Unreal
Feb 11, 2020 12:05:14 #
Feb 11, 2020 12:44:08 #
Alafoto
Loc: Montgomery, AL
Amazing what can be accomplished when people who actually know what they are doing get together and apply that knowledge, or skill.
Feb 12, 2020 00:24:35 #
Feb 12, 2020 06:53:22 #
Alafoto wrote:
Amazing what can be accomplished when people who actually know what they are doing get together and apply that knowledge, or skill.
So true. One reason Japan ate the car maker's lunch in Detroit.
Feb 12, 2020 06:53:43 #
Feb 12, 2020 07:00:42 #
exakta56
Loc: Orford,New Hampshire
No unions? Of course not! Why a unionized work force might demand safe conditions, adequate pay and a five day work week. What are you anti union people thinking about??????
Feb 12, 2020 07:20:51 #
ArnieA
Loc: BC,Canada
exakta56 wrote:
No unions? Of course not! Why a unionized work force might demand safe conditions, adequate pay and a five day work week. What are you anti union people thinking about??????
I worked for a union for years. Lots of shovel leaning there. You may be in a union but you still have to work! Why pay someone for doing nothing?
Feb 12, 2020 07:55:44 #
exakta56 wrote:
No unions? Of course not! Why a unionized work force might demand safe conditions, adequate pay and a five day work week. What are you anti union people thinking about??????
Yeah, like being paid for shoddy work or being paid sick leave while on the beach. Quality control....what's that?? I want my union rep. Not my fault if it doesn't work after I finish with it.
Feb 12, 2020 08:54:34 #
Feb 12, 2020 11:36:36 #
slcarn
Loc: Draper, Utah USA
You might want to check your comments on Unions, when I lived in Western Australia 2002-2006 everything was Union. I believe it is a Union State.
Feb 12, 2020 12:33:59 #
You will ALWAYS have those who milk the system. But the vast majority do their job and do it well. And they should be paid well and treated well.
Feb 12, 2020 13:21:21 #
wrangler5
Loc: Missouri
It looks like an amazing process. But I wonder - is this the normal rate of road paving with that technique in that area, or was it specially organized to set a record?
I ask, not to take away from what was accomplished, but remembering that in 1869 the Central Pacific Railroad set a railroad track laying record that still stands, by putting down 10 miles (and a few feet - there was a $10,000 prize, and they didn't want to lose on a technicality) of track in a day. But it was a special event, that took days to organize, could not have been repeated the next day, and in fact has never been repeated. (I've read that today's highly mechanized and automated rail laying machinery can do 2-3 miles on a very good day, although admittedly to a much more substantial and higher quality standard than the 1869 record track.)
I ask, not to take away from what was accomplished, but remembering that in 1869 the Central Pacific Railroad set a railroad track laying record that still stands, by putting down 10 miles (and a few feet - there was a $10,000 prize, and they didn't want to lose on a technicality) of track in a day. But it was a special event, that took days to organize, could not have been repeated the next day, and in fact has never been repeated. (I've read that today's highly mechanized and automated rail laying machinery can do 2-3 miles on a very good day, although admittedly to a much more substantial and higher quality standard than the 1869 record track.)
Feb 12, 2020 13:37:01 #
What's the most interesting to me and hardest to do, was the trucks backing all the way without wavering in the run!!! 
Feb 12, 2020 20:13:38 #
traderjohn wrote:
So true. One reason Japan ate the car maker's lunch in Detroit.
The other reason was they had new equipment and gm and ford had not modernized their factories. Yes they work hard and well but the main reason was machining equipment.
Feb 12, 2020 21:30:26 #
Drbobcameraguy wrote:
The other reason was they had new equipment and gm and ford had not modernized their factories. Yes they work hard and well but the main reason was machining equipment.
I think the Japanese, Korean and German work ethic and pride in their product played a bigger role.
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