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1oddtech said:
I thought they were limited on how many surprise inspections they could do on a single site per year
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It’s a different plant. They will do 5 inspection per fiscal year. Their year is October 1- October 1. My washplant and one crushing spread is now good till next October. Got one more spread and 2 screen plant left to do.

Got three tickets today. Horn not working on the 904h mini loader. One wire was pulled out of a grommet and one loader had a brake light out/ step missing:homer:. The only reason that was there because the 980f broke a spring in the shift spool right away this morning. :homer:
 
Penetrode Offroad said:
Benefit of front discharge the line up ability?
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speed bump said:
You can move the chute and the truck at the same time. Get a good driver and it's really easy for them to put the mud right where you want it for the entire truck.

Driver stays in the cab.

Better visibility.
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This^ . I drive front discharge. Well laid out form, a slab, I can empty truck in 6 minutes. Finishers can get on with finishing. Plus it is fun to wheel 78000lbs through some rough, muddy terrain.
 
No front discharge trucks in Lubbock, but they do use them down the road in Seminole, Andrews, and Odessa. Presumably because oilfield.
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Wore out they’re pretty cheap. I needed sort of a heavy off road flatbed for something a few years ago and thought jerking the mixer off of one would make it perfect. When I figured out they were rear engine it killed that idea. Still kind of want one.
 
Levigarrett76 said:
Do msha people take bait like osha?


Osha hits the job break out the fucked up extension cords quick to keep them busy while cleaning up real violations.
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Levigarrett76 said:
Do msha people take bait like osha?


Osha hits the job break out the fucked up extension cords quick to keep them busy while cleaning up real violations.
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A fucked up cord on a msha site might be a decently severe violation though, they don't play at all with electrical equipment.
 
We've been hearing that next year MSHA will be requiring everyone to have silica policy/plan. Annual lung function testing of potentially exposed employees, testing that's only available at a handful of places across the country.
 
wes761 said:
We've been hearing that next year MSHA will be requiring everyone to have silica policy/plan. Annual lung function testing of potentially exposed employees, testing that's only available at a handful of places across the country.
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It's the same exam as you get when you come into mining. Chest X-ray and cardio pulmonary test. Talking with our safety guy we will roll it out as an annual requirement for any new hires starting next year and every 3 years for current employees.

There is also redoing all of your silica surveys and the corresponding dust control upgrades. Talking with our rep for a bunch of dust control products he has already sold 4 dry fog hopper systems in anticipation.
 
MSHA hasn't enforced any of that in our area.... for us small time mines. Pulmonary/cardio/chest x-rays haven't been a thing yet, only hearing exams.

I do know they're going to want engineering measures (water) in place to control it, rather than ppe. The biggest challenge we'll face is winter operations, when temps constantly stay below freezing for several months. Icing up haul roads and crushers with water to keep silica at bay.
 
wes761 said:
MSHA hasn't enforced any of that in our area.... for us small time mines. Pulmonary/cardio/chest x-rays haven't been a thing yet, only hearing exams.

I do know they're going to want engineering measures (water) in place to control it, rather than ppe. The biggest challenge we'll face is winter operations, when temps constantly stay below freezing for several months. Icing up haul roads and crushers with water to keep silica at bay.
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That's interesting, I did a cardio pulmonary test as part of my physical 17 years ago when I first got into mining. They started doing the X-ray in roughly 2010 around here.

As far as engineering controls it's going to be some changes particularly for small operators. When it's frozen and nasty you do a lot less suppression than you do when it's hot out so the freezing part tends to be self mitigating to a point.
 
sandvik brought a new Toy to play with for a month. It’s a prototype jaw. First one of this size they built.

Even came with two Irish lads for 2weeks:flipoff2:. One is the head of r&d for the portables and the other is the vp of portables in the us. Those boys sure know how to party:lmao:. Every morning they seem pretty hung over. :lmao: I invited them over for my son’s birthday party tomorrow to enjoy some ribs I’m smoking. :flipoff2: Told them all they need to do is sing happy birthday :lmao:


Feeder comes off to get the weight down.
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The opened the jaw up and told me to flood it. They wanted to see what it could do. Told them I am walking away if that belt stops. I am not picking 12”+ stone off a stuck belt:lmao:.

I was able to get it up to 900 metric ton a hour. I was making poor 115 really hump. Had to have a 980 and 744 pulling away rock from the discharge as I don’t own a conveyor that can handle that big of rock at that tonnage. :lmao:

Haul truck is working great. She can make a turn in under 6 mins. One truck is just not quite enough to keep up with the crusher when making the course stuff. Hopefully the second one will show up in a week or so.
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Once their production test was done. We backed the eljay under it to make some 3”clear rock. Really don’t have a need for the stone atm but if they are letting me wear out their jaw I’m crushing something.
 
Is the 12"+ max run the easiest test and hardest on the system? Does that equate to the highest hourly output? Just wondering why that was the mark. Seems like you could run that thang for a couple of days and make a pretty good pile of something to sell later. Its not like you have a perishable product.
 
speed bump said:
It's the same exam as you get when you come into mining. Chest X-ray and cardio pulmonary test. Talking with our safety guy we will roll it out as an annual requirement for any new hires starting next year and every 3 years for current employees.
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I worked for an environmental company for a few years and they required all of that, plus a fucking EKG every other year. You had to go through all of that as part of the pre-employment physical too. A lot of people wouldn't even go through with it once they learned what it involved. I worked for their civil division as a PM and had zero risk of exposure to any of that shit but there was no room for that kind of common sense with their insurance carrier. :shaking:
 
Pony_Driver said:
Is the 12"+ max run the easiest test and hardest on the system? Does that equate to the highest hourly output? Just wondering why that was the mark. Seems like you could run that thang for a couple of days and make a pretty good pile of something to sell later. Its not like you have a perishable product.
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Yeah 12” is the max opening. The only problem is I don’t have a conveyor to handle it so it only has like 5 mins of run before it fills up to the top of its conveyor. Need to have two loaders to pull it away.

We are gonna be making 3” minus stone which is always in demand. And if needed I can crush it down into something smaller in a pinch. I have 40,000 ton shot laying on the ground that will get run through.
 
I was wondering if you could clear out that last shot. Would that be worth it if you could do it only paying for fuel? Blast it out, line up another shot before the year is out?
 
Pony_Driver said:
I was wondering if you could clear out that last shot. Would that be worth it if you could do it only paying for fuel? Blast it out, line up another shot before the year is out?
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The big costs are the blasting, fuel and labor. The last shot cost me $52,000. So in all reality using their machine really doesn’t save me too much money other than wear parts. Now if I didn’t have a few jaws it would be the best thing ever. But then why would they give it to a rookie to show them what’s wrong or what you would change.
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
The big costs are the blasting, fuel and labor. The last shot cost me $52,000. So in all reality using their machine really doesn’t save me too much money other than wear parts. Now if I didn’t have a few jaws it would be the best thing ever. But then why would they give it to a rookie to show them what’s wrong or what you would change.
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Figured. I don't know your books, but hours on someone else's machine is hours on someone else's machine. Wear that MF'er out in the name of "research". :smokin:
 
speed bump said:
Driver stays in the cab.
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The only reason, lazy. The company doesn’t want the driver to get hurt either. (By helping)

ThePanzerFuhrer said:
It’s a different plant. They will do 5 inspection per fiscal year. Their year is October 1- October 1. My washplant and one crushing spread is now good till next October. Got one more spread and 2 screen plant left to do.

Got three tickets today. Horn not working on the 904h mini loader. One wire was pulled out of a grommet and one loader had a brake light out/ step missing:homer:. The only reason that was there because the 980f broke a spring in the shift spool right away this morning. :homer:
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That’s crazy. Don’t they know you already have a dozer to armor up? Seriously, will they let you fix something on the spot and not get the ticket? How much are the tickets?

That’s pretty cool of Sandvic.
 
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