Metal - friends or foes

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nice photo Dapop.....is that a drag line machine....? long time since working on one of those....
Favourite crawler base was either an American, had a V6 two stroke Diesel or the Ruston-Busyrus with their air cooled engine....
Just thinking back not much plant ever got Gardener D engines....perfect I would have thought....???
A case of accountant paranoia.......

Same with us on a long job at a gas turbine house......
used to take trainee fitters with us......those silly person's could get u killed....
No phones etc.....all pockets had to be Zipped....
any infringement u were thrown of site with no return.....the good old days.....hahaha....

I once had the responsibility for the safety of an aerosol filling plant.
We had 400 tonnes of hydrocarbon gas on site, in the middle of a residential area in Sydney.
You would not believe the number of gas tanker delivery drivers I banned ( for life ) for basic safety breaches. I don't think they knew what a copper hammer was.
With hydrocarbon gas, there is an old adage -"one flash, and you're ash "