On Mar 20, 11:19*am, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:
"Joe" wrote in message

...

*Bob might get lucky and get a supply boat working production. But if
they are working with a drilling rig, deck hands work can be grueling.
100 degree days inside a 120 degree steel tank shoveling cement into
bucket after bucket, and pulling it up 15 feet and dumping it over the
side, times 6-8 tanks can make for a very long day. And mad can be a
deckhands worst nightmare depending on the wind and the mix. *It's
good work if you are not on deck anymore.

I can tell YOU haven't set foot aboard a workboat for at least twenty years,
Joe.

Nowadays they use pumps to transfer the contents of mud tanks. Get a clue,
dude. Pumps work MUCH CHEAPER than a deck monkey.

Wilbur Hubbard

Neal you strupid turd munching Putz!

Mud tanks have to be cleaned between different formulas of mud. You
could be sued for cargo loss if you containmate a mud batch. So you
have to suit up and go inside the tank with fire hoses and have any
traces washed out and sucked up on to a recovery truck. Now if the
people on the drilling rig care less about the boat they are likely to
vent mud & cement tanks onto the boat, it's a several hour scrub job
on a hot summer day to get all the mud off the boat, and can be a
total nightmare when cement is vented on a boat covered with morning
dew..

Cement is complety different, but the tanks have to be cleaned
between batches for the same reasons. It involves bucketing out by
hand all the cement that can not be blown off the boat. if you have a
good engineer most except the last 10 to 15 sacks can be blown over
while heading to the beach, vibrators need changing often, and if you
have a really really bad day (leaking hatch) nothing but jack hammers
and a weeks hard duty will fix the mess.

Are you so stupid as to think that they ever transferred mud or cement
by hand? Were talking 8000 sacks a trip Nellie, and up to 20,000
gallons of mud costing up to 16.00 a gallon in the late 90's.

Stick to stuff you read on the internet, thats the only way you can be
seen as knowledgeable in anything related to maritime activities.

Joe