I started at Columbia Aluminum Smelter in August of 1987 on the cut in crew, I was 18 years old. I did every thing from cell operator to sawyer. I left when I was 20 and came back 4 years later. It was still the dirtiest and hottest job but it was also my favorite. We were like family. Before it shutdown in 2003 ,One graveyard night I took one last drive down through all the cell lines A,B,C and D and it was like a graveyard. I could tell you every man or woman that worked in each section, the barbecues and stories...I should write a book on the cell lines antics, the characters and their tricks......and the locker/ shower room ....good God....there are things, to this day, that still make me laugh out loud when I think of them...I think we all had to be at least half crazy to work in there , but we did watch out for each other....and that I really miss
did 16 years -1974-1990-at Reynolds Metals in Troutdale Oregon. carbon setter, potman, crane operator. lots of forced overtime, sometimes 80 hour weeks. lots of memories of heat, dust, noise, high voltage,and crazy co-workers!
Spent 12 years at Kaiser Aluminum in Tacoma Washington.Anode Tender most of the time working Soderberg pots.Hottest dirtiest nastiest heatstress inducing work ever.But I loved it!!Time schedules.Soon as you were done you were done for the day.Alot of us would go get a 4 hour schedule knock that out go home after 8 hours with 12 hours pay.Overtime you got a lunch ticket worth $8.75 at the guard shack.Money used to pile up.Turnover rate was about 80%.Two years on strike then the company closed.I really miss the place.1988-2000.Biker Bob
Biker Bob I worked at Alcoa Wenatchee Works and in the early years it was just like you were saying. Later they kept reducing headcount and it was just a grunt job that paid ok. Finally after 29 years they gave me the boot! If I could of worked 6 years longer until I was 62 I would of been set. But oh well I am getting by! Sometimes I still miss the old days! There was a lot of camaraderie amongst the carbon setters. Because we were doing a job many couldn't force themselves to do and we were proud of what we were doing. The summer I was hired I was hired in a group of 10. 7 of those new hires were gone by the end of the week! They said it was too hot for them. Some groups of ten would loose all of their new hires by the end of the first or second week. Anyhow my potroom nickname was Hurricane and I was there from 1989 to 2017!
If you don't know much more about the pot room... Then you can say that ... For us ... This is a bit of informative .... Mostly .. I can see some sort of unsafe activity in these video.....
I started at Columbia Aluminum Smelter in August of 1987 on the cut in crew, I was 18 years old. I did every thing from cell operator to sawyer. I left when I was 20 and came back 4 years later. It was still the dirtiest and hottest job but it was also my favorite. We were like family. Before it shutdown in 2003 ,One graveyard night I took one last drive down through all the cell lines A,B,C and D and it was like a graveyard. I could tell you every man or woman that worked in each section, the barbecues and stories...I should write a book on the cell lines antics, the characters and their tricks......and the locker/ shower room ....good God....there are things, to this day, that still make me laugh out loud when I think of them...I think we all had to be at least half crazy to work in there , but we did watch out for each other....and that I really miss
did 16 years -1974-1990-at Reynolds Metals in Troutdale Oregon. carbon setter, potman, crane operator. lots of forced overtime, sometimes 80 hour weeks. lots of memories of heat, dust, noise, high voltage,and crazy co-workers!
Spent 12 years at Kaiser Aluminum in Tacoma Washington.Anode Tender most of the time working Soderberg pots.Hottest dirtiest nastiest heatstress inducing work ever.But I loved it!!Time schedules.Soon as you were done you were done for the day.Alot of us would go get a 4 hour schedule knock that out go home after 8 hours with 12 hours pay.Overtime you got a lunch ticket worth $8.75 at the guard shack.Money used to pile up.Turnover rate was about 80%.Two years on strike then the company closed.I really miss the place.1988-2000.Biker Bob
Biker Bob I worked at Alcoa Wenatchee Works and in the early years it was just like you were saying. Later they kept reducing headcount and it was just a grunt job that paid ok. Finally after 29 years they gave me the boot! If I could of worked 6 years longer until I was 62 I would of been set. But oh well I am getting by! Sometimes I still miss the old days! There was a lot of camaraderie amongst the carbon setters. Because we were doing a job many couldn't force themselves to do and we were proud of what we were doing. The summer I was hired I was hired in a group of 10. 7 of those new hires were gone by the end of the week! They said it was too hot for them. Some groups of ten would loose all of their new hires by the end of the first or second week. Anyhow my potroom nickname was Hurricane and I was there from 1989 to 2017!
Удивительное производство.
4:53 these pots are like the ones we have at Ma'aden company in Saudi Arabia.
ليش في مصنع عندكم
Potroom ka एक्सपीरियंस कैसा है
So well designed.....erected..... working plant.
На заводах "РУСАЛ" культура производства- выше.
ХА, Вы на каком из заводов в своей фантазии об культуре производства работали в РУСАЛЕ )))) не смешите
Yha job kayse milega may India may yhi job kr rha ho
Is se jyada safety to vendanta me hai
Incredibly uninformative.
If you don't know much more about the pot room... Then you can say that ... For us ... This is a bit of informative .... Mostly .. I can see some sort of unsafe activity in these video.....
I also see cells that are not running properly, not sealed, skirt problems, un level anodes ect…