But the inner workings and components can be a thing of beauty. Industry is demanding pumps and valves that are more reliable, robust, efficient and low-maintenance. A premium also is placed on sanitary design, and the makers of pumps and valves are being nudged to meet and often exceed standards such as 3A.Sanitary clean-in-place (CIP) components help further the goals of process automation, long a priority in food processing. Regulatory hurdles such as the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO) sometimes work against adoption of the technology that make CIP and automation possible, but sheer doggedness eventually prevails. Such is the case with mix-proof valves, which are starting to be applied in the transfer of large-particulate dairy products.

DERRICK: Pyramid, 160'' x 30'' x 30'', 1,044,000-1b hook load.BOP SYSTEM: One Shaffer 5,000 psi spherical,One single and one double Cameron U 13 5/8", 10,000 psi.CRANES: Three LeTourneau PCM 120''s w/100''booms. Rated for 48 t @ 26'' radius.REMARKS: Cantilever structure can be extended 40'' from stern.WORK AREA: Gulf of Mexico.OCEAN CRUSADERRIG DESIGN: JU-200 MCCONSTRUCTION: Bethlehem Shipbuilding, Singapore, 1982.PERFORMANCE: Water depth--200''; Drilling depth--20,000''.QUARTERS: 80 persons, plus 3-man sick bay.

A good friend called to let me know that there was an error in my thinking concerning aerial work platforms. I said "there is an aerial work platform acradrillpress in the field population in North America for every 1200 people, give or take a few." I should have said there''s an aerial work platform in the field population for every 950 people. That will decline this year to one machine for every 850 people, give or take a few. That''s still a lot of work platforms, no matter how you cut it! The 951 backhoe attachment from Great Bend Manufacturing mounts on skid steers from 40 to 100 hp and 55 to 100 hp tractors with Cat. II 3 point and I hitch. The 951 offers 9.7 ft. of digging depth with 4575 lb. of digging force. A tapered console and walk-through deck provide comfort and visibility to the operator and two double-action hydraulic cylinders replace chain links to ensure smooth swing operation, the company said. Attach hydraulic Ho-Pac Model 500 vibratory compactor/driver to mini-excavator, backhoe, acradrillpress or trencher to compact or drive soil in narrow trenches. Base plate measures acradrillpress 12 ins. wide and 27 ins. long. Boasts impulse force of 3,940 lbs. at 2,000 cycles per min. with minimum of 9 to 18 g.p.m. from carrier. Optional swivel-top mounting bracket permits precise positioning without acradrillpress moving carrier. My 22-month-old son is mad for trucks. And not just any trucks -- construction vehicles. Out of the vast variety of images he''s exposed to acradrillpress daily, he has honed in on dump trucks and cranes. How did this happen? My partner, Laura, and I are still trying to figure it out. Neither of us drives a big rig. Riley doesn''t watch TV. He has dolls. He loves flowers and animals. But boy, does he love backhoes.

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