Got big tools?

[aggierailroad]

Walked through a shipyard today - snapped some pics of their big stuff.

Need to measure something?

Note the glove for reference..

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CNC plasma table - dual head. It can cut two full sheets (10'x40' I think) of steel. Think the size of sheets that are delivered on trains.

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2000 ton press. Used to make rigging slings.

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Horizontal mill - I believe The machine starts from where I'm standing - goes back about 20 ft.... This place also has entire parts of the floor that can be used as a jig - 2" thick steel with t slots - easily 100 ft long by 40 ft wide.

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[mrpizza]

Holy **** that's awesome! Is that a big micrometer?

 

[devoncoolman]

Cool stuff

 

[The Ratchet Man]

At some point it should no longer be called a micro-meter.

 

[bobcatdan]

A couple times a year I go to a ship yard in Door county Wisconsin where they service ore ships. I would really like to wonder threw more, but being on a service call, time is tight. One time I was up there working in their shop and "The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" came on the radio. I said to the one of the guys there I though that was a little ironic. He said yeah it kinda is and you know what, the Arthur Anderson was in the yard.

 

[slidehammer]

Check out the ratchet on the workbench behind "Ann" in this Chevron commercial.

 

[RatchetMan]

Cool stuff......

 

[kazlx]

The place where I had my fab table top ground had some enormous machines. I swear on the blanchard grinder they could easily fit a VW bug. They also had some sort of large gantry type mill and a surface plate that was 2ft thick and probably 200sq ft.

 

[adcrawfo]

A couple times a year I go to a ship yard in Door county Wisconsin where they service ore ships. I would really like to wonder threw more, but being on a service call, time is tight. One time I was up there working in their shop and "The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" came on the radio. I said to the one of the guys there I though that was a little ironic. He said yeah it kinda is and you know what, the Arthur Anderson was in the yard.

Ever been to the ship yard in Marinette? I've always wanted to go but never seem to find the time to inquire about it.


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[TwoInch]

Ever been to the ship yard in Marinette? I've always wanted to go but never seem to find the time to inquire about it.


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ive watched a couple launch ceremonies there. cools stuff. knew a guy that worked there.

 

[bobcatdan]

I always go to Bay ship in Sturgeon Bay. They rent skidsteers with hydraulic breakers to chip ice builded up around the blocks to rest the ships on in dry dock. I have been down in the dry docks a couple times, that is one big hole.

 

[DirtRoad]

Check out the ratchet on the workbench behind "Ann" in this Chevron commercial.

Nice....

 

[Polski-Chevy]

At some point it should no longer be called a micro-meter.

I thought the same thing, major-meter maybe?

 

[metaleltr]

Check out the ratchet on the workbench behind "Ann" in this Chevron commercial.

Is that a ratchet or is it a torque multiplier?

 

[helterskelter]

Holy **** that's awesome! Is that a big micrometer?

That's a medium micrometer.

 

[bobcatdan]

That looks to be a 1" drive torque multipler with an adaptor down to 1/2".

 

[4x4gearhead]

Love the idea of the milling machine with huge space to set up the jig. Imagine the possibilities.

 

[wrenchguy]

Here's Williams largest chain wrench made. Its 7' long and weighs in at 140 lbs. This one is nos and still had the stock tag on it when i got it. If i remember right it'll fit 24" pipe.
thanks 4 looking.

 

[aggierailroad]

The place where I had my fab table top ground had some enormous machines. I swear on the blanchard grinder they could easily fit a VW bug. They also had some sort of large gantry type mill and a surface plate that was 2ft thick and probably 200sq ft.

Speaking of - their welding jig tables were 4" thick with 1.25" square holes on 4" centers. Over 100 years old.

 

[lametec]

Horizontal mill - I believe

A smaller one for reference:

 

[Kracin]

yeah, the mold reconditioners used lathes that were 25' long where i was working before, calipers that go past 36", all the big stuff one could dream about messing with.

http://www.exapro.com/product/2012/...y-duty-lathe-w-48-4-jaw-chuck-p20819029_2.jpg

something like that, except.... ours were larger lol.

 

[ATC]

My city was built around the RR (Norfolk Southern), and we have several HUGE yards around the city where they build locomotives, rail cars, do repairs, etc... Most of the coal from WV comes through here before it makes it way to Richmond/Norfolk/Portsmouth/etc..

I would LOVE to walk around their yard and through their machine shop!

 

[Todd.Brock]

ATC, is that Roanoke, Va?

 

[Steve from Socal]

My welding table is actually an angle plate from a G&L mill about the size in your pictures. The angle plate would bolt down to the bed (floor). The angle plate is 36x36x138 and is around 7000 of cast iron.

Steve

 

[jfcasey]

ATC, is that Roanoke, Va?

I'm not him but can verify it sure is. I grew up in Salem right next door. They don't have any tools on display that I remember but if you like freight trains and ever find your self in town you gotta check out the transportation museum in Roanoke.

 

[The Ratchet Man]

My city was built around the RR (Norfolk Southern), and we have several HUGE yards around the city where they build locomotives, rail cars, do repairs, etc... Most of the coal from WV comes through here before it makes it way to Richmond/Norfolk/Portsmouth/etc..

I would LOVE to walk around their yard and through their machine shop!

We've sent a lot of mainline ballast to Roanoke, VA over the last couple of years on MOW trains for NS. In fact we just shipped some there last week on a NS MOW train. That looks to be recently bedded track in your picture, with the old ties in the back. I bet I loaded the cars that dumped that ballast in the pictures at our quarry in GA.

 

[Todd.Brock]

I went to Roanoke College. I lived in Roanoke for almost 10 years. I worked at the newspaper in town and drive past the railyards and park next to the transportation museum.

 

[jeffmoss26]

We have a couple calipers at work that are the size of the freaking workbench! Maybe 4 feet long?

 

[Kracin]

We have a couple calipers at work that are the size of the freaking workbench! Maybe 4 feet long?

yep, needed those 48"+ calipers for our machinists to check the molds that make 48" ductile iron pipe. bastards have got to be expensive