The Conservative Cave
The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on January 31, 2009, 09:01:21 PM
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Many times our jobs are in multiple stages. We pump gelled water sand and sometimes acid down hole with an admixture of chemicals. When we're done we turn the well over to wire line; people who can lower sensors and/or shaped charges to breach the well casing at pre-determined depths. During wireline we can sleep if we don't have anything to maintain equipment-wise.
Tuesday I woke-up from my nap and looked over at our hydro--a large tractor trailer designed to hold water--that's all just water (sometimes gelled water).
ME (on radio): What's in the hydro?
RADIO: Water
ME: Just water?
RADIO: Just water.
ME: So why is the hydro on fire?
Huge rolling sheets of orange flame no less. We went through 2 fire extinguishers fighting the flames.
Turns out: It was -10 that day and some hands had sprayed some diesel into the hydro and set it on fire hoping to de-ice the valves.
:thatsright:
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What a pleasant sight to awaken too :thatsright:
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Did it de-ice the valves?
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Did it de-ice the valves?
I had the same thought
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were they liberal DU members?
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were they liberal DU members?
are there any conservative members at DU? :-)
besides me, of course.
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they also have socialists, communists, porgromists, stalinists, leninists, maoists, hippies and I'd swear Skinner* is a drug dealer and his drug is stupidity
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they also have socialists, communists, porgromists, stalinists, leninists, maoists, hippies and I'd swear Skinner* is a drug dealer and his drug is stupidity
you forgot "transvestites"
:-)
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I sure did. and I also forgot Underground Panther who is a something or another in her/its own category and the bullcrap artists
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were they liberal DU members?
The one kid is from California replete with hazed-over surfer accent and he thinks the gov't killed Nicolai Tesla to steal his inventions.
'nuff said
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The one kid is from California replete with hazed-over surfer accent and he thinks the gov't killed Nicolai Tesla to steal his inventions.
'nuff said
I want my bloody Death Ray! It's about time, I mean if Tesla's pal Marvin The Martian had one, I should also :banghead:
All kidding and insanity aside, I think Tesla was one of the most brilliant geniuses the world has ever witnessed. :bow:
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Turns out: It was -10 that day and some hands had sprayed some diesel into the hydro and set it on fire hoping to de-ice the valves.
No doubt just hiding evidence... :fuelfire:
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No doubt just hiding evidence... :fuelfire:
Sh-h-h-h...
...we were disposing of the 5,000 NOLA prisoners Bush had executed after Katrina.
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Sh-h-h-h...
...we were disposing of the 5,000 NOLA prisoners Bush had executed after Katrina.
LOL!
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The one kid is from California replete with hazed-over surfer accent and he thinks the gov't killed Nicolai Tesla to steal his inventions.
'nuff said
well, everyone knows that :mental:
anyway at least they connected it to fire and fire to heat and heat to unfreezing something.
Its a terribly bad idea but at least there was a shadow of logic there... so probably not a DU member
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A few times in the past I've had to set bulldozer tracks on fire to thaw them out for work. Pour gallons of diesel fuel on them, splash a little gas in the mix to get it going, thump in a lite match. For some reason I don't think the EPA would look to kindly on doing that these days........ :uhsure: