Ries
Diamond
- Joined
- Mar 15, 2004
- Location
- Edison Washington USA
All the time, I hear people say we don't manufacture anything in the USA anymore.
This is complete hogwash, but it seems to be widely believed.
I thought I would post a bit about the stuff WE make in my little rural neck of the woods, thousands of miles from the manufacturing centers of the USA.
But I thought a lot of people here actually make stuff- modern, sophisticated, expensive, complicated, MANUFACTURED stuff, right here in the USA, and would invite you to post about the stuff you make, or is made near you.
Industry in the USA is far from dead, and, in fact, we lead the world in many many categories.
For instance, if I walk outside my shop, I can see Anacortes Wa, less than 10 miles as the crow flies, across the bay. They build things there, at Dakota Creek, like these articulated tugboats- the largest and most sophisticated ever made, 16,000 hp, hot rods of the river-
Dakota Creek Industries, Inc. » M/V LEGACY CLASS ARTICULATED TUGS
Five miles the other way, Team Corp. is making some of the best test equipment in the world for seismic modelling- again, complicated, expensive, and exported to the japanese, so they can model skyscraper foundations in Tokyo.
Seismic
Even closer, Paccar has one of the most advanced truck engineering facilities in the world- with test rooms that can snow, blow winds, heat like an oven, or shake a full size semi truck, while being monitored by sensors of all types. I see the test mule semis roll by my shop every week, developing new body and engine mods, which, again, are exported, for top dollar, all over the world, as finished Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks.
Yes, thats an oval track for semis, in the picture, with an offroad course in the middle.
PACCAR Inc
Thats just a tiny sample- we make all kinds of world class stuff up here in the woods.
This is complete hogwash, but it seems to be widely believed.
I thought I would post a bit about the stuff WE make in my little rural neck of the woods, thousands of miles from the manufacturing centers of the USA.
But I thought a lot of people here actually make stuff- modern, sophisticated, expensive, complicated, MANUFACTURED stuff, right here in the USA, and would invite you to post about the stuff you make, or is made near you.
Industry in the USA is far from dead, and, in fact, we lead the world in many many categories.
For instance, if I walk outside my shop, I can see Anacortes Wa, less than 10 miles as the crow flies, across the bay. They build things there, at Dakota Creek, like these articulated tugboats- the largest and most sophisticated ever made, 16,000 hp, hot rods of the river-
Dakota Creek Industries, Inc. » M/V LEGACY CLASS ARTICULATED TUGS
Five miles the other way, Team Corp. is making some of the best test equipment in the world for seismic modelling- again, complicated, expensive, and exported to the japanese, so they can model skyscraper foundations in Tokyo.
Seismic
Even closer, Paccar has one of the most advanced truck engineering facilities in the world- with test rooms that can snow, blow winds, heat like an oven, or shake a full size semi truck, while being monitored by sensors of all types. I see the test mule semis roll by my shop every week, developing new body and engine mods, which, again, are exported, for top dollar, all over the world, as finished Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks.
Yes, thats an oval track for semis, in the picture, with an offroad course in the middle.
PACCAR Inc
Thats just a tiny sample- we make all kinds of world class stuff up here in the woods.