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That guy with the swing valve setup needs to stop
I was working a job near Baton Rouge last month and some new guy kept trying to adjust the discharge pressure by throttling the swing valve. You don't do that on a cutter dredge man, that's how you blow out a seal or burn up the pump. He cost us 3 hours of downtime because the packing gland started leaking bad. Has anyone else seen an operator mess up something basic like that and just not get it?
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fiona_fox5612d ago
Showed a green operator once. He learned pretty quick after that.
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ruby49411d ago
You ever try just shutting them down on their first big mistake? That's what I did with a new guy once. He kept leaving the rig unsecured between jobs. Told him flat out "If you leave it like that again, I'm sending you back to the yard." He never forgot it after that. Sometimes you gotta hit them with the real talk early on. No sugar coating.
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