[Danimal16]

Originally Posted by unclebilly

I used to be the senior technical advisor for one of the worlds largest oilfield service companies. One of my last projects was electrifying, automating, and customizing a fluid injection unit. Basically, I took and older chem van (semi truck and trailer) and we dumped about a million bucks into it making it amazing. In the middle of a chem van is a spill trough and it was nasty.

When I picked up the unit at the base where it was stored, I needed to strip all of the old controls, hydraulics, progressive cavity pumps, etc out of it before it could go to the fab shop. The sump also needed to be scraped out and pressure washed. I asked if there was a ‘broken wing guy’ (someone on modified duty) or anyone on the ‘5hit list’ that could help me. The base manager thought he was funny to say, ‘nope’.

I was happy to do the nasty job knowing I was getting 2-3x the pay of anyone at that base including the base manager... once the base manager figured out who I was and my reporting structure, I had all the help I could ask for.

Great story!