheets for lithographic presses and those were worse for shifting. Onr driver hot-dogged it through a hard left turn at a traffic light and the other was going too fast through a tight S turn down the street from me.
I did shipping and receiving for around 27 years so I've seen a lot in my time. I dealt with a lot of JB, Heartland, MS, Werner and most other big carriers but not too many England's.
I would hate to be an OTR driver. They say that you can make a lot of money but the only time that you're making it is when you're rolling. I hate big city driving too, even in my car. I did ride with my dad once in a while on Saturdays making local runs with a tanker delivering chemicals for the paper industry. My first 18-wheeler ride was when I was only 6 weeks old making a run to Indiana. My dad blew a tire out on that run and scared the heck out of my mom!