Sunday, September 7, 2008

1st March - Frozen Equipment

1-Mar Problems with Frozen Equipment

We were kept on our toes the last few days with more things falling over because of the extreme low temperatures. Yesterday the winch system wouldn’t operate and the control airline was found to be blocked with ice. Moisture must have somehow got into the system and frozen in the lines. To top it all off this morning, we couldn’t pump out a sewage tank; we eventually found that the two-inch diameter discharge pipe was frozen solid. No wonder the pump was struggling and had given up trying to suck up a slug of frozen sewage/greywater.

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