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Hdy jack I got never seen one like it before

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Went to a swap meet Friday and got a few things. One was a large Hyd jack that is 2 stage and goes up about 18inch and the real odd thing is that is has Ford stamped on it as in built by Ford but this is brand new. Any body ever seen one before??
 
Never saw one, Ford has a problem owning or building anything that isn't cars or trucks.
They sold their Hydro Electric plant in St. Paul, MN. that powered their Twin City Assembly plant. The power they bought to operate the plant for the next few years cost more than they got for the hydro. Doesn't make sense to me, but I am not as smart as they are.
 
Most of those small hydro pants really don't generate that much power. The paper mill I worked at was farther up the Mississippi and had a hydro dam. We still bought 1.5 million a month worth of electricity, and most of that was at off peak rates.
 
Further up stream the paper mill did not have the water flow that Lock and dam #1 had.

Fords Hydro made enough electricity to power the entire Ford plant and supply power to lock and dam #1, plus sell excess electricity to Excel energy. That hydro had four generators in it that spun unless there was a drought upstream. I think there efficiency went down in the spring when the water downstream was almost as high as the dam.
 
(quoted from post at 13:16:00 10/06/13) Never saw one, Ford has a problem owning or building anything that isn't cars or trucks.
They sold their Hydro Electric plant in St. Paul, MN. that powered their Twin City Assembly plant. The power they bought to operate the plant for the next few years cost more than they got for the hydro. Doesn't make sense to me, but I am not as smart as they are.
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here are an awful lot of companies that went with the 'groupie' corporate ideas of the 1990's that said 'we only want to operate with our "core competencies" & divest everything else. It has knocked a bunch of them in the head. Diversity has worked well for GE and a few others that rejected the "groupie wisdom" of the day.
 
What's worse is when they sell the PROFITABLE divisions off to concentrate on those "core competencies."
 
Seem to recall seeing one at an auction some time back, of course, no idea if Ford or who actually built them......

John T
 
I always thought that woulda been a good place for Ford to build an electric or hybrid vehicle, they coulda advertised green from start to finish....

Certainly many factors to consider, beyond my little sales logo deal.

I don't understand selling off an energy producer, energy will always be a good commodity. Ups and downs, but if you own one, it will be a best option to make some bucks.

It is funny tho, how corporate America goes in cycles, new managers have to come up with ideas to justify them having a new job, so the same old ideas get warmed over every 20 years. Got to focus on the core; got to diversify, blah blah.

Paul
 
Some of their BS reasons for shutting it down was it only had 40 foot bays. Chicago has 40 foot bays Louisville has 40 foot bays. Then there was twin Cities is too far from Dearborn. Kansas city is a little farther and Louisville is just as far. That is just two of the reasons that I can remember, may have been more. Twin Cities was one of Fords highest quality plants in North America. And supplied all its own electricity to run it. The paint building that was torn down would cost over a Billion dollars to replace.

Running production 24 hours a day I feel played a part in shutting down plants.
 
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