Wiped Out

I just put in a 14 hour day at a ship yard on about two hours of sleep last night.
I could Not get to sleep and now I am DONE.
I couldn’t pass it up, I actually worked up a sweat twice, it was muggy as Hell today, the rest of my time was watching a Twenty one thousand gallon tank getting filled up to make sure it didn’t get too full.
Pretty much Gravy work for Double time and a half.The reason I am even posting at all is because I learned something that astonished me.

There were these huge propeller shafts sitting on blocks in a row that I kept walking by and looking at.
How huge?
Some were thirty six inches in diameter and over thirty feet long, Solid. Steel.
What really caught my attention was something that was written on a few of them.
For some background, we are talking about a solid steel shaft that weighs Twenty Eight Tons.
They have these huge assed cranes that travel back and forth on rails, much like a train, to move these things around.
When they pick one up, they use slings on either end.
This is where that message got my attention, it said,
” Shaft Swings To 4 Degrees North when lifted”.

It took me all of a half a second to get what that meant.
When they pick them up in slings, they turn into 56 Thousand pound Compass Needles.
Yep, they try and align themselves with Magnetic North!
Is that freaky or what?!
OK, I’m done.
See ya later.