General Mills – Grain Elevator

Watch as millwrights from Yale Mechanical replace old grain elevator equipment and install a new bridge, conveyor and support towers.

Coca-Cola Bottling Plant Access Platform Design and Installation

Before: With no way to easily reach the top of the mixing tanks, workers needed a safe and convenient access point.

After: Yale Mechanical designed and installed a stainless-steel platform to sit above the tanks and a staircase to connect it to ground level.

Coca-Cola required a safe way to reach the top of these mixing tanks in the mixing room of their bottling plant. Yale Mechanical determined that a stainless-steel platform was the best way to reliably and safely provide the access they needed.

The platform above the tanks is surrounded by a guard rail and connected to ground level by a staircase, also complete with a handrail. The staircase and platform allow workers to access the tanks as well as piping running along the ceiling for safe and easy maintenance.

BNSF

The new wheel lathe weighs approximately 60,000 lb.

Great care was taken when moving the extremely heavy piece of equipment.

Once the wheel lathe was unloaded, the team began the careful task of precisely aligning the new equipment.

BNSF operates one of the largest freight railroad networks in North America.

Yale Mechanical recently completed a major project at BNSF that involved the removal and replacement of a wheel lathe, which is used to true-up wheels on a locomotive. Our millwright team disassembled and removed the old equipment, then replaced the old foundation and support steel before finally unloading, setting and aligning the 60,000-lb piece of new equipment.