Thread: Work and heat.

ahh been there done that! was happy to move back to the ac office....

Originally Posted by Hall

Had to work this weekend. Which is ok but for the heat. I work sometimes as a maintenance fitter and that was what I was doing this weekend. By six thirty this moring I was sweating rivers. Not a good start for a Sunday on a long weekend. Certainly enjoyed a cold beer when I got home.
Place is large but old and is mostly gal iron walls and roof so gets dam hot quick and holds the heat. No fans about ethier. Still it pays the bills.
Cheers Hall

sounds like just another day in the pilbara

Think of how the foundary workers feel, furnaces and ambient temp heat.
I did a couple of stints on a varnish plant when they melt resin down and it's 100Deg celius in the kettles and you are above then on a platform, and it's in the high 30s outside. you sweat so much that that jock jocks stick to you.
Also did some confined space entry, into a holding tank, bloody hot in there are the tans adjoin ing hadn't been shut down and radiant heat penetrated the tank walls. Refused to do it as you'd pass out.

think of the poor old postie , 45 c out in the full sun peddling around on an old ww2 pushbike a dog swinging off of each leg and a pommy pensnioner chewing his ear off because his $2 english pension cheque is a day late

I can certainly relate to this post. I am a maintenance fitter and I work at Tomago Aluminum. We service the cranes there, both ours (ECL) and the GP cranes and there is no where on that plant that is particularly pleasant. Especially because most of our work is in the roof space. The potlines have the molten metal, the bake ovens have the 2000 degree ovens as well as coke gasses. Casthouse has molten metal and acrid gasses. Some days I come off the cranes soaking. Pasty white and shaking. Not good. But like you said. It pays the bills and I have a great bunch of blokes to work with. Regular breaks and plenty of water is the key to working in these hostile environs.
Regards
Robbo

I feel for you Hally,,
Worked in an Ally Foundry for 3 years,, hard yakka on everyone, also worked for a few years as a Powder coat spray painter with electric ovens,,
I think the hardest thing for most people to deal with is the humidity.

Trick is to back off a bit and drink lots of water,most don't drink enough and when they do it's too late. Pat

Yep it`s quite tropical at the moment chops. I worked most of three years at a brass forging works. I got to stay as I was the only silly mug who whould work on the furnace. They would let it cool to a chilly seven hundred fifty dergrees. I have aslo done some time a go a stint in W. A but that was a dry heat. First job today was belting a bearing out. Due to it`s location pullers where not a option.
Cheers Hall