01-13-2017, 10:46 AM
Rscott417 Wrote:The hoods get stacked on top of each other, not too common but crane lifts hood and places it on top of the other hood on railcar, unloads car, replaces hood, lifts next hood places it on opposite hood, unloads car, replaces hood.Obviously this won't work for lids that are the length of the car but they're still stackable.That is my understanding at the unloading side too.
How is the loading process at a huge rolling mill? I would assume they have some kind of pre and post processing to remove and put the hoods back without interfere with the heavy equipment loading the coils. I have never seen a rolling mill but a large one should produce several hundred coils per day fully utilizing the heavy equipment handling the coils. The hoods might be handled by smaller cranes more cost effective.
This an outdoor coil storage area of a rolling mill in East Chicago. I assume loading of coils is very much streamlines process.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rollin...87.8580525
Reinhard