Good morning, 52 here and more, yet more rain to come. Power plants, I've been working in them since 1988. First at SRP in Aiken, SC, then Santee Cooper, a small excitation company and now with Emerson, in the excitation division. All I do is voltage regulator retrofits, service, startup and commissioning work. I travel. I have a 4 month, 4 unit job just south of Milwaukee this spring, 4 - LM 6000 gas turbines. The plant I was at yesterday is a Santee Cooper plant in Georgetown, SC about an hour from me. They are having issues with getting voltage/VARS as low as they would like at night when they come down to minimum load. It will be an ongoing science project.
I've been collecting vintage cars for years that are in all different levels of disrepair. The 2 in this conversation are a 67 Chevelle SS 396, 4 speed and a 77 F150 4wd pickup. I've always wanted a Farmall 140 to garden with. I have a large farmer friend that leases my row crop on my farm and he happened to have 4 - 140s. One of them is as good as the day it was bought and is original. After heartache and discussion we agreed that I would get that 140 and another not as good one for the 2 vehicles and parts needed to restore. I got rid of a bunch of what my wife refers to as junk and got something I have wanted forever. I also made a ton of room in my shop and sheds. I am stoked beyond belief. All I have left to do is get the cars there and pick up the tractors. I have been hauling parts to him for a couple of days. I can't get the tractors until I get my new trailer that's being built so it may be a few days before I can post up some pics.
