Today's tight squeeze.

spaffmonkey · Jul 21, 2020

I had another gas locker job to do today on a narrow boat. It was one of the tightest ones I've had to get in for a while.

roblane65 · Jul 21, 2020

You need to get yourself a small boy , to do the welding that is ! Theres loads spare as they don't do chimneys no more :scared:

tom2207 · Jul 21, 2020

longer torch head and sit on the deck ,,, lol ,, glad you were doing it , not sure which of my legs I could have got down there , certainly not both.

Gwil · Jul 21, 2020

My sympathy! During my final career change as a yacht surveyor I tipped myself upside down in the lazarette of a canoe stern yacht to examine the steering gear.

As the blood rushed to my head I realised I lacked both the purchase and the sheer strength to get myself out, and my never far away claustrophobia was kicking in......I was in the far corner of a Portuguese yard and nobody was about- it was lunchtime, a sacred time to the locals and they'd all sloped off.

I really was panicking. Somehow I managed to fold myself in two in this incredibly tight space and just reach the hatch coaming and pull myself out. It was worse than sitting in the crawl space between two 1500hp diesels at max revs on a sea trial looking for a periodic vibration in the propshafts.

Sometimes I miss the job, sometimes not.....

tom2207 · Jul 21, 2020

Gwil said:
My sympathy! During my final career change as a yacht surveyor I tipped myself upside down in the lazarette of a canoe stern yacht to examine the steering gear.

As the blood rushed to my head I realised I lacked both the purchase and the sheer strength to get myself out, and my never far away claustrophobia was kicking in......I was in the far corner of a Portuguese yard and nobody was about- it was lunchtime, a sacred time to the locals and they'd all sloped off.

I really was panicking. Somehow I managed to fold myself in two in this incredibly tight space and just reach the hatch coaming and pull myself out. It was worse than sitting in the crawl space between two 1500hp diesels at max revs on a sea trial looking for a periodic vibration in the propshafts.

Sometimes I miss the job, sometimes not.....

Your gonna need a bigger boat ...

spaffmonkey · Jul 21, 2020

roblane65 said:
You need to get yourself a small boy , to do the welding that is ! Theres loads spare as they don't do chimneys no more

I'm slowly training my 6 year old son to weld so he can get in these spaces :laughing:

spaffmonkey · Jul 21, 2020

tom2207 said:
longer torch head and sit on the deck ,,, lol ,, glad you were doing it , not sure which of my legs I could have got down there , certainly not both.

It's certainly a bit of contortionist body movement to get in and into a position to get welding.

tom2207 · Jul 21, 2020

spaffmonkey said:
It's certainly a bit of contortionist body movement to get in and into a position to get welding.

and then your mask falls off ,,, lol

spaffmonkey · Jul 21, 2020

Gwil said:
My sympathy! During my final career change as a yacht surveyor I tipped myself upside down in the lazarette of a canoe stern yacht to examine the steering gear.

As the blood rushed to my head I realised I lacked both the purchase and the sheer strength to get myself out, and my never far away claustrophobia was kicking in......I was in the far corner of a Portuguese yard and nobody was about- it was lunchtime, a sacred time to the locals and they'd all sloped off.

I really was panicking. Somehow I managed to fold myself in two in this incredibly tight space and just reach the hatch coaming and pull myself out. It was worse than sitting in the crawl space between two 1500hp diesels at max revs on a sea trial looking for a periodic vibration in the propshafts.

Sometimes I miss the job, sometimes not.....

I had one job like that where I had to crawl into a tight void a new the only way out was the way I had got in which was tight. Ended up putting my MP3 player on with some relaxing music to help keep me calm. Also my business partner is always on hand when I'm in spaces like that.

spaffmonkey · Jul 21, 2020

tom2207 said:
and then your mask falls off ,,, lol

My mask certainly takes a battering.

Mattuk · Jul 21, 2020

roblane65 said:
You need to get yourself a small boy , to do the welding that is ! Theres loads spare as they don't do chimneys no more

In this politically correct and gender neutral world don't we have to specify a person of low years and any denomination of sexual identity for child labour

Robert. · Jul 21, 2020

I had a job inside a rock crusher ,crawled along the belts ..through the separation box , into the crushing jaws ... squeezed in just getting the hips through , welded in a new support for the fixed jaw , then realised the support made the gap to tight to get back out . Had to be craned out the top of the jaw box , so I did the entire route a rock does ...but backwards .

Ashley Burton · Jul 21, 2020

@spaffmonkey I would give it a go!

Not sure how long I would enjoy the experience :laughing:

daleyd · Jul 21, 2020

That takes me back to my days of working on industrial dryers and oxidisers.... although I was never a welder I ended up in some places you wouldn’t send a dog into. A favourite was fan chambers where they had fitted pipe work so you had to contort yourself under/over it and then to really rub salt in the wounds left really sharp edges on all the corners. :thumbup:

mtt.tr · Jul 21, 2020

Well I'll stop moaning about lofts then.

roofman · Jul 21, 2020

I don't do tight spaces for 2 reasons..1st when i was a kid i got stuck in the local launderette washing machine after a bet went wrong :vsad:

and 2nd i am now 6ft 3" and banging on the door of 20 stone

you could,nt pay me enough to weld in such a confined space as that boat gas locker

roblane65 · Jul 21, 2020

EDIT a small person of neutral gender if thats more applicable in these days
sorry if I've caused offence to anything and I suppose we'll now have to remove the plaque and take down the statue. :doh:

grim_d · Jul 21, 2020

Could be worse, if you're small enough at my work you need to spend hours in the fuel tanks scraping sealant off fasteners..

slim_boy_fat · Jul 21, 2020

Robert. said:
I had a job inside a rock crusher ,crawled along the belts ..through the separation box , into the crushing jaws ... squeezed in just getting the hips through , welded in a new support for the fixed jaw , then realised the support made the gap to tight to get back out . Had to be craned out the top of the jaw box , so I did the entire route a rock does ...but backwards .

Who did you post on guard, to ensure no wazzock turned the thing on....?

slim_boy_fat · Jul 21, 2020

spaffmonkey said:
I had another gas locker job to do today on a narrow boat. It was one of the tightest ones I've had to get in for a while.

Do you charge time - 1/2 for small spaces.... :scared:

Today's tight squeeze.

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