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Watched a good docco on this subject (3 part series)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ferret
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiNiBZiR_uA[/ame]
I can imagine all the jewellery, phones and other things that have found their way down the pooper which end up in those screens.
Did you ever find anything really hectic? limbs, fetus' etc?
Geez I have a dull job...
At Bondi before we could start work "restoring" the manual diversion gates (read timber boards slotted into channel dynabolted into the concrete) we had to remove what we called the "Rag Monster" which was 2.7T of hair, rags, tampons etc etc. Basically everything over the last XX years that accumulated against the diverter (large diamond shaped concrete block) that pushed flow from one main tunnel into four.
Two 5T lever blocks fixed to the ceiling AFTER getting historical society approval to drill into the roof (as long as the end repair was invisible!) and we had it up. But no one worked out what to do then. SO we ended up leaving it there and as it dried out it slowly fell apart, revealing jewelery, phones, wallets, a briefcase (who knows how it got in there) and the usual. Got flushed through and separated down the line.
Nothing like that but one day we had a problem with equipment in the plant. A rake jammed at the bottom of the **** treatment tank.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger
Had to get an industrial diver to jump in and swim down to feel about and free it up. No kidding, he fronted up in his wet suit and tank, casually put his mask on and jumped in.
He was a **** diver. :D
I hope his pay was better than what he was diving in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ferret
I once had to tour 10 coffee shops, sample the same type of coffee at each and write a report comparing them. It was a tough job, but I managed it.
For a truly terrible job, try being sent to knock on the door of some family which has just suffered an awful tragedy and ask them to agree to an interview about their grief. You know they think you're a real **** for even asking, you think you're being a real **** yourself, but you still have to do it.
I always felt sorry for cops sent to break the bad news to people. What a horrible job!
My company sent a contractor to pick up medical equipment from a patients home, on the belief that they were deceased. Upon arriving at the house to collect said equipment, the relative said "you can't take the equipment"
"Why" we asked.
"because he's still using it".
Whoops.
:eek:
Shortlisting hosties from 10,000 applications :D
Outstanding job, repair the volcano monitoring equipment :o
Ahh - the differential purvometer, have observed the same things myself on a few occasions, when I was surveying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chenz
Maybe you were also the cause of shutting down the international terminal at Sydney years ago !
We were called out for a hazmat incident with a cylinder leaking some sort of gas - after doing the evacuation of the immediate area, everything was assessed and analysed - turns out it was a cylinder of bull semen leaking nitrogen from the cylinder jacket around it.
Did the same for a 44 of salty water once as well after the groundies had punctured the drum with a forklift and taken it away (unknown) to Australian Airlines freight terminal.
Martyn
Water intakes on navy ships need clean water 24/7. River ports like Bangkok have lots of stuff floating down them. Screens over water intakes to stop **** getting into engines or pump s need cleaning every two hours to remove rags, ****, body parts:eek: and any thing you could find at a tip or the dunny farm:cool:.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ferret
Water was so dirty you could not see what touched or what was flowing in the water around my face.
Not my favorite diving highlight but the competition between the divers to report the worst item had a long list :D