Industrial salt farming - GIFs

Industrial salt farming.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...567#post174115

That bucket wheel is just a little tiny baby. Most are giant lumbering dinosaurs.

I wonder how long equipment lasts in that moist corrosive environment.

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Originally Posted by hemmjo

I wonder how long equipment lasts in that moist corrosive environment.

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I used to work in a salt mine. Electric hand tools like drills? A week to a month. Bigger stuff like the bucket wheel? Probably 5 years or less. Sliding parts are really bad because you get this accelerated erosion + corrosion effect that destroys equipment far faster than either alone. Steel chutes that would normally have pretty decent life are absolutely trashed at incredible rates.

Also you need a GFCI on basically every electrical device. The salt water finds every microscope crack in the insulation of cords. We actually stopped a guy's heart because he was coiling an extension cord on his left shoulder without unplugging it from the wall first. Somebody jump started him with one of those AEDs.