Be sure not to turn around don t look up and definitely don t take off your goggles The bright sun shine feigns warm temperatures that Christian Schus ter can only dream of at the moment At 20 degrees centigrade below zero 4 degrees Fahrenheit and a biting coastal wind the 33 year old mechanic is perched on a scaffold at a height of a one family house in the Finnish port city of Pori about a three hours drive northwest of Helsinki His mission replacing the main bearings of the two reels of a pipe laying vessel Exposed to exceptional forces each bearing has an outer diameter of 1 75 meters 5 74 feet and weighs six metric tons 6 6 short tons because several kilometers of pipe previously welded onshore is wound on the reels Replacing the bearings is no mean feat and re quires Schuster and his crew to insert the spherical roll er bearings with millimeter precision into the housing that also weighs several tons A great team that Schaeffler is proud of Christian Schuster is one of seven members of Schaeffler s field service crew They re the men for spe cial challenges Be it maintenance repair or replacement be it in a steel mill on trains or in a mine out in the mid dle of the North Sea or in the ice house at Pori when ever precision work needs to be done on huge high tech components Schuster and his colleagues are called A great team that Schaeffler is proud of says Andreas Krieg who is in charge of the field service crew Besides the work itself the conditions at the site pose a challenge because in spite of all advance coordi nation the local situation often differs There s just one constant the required completion date Schaeffler s me chanics must adhere to the defined time window under all circumstances In spite of tight schedules we have to work with millimeter precision Schuster explains PORI FIN Each of the two reels of the Deep Energy pipelayer has a diameter of 25 meters 82 feet and is able to take up 2 800 tons 3 086 short tons of welded ready to lay pipe for pipelines With a 200 millimeter 7 9 inch pipe this is enough for a total of more than 90 kilometers 56 miles of pipeline I turned my dream into my job Christian Schuster industrial mechanic 14 15

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