Back again, hard at it.
Home next week YEY!
Just finished sending pics home for the Kids, and thought I'd put a few more here.
This is where I am.
I am working the night shift, 18:00 to 06:00 and this is the midnight sunlight, and it is not the longest day light hour day yet. Bit hard to get my head around blazing sunlight at 04:00.
The weather is glorious at the moment, but not for long, due to be back to normal tomorrow., a bit like this from few days ago.
This is an old gas terminal, looks a bit shabby I know, but is in good condition still.
We've got the divers working to replace some clamps that hold pipes to the structure, they wear out and need changing. The wear is due to the structure moving around, they do move a bit and flex.
This is a clamp the guys have cut out.
The steel thickness is 12mm. It was cut out with this tool, hydraulically drive grinder with 300mm diamond tipped blades, two of them on a frame making 2 seperat cuts at once. One blade can be seen lower right, the other is opposite.
The frame is clamped into an exact position, then the grinding begins and as they cut away, the grindings heads slide along the frame.
When they are done, they need to fir this in.
Here is another pic of the Platform where we are.
Before we came out to work, we loitered in the small town of Montrose, Scotland.
Hopefully in a few days we'll sail into Lerwick, so I can fly home. I hope they don't send a chopper out for us.
