today we finally got permission to take photos of the machines we use at work.
or better yet we got permission to sneak in and take photos...
either way, i now have photos so i can describe our job and it will be a little bit easier to understand.
and no, we don't look this good when we work.
we're usually in hairnets and our "crusty" clothes,
but today was the exception.
STEP 1: raking.
the cans come on this conveyor belt.
they are continuously moving and we wait at the table for all of the cans.
once we get a good amount of cans we use the handle and "rake" the cans into the busse.
once we fill up the busse we move on to...
STEP 2: retorts.
we take the filled busse's and put them into these retorts.
the busse's cook and once they are done we move them into the cooling room.
this is where the muscles come in.
these babies weigh a ton!
trust me, it's WAYYYY heavier than it looks!
now, welcome to the cooling room!
(i'm standing next to one of the many fans in there.)
the cans cool so that we can palletize them and ship them off.
and i know that this hill looks very small,
perhaps even non-existent,
but trust me,
it's there.
and it is death when you're trying to push a full busse up it!
we also have to write the can codes down so that we don't mix them up and palletize them with other codes.
once the cans are cooled we move to
STEP 3: palletizing.
we move the busse's to the conveyor belt.
we call this step pulling the strap.
we literally "pull the strap" and it moves all of the cans onto the conveyor belt.
the cans move down the conveyor belt to the magnet where they are transferred onto pallets so that we can ship them off. the magnet was turned off so i was only able to get a photo of it on top of a pallet bus use your imagination.
this would be the lovely hard hat we get to wear when we are operating the magnet.
and this would be the magnet.
after we have all 8 layers on, the cans move down to be banded. we have to place a wooden picture frame on the top of the cans and cath is holding the bander.
once the cans are all banded they move to the saran wrapper.
we put a sticker on the sides it says pallet tag so that once the cans are shipped people know what kind of fish it is and how many cans there are.
after the saran wrapper the cans get taken away.
it's not to hard,
minus pushing the busse's of course.
but as you can see we are clearly ok in the ak.
we also work in crews so here are photos of our crews and our work schedule.
i hope that clarifies a bit on what we are doing here in alaska!
and if it didn't,
i apologize!
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