This is the strip after the furnace before the scale breaker and the pickle tanks.

These are the pickle tanks that the strip passes through an acid bath to finish the cleaning process

This is the scale breaker section of the line the material has a scale on it after comming out of the furnace and that equipment that the guy is looking at is flexing the steel to loosen up the scale

Here is a coil that is running.

Here is the first coil

This a different view of the problems with strip tracking. The strip pulled this from the floor. There was a walk way over this roll. That would not have been the place to be when it started shaking and uprooting.

Here is what happens when you don't pay attention to the process. The stainless steel that we were running through the line did not break when the strip tracked off and caught on the structure. It just pulled this 6 foot diameter roll out of the floor it was bolted to.

This is the cherry picker that was being moved after it is on the ground with people for a perspective for the last picture.

This a picture of a crane moving a cherry picker.

This the same line in Ghent,KY looking the other direction from the previous picture.

Here is a picture to show the part of the line that we are starting up in Ghent KY.

This is the casting line that I worked on in Burns Harbor IN. This a picture of a cutting device using gas torches to separate the steel into slabs

It has been awhile since I have been on the road. Just in the office working on software

This is a picture of one of the billets coming out of the furnace after the system is up and running. This piece goes down a conveyor and is placed in several presses that stamp a crank shaft for use in car engines.

This is the DC drive that I worked on last week and yesterday. This is a forge application the company make crank shafts. The line has approx 20inch long steel billets being moved through an induction furnace by this drive.

I am getting ready to travel to Veedersburg, IN for a start-up of some new DC drives on old equipment. These are the drives that I tested at the Drive Center last week. I travel today to work tomorrow probally 12 hour shifts.

I went to Bdubs for Colleens 26 Birthday celebration last night with Linda and Shawn. Being on the road has a few up times and this was a good time.

Here is a Rockwell Automation print for the system that I am testing today.

I have been looking at the pictures that we took at the Grand Canyon in 2004. I think this is one of the best pictures that I have taken.

This is the view from my window