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Post by dazbt on Oct 3, 2009 8:53:02 GMT -5
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Post by John on Oct 3, 2009 10:38:57 GMT -5
I first heard of this earlier this year Daz, when I watched a TV program about it on sea beds at the deepest levels of the oceans. Seems there's some interesting theories as to what would happen should we accidentally cause many tons of the stuff to migrate to the ocean surface! It's been theorized that there have been ocean firestorms caused by the rising to the surface of tons of this stuff that have been ignited by lightning. Also one of the theories is that should the seas warm a few degrees, that this stuff will melt releasing thousands of tons of methane gas into the atmosphere creating a warming that will kill all life off on earth. Who knows??? Been there for tens of thousands of years, and nobody has yet come up with how it got there in the first place.
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Post by dazbt on Oct 3, 2009 11:15:22 GMT -5
then there's this story relating to a coal mine in Svalbad, Spitsbergen in the Arctic Circle where the coal is Longwalled in permafrost ........... Greenpeace protestors have set up camp on a conveyor belt and caused major disruption to coal being loaded onto a ship bound for Portugal. These Greenies sure know how to pick a target, I can't help but wonder why they haven't infiltrated the 'alleged' biggest world polluter, the coal mines of Datong in Shanxi, I envisage that they would be well on their way into fiery bowels of some power station long before they managed to fix the second tent peg. www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5913QT20091002 |
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Post by John on Oct 3, 2009 12:02:25 GMT -5
then there's this story relating to a coal mine in Svalbad, Spitsbergen in the Arctic Circle where the coal is Longwalled in permafrost ........... Greenpeace protestors have set up camp on a conveyor belt and caused major disruption to coal being loaded onto a ship bound for Portugal. These Greenies sure know how to pick a target, I can't help but wonder why they haven't infiltrated the 'alleged' biggest world polluter, the coal mines of Datong in Shanxi, I envisage that they would be well on their way into fiery bowels of some power station long before they managed to fix the second tent peg. www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5913QT20091002I somehow think the same Daz, the Chinese government seems to have a pet hate about protesting. ;D ;D I wonder if the shearer drivers wear thermal underwear?? If I were the lecko in the panel, I'd deffo be on top of the tranny with a feather filled continental quilt to keep warm! ;D |
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Post by dazbt on Oct 3, 2009 13:28:35 GMT -5
then there's this story relating to a coal mine in Svalbad, Spitsbergen in the Arctic Circle where the coal is Longwalled in permafrost ........... Greenpeace protestors have set up camp on a conveyor belt and caused major disruption to coal being loaded onto a ship bound for Portugal. These Greenies sure know how to pick a target, I can't help but wonder why they haven't infiltrated the 'alleged' biggest world polluter, the coal mines of Datong in Shanxi, I envisage that they would be well on their way into fiery bowels of some power station long before they managed to fix the second tent peg. www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5913QT20091002I somehow think the same Daz, the Chinese government seems to have a pet hate about protesting. ;D ;D I wonder if the shearer drivers wear thermal underwear?? If I were the lecko in the panel, I'd deffo be on top of the tranny with a feather filled continental quilt to keep warm! ;D |
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Post by dazbt on Oct 4, 2009 3:47:28 GMT -5
I somehow think the same Daz, the Chinese government seems to have a pet hate about protesting. ;D ;D I wonder if the shearer drivers wear thermal underwear?? If I were the lecko in the panel, I'd deffo be on top of the tranny with a feather filled continental quilt to keep warm! ;D Summat dodgey here, I didn't intend to post this one, plus I've had to re-register to get back on. I tried to login this morning and failed, no registration for my email address ..... but re-registered without problem. |
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Post by John on Oct 4, 2009 7:17:31 GMT -5
I wondered what had happened to you, I'll have to check the site logs and see what they say.
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Post by John on Oct 4, 2009 7:20:35 GMT -5
Did you go into your profile Daz?? as this is what the site security logs show..
Deleted the account "dazbt" from the forum.
If not, then Proboards glitched and I will need to contact them.
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Post by dazbt on Oct 4, 2009 9:58:42 GMT -5
Did you go into your profile Daz?? as this is what the site security logs show.. Deleted the account "dazbt" from the forum. If not, then Proboards glitched and I will need to contact them. I didn't open my profile at all, but I've just done that now and see that even though I have re-registered my old posts are credited to my new login. |
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Post by John on Oct 4, 2009 10:31:43 GMT -5
Did you go into your profile Daz?? as this is what the site security logs show.. Deleted the account "dazbt" from the forum. If not, then Proboards glitched and I will need to contact them. I didn't open my profile at all, but I've just done that now and see that even though I have re-registered my old posts are credited to my new login. Very odd, I'll go to the support site and see if anyone else has encountered this problem. |
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Post by dazbt on Oct 4, 2009 14:45:11 GMT -5
In or around 1982 I was “sentenced” to a six week trip to Spitsbergen to install an AB 16 MK2 SERDS, I was given little notice but fairly open authority to go and buy some thermal clothing, I managed to spend about £250 on several sets of thermal underwear, trousers, jackets, boots and socks not to mention the fancy headgear, and all that was bought in the cheapo Army and Navy Stores …….. I had just about managed to pack all this Arctic Survival Gear ready for the off, when I received a ‘change of plan’ telephone call, I was to alter tack and shoot off to middle India to a serious shearer breakdown, the travel cases were undone and repacked with the much easier two pair of shorts, three ‘tee shirts’ and a pair of sandals ……….. so, I never got to work in the permafrost and can’t really comment about how cold the working conditions were, but I do know that the water used to cool the shearer motor was pre-heated and that the shearer dust suppression was foam rather than water.
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Post by John on Oct 5, 2009 12:19:26 GMT -5
And I'll bet Andersons never reimbursed you for the cold weather gear.
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Post by dazbt on Oct 5, 2009 15:37:02 GMT -5
And I'll bet Andersons never reimbursed you for the cold weather gear. By sheer coincidence you were very close to the truth, that was about the only time that I ever had a struggle to reclaim any out of pocket expenses with Anderson .......... and that was as a result of my not being at home to sort it all out, it was paid in full a couple of weeks after I returned from India. Anderson were pretty fair with expenses and never really had any argument with what we were allowed to claim, but where they did fail was in paying a reasonable allowance for working overseas, probably very close to only half of the extra payments that companies such as Dowty and Doscoe paid their service lads when on overseas work. |
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Post by John on Oct 5, 2009 16:39:25 GMT -5
I nearly ended up with Eckhoffs in the early 80's. I attended an interview in a top Sydney hotel, good grief, all the top bosses were there and not one with less than a PHD after their names too, kind of scary being interviewed by Doctors!
I was asked if I'd learn German, be willing to travel to Germany and work at the factory for three months etc etc. Yes, was my reply, all going very well, then it came to wages. They asked me my yearly salary, and I told them, and then the killer question that ended my chances of working for Eichoff. "What salary would you expect from our company"? Obvious, not less than I'm earning right now! Never heard from them again! ;D In many ways I'm glad in hindsight, as when I was chatting to Alex Downey a few years later he said they expect you to work all hours with very little compensation.
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