material would cause the machines to get out of balance and the tub would bang around inside the housing. You had to quickly secure the machine you were working on and run to the one that was banging out of balance and try to control it by disengaging the clutch and braking hard to stop it, this was very dangerous and I saw two machines at different times leave the platform breaking the gooseneck off of the mixer and spilling the mixer onto the floor. This basically shut the factory down until the discharge from the mixer could be repaired. The mechanics would sneak up to the deck while we were charging the machines and hammer on the deck plate to scare us. It sounded like a machine going out of balance. The Sugar Cutters worked hard and we played a bit too. We were young and fit at the time so we did not wear shirts because of the heat and a very simple paper cap. I know not SQF approved apparel but in the early 70’s we did a lot of things that we don’t do anymore. Sometimes when the Lab girls walked by to get samples they got a stray pail of water while we raced through the wash cycle of the sequence. The Gering factory was across the street from a Livestock Auction House. One night I was finishing up my turn on the centrifugal deck and something 191