Products
As those of you who call in may have noticed, there is a new and unfamiliar voice on the end of the phone when you call in. That would be me, Kate, the newest member of DCD’s sales team.
When you start working for a manufacturing company, you can expect that spending some hands-on time in the shop will assist you with picking up the ins and outs of the unfamiliar products. As someone that isn’t shy about getting her hands dirty, I have spent a handful of days in production assisting with assembly of a variety of different parts. Things were all starting to make sense and nothing was sending me for too much of a loop.
That was until I was called into the shop to assist/observe in the production of a 500 ton Maxi-Dub swivel (Part Number 00508-1500).
Wow. Cue me being re-thrown for a loop.
Weighing in at over 2,500 lbs., this directional drilling swivel is one of the biggest that we manufacture. It has been designed to stand up to pullback loads associated with HDD applications, and with a safe working load of 500 tons this is a swivel designed for jobs with rigs up to a million pounds.
It’s hard to believe that this swivel actually has a bigger brother that is rated for rigs up to 1.4 million pounds.
As I watched (and attempted to assist) assembly it became more and more clear to me that these products are incredibly well designed and precisely machined. And really, really ridiculously big. After a couple days in the shop and a couple new scrapes and bruises, the swivel was ready for the paint booth and I was ready to return to the office and do my best to get an order in for that exact swivel.
So…
Anyone need a huge swivel?
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