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Remember when we used to just guess on the silt curtain setup?
I was on a job near Mobile Bay about eight months back, and the current shifted way faster than we thought. Our curtain got all tangled and we lost a whole afternoon fixing it. Now I always check the tide charts twice and bring an extra anchor line. Anyone else start doing something simple like that after a mess-up?
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piperm3811d ago
Oh man, do I ever. Had a similar thing happen on a river job last spring. We set up based on the forecast, but a storm upstream changed everything overnight. Woke up to a curtain that looked like a pretzel. Totally my fault for not checking the real-time gauge before coffee. Now that's the first thing I do, no matter what the plan says. It's crazy how one bad morning can change your whole routine.
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susan13011d ago
One bad morning can change your whole routine" seems a bit much, doesn't it? It's just checking a gauge, not some huge life lesson. People make simple mistakes and then fix them, that's pretty normal stuff.
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eva_adams686d ago
Woke up to a curtain that looked like a pretzel" is the perfect description for this job. I swear, the river just decides to fold your equipment into modern art sometimes. My lesson was so similar, I now treat the real-time gauge like my morning alarm clock. It's the only way to avoid the special kind of panic that comes with untangling a very expensive, very muddy noodle.
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