08/27/2026
Volume UP! ⬆️ 😄 Getting the “money maker running!” 💪🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
When lightning takes out a critical motor, our team doesn’t blink!
A regional chip mill took a direct lightning strike, damaging a winding in their large chipper motor — the kind of failure that usually means weeks of downtime waiting on a rewind.
Our Field Service team had a better idea: isolate the failed coil on-site and get the motor running again on a temporary basis, buying the mill time to schedule a proper rewind instead of shutting down.
That’s old-school field craft — and it’s becoming a lost art. It’s also exactly why customers call us when it’s a critical day.
Turn the volume up to hear the mill worker who couldn’t hide his excitement when the motor fired back up — he told our tech he “just wanted to encourage the money maker to run.” 😂
Proud of this problem solving team for thinking on their feet and getting a customer back online fast!