Maintenance guys

[Old Jag Lover]

Anbody remember Piper Alpha possibly the worst example of their handiwork,my dad's best 2 mates lost their lives,blank off plate bolts finger tight,instlled by electrician,,PTW failure,alarms going off,guy says shut those motherxxxxxxs,up,inexperienced bloke did.also opening crossfeed valves,Yank ****heads on adjacent rigs,pressure drop,well,lets pump more of this xhit in,without realising they were operating on a common line,KABOOM.Anybody seen stuff to compare with this.

 

[Deleted member 72666]

You like your 'Kabooms' it seems!

 

[telectrix]

but why dig that up now. that happened when we were still sending convicts to OZ. or was that " assisted passages".

 

[Sintra]

And also there is no swearing permitted on the forums.

 

[jimmymac]

I've got a feeling somebody likes a drink :drunk:

 

[Guest55]

Anbody remember Piper Alpha possibly the worst example of their handiwork,my dad's best 2 mates lost their lives,blank off plate bolts finger tight,instlled by electrician,,PTW failure,alarms going off,guy says shut those motherxxxxxxs,up,inexperienced bloke did.also opening crossfeed valves,Yank ****heads on adjacent rigs,pressure drop,well,lets pump more of this xhit in,without realising they were operating on a common line,KABOOM.Anybody seen stuff to compare with this.

i have absolutely no idea what your words mean but it all sounds very exciting :-D

still , having an aussie on board adds colour to our diverse little corner of the interwebs.
tell me , do you export pme supplies to garden sheds in the outback ?
;-)
lol

 

[Robotstar5]

I've been in maintenance 40+ years and nothing as exciting as that has happened

 

[Old Jag Lover]

My older daughters,both nurses,tried to do emergency maintenance with a syringe full of heroin to a camel they hit in my Caddillac Ambulance 620 ci V8 T400,they had partially got him in to to take him to a vet when a redneck cop pulled up,said drag him out and shot him dead with a S/W 29 10'' barrel,our cat started yowling the cop said what is he saying,one girl said, I think he's trying to say,''go ahead,make my day''.

 

[jimmymac]

EErrrmmm....o.k....

 

[jimmymac]

That's what happens when cousins marry

 

[ifindoubtdont]

I must be on a different planet cos I've no idea what this thread is about, still it could get interesting later on.

 

[Guest55]

im just enjoying the pure randomness of it all.

all this talk of wildlife & guns reminds me of manchester lol.

 

[kingeri]

This guy is clearly either high or genuinely ill.

 

[Marvo]

I can also do random. Your talk of animals and rednecks reminds me of when I lived in the US for a while, I spent a year or so hitch hiking and working whenever I felt like it and for a time I was employed by a guy I got to know in Georgia. I used to take tour groups around the local swamps sometimes for a couple of days and sometimes just for a single daytrip.

Whilst on a day tour we were in the same area as a boat full of rednecks. They were loud, they were drunk, they were abusive and they were armed to the teeth and I'd been trying to lose them for several hours but to no avail. As we paddled along one of the smaller canals I spotted a very large water moccasin about 20 yards away hanging out on a log about a foot above the water. I picked up a beer bottle which I'd fished out of the water earlier that day when the rednecks had thrown it overboard and I waited until we had passed the snake and when nobody was looking I hurled the bottle at the snake. I missed it by a country mile but a few seconds later it gently dropped into the water and disappeared.

About half a minute after that there was chaos and noise coming from the redneck's boat behind us. I turned around just in time to see one of them trying to fight off the snake with his paddle and another took a few shots at it just before it launched itself onto their boat to attack them. I didn't even slow down and when some of my group asked what was going on I just pleaded ignorance.

I had a moral in mind when I started typing this story but I've forgotten what it was now although I remember it was very profound.

 

[Geordie Spark]

I can also do random. Your talk of animals and rednecks reminds me of when I lived in the US for a while, I spent a year or so hitch hiking and working whenever I felt like it and for a time I was employed by a guy I got to know in Georgia. I used to take tour groups around the local swamps sometimes for a couple of days and sometimes just for a single daytrip.

Whilst on a day tour we were in the same area as a boat full of rednecks. They were loud, they were drunk, they were abusive and they were armed to the teeth and I'd been trying to lose them for several hours but to no avail. As we paddled along one of the smaller canals I spotted a very large water moccasin about 20 yards away hanging out on a log about a foot above the water. I picked up a beer bottle which I'd fished out of the water earlier that day when the rednecks had thrown it overboard and I waited until we had passed the snake and when nobody was looking I hurled the bottle at the snake. I missed it by a country mile but a few seconds later it gently dropped into the water and disappeared.

About half a minute after that there was chaos and noise coming from the redneck's boat behind us. I turned around just in time to see one of them trying to fight off the snake with his paddle and another took a few shots at it just before it launched itself onto their boat to attack them. I didn't even slow down and when some of my group asked what was going on I just pleaded ignorance.

I had a moral in mind when I started typing this story but I've forgotten what it was now although I remember it was very profound.

NEVER pi$$-off a man wearing a grass skirt maybe?