Post by Austin Stewart on Jul 29, 2010 17:14:58 GMT -5
If you ever get the chance to go take a tour of the Grand Island Combine plant you have to see it. The place is massive,
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Well anyways for those of you who cant make it, I took plenty of pictures, my brother-in-law and his father just ordered 2 9120s so some of us took off to see one of them built. The tour took about 5 hours and that was basically skipping the entire 88 series line. Originally the combines were to be built April 1st but there was a mistake on the order and they were delayed but CIH fixed that.
In an attempt to save my time, ill try posting it as a slideshow, should be about 70 images so I dont know how it will load for you.
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Just some of the stuff that the tour guide told us:
The parts of the factory that are building parts run 24 hours a day, the actual assembly lines run until that days quota (23 combines at this time) are built. They actually kept the last station on the assembly line open after the rest went home so that my BIL could drive his combine off the line.
The plant employs about 1000 workers of which 20% are women which was fairly surprising to us. But they recently passed new regulation limiting the amount of weight a worker could lift to 40 lbs making it a more equal environment, they have a lot of the women on the final assembly putting panels and decals on because they have more patience and pay more attention to detail than most men.
The Grand Island plant builds all CIH machines for North America and over seas, they have a plant in brazil that builds CIH and NH and a strictly NH plant in europe if I understood correctly, there were some of NH combines headed for australia and a bunch of CIH combines for europe sitting around waiting. I would guess there were about 400 combines finished that were sitting in the 2 "parking lots" waiting to be delivered.
Any questions about the pictures feel free to ask.
Austin
maps.google.com/maps?q=grand+island+nebraska&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Grand+Island,+Hall,+Nebraska&gl=us&ei=ZfdRTLLOAsWqngeeoNncAw&ved=0CCMQ8gEwAA&ll=40.898609,-98.387332&spn=0.011856,0.027874&t=h&z=16
Well anyways for those of you who cant make it, I took plenty of pictures, my brother-in-law and his father just ordered 2 9120s so some of us took off to see one of them built. The tour took about 5 hours and that was basically skipping the entire 88 series line. Originally the combines were to be built April 1st but there was a mistake on the order and they were delayed but CIH fixed that.
In an attempt to save my time, ill try posting it as a slideshow, should be about 70 images so I dont know how it will load for you.
s227.photobucket.com/albums/dd250/stewart7225/GI%20plant%20tour/?albumview=slideshow
Just some of the stuff that the tour guide told us:
The parts of the factory that are building parts run 24 hours a day, the actual assembly lines run until that days quota (23 combines at this time) are built. They actually kept the last station on the assembly line open after the rest went home so that my BIL could drive his combine off the line.
The plant employs about 1000 workers of which 20% are women which was fairly surprising to us. But they recently passed new regulation limiting the amount of weight a worker could lift to 40 lbs making it a more equal environment, they have a lot of the women on the final assembly putting panels and decals on because they have more patience and pay more attention to detail than most men.
The Grand Island plant builds all CIH machines for North America and over seas, they have a plant in brazil that builds CIH and NH and a strictly NH plant in europe if I understood correctly, there were some of NH combines headed for australia and a bunch of CIH combines for europe sitting around waiting. I would guess there were about 400 combines finished that were sitting in the 2 "parking lots" waiting to be delivered.
Any questions about the pictures feel free to ask.
Austin
