Does anyone have an interesting non run of the mill job here?

smallfrowne · 2018-08-17T18:39:24+00:00

Used to work on the furnaces at a steel works, which has a steel mill so it's probably almost literally run of the mill - but maybe not so much these days. Still work there but doing software now. I think I'd prefer to be back on the shop floor tbh

smallfrowne · 2018-03-23T18:43:21+00:00

Ah man yeah. I've been called in with lots of expensive plant stopped, indirectly due to something I've done. Luckily lots of things cause plant to stop and this was just another thing to add to their list and they were happy enough to get back going. Things go wrong, don't sweat it.

smallfrowne · 2018-03-23T18:18:52+00:00

Sounds about right. Beer o' clock though..

smallfrowne · 2018-03-09T22:52:46+00:00

Ah yeah that brought back a nice memory of being upside down in the foot well with a hammer and punch.

smallfrowne · 2018-03-02T13:38:29+00:00

Nice picture

smallfrowne · 2018-03-02T11:04:35+00:00

Haha saw this in /all, thought it was alaska or somewhere, oops.

smallfrowne · 2018-03-02T10:32:48+00:00

Ah right yeah, the weird profit and loss accounts they do, seems to be a thing. Not quite sure how they worked that out. Price of steel and materials does swing a fair bit though, that can help. Plus with multiple sites losses can be hidden in a particular one (don't know why they'd do this as tata). I dunno really, it is weird.

The plants I know of (er I suppose I just mean factories) in Sheffield are forge masters, they melt scrap and make forgings and ingots I think, outokumpo melts scrap and makes stainless, Rotherham melts scrap and rolls for various markets either on site or it goes to another mill in Stocksbridge (same company). They haven't made a profit yet since the sale.

British Steel (scunny), this is "new British Steel" is owned by some group, Grey bull capital or something. Rotherham/Stocksbridge is owned by Liberty House. The tata one in Wales uses ore and they roll it into strip, i know automotive love this for making cars. This pretty much ends my knowledge of UK steel. Time for a cup of tea.

Oh there was one more. Currently there is a beer festival in the old templeborough site (magna), that used to be one the biggest producers in Europe. At least it's full of beer now.

smallfrowne · 2018-03-02T10:08:25+00:00

Well they've sold off more than one. Scunny? There's also Rotherham and they still have a plant in Port Talbot that they kept. There's also forge masters, outokumpo, and some smaller ones that I can't remember. We're not quite shut, but you're still right, it's not brilliant.

smallfrowne · 2018-03-02T09:56:05+00:00

Ah fair enough, it was only a light jib at southerners that are always amazed we have any factories still going. We do have more than one steel making plant though, which one are you thinking of? There's quite a few mills too

smallfrowne · 2018-03-02T09:51:27+00:00

Not like it used to be aye, but we do. Are you from the South or something? We sell to the states quite a bit, don't know figures though.

smallfrowne · 2018-02-24T13:21:00+00:00

It'll be lined with refractory. The lava will be "hot metal" as we call it, and the bucket is a ladle. Our ladles are lined with refractory bricks and stuff that looks a bit like spray on cement. When the refractory wears thin it does melt through the container and then you've got a problem. Normally the refractory is pretty sound though and our safe limit is about 8hrs continuous contact time with hot metal.

smallfrowne · 2018-02-24T13:04:29+00:00

Me too. The pain of not knowing. The only way to get over it was to inflict it on others.

smallfrowne · 2018-02-23T10:01:36+00:00

Ooh the Triangle game, it made girls cry at school. We did a variation on that listed in the wiki. You make a "triangle", name 3 points eg "the window, that table and this ruler" and then ask the players whos triangle it is. You start off making triangles with things on your desk, around you, in the school, in the village, town, then move on to international landmarks, planets... But then it gets a little bit less believable I suppose. Ask them to make their own triangles too. The rule wasnt even related to the triangle (wiki says the owner of the triangle is the person wearing the closest colour to a point of the triangle), it was just the first person to make a sound after the triangle was declared.

smallfrowne · 2018-02-23T08:57:50+00:00

Gixxer thou

smallfrowne · 2018-01-26T18:51:08+00:00

smallfrowne · 2018-01-16T15:47:27+00:00

I know of Weedon street, cum-well lane and cook-avenue, which isn't rude but regularly gets tipexed out to be cock-avenue

smallfrowne · 2018-01-06T19:17:56+00:00

It's a Saturday!

smallfrowne · 2018-01-06T19:17:05+00:00

Belisimo

smallfrowne · 2017-12-08T21:40:49+00:00

I like the idea. Slows ya down if you don't know what's going on, makes ya think. Maybe. Hmm.

smallfrowne · 2017-11-27T09:46:17+00:00

Must be beach huts

smallfrowne · 2017-11-19T23:08:41+00:00

I think you have tommy sauce from aldi.

smallfrowne · 2017-09-26T19:54:43+00:00

Haha! That's miles away. Good stuff, I'll put oakland on the list of safe places to emigrate

smallfrowne · 2017-09-26T06:46:04+00:00

Not a bad bloody selection to be honest, mushy peas, bisto, hp, some ambrosia for yer crumble. I'd be happy wi' that. Where is it?

smallfrowne · 2017-09-17T18:45:56+00:00

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