Rodger gets sludged

Posting a video that advertises my stupidity where billions of people can see it is further proof of my stupidity, I guess.

When sludge pumps don't run for a while, the sludge goes septic, and the little bacteria begin to produce gas. This gas then forms an air pocket within the pump casing, and it becomes airlocked. Given the frequency with which this happens in a wastewater treatment plant, the piping is built with a little valved outlet immediately after the pump discharge. OK, now you know the setup.

Well, sludge pump #2 was airlocked so Ralph (aaayyy Ralphie boy!) and I were trying to get it going but the little outlet section was completely blocked with solids, it looked like Alberta Tar Sands. So working from the outlet end, we removed and cleared some sections of pipe, and the valve using some pipe wrenches until, I forget, something happened and we gave up. We decided to try the pump again to see if it would clear itself. As the pump was running, I had the bright idea to turn on a nearby hose, and start shoving it up the pipe to see if that would clear it. So, without thinking the thing through to the end, I was absentmindedly standing in front of an open end of pipe, diddling with this hose, not keying into the fact that only a pipe blockage stood between me and 35 Litres/sec of sludge...and I was trying to unblock it.

As it let loose, I managed to drop my head fast enough that most of it blasted off my hardhat. To answer your question, no, I did not get any of it in my eyes or mouth. (Thankfully, to this day I still do not know what sludge tastes like). Sludge then blasted all over the ceiling and the opposite wall and we spend the next hour hosing everything off. It was then that we discovered that the floor drain under the gratings was blocked. Life just keeps getting better and better.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• sewage
• sludge
• Ashbridges

[honeybee0298]

hahahahahaha........ya he got sluged....hehehaha...cool :)