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kordts
10-23-2007, 10:01 PM
A coal burning power plant that I just got into called me. Their on-site sewage treatment plant was having problems. Long story short, the grey water goes under a baffle and into a 3" pipe to a water wheel where it gets sluiced over a bed of coal. They suspected the 3" pipe was full of leaves. The pipe was under about 18" of grey water, so it was a poke and hope to get the cable in it, I was using a small drop-down retrieval tool. The cable started bunching, I pulled it back and there was a pair of prescription glasses wrapped around the tool. The odds of those glasses making it all the way thru the plant and then under the baffle and into the 3" pipe must be pretty high. Smelled like money, though.
Peanut9199
10-24-2007, 06:22 AM
Just as long as there wasn't a head attached to those glasses.
toolaholic
10-24-2007, 07:15 AM
Amazing, drag the settling pond for bodies :eek:
I was asking on another forum if anyone had used their retrivers down gofer holes. Guy said no , but last winter clearing a line I pulled back a cats' head.
He was serious :(
GrumpyPlumber
10-24-2007, 07:24 PM
The dark side of plumbing.
I know a guy that worked for the public sewer dept, I'll spare details but I think you guys can picture.
kordts
10-24-2007, 09:28 PM
My dad took care of the municpal water and sewer for 30 years. As kids we used to go out to the sewer plant and help him dip out condoms and other floaties. We were so innocent, we used to ask my dad how come people flushed all the balloons down the toilets. I told the fitter who was helping me that this was bringing back "lovely childhood memories." He just shook his head.
Peanut9199
10-25-2007, 06:14 AM
Had a customer come to me and had a problem with a sewage pump.
It was in a office building where a lot of women worked and he kept getting "white mice" clogging the pump and needed a grinder pump.
Took me a while to figure out why having a lot of women would cause white mice.
master plumber mark
10-25-2007, 03:54 PM
We had a guy in town that decided to use the
Black and Decker Chain saw on his wife........LOL
eventually I guess they "found what they found"
floating down at the treatment plant...
I think he got life..
happy halloween
patrick88
10-25-2007, 05:37 PM
Took me a while to figure out why having a lot of women would cause white mice.
LOL That is to funny