My recent install

[coldmilk]

Recently finished piping this system. I welcome your comments, questions.

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[BaldLoonie]

Impressive! Never seen so many pipes so perfectly aligned with each other. Did you sweat the joints or some kind of mechanical bond? Whatcha coolin' with all that equipment? Milk I presume?

[sline-dawg]

long and straight.... good job. I guess that kept you busy a day or two.

[bigtime]

That kind of work doesn't just happen. Someone put a lot of thought and planning into it. Well done. Will the lines going to the tanks be insulated? If yes, is there enough room.

[vettech]

Very Pretty!

[Freezeking2000]

Very impressive!

Great looking work!

[mayguy]

Wow.. Nice work!

What's this equipment used for? And what is the silver tanks? Heat recovery tank for hot water?

[coldmilk]

Originally posted by BaldLoonie
Impressive! Never seen so many pipes so perfectly aligned with each other. Did you sweat the joints or some kind of mechanical bond? Whatcha coolin' with all that equipment? Milk I presume?


I wish the copper would stay like that after sweating, the system is just dry fit at the moment.

We are cooling milk.

Behind the heat recovery tanks are two fifteen thousand gallon vertical silos. Should be filling them in 24hr.

[coldmilk]

Originally posted by bigtime
That kind of work doesn't just happen. Someone put a lot of thought and planning into it. Well done. Will the lines going to the tanks be insulated? If yes, is there enough room.


If I was making a longer run to the heat recovery tanks, or going outdoors I would have insulated them. I was not too concerned about it with this install. The comps will be running pretty much 24/7. The four recovery tanks feed into two 180 gl. water heaters and finally into a 750gl. concrete lined storage tank. Circulation will occur from the storage tank to the water heaters, and pull from recovery tanks when needed.

[kevink1955]

That's unbeliveable, That much copper and it's all dry fitted. I try to do 8 or 10 fittings and 1 bump the wrong way and it's all on the floor.

There is something to be said for proper hangers.

That job shows real pride, you should be proud

[amickracing]

Since in my world, dry fitting means putting 2-3 fittings together at a time, not near the number you do, I came across a question.

When you dry fit, do you clean the ends and all that jazz? I also suppose if you were to braze vs solder you might not need to clean (as much anyway).

[clydemule]

Nice job!

A couple questions, where is this located, and how many cows?

Clyde

[coldmilk]

Originally posted by amickracing
Since in my world, dry fitting means putting 2-3 fittings together at a time, not near the number you do, I came across a question.

When you dry fit, do you clean the ends and all that jazz? I also suppose if you were to braze vs solder you might not need to clean (as much anyway).

All of the joints on this job are copper/copper, the only thing I do is ream the inside and take a little of the rough edge off the outside.( I tend to get a little impatient when cutting) lol.

[coldmilk]

Originally posted by clydemule
Nice job!

A couple questions, where is this located, and how many cows?

Clyde



Thanks,
The job is located outside of Marsing, Idaho. I believe the dairy is permitted for 3000-4000 cows give or take.

[coldmilk]

Originally posted by clydemule
Nice job!

A couple questions, where is this located, and how many cows?

Clyde



Clyde, I just saw your postings of your chillers, I would be interested in talking some more with you about those bad boys. Where are you located, background etc. I might be able to help you move some.

[clydemule]

Coldmilk,

Funny you should ask.

Right now I live in Escondido, CA. North San Diego county. On March 24th I am moving to Caldwell, ID.

My new place is on 22228 Hoskins road, just west of Sunnyslope. I can probably see this dairy from my new place. My wife's family has dairy in Parma, off of Market Road. Little place, they milk about 400. The setup you installed looks pretty similar to Troste's up in Parma. Did you do that one?

My new place has a huge shop where I will be building my equipment. I am actually trying to get some dairy business the area. Almost all of the stuff I build is for the lower temperature you find in a dairy application.


Go to http://www.johnsonthermal.com and get my phone number and give me a call. I would love to talk about stuff we can do up there.

See you in Idaho!

Clyde

[coldmilk]

Originally posted by clydemule
Coldmilk,

Funny you should ask.

Right now I live in Escondido, CA. North San Diego county. On March 24th I am moving to Caldwell, ID.


Clyde



I have probably done some work for your wifes parents, I know where you are moving to, I will give you a buzz to chat. OH i did not do the work at troost dairy that was done by a former employee of the company, they have nothing but problems, he made some pretty long jumps on the discharge lines with no check valves and messed up the plumbing on the fre heaters, One day I'll probably get called to go in and clean up. lol.

[qbert]

Nice, VERY nice! It's a shame everyone dosn,t take that much pride in their work. Keep up the good work.

[selfemployed]

Very nice work.