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Author Adam, I said I would never do it
Jodi_the_g
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12th Dec 04 at 16:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
But the bastards are making me go one to an oil rig next week.

Have you or anyone on else on the board had to go on one as I never wanted to step foot on one.

Its a jackup righ type if anyone knows what that is
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12th Dec 04 at 16:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
hell on earth


Jodi_the_g
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12th Dec 04 at 16:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
That looks really similar to the one i got to go on
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id shit my pants if i had to go on one of them.Dont you get danger money though?
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I only got to go on them for two days, and yes the quote i will be putting in for the work will be high as I swore i would never go on one.

Bloody north sea in december, Hoping I get to go out on a helicopter though.
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what kind of work are you going to do there?
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north sea wouldent like to be on one when that monatain collapses off the coast of spain tital waves 1 mile high, no thanks
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I install CCTV camera/Monitoring camera the rig is faily old (1992) and has old coaxail CCTV they basic want it all upgrading to us at there remote monitoring centers cutting down on the number fo staff needed at see.

Only giving a quote and a counstalacy one weather it can be done though.
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12th Dec 04 at 16:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
fook that for abunch of fives.

unless that bunch mounted to a couple o grand.
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quote:
Originally posted by Wolfy
fook that for abunch of fives.

unless that bunch mounted to a couple o grand.


Yeah it will be good money if i get the work but I not getting that much for the advice and report that i am doing.

But if i can get the contract on the one rig i stand a better change of doing all there rigs.
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I've been on a few, fireprotected a lot of steel on them, I'm back off on my travels tomorrow. Got to apply M71 to 190 square metres of steel in Carolina
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quote:
Originally posted by VenomTurbo
I've been on a few, fireprotected a lot of steel on them, I'm back off on my travels tomorrow. Got to apply M71 to 190 square metres of steel in Carolina


Is it likely i get to go in a heilcopter out to it, thats the onyl thing i really want feel important then.
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Yes I arranged to have the gear and equipment shipped over the day before I was due to go, I then met the chopper at the docks the next day, with my workers, then we landed on a helipad, YAY!
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12th Dec 04 at 17:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
VT what do you do for a career?
CorsAsh
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12th Dec 04 at 17:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Arsonist...

Jodi - you gonna do some stand up whilst you're there?
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Nope stand up is a hobby.

Its to install rempte montioring cameras using the software i developed.
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quote:
Originally posted by Anton2K3
VT what do you do for a career?


Fireproofer, part time project house builder too, have my finger in a lot of pies as the saying goes.
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fireproofer? good money in that? get to go all over the world?
J da Silva
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12th Dec 04 at 18:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yes the money is stupidly high, plus I've built a good rep with a lot of construction firms.
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VT - hows it done?
im in the steel game, so construct the structural steels etc, then some1 comes in and fireproofs them in that white powder stuff..?
but what exactly is it?
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It's an intumescent substance, saturated in non flammable chemicals, like a sticky paint substance, I come along with a pressurised spray pump with a line to a gun, you then spray the steel columns,beams and structures to a set thickness set by whoever your sub-contracting to.
I charge £3 per square metre usually, you could easily earn £1200 a week if you go steady, if you graft like fuck then you'll have a good christmas. It depends how good you are at pricing jobs up.
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Andy do you erect the steel, or ship it out?
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i erect the steel
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12th Dec 04 at 20:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
helicochopters are a bunch of arse... nothing important or glamerous about 'em noisey and bumpy

I've landed on a rig once, wasnt my stop tho so i never actually set foot on one.... been under a few flares before in boats, between the legs in one of those fast rescue boats too

aint too bad i imagine

 
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