Fister Electric Inc.

04/16/2024

I was having big issues with Facebook today. It wouldn’t let me type much or it would blink away.

I was going to add that this type of work is what I did for my whole career. I love this kind of work and especially doing the design builds but there are fewer and fewer of these jobs left in the this area.

Fister electric built many saw mills from the ground up in the 70’s and 80’s. We built what was once one of the the highest speed stud mills in the world. We did huge projects with at the local paper mill, particle board plant and chemical plants. Almost all of these are gone now and there is not much of that work left in this area that I have truly loved and excelled at. It makes me very sad.

04/15/2024

And mostly finished....

03/05/2024

Still more to come another day...

03/05/2024

After that you Pull LOTS of wire... This was just days before i had my second hip replaced.

03/05/2024

We tore down that old switchroom inside of the new switchroom and we were left with the new MCC section sitting in a new room.

03/05/2024

Next, our good old Friends from IT(Industrial Technologies erected us a lovely steel building for a new MCC room. I should also give a shout out to Fletcher Excavating for all of his help with digging!

Man we had to temporary a lot of junk to get the building up. All while trying to not give our customer much outage time and it has to be safe. Sometimes we have to get kind of creative.

02/27/2024

More to come when i get some time.

02/27/2024

Then, we started the task of building an MCC room around the old MCC room. This is all while the plant is still running with minimum outages while we were boring.

These are pictures of the footings being poured and you will see the old MCC room starting to have to get dismantled. All of the motors and MCC gear were still operational so we had to keep everything dry when it rained and the wind blows there a lot. There is a lot of sawdust blowing around constantly.

Oh.. and did i mention a 250HP blower right next to us that screams in your ears AAAAALLLLLLL day long.

02/27/2024

First, we had Blue mountain directional drilling come in and bore from the 12,470V power lines to a concrete pull box and then up to 17' under underground conveyors and equipment and popped up in the middle of equipment to a very precise spot on an existing concrete pad.
We also bored another direction under equipment and fire water lines to pop up 300' away at the location of the new truck dump.

02/27/2024

This will take a few posts to explain the story. My customer kept asking if they could add equipment to this end of the mill. They had an old MCC Room with a small MCC section and only 400 amps of power. I kept telling them, "you don't have enough power here and any other MCC room is way to far away."

They wanted to add another truck dump so i gave them a design of how we could get them enough power for now AND for the future. This is what i do. I design build for people and doing that for Industrial sites is what i enjoy the most. I love to take the customers problems and come up with solutions that work.

02/06/2024

Sometimes mornings on the jobsites are better than others.

02/05/2024