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  1. #1
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    Our shops tornado plan: Into the CNC lathe!

    My shop is a in a pole barn out in the middle of a cornfield in Illinois. Today we got a severe weather advisory, and I barely was able to get the sliding door shut before the wind and sideways rain came down on us. Blew pretty bad for awhile, and I got to thinking what I would do if we got a tornado out here...

    Then it hit me!

    I'll climb my happy ass into the 13,000lb Ikegai lathe! There is a nice spot for me inbetween the X-slide and the ways for the hydraulic tailstock. I could lay completely down in the chip area and wait it out.... I don't think any tornado is going to pick up a chunk of iron like that!

    Any thoughts?
    Carl C

  2. #2
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    If it's bolted down it might be alright.

    My advice, start digging.

  3. #3
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    Turn the power off first, you don't want a bit of flying debris pushing the green button with you in there .

    I'm on the west coast, when I had lathes it was possible to crawl under they were my planned earthquake refuge; I don't think your idea is a nutty as it sounds.
    An open mind is a virtue...so long as all the common sense has not leaked out.

  4. #4
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    Turn the power off first, you don't want a bit of flying debris pushing the green button with you in there
    Eeeek! that just don't bear thinking about! Well said Geoff.

    Also.. you might want a crate of beer in there, would make the time pass a bit easier

    I used to work in an old munitions factory which had a bomb proof cellar which was used during air raids in WW2- it was used as storage after the war and the amount of stuff you could "discover" down there was amazing!
    I love deadlines- I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

  5. #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by cacrawfo View Post
    My shop is a in a pole barn out in the middle of a cornfield in Illinois. Today we got a severe weather advisory, and I barely was able to get the sliding door shut before the wind and sideways rain came down on us. Blew pretty bad for awhile, and I got to thinking what I would do if we got a tornado out here...

    Then it hit me!

    I'll climb my happy ass into the 13,000lb Ikegai lathe! There is a nice spot for me inbetween the X-slide and the ways for the hydraulic tailstock. I could lay completely down in the chip area and wait it out.... I don't think any tornado is going to pick up a chunk of iron like that!

    Any thoughts?
    Carl C
    Well they have been known to move train locomotives off the track, but the lathe would be better than nothing...
    garry

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