Wind Tower Manufacturing.

[93LXHORSE]

My company supplies the machines that roll the plate steel into the cans that stack up to form the towers.

I was up in Michigan putting the machine together for the last couple weeks.

[93LXHORSE]

[93LXHORSE]

[Sean88gt]

Does the raw material start as flats or is it coiled?

[GrayStangGT]

That's pretty awesome. You can't truly appreciate how huge those are until you stand next to one, same with the blades.

[93LXHORSE]

Does the raw material start as flats or is it coiled?

They start out as flat sheets. The sheets get prepped so the seams can be welded together by the robotic welder.
There is a specific build sheet for each sheet, due to the tower tapering toward the top. In the case of a cone, one side of the sheet is cut in a concave manner to accommodate the eventual rolled shape.

Our machines can roll stuff even bigger, and we have small machines for things like military tubes... which is kinda a whole different matter all together. You can only imagine what Nasa does with our machines.

We also have machines for flat steel, angle iron, and I beams.

[93LXHORSE]

Yes these things are massive. 100 meters tall. There are some even taller, the ones that go offshore. I also never knew that the finished tower all by itself, with no turbine or propeller, costs a million bucks.

[yellowstang]

Yes these things are massive. 100 meters tall. There are some even taller, the ones that go offshore. I also never knew that the finished tower all by itself, with no turbine or propeller, costs a million bucks.

Is that all? Shit, I'm getting a couple to build a house on top of before the zombie apocalypse starts.

[Frank]

They start out as flat sheets. The sheets get prepped so the seams can be welded together by the robotic welder.
There is a specific build sheet for each sheet, due to the tower tapering toward the top. In the case of a cone, one side of the sheet is cut in a concave manner to accommodate the eventual rolled shape.

Our machines can roll stuff even bigger, and we have small machines for things like military tubes... which is kinda a whole different matter all together. You can only imagine what Nasa does with our machines.

We also have machines for flat steel, angle iron, and I beams.

Damn. Just comprehending the suction it must take on each of those pads to lift that sheet.

[93LXHORSE]

That particular sheet is around 7000 pounds. I saw a guy trying to lift one off of a non-flat surface, and the end portion was not engaged by the suction cups, and upon lifting it a few feet it peeled itself off the subsequent cups and dropped on the floor with enough noise to get the guy schooled by the safety manager and a couple of supervisors.

There are all kinds of ways to get seriously hurt or killed in a place like that if you're not safety conscious.

[livinglegend_86]

Yes these things are massive. 100 meters tall. There are some even taller, the ones that go offshore. I also never knew that the finished tower all by itself, with no turbine or propeller, costs a million bucks.

Opening up the hatch and standing on top of the gen housing/nacelle grants one helluva view... especially when you pop the bottom hatch and glance out to a bottom view with just a body harness

[IHaveAMustang]

Ok, so in stupid talk (Microwave, Air Con, house, etc...) how much can one of those power with a good breeze?

[black50]

Ok, so in stupid talk (Microwave, Air Con, house, etc...) how much can one of those power with a good breeze?

google says 1 Turbine can power 240-400 houses..

in stupid talk, 1 megawatt turbine could power 1000 1000watt microwaves

[jyro]

Video I made about the Gowaith Texas wind farm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOfjcZ-ewZs&list=UUHReDsowsXE7fSA3y4eutZw

[yellowstang]

google says 1 Turbine can power 240-400 houses..

in stupid talk, 1 megawatt turbine could power 1000 1000watt microwaves

That's 240 - 400 normal houses, or 25 DFWMustanger's houses, since we have mansions.