What kind of equipment do you use for work?

[Red Squirrel]

Here is my lab equipment at school

That's awesome. I'd love to play with a scope one day. I'm always curious what kind of sine wave UPSes and other power equipment put out.

 

[TallBill]

 

[Mixolydian]

And sometimes I get to use a label scanner and Zebra industrial label printer.

Oh and im given forecast printouts every day.

 

[bbhaag]

Drove one of these this morning.

The first tractor I learned how to operate was an older Massey. I was around 14 at the time. I remember getting that sob stuck while trying to go over a drainage ditch. hehe Good times.:thumbsup:
Just curious but are you in the Ag industry to?

 

[SKORPI0]

SAFETY FIRST..... :awe:

 

[DaTT]

Neither can I. ():biggrin:

...but it looks interesting. Is that orange hydraulic thingy the jaws of life or something

 

[Engineer]

and just about any other PLC brand / servo brand /robot brand / HMI brand / leak tester / pneumatic system / hydraulics system / temperature controller / load cell / industrial data acquisition system that you can think of (not warehouse size - basically small cells and machinery). Throw in most industrial sensors, safety devices (light curtains, mats, door switches, locks, etc), vision systems, laser marking systems, barcode scanners, etc. Most programmed with an old Dell Core 2 Duo laptop with XP Pro 32 bit. Also use voltmeters and other stuff like that (oscilloscope at times) to troubleshoot and check the circuits - limited to 480V or so as we don't like going higher.

Disclaimer: We build and program this stuff for our customers....these are not permanent items in our shop. We ship them once they are completed.

Videos of some of that stuff that I've done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5lV2I03IsA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5si8SYa0M0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9vnwhBvbIc

 

[Demoralized]

I use a welder and related items. Overhead cranes and forklifts. Fuck yeah, playing with steel and making shit.

 

[Engineer]

I use a welder and related items. Overhead cranes and forklifts. Fuck yeah, playing with steel and making shit.

:thumbsup:

We need more of that here....much more!!!

(I don't use that stuff but the machinists at the shop do - just design and program the electrical system on the stuff that they build).

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I have a simple toolkit that covers 98% of the work that I do. It's got:

Screwdrivers of various sizes
Flashlight
a couple small crescent wrenches
medium sized channel locks
5 pairs of hemostats
diagonal cutters
needle-nosed pliers
SAE and Metric hex wrenches
Needle-nosed vise grip pliers
telescoping dental mirror
potentiometer adjustment tool
15ml syringe with luer fitting
Multimeter and leads
A whole slew of different specialized alignment tools and jigs

In my larger tool case I have things like a soldering iron, SAE and metric sockets and a variety of drivers, larger channel locks and crescent wrench...

 

[Fenixgoon]

primarily a 1970-1980's era hitachi scanning electron microscope...a new scope minimum is 250k, a nice one would be about $1M

also a nikon D5100 DSLR.

where's rubycon? she'd put us all to shame

 

[skyking]

Last week I was placing large armor rock on a slope below me and out of sight with a long reach 270 John Deere excavator.

I had to stand and reach behind me to operate the controls.

They had wrapped the trees last year to protect them from rolling rock, using 2x6 lumber. One of the guys was removing the lumber and I took them off the slope for him. This gives a little perspective of the view from the seat, the machine has a 60' reach.

Folded up for transport.

Operated the 966F loader last week.

Last month we had a screen plant up on the mountain, ran and fed that.

View from the office.

Zero clearance Cat 314

What I operate most often, the 320C excavator. 49,000 pounds, 10' 6" wide. About a 33' reach.

John Deere 400 offroad all wheel drive truck. 167,000 pounds loaded.

 

[Slew Foot]

The Drager Apollo anesthesia machine, $250K of ventilating goodness.

 

[Imp]

Anything from this:

to this:

Bastard... You get to use a Flir T-series camera? I want to get an E40bx for shits and giggles with a paltry 160x120 sensor. The T-series starts at 320x240 and has the thermal/real merge from FLIR... They also start around $8k.


I have a crappy computer that uses a Core2Duo and stalls every so often, doesn't save my Desktop icon positions, and has outdated video drivers that can't run Google Earth properly. My laptop, which I should have returned months ago, BSODs every so often and has a power brick about 3x the size of my personal laptop...

 

[Phoenix86]

I will have to kill you literally if I show you.

I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

Not technically what I operate on a daily basis since I'm the IT nerd, but whatever. :awe:

 

[skyking]

LOL, that's like the baggage handler claiming he operates the airliner

 

[herm0016]

http://www.wirelinetruck.com/

http://nationalcrane.com/Products/TelescopingCranes/telescopingcranes.htm

http://www.nov.com/Well_Service_and_Completion/Wireline/WPCE_Wireline_Pressure_Control.aspx

http://www.ge-energy.com/products_and_services/products/wireline_systems/index.jsp

http://www.jetresearch.com/

we use elmar, that brand of wireline trucks and many of our tools are built by GE.

trucks from 500k +
pressure control spreads from 150k+
tools from 5k to 500k depending on service and well conditions
cranes from 150k + depending on requirements.
if you are counting the rig or platform 10m to 1B

 

[HamburgerBoy]

 

[stargazr]

 

[Gillbot]

...but it looks interesting. Is that orange hydraulic thingy the jaws of life or something

Similar, it's called a "port-a-power" but it's basically a hydraulic jack with different rams/heads to perform different things. We have the jaws too but we don't use them except to play with.

I love what I do most days, but the down side is I never know where I'll be. I used to work for a global company so I was all over the world which got to be a pain in the ass. Now I work for the same global company but with a more local division so my territory has been drastically reduced. Now I don't really have to worry about leaving the states for the most part.

I've been in so many places and seen just about anything you can imagine be built or made which is neat, but the travel wears on you after a while. When I was in my 20's it was awesome, now I really don't care any more. I'd rather be at home in my recliner telling people to get off my lawn! There was a time when I didn't step foot in my own house for over 18 months, and hotel living with fast or chain food gets really old. All I can say is, the next time your lights go out, I SWEAR IT'S NOT MY FAULT! (It isn't, it's usually my job to find out why and get them back on!)

Bastard... You get to use a Flir T-series camera? I want to get an E40bx for shits and giggles with a paltry 160x120 sensor. The T-series starts at 320x240 and has the thermal/real merge from FLIR... They also start around $8k.

I used to have a P65 but we "upgraded" to the P640 which IMHO was a step back. It had a nice detector @ 640x480 but the camera itself including the firmware was absolute garbage. Now they have transitioned over to the T640 which is ok, but IMHO it's still a step back from the P65.

As far as the thermal merge, it's called thermal fusion and it's a gimmick. It's a carry over from one of Flir's many purchases and it's primarily used in marketing to sell cameras IMHO. In the hands of an experienced IR thermographer, it doesn't really have any practical use in the field.

Here's a bit of info for ya, if you want a camera to play around with, look for an Agema 450/470 series. Sure they are giant, bulky and you need arms of steel to carry it, but it's still regarded as one of the most accurate IR cameras ever produced. Otherwise, if you want a pretty picture and don't care about temperatures, sometimes you can find the Raytheon Palm IR for a nice price. It produces nice images but doesn't do temperature at all. Want any more IR camera info, let me know.

 

[brianmanahan]

ibm mainframe - 1$ million / year

 

[ch33zw1z]

Work provided laptop. Tool bag with stuff to perform repairs to computers of all shapes and sizes.

@ brianmanahan: u admin the z?

 

[Engineer]

Beautiful!

 

[skyking]

Indeed, love the bridgeports. I can muddle through and make some parts with one of those, but have no clue with the CNC machines.
Nice robotic stuff there, Robert.

 

[Engineer]

Indeed, love the bridgeports. I can muddle through and make some parts with one of those, but have no clue with the CNC machines.
Nice robotic stuff there, Robert.

Not my stuff but I wish it were. My boss is too cheap to buy the good stuff, lol. We have some 'worn' out stuff but definitely no CNC machining centers or lathes. Hell, we don't even have a really good grinder, drill press or band saw. The spoils of a cheap, small business owner (sometimes out of necessity I suppose).

By the way, not brave enough to operate what you were backwards. Hell, I don't know if I could have done it forward.

<----- I'm a button pusher (as they call me at work). :biggrin: