My first job was at a chemical plant. Something had gone wrong and this 15 feet wide 100 feet high tank that should have gases going through it was now filled with a solid mass. My job was to get it out.
So my work place that I shared with one colleague consisted of the inside of the tank, 15 feet in diameter. I had to enter it through a hole, 4 feet in diameter which also let in the hoses for the jack hammers and the truck size vacuum cleaner. Imagine the noise of two jackhammers, the vacuum cleaner in a round room with metal walls. Shifts were 12 hours on, 12 hours off, so we would get pretty sweaty and smelly. But we would not be able to smell it because the stuff we were excavating smelled so bad nothing could overpower it.
The good thing was that the work place got bigger and bigger because we were basically removing the floor. Bad thing was that the tiny hole we entered through got higher and higher.
But enough complaining. I am still happy I was not the one who reached the end of the solid mess, only to find out that it did not reach all the way to the bottom of the tank.
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My first job was at a chemical plant. Something had gone wrong and this 15 feet wide 100 feet high tank that should have gases going through it was now filled with a solid mass. My job was to get it out.
So my work place that I shared with one colleague consisted of the inside of the tank, 15 feet in diameter. I had to enter it through a hole, 4 feet in diameter which also let in the hoses for the jack hammers and the truck size vacuum cleaner. Imagine the noise of two jackhammers, the vacuum cleaner in a round room with metal walls. Shifts were 12 hours on, 12 hours off, so we would get pretty sweaty and smelly. But we would not be able to smell it because the stuff we were excavating smelled so bad nothing could overpower it.
The good thing was that the work place got bigger and bigger because we were basically removing the floor. Bad thing was that the tiny hole we entered through got higher and higher.
But enough complaining. I am still happy I was not the one who reached the end of the solid mess, only to find out that it did not reach all the way to the bottom of the tank.