Except for my drivers it is more like Bang Bang Bang until that crap settles down. Even with a +10 PSI nitrogen blanket on top of the crap it still beats the heck out of the person hauling it. We almost lost a truck when a driver had to make an emergency lane change when someone cut him off.
Shadow the Cats owner You haven't had fun until you pulled a half loaded tanker trailer according to my drivers. We have a customer that orders a concentrated acid think one with less water in it than normal. It weighs in at 20 lbs a gallon our normal trailer carries over 5K gallons of liquids. When this place orders a load we can only load less than 2K gallons to be legal. The drivers that are in the acid fleet draw straws as to be unlucky bastard that has to haul it. Yeah it beats them up that bad.
You haven't had fun until you pulled a half loaded tanker trailer according to my drivers. We have a customer that orders a concentrated acid think one with less water in it than normal. It weighs in at 20 lbs a gallon our normal trailer carries over 5K gallons of liquids. When this place orders a load we can only load less than 2K gallons to be legal. The drivers that are in the acid fleet draw straws as to be unlucky bastard that has to haul it. Yeah it beats them up that bad.
Shadow the Cats owner Except for my drivers it is more like Bang Bang Bang until that crap settles down. Even with a +10 PSI nitrogen blanket on top of the crap it still beats the heck out of the person hauling it. We almost lost a truck when a driver had to make an emergency lane change when someone cut him off.
Coming back from Grandaughter's gymnastics got held up by a UPS double bottom totally in the center ditch with traffic backed up on both sides of the Interstate as several tow truck drivers and the cops tried to map out a plan to get the rig back on the driving surface. Undoubtedly got cut off by a slow speed fool and took to the center ditch to keep from hitting someone (who most likely deserved it).
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
SD70Dude They may have only started acquiring railcars in 2010, but the company has been around a lot longer than that: http://www.kykenkee.com Google Earth shows a rail spur with log and lumber cars at their mill.
They may have only started acquiring railcars in 2010, but the company has been around a lot longer than that:
http://www.kykenkee.com
Google Earth shows a rail spur with log and lumber cars at their mill.
Probably not the Country Music FM Station in Longview, TX ;)
I just wonder what the acid was that weighed in ar 20 pounds per gallon? That is really heavy stuff with a specific gravity of 2.4; granitic rock, by way of example has a specific gravity of about 2.65. Thanks for the post and your response.
My drivers swear it weighs 20 a gallon but the invocies weigh it out at 16 lbs a gallon. It is 93% pure Sulphuric acid. It comes in at just under 16 a gallon at 15.94 lbs. They hate pulling the stuff worse more than getting a Level 1 DOT inspection by a ticked off DOT inspector during Road Check Week or as we call it nothing gets done week.
Shadow the Cats owner My drivers swear it weighs 20 a gallon but the invocies weigh it out at 16 lbs a gallon. It is 93% pure Sulphuric acid. It comes in at just under 16 a gallon at 15.94 lbs. They hate pulling the stuff worse more than getting a Level 1 DOT inspection by a ticked off DOT inspector during Road Check Week or as we call it nothing gets done week.
Johnny
Samuel JohnstonI know it's cute...but could you dispense with silly animated graphics? Can slow down computers
I just want to be clear. And if you are not aware, and care to know, if this is who I think it is (the cute graphics guy), he told one poster, that the way the poster was indicating sarcasm, "was not the way WE (my emphasis) do it around here."
I am just saying, I hope you have not offended the wrong person or you will pay with verbal abuse. But then on the otherhand, maybe I am not aware of who you are making the suggestion to. Thanks for the suggestion to "someone." Let's see if it disappears. mike endmrw0627181142
Cotton Belt MP104Samuel, to whom are you speaking? I have been chastised for poor posting and am curious who it is that is you are calling out here. To be clear, I hear your request and will agree totally. But then my conversation with who I think you are talking about, calls my posting "crap", and I am concerned about being confused about who you are speaking of. I just want to be clear. And if you are not aware, and care to know, if this is who I think it is (the cute graphics guy), he told one poster, that the way the poster was indicating sarcasm, "was not the way WE (my emphasis) do it around here." I am just saying, I hope you have not offended the wrong person or you will pay with verbal abuse. But then on the otherhand, maybe I am not aware of who you are making the suggestion to. Thanks for the suggestion to "someone." Let's see if it disappears. mike endmrw0627181142
I can actually read your post. Thank you for showing your civility and education.
Keep the signature Balt, that thing always brightens up my day.
Even on my old smartphone (which ran a early version of Android) and the work PC's (still running XP ) it shows up fine, and doesn't slow anything down.
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SD70DudeKeep the signature Balt, that thing always brightens up my day. Even on my old smartphone (which ran a early version of Android) and the work PC's (still running XP ) it shows up fine, and doesn't slow anything down.
The abyss gif is 64 kb, the bored gif is 195 kb
Most pictures that get displayed in various posts are 2 MB and sometimes larger per picture.
Glad I brighten your day.
Balt, I, too, have found them rather amusing.
I don't know what year my oldest brother's computer was, but eight years ago I tried to use it when my wife and I were visiting my sister-in-law--and I gave up. Trying to see the end of your signature (if you were using it then)may have taken an hour or so..
Too funny ... Mr. Johnston must be on dial up ;)
rdamonToo funny ... Mr. Johnston must be on dial up )
I started with dial-up in 2003. SLOW beyond acceptable. 1st upgrade was to wireless provider I think 'Clear-choice' was the name - my condo wasn't inside of one of the tower areas, but was in the dead spot where three of the towers just came short of overlapping. At first the service was decent, then it went to horrible. Dropped that service and went to AT&T DSL which I have maintained at my FL condo to date - slower than I would like but usable.
When I moved to MD I tried to tough it out with dial-up for a while then got disgusted and went with Verizon DSL as FIOS was not available in my neighborhood. 10 years later and FIOS is still not available in my neighborhood - despite ads every hour or more frequently from Verizon singing the praises of FIOS.
Comcast is still an option - one that, at this point in time, I don't want to exercise.
When I started running the Internet connection for a military installation, the connection for the whole campus was - 56K.
I'd tell the powers that be that the pipeline was full, so they'd upgrade it.
And a few weeks later, I'd check, and the pipeline was again full. That occurred several times, until it was up around 10Mbs, when I retired.
I have no idea what size their connection is now - but there are probably 5,000 users trying to use it to reach both the military network and the Internet.
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BaltACD I started with dial-up in 2003. SLOW beyond acceptable. 1st upgrade was to wireless provider I think 'Clear-choice' was the name - my condo wasn't inside of one of the tower areas, but was in the dead spot where three of the towers just came short of overlapping.
I started with dial-up in 2003. SLOW beyond acceptable. 1st upgrade was to wireless provider I think 'Clear-choice' was the name - my condo wasn't inside of one of the tower areas, but was in the dead spot where three of the towers just came short of overlapping.
A friend's family lives in just such a spot, but in a rural area. They started with dial-up and as time went on tried several smaller service providers, none of whom had very good bandwith (except at 3 AM, when no one else was online). So when Telus (one of the big 3 internet providers in Canada) started a major expansion into rural areas several years ago he was quite excited at the prospect of finally getting high-speed internet. To his dismay the new infrastructure did not solve his dead spot location, and complicating matters are the large trees that nearly completely surround his house, blocking what signal he could get.
But, as it turned out, he had an ace up his sleeve. In his yard is a large metal satellite TV dish on a pole (you know, the 20 ft. diameter kind), obsolete for many years by this time. He had never used it for TV, but it happened to be in just the right spot where it lined up with Telus's tower through a gap in the trees. So he spun it around to face the tower, mounted a internet receiver in the centre and PRESTO, he got a great signal. They have had reliable high-speed internet ever since.
tree68When I started running the Internet connection for a military installation, the connection for the whole campus was - 56K. I'd tell the powers that be that the pipeline was full, so they'd upgrade it. And a few weeks later, I'd check, and the pipeline was again full. That occurred several times, until it was up around 10Mbs, when I retired. I have no idea what size their connection is now - but there are probably 5,000 users trying to use it to reach both the military network and the Internet.
When I was working - our company network was set up such that everything went through Jacksonville (surprise - not).
You could fire up a browser on on your local terminal - it would handshake through Jacksonville to get the data from the net and then handshake again to route the data back to the originating terminal.
You could also connect to a browser 'on the Jax system' through File Explorer on our remote terminal - the same terminal you fire up the browser discribed in the above paragraph. Hooking to the net 'by this back door' was signifigantly faster than going directly from the terminal's browser.
What explains the difference in timings - to my mind - it amounts to an 2 extra round trips of handshaking between the terminal and the main frame in Jax. There is an additional round trip on the send side and then another round trip on the recieve side.
BaltACDWhen I was working - our company network was set up such that everything went through Jacksonville...
When I was working, all traffic between the military net and the Internet passed through one of several "gateways," all of which were usually running at 100%.
I'm pretty sure the configuration has changed by now.
We have Mediacom here they are upgrading all their lines in the Midwest to a minimum of 50MPS we have their top of their line at home and here at work. My at home speed is over 500 MPS according to speedtest and here at work we have over a Gigabyte a second speed. Yeah being on a fiber optic trunk has its advantages.
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