Pics From Work

This is the slag tap at the old furnace today,
They leave it to cool for 24 hrs or so then dig it out with the 92and pile it outside the pit then quench it with water. They don't put water on it in the pit as there is sometimes a molten pool underneath. when it comes in contact with the water it explodes. I have seen it lift a 992 off the ground when that happens. scarey stuff.

Tipping a slag pot with the Kress carrier.

The ship is going to Tassi

Those Gearbulk ships are bloody great to unload bulk from with gantry cranes .
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Lot faster than the slew cranes
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Mick. the Gearbulk ships are good unloaders. Also the old CSL ships that are no more. The River Torrens and the River Yarra they have been Re flagged Re named and Re crewed over seas now..

What the Haulmax looks like tipping."had to be quick to get that piccy"

Talk about slow unloading with the ships crane.
14 hours to unload 1500 tons. We were the last port of call and they were grabbing of the bottom.

It's Lime season, I hate tipping lime..........

old dog, I don't blame you for hating lime. There is a lot of it used around here and almost all of it comes as a by-product from the Soda Ash plant at Port Adelaide. The limestone is railed from Angaston in the Barossa Valley to Pt Adelaide where it is cooked, and after the lime is taken to ponds to age before being freighted back to the country.
Pretty much everyone uses chassis tippers as tip-over- axle can fall over if the lime comes out unevenly.
You must be one of the extra careful ones.
Cheers Geoff

Carting lime in bulk has to be one of the worst jobs I've ever done .. and it was pure ex-kiln quicklime, not agricultural lime, that I had to cart and dump.

We used it to get the pH right, when retreating gold tailings. You have to have the pH of the tailings almost neutral, or the re-treatment will use up vast amounts of cyanide .. which, instead of dissolving the gold .. will burn up, trying to counter the acidity of the tailings.

As cyanide is expensive, you have to keep useage to a minimum. Thus, adding lime in large amounts was often required.
After the lime was dumped on the tailings, it either had to be rotary-hoed in, or mixed in with a loader.

We'd pick it up from Loongana Lime in Kalgoorlie, and how people ever worked in that place full-time, I'll never know. The fine, penetrating dust got into everything, and it sucked all the moisture out of your hands and made your skin crack. It was shocking stuff.

You always tried to load or dump with the wind blowing the right way. However, half the time, you had no choice, you just had to choke on lime dust. You could wear a dust mask, but the stuff still got into everything, and burnt into every crevice of your body.

Didn't help that it was usually 42

New job.......

30 tons of bread a day..You name it it's in there
crumpets.100's of them, most of the stuff is still not out of date.
The only tipper job where you can open the tailgate and have lunch.

What is being done with the bread now, it is still wrapped in plastic
Ian