05-30-2016, 12:34 PM
(05-30-2016, 10:45 AM)Dr Stan Wrote: First machine shop job I had was general labor at a drive shaft & U joint manufacturing facility. We had a huge (100+ gallon) tank & pump on wheels to remove old coolant from big honkin' vertical broaches & WS chuckers machining cast iron & steel. Well, when new it had a shut-off that would engage if the tank was full. It was not new and some Einstein wired around the shut-off so when full it would pump out the nasty coolant in about a 1 1/2" to 2" solid stream.
Guess who was "downstream". If you said Stan you're a winner. That was 43 years ago and I still shiver thinking about the "bath" I received.
Stan that is not so bad. A friend of mine was pumping cow piss and the fluids that run off cow manure with his vacuum tanker out on his pastures. His tractor has an open cabin towards the back. The sight glass on the tractor end of the big tank blew out and a 3 inch stream of cow piss filled his tractor cabin waist high. He was a stinky boy! Here in Germany you have to have an underground tank with drains to it to catch the piss and fluids off the manure. When it gets full you pump it out and spread it on your pastures. You can tell when someone is spreading their "Guille" from a mile away. Very stinky stuff.
My friend says the upside to it happening is no one asks to borrow his tractor anymore.