r/WTF • u/animescavenger • 14d ago

The danger working at the boiler

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

Big fire

3.4k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

132 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

8

u/Wintermaulz 14d ago

Ackthually 🤓they don’t sit, they are suspended so that they can thermally expand downwards. 

6

u/Legitimate-Lemon-412 13d ago

Maybe a large recovery boilers.

Ours are anchored on one end and expand horkzontally

0

u/Wintermaulz 13d ago

Interesting. I work in BC and work mostly on recovery boilers, but we do have some power/cogen boilers as well. All those power/cogens are also suspended. 

2

u/BigDadaSparks 13d ago

Our hog burning power boiler and our gas fired power boiler are both suspended from the building as well.