t 1st I thought you were kinda over acting for the camera... maybe a bit... but upon bringing the camera down into the pit... I'd have to say, for any amt of money and training, I'd still be adding my own personal stink to the pit. Speaking of which, what kind of alarms do you have in that area or above? Methane alarms? CO?
Your comments about the oil hole in the gasket brought back a memory. We were investigating stuck valves on the engine of one of our old tractors. When we took the valve train apart, we discovered that two of the supports had been swapped, blocking off the passage that supplied oil to the rockers...
You win the scary-ass huge weight overhead prize dude. Worst I had was a 1500 pound power grid rated current transformer over my head supported by a forklift, also fastened to our 5 ton crane in case the forklift let go. And it was not an enclosed space but gravity works faster than I can duck. But we also have a ladder down into a 16 foot deep pit that has plenty of room to walk around the scaffolding supporting steel tank holding 5 tons of transformer oil. We put power transformer bushings in there for electrical tests, walking around 4 huge steep plates that if they ever do let go it's a sudden drop and it's not the fall that hurts, its the landing. Love my job!
Lol.. chemistry major here who somehow ended up going into arboriculture. You being under the turbine reminds me of when i'm waay too far up in a dead tree and rigging off of it. You're smart. You trust your gear. But no matter what the pucker factor is still waaaay high.
THANK YOU! I cannot express how much I appreciate that you like it this way. This is what it's really like, and how the guys really talk. SO MANY PEOPLE get butthurt over the language and such. I'm really thankful you like it to reflect reality.
I love your channel and identify with you on so many levels. There is a Pelton wheel generator called the Silversmith Power & Light Generating station. It has been operating since 1897 continuously. 110 kW. The operator is Uber fascinating just like you. @@Physicsduck
the width of the gasket between the oil tube hole and the outer circumference seems unreasonably narrow. at least hopefully that oil tube hole gets filled with a copper or brass press fit nipple so there's not a lot of oil pressure there. hopefully you maximized the surface area of the gasket. love the view of the access!
Thanks for showing stuff like this! Not much millwright type stuff on RUclips. What's the reason for not cribbing/supporting that load? Pucker factor for sure.
Love the videos! And certainly no lack of humor and what not. Just got into full time hydro about a year ago. We’ve got 4 horizontal Francis turbines at 2mw each and a vertical Francis at about 4mw. Picking up some pointer from ya. Good stuff!
Giggling for the first time in a long time at Turbine of Damocles. Have definitely had similar moments of autonomic safety override when sitting under some big hanging death, brain is happy enough to do exactly one thing then get the hell out from underneath of the thing, remember the five things I forgot, go back in...
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Braver man than most, even with yer bitchin'. :) I'm with you, don't wanna be under that at all. I'm curious, what material was the gasket, and if different what is the new gasket gonna be made of?
No danger of it falling but my confined space fun time was hella fun...back when I was like 70 pounds lighter and in the Navy, my job was to wiggle my skinny ass into the maybe 8 inch gap between the bottom of one of the ship's generators and the big oil sump beneath it and mop up the oil. Big mofo Detroit 16V149TIB engine and I think a 1MW generator on the spinny end of it. Being a Detroit there was always oil. Would you believe I actually miss that shit?
I used to do this sort of work. Never enjoyed the confined space thing, tank mixers, distributers and stuff like you have there. Not fun, but I always figured, 2 tons or 200 tons, it's all pretty disconcerting. I frequently put my own safety gear on, and rarely had any of my customers object, in fact, they usually would do the backup rigging any I wanted. Kudos for filming it. The install will have you in there for a while. After the 1st hour or so, you start to forget where you are.
I totally get the fear, but I'd probably be swaying the thing and chuckling about it. On a side note, I have a 3 ton Budgit chainfall with a 30' chain that needs a new home. Know anyone who needs one?
I have a new reason to love this channel: He says what is on my mind as he climbs into the potential pit of doom. I am claustrophobic as fuck, and you are a braver man than I! But this has been awesome to watch you guys working on that dam. My hat off to you guys that have to climb into places like that with a generator swinging above you.
I couldnt do this job im to clumsy, id bump the giant blade or fall into the water below. Hopefully if i took the water slide i wouldn't die to some grate at the end
This reminds me of a time when my dad and I had to tear apart the back end of a Komatsu engine on a fishing vessel and remove the bell housing just because the mechanic who overhauled it forgot one of the oil galley plugs. There was not much room to work in that hole.
Man I envy your pure job satisfaction, never seen passion like that before. Theres a man happy about his work tasks for sure.... ;) Also quite the disclaimer , apparently you are just a figment of my imagination.... Looks soo easy too , yank out turbine, stuff it back and try to not drop it on your foot I guess.... ? What could go wrong ?
This was hilarious mate, I've watched all your videos regarding this Hydro Plant, I maintain a set of bells in the local church here, i feel your pain when it comes to being under heavy suspended objects! Biggest bell i go under is 20 CWT lol! Watching from Britain! Cheers!
Rubber is the best material for a seal. I made seals and used the Ultra Copper RTV on both sides of the 1/4 inch thick rubber gasket and it never leaked
You'd be terminated so quick at my mill lol Crazy how some places operate. Do they not require any PPE, LOTO, or Confined Space program? Its kinda staggering to see this in a utility.
A vertical drop into a bend to a 10 foot tall horizontal pipe filled with water headed to the tailrun. I forget what the vertical drop is, but the bottom of that bend is at least 10 feet below the nose cone. It's more of a tail cone for the turbine of course.
Could be worse, you could have been like me, swinging up attached to a crane, driven by GI Joe, and holding in the one hand the air drill, in the other the pack of safety signs, and with one pocket filled with pop rivets, the drill chuck key and 5 spare 5mm drill bits. The other pocket with the rivet gun in it. going to to replace safety signs, and yes I was doing it safely, I brought in my safety harness (actually my fathers, seeing as he was the one who used to do inspection up top of structures) to use, instead of what GI Joe wanted, which was to use a sling alone. You can bet that as soon as i was up there by the old signage, I attached myself to the steel frame fast, then started to do the drill, drop the remains down, and replace the signs with new intact ones. Good thing the wind was not blowing too much, and the breeze did help a lot with the heat.
Real funny thing is if there was a "safety inspector" around he would be giving you shit about not wearing a hard hat. Like if that thing fell that hat would make a difference. Oh and I feel ya and understand, I was responsible for testing aerial man lifts, one was 125 ft. High.
Getting the plastic under the bottom of a steam generator to shrink wrap it while hanging in the air always made my butt pucker, just a cool 300t rolling pin of death
Strangely, my aperture kept puckering less because of you being under the overhead load but because of that template, or your phone, or the light, constantly threatening to drop down the hole, or anywhere else at the slightest slip or bump.
Your relief once you got those photos was so tangible you could cut it with a knife. Things dangling over your head are never fun, especially when they are exceptionally heavy and swaying.
Chris, your technical knowledge is impressive, and your ability to communicate that knowledge is admirable. My wish would be that you clean up your vocabulary. I don't appreciate your foul profane language and you taking my Lord's name in vain. It detracts from an otherwise excellent channel.
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The only comfort I can offer is, that if it falls it won't hurt for very long.
t 1st I thought you were kinda over acting for the camera... maybe a bit... but upon bringing the camera down into the pit... I'd have to say, for any amt of money and training, I'd still be adding my own personal stink to the pit. Speaking of which, what kind of alarms do you have in that area or above? Methane alarms? CO?
Turbine of Damocles. That was fucking hilarious!
"Sorry you didn't get to see much" That's ok Chris... we heard plenty :)
You: "I thought we weren't supposed to work beneath suspended loads"
Boss: (belly laugh)
Your comments about the oil hole in the gasket brought back a memory. We were investigating stuck valves on the engine of one of our old tractors. When we took the valve train apart, we discovered that two of the supports had been swapped, blocking off the passage that supplied oil to the rockers...
You win the scary-ass huge weight overhead prize dude. Worst I had was a 1500 pound power grid rated current transformer over my head supported by a forklift, also fastened to our 5 ton crane in case the forklift let go. And it was not an enclosed space but gravity works faster than I can duck. But we also have a ladder down into a 16 foot deep pit that has plenty of room to walk around the scaffolding supporting steel tank holding 5 tons of transformer oil. We put power transformer bushings in there for electrical tests, walking around 4 huge steep plates that if they ever do let go it's a sudden drop and it's not the fall that hurts, its the landing. Love my job!
Its funny how fear works. I can swim but id MUCH rather take a lunch break under that turbine before wanting to mess around in the intake
Yep I can swin ok but I would much rather be under heavy stuff than in fast moving water.
I'm with you on that one. It would only take one slip-up for the intake to take me, but three things have to fail for the load to drop on my head.
Hey. at least Pennywise didn't pop up holding a fist full of balloons in one hand and a sharp knife in the other reaching for one of the straps.
Lol.. chemistry major here who somehow ended up going into arboriculture.
You being under the turbine reminds me of when i'm waay too far up in a dead tree and rigging off of it.
You're smart. You trust your gear. But no matter what the pucker factor is still waaaay high.
God the //&&DO NOT DELETE THIS LINE comment in the disclaimer was fuckin gold
There's a slowed-down version of the Disclaimer as its own video. If you dig a little on this channel you'll find it.
I've been bingeing this series and one of my favorite aspects is how unfiltered it is.
THANK YOU! I cannot express how much I appreciate that you like it this way. This is what it's really like, and how the guys really talk. SO MANY PEOPLE get butthurt over the language and such. I'm really thankful you like it to reflect reality.
@@Physicsduckthe marble mouthed nature of your crew is almost… ALMOST as bad as sailors
I love your channel and identify with you on so many levels. There is a Pelton wheel generator called the Silversmith Power & Light Generating station. It has been operating since 1897 continuously. 110 kW. The operator is Uber fascinating just like you. @@Physicsduck
the width of the gasket between the oil tube hole and the outer circumference seems unreasonably narrow. at least hopefully that oil tube hole gets filled with a copper or brass press fit nipple so there's not a lot of oil pressure there. hopefully you maximized the surface area of the gasket. love the view of the access!
It's just to have enough oil drip through to keep things down there lubricated
Thanks for showing stuff like this! Not much millwright type stuff on RUclips. What's the reason for not cribbing/supporting that load? Pucker factor for sure.
I fucking love you dude! I honestly died watching this! Made my day in fact had to watch it twice! Thanks
Love the videos! And certainly no lack of humor and what not. Just got into full time hydro about a year ago. We’ve got 4 horizontal Francis turbines at 2mw each and a vertical Francis at about 4mw. Picking up some pointer from ya. Good stuff!
Giggling for the first time in a long time at Turbine of Damocles. Have definitely had similar moments of autonomic safety override when sitting under some big hanging death, brain is happy enough to do exactly one thing then get the hell out from underneath of the thing, remember the five things I forgot, go back in...
I'm glad you understand, and sorry for what you had to go through to learn that understanding, lol.
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Braver man than most, even with yer bitchin'. :) I'm with you, don't wanna be under that at all.
I'm curious, what material was the gasket, and if different what is the new gasket gonna be made of?
This looks like the intro to one of those “In China, a mechanic’s first day using the four post car lift, which was made in China…”
No danger of it falling but my confined space fun time was hella fun...back when I was like 70 pounds lighter and in the Navy, my job was to wiggle my skinny ass into the maybe 8 inch gap between the bottom of one of the ship's generators and the big oil sump beneath it and mop up the oil. Big mofo Detroit 16V149TIB engine and I think a 1MW generator on the spinny end of it. Being a Detroit there was always oil.
Would you believe I actually miss that shit?
I was praying that you wouldn't drop the template
should have said "i love my job so much i do it twice!"
Thought you were an electrician? Your job doesn’t have gasket making in it so why wouldn’t you just have one of your buddies do it
I asked to, bonus pay yo. Besides, I like learning new skills.
I used to do this sort of work. Never enjoyed the confined space thing, tank mixers, distributers and stuff like you have there. Not fun, but I always figured, 2 tons or 200 tons, it's all pretty disconcerting. I frequently put my own safety gear on, and rarely had any of my customers object, in fact, they usually would do the backup rigging any I wanted.
Kudos for filming it. The install will have you in there for a while. After the 1st hour or so, you start to forget where you are.
Honestly I'm surprised they had this just hanging on rigging for all the work instead of being cribbed up.
So that working platform is just above the chute then ? An awesome and eerie location tho.
"Well if you see this Micky Mouse bullshit.." and Subscribed.
Thank you! :)
I’ve said this one more than one occasion as well.
The life of a rigger
I totally get the fear, but I'd probably be swaying the thing and chuckling about it.
On a side note, I have a 3 ton Budgit chainfall with a 30' chain that needs a new home. Know anyone who needs one?
I have a new reason to love this channel: He says what is on my mind as he climbs into the potential pit of doom. I am claustrophobic as fuck, and you are a braver man than I! But this has been awesome to watch you guys working on that dam. My hat off to you guys that have to climb into places like that with a generator swinging above you.
suspended load, confined space, fall protection lol.. A man on a mission OSHA be damned.. lol
I couldnt do this job im to clumsy, id bump the giant blade or fall into the water below. Hopefully if i took the water slide i wouldn't die to some grate at the end
Hey man, I bet you're as understaffed as the next crew, but confined spaces are no joke.
This reminds me of a time when my dad and I had to tear apart the back end of a Komatsu engine on a fishing vessel and remove the bell housing just because the mechanic who overhauled it forgot one of the oil galley plugs. There was not much room to work in that hole.
Man I envy your pure job satisfaction, never seen passion like that before. Theres a man happy about his work tasks for sure.... ;) Also quite the disclaimer , apparently you are just a figment of my imagination.... Looks soo easy too , yank out turbine, stuff it back and try to not drop it on your foot I guess.... ? What could go wrong ?
This was hilarious mate, I've watched all your videos regarding this Hydro Plant, I maintain a set of bells in the local church here, i feel your pain when it comes to being under heavy suspended objects! Biggest bell i go under is 20 CWT lol! Watching from Britain! Cheers!
Rubber is the best material for a seal. I made seals and used the Ultra Copper RTV on both sides of the 1/4 inch thick rubber gasket and it never leaked
Can you disclose the estimated cost for this turbine/generator overhaul?
Based on what they're paying me...must be damn near free.
AHAHAHAHA😂😂😂
Avoided death.... and THATS pretty cool
You'd be terminated so quick at my mill lol
Crazy how some places operate.
Do they not require any PPE, LOTO, or Confined Space program? Its kinda staggering to see this in a utility.
Aluminum Company of Am$#+$a ?
Well, you know, um, don't die, I guess.
Turbine of damacles made me spit my drink out
Hahaha the turbine of damocles
I've seen how yall store your straps... welp
What's below nose cone ?
A vertical drop into a bend to a 10 foot tall horizontal pipe filled with water headed to the tailrun. I forget what the vertical drop is, but the bottom of that bend is at least 10 feet below the nose cone. It's more of a tail cone for the turbine of course.
Dear god bro please buy a headlamp.
Could be worse, you could have been like me, swinging up attached to a crane, driven by GI Joe, and holding in the one hand the air drill, in the other the pack of safety signs, and with one pocket filled with pop rivets, the drill chuck key and 5 spare 5mm drill bits. The other pocket with the rivet gun in it. going to to replace safety signs, and yes I was doing it safely, I brought in my safety harness (actually my fathers, seeing as he was the one who used to do inspection up top of structures) to use, instead of what GI Joe wanted, which was to use a sling alone.
You can bet that as soon as i was up there by the old signage, I attached myself to the steel frame fast, then started to do the drill, drop the remains down, and replace the signs with new intact ones. Good thing the wind was not blowing too much, and the breeze did help a lot with the heat.
Cool attempt at a 1 up
Real funny thing is if there was a "safety inspector" around he would be giving you shit about not wearing a hard hat. Like if that thing fell that hat would make a difference. Oh and I feel ya and understand, I was responsible for testing aerial man lifts, one was 125 ft. High.
I wasn't aware Nike made Steel toe trainers either. And no, ieven if they did, it wouldn't save your toes. 😞
Just keep telling yourself "I will not die today."
"If I die today, at least it won't be posted on RUclips. But man, RUclips needs to see this, so I will not die today!"
I think he likes it.
Hell to the nah nah...
THe real deal!!! Love it
"The turbine kf fucking Damocles!" Lol. You can tell how scared a guy is by how much he swears.
Getting the plastic under the bottom of a steam generator to shrink wrap it while hanging in the air always made my butt pucker, just a cool 300t rolling pin of death
Strangely, my aperture kept puckering less because of you being under the overhead load but because of that template, or your phone, or the light, constantly threatening to drop down the hole, or anywhere else at the slightest slip or bump.
Your relief once you got those photos was so tangible you could cut it with a knife. Things dangling over your head are never fun, especially when they are exceptionally heavy and swaying.
2:23 cue muppet scream
S2E15 mebbe :)
Reads another entire disclaimer, curious if they differ... finally understands the futility of life...
You win the confined space very scary can die at any time balls of steel award. 😅❤
Is that a space heater? 😂
Yep, the edie currents off the dirty generator coils ain't warming the place up while the generator is in pieces.
The turbine of Damocles 8-/
"turbine of damocles" XD
The turbine has an annoyance detector
that place is scary to me as well.
yeah that scary shit.
Is this a educational video about profanity? No subscription from me.
Nope. It's an educational channel on the physical and psychological effects of working trades jobs in the real world. Have fun.
Chris, your technical knowledge is impressive, and your ability to communicate that knowledge is admirable. My wish would be that you clean up your vocabulary. I don't appreciate your foul profane language and you taking my Lord's name in vain. It detracts from an otherwise excellent channel.