Posers' Coffee House, All Bullshit Accepted, Part VI
09-23-2014, 07:15 AM
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09-23-2014, 07:18 AM
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Morning cold folks, hot folks and naked assembly workers. Little chilly here should be a nice day though.
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Funny... both my brother-in-laws worked for GM.... chilling!
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I worked at the St Thomas Assembly Plant. Ours was actually one of the smaller plants around, but yeah there are some huge equipment inside and some pretty amazing robots. We could actually (and did) back 8 connected train box cars in 3 separate locations and you don't even notice them.
A little bit of info about the plant..
The assembly line totalled 19 kilometres and produced 63 units per hour or approximately 1,000 units per day. It took an average vehicle 27 hours to go through the entire assembly process.
We were actually up to 73/hr when I retired.
A little bit of info about the plant..
The assembly line totalled 19 kilometres and produced 63 units per hour or approximately 1,000 units per day. It took an average vehicle 27 hours to go through the entire assembly process.
We were actually up to 73/hr when I retired.
I worked one week at the Kansas City, Kansas, GM plant in 1969. Was on graveyard shift, thought I'd make some extra money working a second job, and had thoughts of leaving the day job when I got too tired. Assembly line work drove me nuts, kept the day job, even though it didn't pay half as much. It was interesting seeing a big assembly plant in operation. Before robots, of course. Back then, each GM car brand had their own engines, but the rest of them were so similar they built Pontiacs, Buicks, and Oldsmobiles on the same line. It was just amazing how many cars got totaled after they had the bodies on and rolling. Was a pile of wrecked zero miles cars beside the building. All parts on a damaged car were destroyed; they said it was for liability reasons, no part could be re-used. What a waste, some of them were more driveable than half the cars I've owned. That KC plant made bombers in WWII, and it's long gone now.
Lot of pics and info about the original Dearborn plant here:
http://www.mtfca.com/books/15_factory.htm
None of the pics show how crowded the factory was when a full shift was working. In some areas, looked like they were nearly shoulder to shoulder. Wonder how many of them went deaf early, had to be an incredibly noisy place.
09-23-2014, 09:19 AM
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After werkin on big planes for a buncha years, can't help thinking that same thing on the rare occasions I gotta get in one of em; only takes one piece of equipment deciding it's had enough... Fortunately, only had one make that decision in the air; the Huey only got up to 6 or 8 feet, still a hell of a thump at the end...
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Hmm, dint see no nekkid people at that GM plant. Not so many weird folks back then. Wait, 60's... yeah, there were plenty of weirdos, almost forgot.
09-23-2014, 09:43 AM
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if ya stopped knocking your ***** around like a gavel ,
you'd prolly wouldn't have to ask......
you'd prolly wouldn't have to ask......