IronBeltKen
Lazy Daydreamer
I have a few shots from the window of a tour bus, of the scrap metal receiving yard at an electric melt shop. [The company didn't allow cameras inside the mill unfortunately - rats!] Sorry about the 'grainy' appearance, these are from prints that I scanned-in. They were shot back in 2003, during my "pre-digital" days.
The first shot is an overall view of the yard, with most of the scrap 'baled' like hay:
The next shows some more of the machinery. That's an electromagnet hydraulic-arm crane on a self-propelled rail chassis, loading scrap into a bottom-dump EAF* charging bucket:
The 3rd is a close-up of the previous image. If you look closely you can see the specially-outfitted flatcar the charging bucket sits on, the seam dividing the two sides where it opens to dump, and the flopped-over bracket with the center hook "eye" (for the overhead crane):
Regarding that last photo, I wouldn't dream of expecting Josh to kitbash a model of that - even though there is a mini-mill in California...
* EAF = Electric Arc Furnace
The first shot is an overall view of the yard, with most of the scrap 'baled' like hay:
The next shows some more of the machinery. That's an electromagnet hydraulic-arm crane on a self-propelled rail chassis, loading scrap into a bottom-dump EAF* charging bucket:
The 3rd is a close-up of the previous image. If you look closely you can see the specially-outfitted flatcar the charging bucket sits on, the seam dividing the two sides where it opens to dump, and the flopped-over bracket with the center hook "eye" (for the overhead crane):
Regarding that last photo, I wouldn't dream of expecting Josh to kitbash a model of that - even though there is a mini-mill in California...
* EAF = Electric Arc Furnace
