Choosing a new ladder for the suction line on the Lake Erie job

Our foreman gave us the option to weld a custom extension or buy a pre-fab aluminum one, and we went with the weld job because the lake bottom was so uneven. Anyone have a better fix for a 15-foot depth change over 50 yards?

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evan5439d ago

What, you guys didn't have any old pallets and duct tape on the barge? Seriously though, that's a wild slope. I've seen guys try to float sections with barrels on really bad bottoms, but that always ends up being a bigger headache than just welding it solid.

wilson.olivia9d ago

Right? Once you start rigging up barrels and floats it's like a whole new project just to keep it from tipping! My uncle tried that with a dock section on a muddy lake bottom, and we spent more time chasing runaway barrels than actually fishing. It looked like a cartoon, everything leaning and bobbing. Sometimes the simple weld is the only thing that actually stays put.

grantw419d ago

Tell me he at least tried strapping them down first?