Dillan Robison Oral History Interview

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Title Dillan Robison Oral History Interview
Creator Robison, Dillan; Heers, Mary
Contributor Utah Humanities
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 2017-08-18
Spatial Coverage City of Fillmore, Millard County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/7173430/city-of-fillmore.html
Subject Allergens; Cheese factories; Cheese products; Gas well drilling; Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration; Industrial safety; Methane industry; Occupational hazard assessment; Oral histories; Roofing industry; Sanitation; Security; Wasps; Work; Work ethic; Fillmore (Utah)
Description Oral history interview by Mary Heers with Dillan Robison. Topics include: Different employment he has had over the years; His experience working at a mostly automated cheese-packing factory; Refrigerated trucks delivering several hundred pound blocks and wheels of cheese; Large blocks and wheels of cheese being pushed through a "harp" of steel wires to cut it down to normal block sizes; Packaging procedures such as vacuum packing, wrapping, or zipper bags; Packaging cheese from several U.S locations; Shift changes from packaging to sanitation; Security procedures to maintain temperature control and integrity of cheese before it reaches the consumer; A couple years spent in Wyoming drilling for methane gas; Learning cedar shake/shingle roofing and wood restoration as a young man; Buying the roof restoration business and continuing to work on restoration of historical buildings seasonally; The restoration of a house that his great-grandfather built; restoration on several historical buildings in Fillmore; The frequent presence of hornet (a type of wasp) nests under cedar shingles and sometimes getting stung ; An allergy to wasps and carrying an epipen; Safety gear used for working on roofs; Appreciating the details that restoration work involves, and taking pride in his work.
Collection Number and Name MSS D 4 Utah Humanities Utah Works Oral History Collection, 2017
Holding Institution Utah Historical Society
Abstract Mr. Dillan Robison works in the Great Lakes Cheese, a cheese-packing plant in Fillmore, Utah. He describes the processes that happen in the plant, and how they work. He also spent time as a roofer/historic and wood restoration, eventually buying the business. He spent time as a methane driller, in Wyoming in the roofing off season.
Type Text; Sound
Genre oral histories (literary genre)
Format application/pdf
Extent 22 pages; 00:45:25
Language eng
Rights
ARK ark:/87278/s61gbacr
Metadata Cataloger Amy Larsen Green
Setname dha_uhuwohp
ID 2769024
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s61gbacr
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