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Just poured my 1000th heat of 8620 steel this morning
Been at the same shop in Gary for 12 years now. The foreman pointed it out on the log sheet. Never really kept count before. Makes you think about all the tons of metal that have gone through your ladle. Anyone else hit a number that made you stop and look back?
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charles7207mo ago
Counting heats just seems like a way to make a normal job feel special. It's just moving metal from one place to another, right? After a while, one pour blends into the next and the number doesn't mean much. I've seen guys chase round numbers their whole shift and it just burns them out. The work is the same at 999 heats as it is at 1000.
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wren2305mo ago
Saw a piece in an industry mag once that said the average foundry worker does over 20,000 pours in a career. That made my hands tired just reading it.
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young.michael7mo ago
Man, I get where @charles720 is coming from, it can feel that way. What helped me was just keeping a small tally on my glove, not for the big round numbers, but to break the day into chunks. Hitting ten heats meant a quick water break, fifty meant lunch was close. It made the routine feel less endless.
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