Werkin

[SteelSlaver]

Here are some photos from work. Doing some repairs and inspections on a crude furnace. Basically a huge forge. Has 2 chambers that share a common flue that preheats the crude oil. The piping is 5"ID 5% chrome. The 40' runs hang from the roof from the ceiling with inconel hangers. Each chamber has 20 burners that fire with oil or propane. It runs at about 1600f and the crude oil in the pipe keeps the piping "cool" as it is heated. Oil exits at 900f to a column that separates it to varius fractions (raw gas, diesel propane/butane and heavies). No leaks allowed . The zoom boom reaches a 125" so I could inspect the stack and guy wires. It is great fun when you weigh about 275 to flex your knees quick and bounce your parter. .

 

[oldrifleman]

Is that the Anacortes refinery? I saw that as I was coming and going from Deception pass last week.

 

[SteelSlaver]

Yes it is. You must live nearby. I live in Mt Vernon. Give me a PM and maybe we can get together sometime. Jim

 

[stephanfowler]

yeah, boom lifts are all kinds of fun, especially when you have a friend on the ground in on the joke switch from platform control to base control and suddenly the lift is "bewitched"

awesome to pull on the new guy who isn't used to being 100' up in a basket that bounces really easy

 

[oldrifleman]

Actually I live a little south of Everett. I was at the state park. I love it up there, I just have not found how to go virtual yet.