Heavy Duty Manly Stuff

Well I’ve blogged about cats and dogs, kids, and auction baskets. Sometimes I have to let my inner engineer geek side come out. Below are pictures from a customer who is upgrading a refinery and had to get this big widget over a highway via a temporary bridge.

I think the guy sitting down must be the project engineer. Sitting down far away from work is usually the best use for an engineer when actual work is going on. Usually engineers have negative productivity during this kind of thing. Not only are they not doing anything, they prevent other people from working. So planting him down in the grass like a flower is a smart move. The risk you run is him filing a workman’s comp claim for chiggers or fire ant bites on the butt.

Man I wish I knew how much that bridge cost, let alone widget. I bet they ordered all that early last year when oil was over $100 a barrel.
I wonder how much that trailer cost it is sitting on. I hope it has good brakes. That thing gets rolling downhill uncontrolled it could ruin somebody’s whole day.

Don’t you just love this kind of stuff?

6 thoughts on “Heavy Duty Manly Stuff”

  5. Ellen

    My daddy was a metallurgical engineer. All our family vacation photos are of bridges, towers, and holding tanks 😉

    I grew up a DuPont kid in the hdq town of Wilmington DE. We went on a vacation to NagsHead Nc in the days before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was made. So we are on board a ferry. Daddy has us looking overboard for a tire, cept he meant tower, we didnt understand all the time his Eastern KY twang.
    All our Nags Head trips are slides of bridge in progress.

    Only the memories of an engineer’s daughter.
    Love your geocache sun.
    Thanks for visiting my skywatch too.

  6. bettyl

    This sort of thing definitely gets my attention!
    We don’t have much of this sort of thing here in NZ, so I settle for the awesome beach or mountain shots!

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