RIP Judy.
Posted on 05/03/2023 9:08:57 AM PDT by dennisw
I got mild welder burn in my eyes many years ago when a guy was MIG welding without a UV curtain not far from where I was working. I knew not to look at the arc but it was in my peripheral vision, and that was enough to do it. What’s funny is the effects didn’t show up until later that evening when I was at home — out of nowhere my eyes starting burning and watering. I couldn’t figure out what the heck was going on and wound up going to the emergency room. The first question they asked was if I had been doing any welding. After I explained the circumstances they checked me out a little more, confirmed I had a mild case of welder burn, and sent me home with some Tylenol.
You missed all the fun of kraft paper, then!!
Wow, that is so COOL! Thanks for posting.
The young lass has one of those perfectly crystalline feminine voices. Sounds like she has had some professional voice training to make those wonderful calls.
Her voice got one of the cows pretty excited at the end.
Yep. KC mills, James River / Fort Howard, GP, and Kruger. Along with several process and chemical support companies. For me mostly electrical control systems and my wife mostly chemistry add on systems. But as you know in paper it’s always “all hands on deck” when something breaks.
“as you know in paper it’s always “all hands on deck” when something breaks.”
It was the worst in the supporting auxiliary systems like steam. We were looked on as bleeping necessities, but certainly not the core money-maker. We were expected to have 100% availability and woe to us if we caused an outage in the paper making part of the business.
I once had a mill manager ask me why the lines in converting weren't working? I explained water in the airlines was interfering with valves. He asked me to "show him where the holes were in the airlines, where the water gets inside?" I told him I think it comes from somewhere near the shipping area.
It wasn't worth the words. I told my boss and he agreed. That mill manager made the utilities department bypass the air dryers just 24 hours earlier. The replacement repair parts were too expensive. He shopped his stupid request around until someone said " sure, we can run without dryers".
The whole mill limped up and down for months. The solution was to rent mobile compressors that have dryers self contained for $30K per week. For six months..... The maintenance crew that could fix the dryers for $15K spent those six months keeping diesel fuel in the mobile compressors filled up. The number one priority at every top managers meetings was diesel fuel and not running out.
That’s cute, but not that amazing.
Cows are the biggest nibshits on earth. They can’t help checking out what’s going.
I do roadside mowing for my county. I’ve had the same reaction many times when my cutting rig is working along a pasture fence. A guaranteed bovine audience within minutes.
Wow, what a story. The mill manager must have been promoted from counting beans.
That is so pathetic.
The woefully ignorant comment “How did the water get into the air” reminds me of this story. I worked on an R&D project developing a new type of boiler in the 80s and we “partnered” with the US Department of Energy. I was showing the DOE project manager around one day and opened a viewport on the boiler wall. He looked inside and asked “What are all those tubes in there?” (boiler walls are MADE out of tubes — that IS the boiler). It was the most ignorant question I’d heard in my career. Those who say “there are no stupid questions” just haven’t been around the block enough.
LOL!
RIP Judy.
I didn’t know she had passed away last year.
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