Now do that 800 times in a hole while it's wet, dark and cold and the manhole's filling up with water and you have to keep pumping. And there's the danger of methane gas so you need to pump down clean air.

 

That's just your own bleedin' fault for being on the beer / curry / beans the day before.

 

 

Now do that 800 times in a hole while it's wet, dark and cold and the manhole's filling up with water and you have to keep pumping. And there's the danger of methane gas so you need to pump down clean air.

 

 

Actually, I HAVE done something very similar, below is the worst, although semi-flooded "dry" wells with a dodgy gas meter werent fun, especially if it was a race between the rising flood of human waste and getting the pump controls working.

 

 

It was February, blowing a gale and we had to break the ice in the trench to pull a 300 cable bundle of wires through the underground ducting; I then had to lie on the frozen mud for several hours to feed the wires through a REALLY tight access cover into a cabinet, and another FOUR hours of stripping and wiring up, then testing, the cable run was only a few metres, but it took two full days as the ducting had been installed before this particular cabinet was needed, so it was too small.

 

I was wearing two pairs of trousers(one pair were thermal), three "T" shirts, two long sleeved thermal shirts and heavy overalls, and I was frozen to the bone.

 

Also, due to the location, I wasnt sure if I was lying in frozen mud, or frozen human poo.

 

I REALLY wish I had had some shrink wrapping to do, as it would have generated some heat.

I mainly sit in a warm office dishing out sage advice and drinking coffee.

 

I break up the monotony with the occasional bacon roll or a biscuit.

 

I really don't know how I do it

I mainly sit in a warm office dishing out sage advice and drinking coffee.

 

I break up the monotony with the occasional bacon roll or a biscuit.

 

I really don't know how I do it

 

Me too, these days, although mostly tea, and no biscuits - because I have developed a wheat allergy (NOT gluten); instead I have to chew those awful rice cake abominations if I feel peckish.

I mainly sit in a warm office dishing out sage advice

 

 so you  just politely tell them to get stuffed without adding any onion  :| 

 so you  just politely tell them to get stuffed without adding any onion  :|

 

We have a "Like" button; where is the "Groan" button??

Essy enough sitting in an office to suggest that they go forth pressing the "times" key on their mobile. Bit more difficult to their fce, when you're the umteem engineer that has problems solving their "non existent" problem.

Actually, I HAVE done something very similar, below is the worst, although semi-flooded "dry" wells with a dodgy gas meter werent fun, especially if it was a race between the rising flood of human waste and getting the pump controls working.

 

 

It was February, blowing a gale and we had to break the ice in the trench to pull a 300 cable bundle of wires through the underground ducting; I then had to lie on the frozen mud for several hours to feed the wires through a REALLY tight access cover into a cabinet, and another FOUR hours of stripping and wiring up, then testing, the cable run was only a few metres, but it took two full days as the ducting had been installed before this particular cabinet was needed, so it was too small.

 

I was wearing two pairs of trousers(one pair were thermal), three "T" shirts, two long sleeved thermal shirts and heavy overalls, and I was frozen to the bone.

 

Also, due to the location, I wasnt sure if I was lying in frozen mud, or frozen human poo.

 

I REALLY wish I had had some shrink wrapping to do, as it would have generated some heat.

You really have been there and done that haven't you? #coolstorybro

 

I can't prove you're a liar, but I think you're fulla ****. Disprove my theory with facts.

You really have been there and done that haven't you? #coolstorybro

 

I can't prove you're a liar, but I think you're fulla ****. Disprove my theory with facts.

 

If you are ever near Walsall, go look for the Severn Trent Goscote Sewage Works, DONT go through the council estate - we were warned it wasnt safe; instead, take the back road to the rear entrance. Assuming the gates and fences havent been stolen again, look to the huge, sunken settlement tanks to your left, and a number of equipment cabinets situated between them, they are what I had to install.

 

The week before I was there, another team got their van and gear stolen while they were working in one of those tanks!!

 

The pace even has its own gastro-intestinal bug named for it - as it was first discovered there; the place really is a genuine poo-hole.

 

I would name the company I was working for at the time, but I have been calling them "Bodge-it & Scarper" for so long, I have forgotten their real name; they went bust not long after I left anyway.

 

As for the drywell, that is Tewkesbury; I would give directions, as it is very close to the motorway exit, but they redeveloped the area recently, and the roads into the industrial estate have changed, but it is not far from the motor auctions if you want to go look for it.

 

On the other hand, the Weston Cider company have the nicest smelling sewage I have ever come across, just like sweet cider (with brown lumps in in). The pumping station for that it a few hundred metres down the hill from the factory, in a field on the l/h side of the road (as you come up from the main road).

 

Back in the Google Earth days, you could probably see all this from your desk, but these days Google Maps dont zoom in as close. In the GE days, you could zoom in on an outdoor swimming pool, and see the swimmers, and the ripples from them swimming..