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That week at the Seattle port job was a total nightmare
Last month I had a job moving steel beams for a new building down by the Seattle waterfront. The operator before me left the hoist cables with twists in them, so I spent the first two days just fixing that mess. Then on Wednesday, the wind kicked up to 25 knots and I had to stop every lift because the load was swinging like crazy. By Friday I was so behind schedule the foreman started yelling at me over the radio. Has anyone else had a job where everything went wrong before you even got to the controls?
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wendyprice13d ago
That 25 knot wind sounds brutal. I once had a forklift die in the middle of unloading a container of frozen fish and the reefer unit failed too, talk about a smelly mess.
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the_aaron13d ago
Oh man, that is a nightmare scenario. Did the forklift die right in the middle, like with the pallet halfway in the air, or was it just parked and refused to start? That fish smell, once it warms up and leaks, it pretty much ruins everything in a ten-foot radius. I've seen pallets of frozen shrimp get left out for just an hour in the sun, and the whole warehouse smelled like low tide for a month. How long were you stuck dealing with the mess before you could get another machine or freezer truck out there?
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wesley18113d ago
Hate to be that guy, but I think you mean "reefer" as in the refrigeration unit, not the... other kind of reefer. Could be a whole different kind of smelly mess if that had failed though. I've seen what happens when a reefer goes out on a hot dock, that fish smell gets into everything, concrete, pallets, your clothes for a week. Bet that forklift dying made it ten times worse since you couldn't even get it into the freezer quick enough.
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