Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out, time to look at some of the 30,000+ photos that I have stored on my computer. Little lost moments in time that I either captured with a lens, scanned or just stole from someplace on the internet. I like to find just one and post it up and recall or relive the picture to the best of my ability. Sometimes this is a pretty easy task and sometimes it's not that easy, one thing it has always been a lot of fun.
This weeks photo goes back to the 90's and a place that I used to spend 60-70 hours a week at for 6 full years. The two things in the foreground with the A's are Ladles, we would put anywhere between 2200 and 4400 lbs of molten steel in them (depending on the available molds) and take molten metal from the furnace (it is open right behind the ladles) and pull it out around 3000° F to begin our pour.
I think this picture was actually taken in the last days of operation for the Helmick Foundry (which now the entire Helmick Corporation is out of business), as it's just me and I don't see anyone else working. Meaning I was a one man crew in the melt shop that day where it was usually three of us.
Have yourselves a great day
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