Any of you burn wood pellets?

[StrangeRanger]

The fourth one down gives new meaning to the words dump truck

http://blogs.wsj.com/photojour.../07/06/fueling-europe/

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[Crono]

That's a lot of bark.

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: Crono
That's a lot of bark.

from a lot of trees.

 

[Baked]

Real men burn trees to get real charcoal for BBQ.

 

[Aharami]

wsj got nothing on boston.com when it comes to photo essays

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Baked
Real men burn trees to get real smoke for BBQ.

Fixed.

 

[compman25]

Originally posted by: StrangeRanger
The fourth one down gives new meaning to the words dump truck

http://blogs.wsj.com/photojour.../07/06/fueling-europe/

j

I had to do that twice when I was an OTR driver, one time with grain from Montana unloaded in Lewiston ID, and the other time was shredded magazines unloaded in Spokane WA at Inland Empire Paper. The Lewiston grain elevator guy let me stay in my truck as long as I promised to keep my seat belt on. It was fun. Inland Empire Paper had safety rules and followed them, made me get out of my truck.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: compman25

Originally posted by: StrangeRanger
The fourth one down gives new meaning to the words dump truck

http://blogs.wsj.com/photojour.../07/06/fueling-europe/

j

I had to do that twice when I was an OTR driver, one time with grain from Montana unloaded in Lewiston ID, and the other time was shredded magazines unloaded in Spokane WA at Inland Empire Paper. The Lewiston grain elevator guy let me stay in my truck as long as I promised to keep my seat belt on. It was fun. Inland Empire Paper had safety rules and followed them, made me get out of my truck.

I'm not surprised. Please keep all hands, heads and arms out of vehicle as we hoist you up 100 feet. Please do not attempt a launch, it won't work.

 

[marvdmartian]

Years ago, when I worked at a bio-fuel power plant in Tracy, CA, they had 2 truck dumps like that. Quick and easy unloading of an 18 wheeler trailer, so long as the winds weren't too strong (they could push sideways on the dump, and cause damage, so we couldn't dump if winds were >50mph).

From what I heard, from the guys that worked in the fuel yard, what was even more impressive was being the loader operator, stopped just short of the "pit" area where the wood chips got dumped, watching the truck unload. We had two loaders, a Cat 950 with a 7 yard bucket that we used as a backup, and a Cat 820 with a 20 yard bucket, that they used most of the time.

I worked there ~1 year, and only had one mistake made on the dump, when a driver didn't adjust the mechanical stop on the back up high enough to catch the lower edge of the trailer box & frame. He figured that it was in the right position, and raised the truck up, only to find out that the angle iron frame for the mud flaps wasn't quite strong enough to support the weight of the rig, which caused them to fold, and the truck to slide back on the dump bed until it hit the rear tires of the trailer.....which were a sliding axle, and proceeded to allow the trailer to slide even further back! By the time he got over his shock of watching the rig sliding backwards on the dump, looking like it was going to go into the pit, and pushed the stop and down buttons, the rig had slid back a good 10 feet or so, finally stopping when the sliding rear axles slid all the way forward to their stops. We got the rig off the dump, cut off his mud flap frames with a torch (so the rear axles could be slid back into proper position), and sent him on his way......and he didn't work for that company again after that.

And yeah, the guy in the loader just about crapped himself when he saw that rig sliding backwards!! :shocked:

 

[SagaLore]

From the article:

The wood in various stages of production. The final product is pricier than coal but considered to be carbon neutral, as burning pellets emits carbon dioxide that would have been released anyway when trees die.

Really now. So where do they think coal came from?

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
From the article:

The wood in various stages of production. The final product is pricier than coal but considered to be carbon neutral, as burning pellets emits carbon dioxide that would have been released anyway when trees die.

Really now. So where do they think coal came from?

From the Charcoal plant silly.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

that's nothing. The coal fired power plant near me has a system that takes 2 train cars at a time and spins them upside-down while they are still couple to the train. Each car weighs over 100,000 pounds.

 

[minendo]

We use one of those lifts at work (picture #4) to unload potatoes.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Originally posted by: minendo
We use one of those lifts at work (picture #4) to unload potatoes.

Yup...Frito Lay uses them.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
From the article:

The wood in various stages of production. The final product is pricier than coal but considered to be carbon neutral, as burning pellets emits carbon dioxide that would have been released anyway when trees die.

Really now. So where do they think coal came from?

From plants that died a LONG time ago, when the climate was quite different than it was now.