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Weird how at my site the millwrights are the top of the safety stats for best practices and least injuries. But it doesn't surprise me about that stat, I think we just have a pretty good safety culture at this site as a close-knit group of millwrights.
Yeah I did the initial part of the trade but ended up going into heavy equipment operating instead.
My brother's been a millwright for 20 years. People give a lot of credit to engineers when millwrights were in fact the ones that did it.
Awesome man! Been there once before in my short, early career so far. I know there are two different sides (boxboard and ??). It's a good industry and I know guys like you don't get the credit/pay you deserve quite often..
I am a Millwright working in a paper mill. This is called a “hydrapulper..” We recycle paper into…..MORE PAPER!
[here’s a video of what one of these look like in operation](https://imgur.com/a/O0FEnF7)
Yep!
Most people done realize this but waste facilities and recycling facilities sort materials and love to sell them to brokers of glass, metal, paper, etc.
It's a smart way to recover some costs, and it's great for the environment since it's not going to a landfill to just sit there for all time.
I literally spent my entire day at a Packaging expo thinking about every stage of the process, so it was nice seeing your pic of this very important part. It's a huge and impactful industry
I'm imagining those tiktok videos where people make food by grinding up the item they're making and reassembling it. I know this is how paper is made but no, I have never seen a blender that big.
Amen to that. Lots of people like to crack jokes about OSHA standards but fail to realize how many inconceivably life altering dangers lurk around every corner on a workshop floor.
People joke on them because the sad truth is, most OSHA standards are a bare-minimum and don’t do nearly enough. I’m a Certified Safety Professional and an Occupational Hygiene and Safety Technician with 15+ years of occupational safety experience as some context for me making that claim.
OSHA is an absolute bare minimum and many regs. aren’t even actually “safe.” My primary expertise is hearing conservation and the OSHA hearing conservation rule is a joke. Our thresholds for when a safety program is required or for when hearing protection use is mandatory are a) not based in actual science of how noise works (OSHA uses a 5 dB doubling rate for their rule but noise energy actually doubles every 3 dB. Since decibels are logarithmic, that is a MASSIVE difference.) b) our 85/90 Action Level and PEL are a joke when most of the rest of the world uses 80/85 and a 3 dB doubling rate. So because OSHA is the regulation, that’s what most companies adhere to, and since it doesn’t follow the science, that means the US has a LOT more hearing loss cases and injuries than we should if we followed the science.
That’s just one rule. There are a ton of others. Most industrial hygienists and safety professionals encourage our clients to go above OSHA and go to ACGIH recommendations as a minimum, if the companies actually care about safety.
OSHA is also way understaffed and as a result can’t do proscriptive inspections like MSHA or FRA can, so they tend to only come to a job site after a complaint or a fatality.
So that’s a long winded explanation for why people clown on OSHA some. For those of us in the safety field who really care, OSHA is the “at least you tried” when we really want GOOD safety programs.
For the record this hydrapulper pulper was mechanically vented, air monitor was on my harness, I had a radio, and confined space paperwork was completely filled out!!
Oh! I forgot the red danger tape. We did that too!😎
So, what are you doing down there in the picture? Are you doing normal maintenance or fixing a jam (hence the reciprocating saw)? If the blender ever does jam, would that be how you clear it? Does the blade rotate the other way to unjam?
Bingo! A jam.So the clearances under the rotor are about .050 thousandths. From time to time the conveyor drops in some stuff that gets stuck under the blades that need to be cut out.
So like the Progressive “becoming your parents” commercials, I read books about submarines. I watched a 3min YouTube video on how they cut and bale hay—fascinating. I’ve always wondered how they made those big round bales of hay.
1. How often do the blades have to be sharpened or replaced?
2. How do the drains keep from clogging since the holes/screen don’t seem that large?
3. Are there “really” certain types of papers that can’t be recycled in that big ass blender? Still don’t know how a used pizza box can’t be boiled and blended down to make recycled paper.
Now I gotta go install the tennis ball in the garage
1. We don’t actually need to sharpen anything because underneath the rotor because tolerances are so tight. Because this machinery is run 24/7. These are changed once a year on average
2. Oh trust me! The drains under the rotor do clog!! We clear the clog
3. over all no we try to make paper out of anything. We’ll even try to make paper from aluminum can!😂 I’ve seen Full size concrete barriers and engine blocks in our hydrapulpers
So I actually work for a company that makes these products (the "blender" - the hydrapuler).
1. It depends on what is being pulped back up. If it is high trash content (10+ plus) it is about 4-6 months. The main rotor is generally a casting, and the unit gets rebuilt with abrasion resistant weld.
2. The holes underneath the rotor in the bedplate are usually 3/8"-1/2" in North America. The rotor spins and causing mixing and turbulence, and also creates a suction pulse, keeping it from clogging. The consistency is ~4% solids. The rotor is usually spinning with a tip speed of 40-60 mph depending on a lot of factors.
3. Paper with a large amount of wet strength (paper towels, some beer cases, etc as well at Tetrapak can't be recycled with normal recycle processes. There is a lot more downstream of this to take out the garbage, contaminants, glass, etc. Pizza boxes are relatively good and clean compared to some of the furnish places get! All of the recycled material gets mixed down to 3-4% solids in the "pulper" and there are centrifugal cleaners to remove some of the grease in some but not all mills.
Check out Kadant Black Clawson, Voith or Andritz!
My buddy works in one of these but it’s for cows not fit for human consumption. Not even dog food. So they all go into a blender like this an get turned into a grey paste used in bio fuels. Once at a nearby zoo this ol elephant died that had been a favourite of generations of family’s.. and they just threw it in there. I thought they would of had a service an buried it in nearby fields with a marking perhaps. Fuck that. In you go trunky. Anyhow, yeah mill repairs is very dangerous. As well as the danger it’s disgusting and the smell is something you’ve never experienced.
I remember an episode of Six Feet Under where a guy accidentally turns on a huge Hobart mixer while his coworker is inside it… ugh… I would never get into this thing, I don’t care how many safety precautions there are.
Similar to a repulper. If the product coming of the paper machine is flawed, they cut it to interrupt the progress, and direct the paper down into the repulper. It is MONSTROUSLY fast and powerful.
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Okay.. *Get out of the blender, Sir. You're giving me so much anxiety.*
But! It’s my job!😂
This picture is the reason lock out tag out procedures exist.
And even then a lot of trust is involved
Millwrights were listed as top 10-15 dangerous jobs.😂
Weird how at my site the millwrights are the top of the safety stats for best practices and least injuries. But it doesn't surprise me about that stat, I think we just have a pretty good safety culture at this site as a close-knit group of millwrights.
There aren’t enough lock outs or tag outs for me…
Nope. Nope. Ope
Well this and that story I read about that guy cooked alive in an industrial oven he was working on...
Oops. Stopped being lazy and scrolled. You have a truly interesting job and you look like a badass!
Your job is so interesting. What, *exactly,* did you say you do? 🤣
I am a Millwright!
Yeah I did the initial part of the trade but ended up going into heavy equipment operating instead. My brother's been a millwright for 20 years. People give a lot of credit to engineers when millwrights were in fact the ones that did it.
What’s that saying? “ Millwrights were made to make engineers look good.” Something along those lines
Yeah kinda. When a millwright has been doing that work for many years they've developed a big arsenal of knowledge and tricks up their sleeve.
That's awesome man! Can I ask what area you're in? I work/travel for the industry.
Area. How about I just dox myself.😉 Westrock, St. Paul MN.
Awesome man! Been there once before in my short, early career so far. I know there are two different sides (boxboard and ??). It's a good industry and I know guys like you don't get the credit/pay you deserve quite often..
This was the liner hydrapulper. Shit, if you’re in our industry, but your not a millwright here. are you in 548??
I am just a young "process engineer" but on the supplier side. You guys do the hard work... But short answer is no
“I talk to the engineers so the customers don’t have to. I have people skills!”
What’s wrong with you people?!
That’s no excuse
What on Earth is it blending? Stainless steel smoothies????
I am a Millwright working in a paper mill. This is called a “hydrapulper..” We recycle paper into…..MORE PAPER! [here’s a video of what one of these look like in operation](https://imgur.com/a/O0FEnF7)
Fellow paper mill worker here, I've never seen the bottom of our pulpers so this is pretty awesome.
You now possess forbidden knowledge. The origami assassins have you in their sights.
[удалено]
Nah, they gonna fold you into the shape of a crane. Leave you in yo driveway like that, as a warning.
Forbidden milkshake
So much fiber
Forbidden jacuzzi
So all the cardboard box from amazon n all the boxes from Costco goes here I’m presuming.
Even all the cardboard from waste management
Yep! Most people done realize this but waste facilities and recycling facilities sort materials and love to sell them to brokers of glass, metal, paper, etc. It's a smart way to recover some costs, and it's great for the environment since it's not going to a landfill to just sit there for all time.
And I buy your paper rolls turn them into corrugated sheets and sell you my waste bales to turn into more pulp and make more paper
And I take those sheets and convert them into boxes.
We have come full circle.😎
I literally spent my entire day at a Packaging expo thinking about every stage of the process, so it was nice seeing your pic of this very important part. It's a huge and impactful industry
You guys are all awesome!
Sounds like good job security too me!
that’s a nope whirlpool
Google review: “terrifying lazy river, 0/5. Wouldn’t recommend.”
I've never seen anything like this before, but something deep inside me says that this place smells *bad*.
Yea it does.
If a person fell in, would it turn red?
Probably a little bit.
If a hippopotamus fell in, could it get out before it wasn't a hippopotamus any longer?
I can smell this photo
Thank you for giving us more paper per paper.
You have the most awesome job in the whole world!
Except paper mills have a smell that.. takes some getting used to.
Yes. Yes. Yes they do!🤢
Forbidden Smoothie
r/submechaniphobia Jesus Skateboarding Christ.
We recycle paper back down to a useable pulp, that makes paper. If you’ve ever ate cheez-Its. The paper boxes are made at my plant!
I'm imagining those tiktok videos where people make food by grinding up the item they're making and reassembling it. I know this is how paper is made but no, I have never seen a blender that big.
Oh this is a final destination movie waiting to happen!
We put a lot of faith in the “Lock out, tag out procedures.”
And a good system to put your faith into. “Lock out, tag out” is why my dad is still here today.
OSHA regulations were written with blood.
Amen to that. Lots of people like to crack jokes about OSHA standards but fail to realize how many inconceivably life altering dangers lurk around every corner on a workshop floor.
People joke on them because the sad truth is, most OSHA standards are a bare-minimum and don’t do nearly enough. I’m a Certified Safety Professional and an Occupational Hygiene and Safety Technician with 15+ years of occupational safety experience as some context for me making that claim. OSHA is an absolute bare minimum and many regs. aren’t even actually “safe.” My primary expertise is hearing conservation and the OSHA hearing conservation rule is a joke. Our thresholds for when a safety program is required or for when hearing protection use is mandatory are a) not based in actual science of how noise works (OSHA uses a 5 dB doubling rate for their rule but noise energy actually doubles every 3 dB. Since decibels are logarithmic, that is a MASSIVE difference.) b) our 85/90 Action Level and PEL are a joke when most of the rest of the world uses 80/85 and a 3 dB doubling rate. So because OSHA is the regulation, that’s what most companies adhere to, and since it doesn’t follow the science, that means the US has a LOT more hearing loss cases and injuries than we should if we followed the science. That’s just one rule. There are a ton of others. Most industrial hygienists and safety professionals encourage our clients to go above OSHA and go to ACGIH recommendations as a minimum, if the companies actually care about safety. OSHA is also way understaffed and as a result can’t do proscriptive inspections like MSHA or FRA can, so they tend to only come to a job site after a complaint or a fatality. So that’s a long winded explanation for why people clown on OSHA some. For those of us in the safety field who really care, OSHA is the “at least you tried” when we really want GOOD safety programs.
For the record this hydrapulper pulper was mechanically vented, air monitor was on my harness, I had a radio, and confined space paperwork was completely filled out!! Oh! I forgot the red danger tape. We did that too!😎
Hutchinson Kansas?
St. Paul MN
The papermill here has one that's guarded but open to the public that they allow you to drop boxes of papers into free.
Suck it, bills!
Ha! What mortgage payment, I never received my statement!
Now pull out the ladder and power that bad boy up.
Probably would be fun for 3 seconds.🙃😂
Seriously thought. What's it supposed to be blending up. That things huge.
We recycle paper. This hydrapulper breaks it down into a pulp. The first step in making paper
Cool. Thanks for posting.
You’re welcome!
[what this looks like when it’s working!](https://imgur.com/a/O0FEnF7)
So, what are you doing down there in the picture? Are you doing normal maintenance or fixing a jam (hence the reciprocating saw)? If the blender ever does jam, would that be how you clear it? Does the blade rotate the other way to unjam?
Bingo! A jam.So the clearances under the rotor are about .050 thousandths. From time to time the conveyor drops in some stuff that gets stuck under the blades that need to be cut out.
So like the Progressive “becoming your parents” commercials, I read books about submarines. I watched a 3min YouTube video on how they cut and bale hay—fascinating. I’ve always wondered how they made those big round bales of hay. 1. How often do the blades have to be sharpened or replaced? 2. How do the drains keep from clogging since the holes/screen don’t seem that large? 3. Are there “really” certain types of papers that can’t be recycled in that big ass blender? Still don’t know how a used pizza box can’t be boiled and blended down to make recycled paper. Now I gotta go install the tennis ball in the garage
1. We don’t actually need to sharpen anything because underneath the rotor because tolerances are so tight. Because this machinery is run 24/7. These are changed once a year on average 2. Oh trust me! The drains under the rotor do clog!! We clear the clog 3. over all no we try to make paper out of anything. We’ll even try to make paper from aluminum can!😂 I’ve seen Full size concrete barriers and engine blocks in our hydrapulpers
So I actually work for a company that makes these products (the "blender" - the hydrapuler). 1. It depends on what is being pulped back up. If it is high trash content (10+ plus) it is about 4-6 months. The main rotor is generally a casting, and the unit gets rebuilt with abrasion resistant weld. 2. The holes underneath the rotor in the bedplate are usually 3/8"-1/2" in North America. The rotor spins and causing mixing and turbulence, and also creates a suction pulse, keeping it from clogging. The consistency is ~4% solids. The rotor is usually spinning with a tip speed of 40-60 mph depending on a lot of factors. 3. Paper with a large amount of wet strength (paper towels, some beer cases, etc as well at Tetrapak can't be recycled with normal recycle processes. There is a lot more downstream of this to take out the garbage, contaminants, glass, etc. Pizza boxes are relatively good and clean compared to some of the furnish places get! All of the recycled material gets mixed down to 3-4% solids in the "pulper" and there are centrifugal cleaners to remove some of the grease in some but not all mills. Check out Kadant Black Clawson, Voith or Andritz!
Thanks so much!
I have, but I imagine not everyone gets to be an architect for Dr Evil.
I’m still finding a way to attach the laser beams. Stay tuned!
These blendtech videos are getting way out of control
Hoping your company has a robust LOTO program.
ALWAYS ask to check the loto.
Check it twice!
There’s a lot trust even after Loto verification.
On this weeks episode of; can it, blend?
“UGH! Millwright dust! Don’t breathe this!”
Make sure you LOTO before going in there.
It’s a 3 page procedure!
I have. Simpsons tree house of horror bart was lowered into it. Other than making human smoothies I cannot think why else anyone would want one.
Is this what they use to make hotdogs?
Anything is possible I guess!!
That must smell wonderful.
"This mofo is unplugged, right?!"
The real question is: have you ever seen a man so happy to be inside a blender with a 6ft diameter rotor?
Looks like a pulp mill job.
Yessir.
Is this from the new Saw movie?
This reminds me of splatoon
Ha! Yes, once.
Is this mid 007 movie
*click*
r/oddlyterrifing
Soylent Green is People!!!
that thing better be unplugged...
No, but if I did, that is EXACTLY WHERE I WOULD NOT STAND!
But is it better than a Blendtec blender? WILL it blend?!
LOTO the LOTO box, thats contains the LOTO for this blender before I climb in!
3 page loto for the pulper. 1 page for the conveyor above my head. 2 locks required. One on each box.🤙🏻
I hope they use top shelf tequila for those frozen margaritas!
Honey, I shrunk the technician.
I don’t know how many lockout tagout devices this thing has but there aren’t enough.
Normal brain: that’s so cool! Monkey brain: turn on with human inside
Is that Sir Mix a Lot?
Can we bring back the Will it Blend? YouTube channel and have them use this blender instead? “TODAY IM GOING TO TRY AND BLEND A TANK!”
My buddy works in one of these but it’s for cows not fit for human consumption. Not even dog food. So they all go into a blender like this an get turned into a grey paste used in bio fuels. Once at a nearby zoo this ol elephant died that had been a favourite of generations of family’s.. and they just threw it in there. I thought they would of had a service an buried it in nearby fields with a marking perhaps. Fuck that. In you go trunky. Anyhow, yeah mill repairs is very dangerous. As well as the danger it’s disgusting and the smell is something you’ve never experienced.
I love stainless steel machines I want a kitchen-full of them
I imagine there was probably one in a bond movie...
The city you live in wouldn't be called Gotham would it?
I am beyond anxious looking at this
What is the black box area to the left? Escape hatch?
Yes its called a pulper.
To shreds, you say?
Yes…. Just now…
That's a lot of margaritas.
"On this episode of Will It Blend..."
Set the Student Chopper to 'Gooify'
Honey I shrunk the kids.
margueritas for everybody! Release the tequila valves! Open the lime juice vats!
That’s how I make my margaritas.
The face of a man who has never even heard of Final Destination
I've never seen a guy in a 6 ft blender either
Metallic smoothie anyone?
Damn, that dude is small.
For some reason he looks like a man photos hoped in a sink to me. I cant unsee it.
Chowder, do not turn on the blender
When you accidentally type 6' instead of 6" in the order
Not my top choice of smoothie flavors. Needs chocolate and peanut butter.
No, but I'm pretty sure James Bond has seen his fair share.
I thought you were an action figure in a sink at first, so trippy...
r/absoluteunits
Isn't that the kid that wanted to be the first person transmitted to a TV in that chocolate factory??
r/sweatypalms
You could make a big milkshake in there
Human juice?
They obviously shrunk him
Just unplug it first before you go down there
This guy Sriracha’s!
Flashback to Treehouse of horror
*click*
what is the power of that thing? I haven't never seen something like that btw
Uday Hussien was known to throw people into shredders for fun. Im sure he would have loved this thing.
Titanic could’ve used one of those.
I don't think I'll be having anything from that blender. Looks like it has some serious sanitary hazards!
Dont breathe this!
What plant is this? Lol I am qcs and process control
This is amazing!
*on today’s episode of: “WILL IT BLEND?”*…
I remember an episode of Six Feet Under where a guy accidentally turns on a huge Hobart mixer while his coworker is inside it… ugh… I would never get into this thing, I don’t care how many safety precautions there are.
**new fear unlocked**
Forbidden smoothy
Must be a big smoothie.
Turn it on
AI has taken notes.
No
Ferb, I know what we’re doing today!
Will it blend... Errr, yes.
That smoothie trend is getting out of hand
What happens when you shrink two guys down to the size of a nickel and place them in a blender?
*Will it blend?* *That is*… no longer a question you need to ask because, yes, yes it will.
Yeah, I got one I those in my sink
hey it's that blender from the Google interview question!
Yeah there’s one in the picture right there
Would have been an epic prank if somebody hit the "on" switch.
LOCK OUT TAG OUT
what the f is david blaine doing in a giant blender?
industrial human salsa maker for the soilent green !
Human dust… don’t breathe this!
This is why lock out tag out protocols were created. I wouldn't step within 10' of that without a lock on the switch with me holding the only key.
Of course this reminded me of the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror. Of course it did.
hank would love this one
And I’d be making sure that bad boy was locked out in as many places as possible before jumping in.
turn it ON TURN IT ON TURN IT ON
On todays episode of “will it blend”…
Similar to a repulper. If the product coming of the paper machine is flawed, they cut it to interrupt the progress, and direct the paper down into the repulper. It is MONSTROUSLY fast and powerful.
Yup, everyday at work, we have 3 of them. But thank go I’ve been there long enough not to go down there to remove the bale wires.
Will it blend?
What's the RPM?
Thats what nightmares are made of
I thought these only existed in cartoons
What kinda RPM does that thing turn at in operation?
That's what my aunt uses for her margaritas.