wrustle
Titanium
- Joined
- Jun 8, 2006
- Location
- Massachusetts
I wrote quite a while ago asking for opinions on robot loading machines, in particular, the Haas robot loader packages. This was back in February/March of this year.
After researching this more, I ended up ordering a 2022 Haas VF-2SS - Robot 1 package. That was back at the very end of March.
The delivery estimate was approx. 16 weeks so I had plenty of time to procrastinate on getting ready to take delivery of this machine, and was very successful at doing just that!
Fast forward to the end of May, where I'm sitting on a beach for a week in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic sipping umbrella cocktails with my wife, when I get a very distressing email from Haas.
You machine has been completed and shipped today 5/27/22 and should arrive at your riggers facility on June 2nd. Wait? What? Just hold on a damn minute, what???? I'm not even going to be home until the 4th of June!
Let me do the math here...end of March to end of April to end of May, that's 9 weeks, woah, 9 weeks, wtf?? What happened to 16??????
Ok, I promise to never procrastinate again!! Um, actually, I'll have to start that tomorrow, I have things already planned for today that I need to push off until then........but anyways..........
So, we get back home from vacation, and into the office on Monday morning. First order of business? You guessed it, get the rigger to procrastinate this delivery........like a boss!! Luckily for me, he was very booked up for the next few weeks, and with the July 4th holiday approaching, I was looking at a mid July delivery!
Not religious.........but thank you Jesus!!
Spoke with my electrician next. He had his crew come over a couple days later and got all the conduit put in place and he assured me, that once the machine hits my floor, he'll send them back to pull wires and hook it up. Good, check that off the list!
One of the real head scratchers problems came up with my overhead door for that bay. The problem was with the height of the fencing enclosure around the front of the machine being 101" high, the garage door opener would be in the way, along with the overhead rails for the door as well. This caused me quite some concern. We use the door on a weekly basis and cannot be just sealed off and not used anymore.
I called up my garage door guy....you know.....we all have one, right? He came over, assessed the situation after hearing my concerns and problems and came up with a great plan. Apparently because of the type of door I have due to a low ceiling height, it uses a double decker type rail/track rather than just a single, so that's why I don't have the clearance at the end of the rails for the fencing. To resolve it, he's going to make a new rail system with just a single track. This will allow me the needed space for the fencing.
With regard to the opener, he said he will remove the existing overhead opener and track, and install a new one on the side of the garage door that opens and closes it using the torsion spring bar. Perfect!!
Monday 7-18-22. New Machine Day has arrived!
Ahhhhhhh, Home, Sweet, Home!

We have not had any rain for over a week now!

Any guesses on the forecast for this day?? That's right, rain...........any time now!!

This will be the new home for our new machine. This used to be our shipping area and parts inventory storage area. It took us nearly 2 weeks to get it all broken down and moved and "partially" set up in our loading dock/assembly area. It was a MAJOR move!!

This is the problem area here. Garage door opener and rails are too low for the fencing enclosure around the robot to clear.

Despite all the distractions and rearrangement of normal day to day operations, the guys are keeping the spindles turning!!

The big boss working hard up in the office!! She's the glue that keeps this place together!

What's that I hear outside? YES, the riggers are here!! It's finally new machine day!!!


This is the part where those of you who know me, will hate me,..........and those of you who do not know me will learn to hate me!
To be continued................
Later,
Russ
After researching this more, I ended up ordering a 2022 Haas VF-2SS - Robot 1 package. That was back at the very end of March.
The delivery estimate was approx. 16 weeks so I had plenty of time to procrastinate on getting ready to take delivery of this machine, and was very successful at doing just that!
Fast forward to the end of May, where I'm sitting on a beach for a week in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic sipping umbrella cocktails with my wife, when I get a very distressing email from Haas.
You machine has been completed and shipped today 5/27/22 and should arrive at your riggers facility on June 2nd. Wait? What? Just hold on a damn minute, what???? I'm not even going to be home until the 4th of June!
Let me do the math here...end of March to end of April to end of May, that's 9 weeks, woah, 9 weeks, wtf?? What happened to 16??????
Ok, I promise to never procrastinate again!! Um, actually, I'll have to start that tomorrow, I have things already planned for today that I need to push off until then........but anyways..........
So, we get back home from vacation, and into the office on Monday morning. First order of business? You guessed it, get the rigger to procrastinate this delivery........like a boss!! Luckily for me, he was very booked up for the next few weeks, and with the July 4th holiday approaching, I was looking at a mid July delivery!
Not religious.........but thank you Jesus!!
Spoke with my electrician next. He had his crew come over a couple days later and got all the conduit put in place and he assured me, that once the machine hits my floor, he'll send them back to pull wires and hook it up. Good, check that off the list!
One of the real head scratchers problems came up with my overhead door for that bay. The problem was with the height of the fencing enclosure around the front of the machine being 101" high, the garage door opener would be in the way, along with the overhead rails for the door as well. This caused me quite some concern. We use the door on a weekly basis and cannot be just sealed off and not used anymore.
I called up my garage door guy....you know.....we all have one, right? He came over, assessed the situation after hearing my concerns and problems and came up with a great plan. Apparently because of the type of door I have due to a low ceiling height, it uses a double decker type rail/track rather than just a single, so that's why I don't have the clearance at the end of the rails for the fencing. To resolve it, he's going to make a new rail system with just a single track. This will allow me the needed space for the fencing.
With regard to the opener, he said he will remove the existing overhead opener and track, and install a new one on the side of the garage door that opens and closes it using the torsion spring bar. Perfect!!
Monday 7-18-22. New Machine Day has arrived!
Ahhhhhhh, Home, Sweet, Home!

We have not had any rain for over a week now!

Any guesses on the forecast for this day?? That's right, rain...........any time now!!

This will be the new home for our new machine. This used to be our shipping area and parts inventory storage area. It took us nearly 2 weeks to get it all broken down and moved and "partially" set up in our loading dock/assembly area. It was a MAJOR move!!

This is the problem area here. Garage door opener and rails are too low for the fencing enclosure around the robot to clear.

Despite all the distractions and rearrangement of normal day to day operations, the guys are keeping the spindles turning!!

The big boss working hard up in the office!! She's the glue that keeps this place together!

What's that I hear outside? YES, the riggers are here!! It's finally new machine day!!!


This is the part where those of you who know me, will hate me,..........and those of you who do not know me will learn to hate me!

To be continued................
Later,
Russ
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