Oil Spill in Gulf

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Re: Oil Spill in Gulf

Postby MudHog » Thu May 13, 2010 9:03 am

stang67 wrote:Now they've said the hydraulic supply that powers the BOP had/has a leaking fitting, keeping it from working. Seems to me they could repair the fitting and seal 'er right up...

If that is true, I can tell you what your saying is easier said then done.

Try to do something via submersible, much less try to thread a fitting. Oh, and there's likely way more torque required to unscrew it that the submersible would be spinning to get the fitting out, then how you get the new fitting in?



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Re: Oil Spill in Gulf

Postby stang67 » Thu May 13, 2010 9:41 am

MudHog wrote:
stang67 wrote:Now they've said the hydraulic supply that powers the BOP had/has a leaking fitting, keeping it from working. Seems to me they could repair the fitting and seal 'er right up...

Think people, THINK!
You obviously missed the sarcasm. From where I'm sitting, NO fix is going to be an easy one at this point, though.
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Re: Oil Spill in Gulf

Postby Bankermane » Thu May 13, 2010 9:56 am

I'll bet Kudzu would eat dat sh1t up.
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Re: Oil Spill in Gulf

Postby MudHog » Thu May 13, 2010 10:55 am

stang67 wrote:
MudHog wrote:
stang67 wrote:Now they've said the hydraulic supply that powers the BOP had/has a leaking fitting, keeping it from working. Seems to me they could repair the fitting and seal 'er right up...

Think people, THINK!
You obviously missed the sarcasm. From where I'm sitting, NO fix is going to be an easy one at this point, though.
I must have and if it was ended that way, my apologies.
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Re: Oil Spill in Gulf

Postby peewee » Thu May 13, 2010 11:12 am

Bankermane wrote:I like the idea of clogging it up with golf balls. Helluva idea.
Bunch of tampons should fix it right up wouldn't you think?
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Re: Oil Spill in Gulf

Postby driveby » Thu May 13, 2010 11:37 am

Just let my wife go out there and wash her hair a couple times. That crap's constantly clogging up the shower drain.
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Re: Oil Spill in Gulf

Postby farmerc83 » Thu May 13, 2010 11:53 am

Just heard about an idea to dump tons of fresh hay on the spill to soak up the oil then skim it off. Anyone heard this too and is it something they are seriously considering?
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Re: Oil Spill in Gulf

Postby jtdumallard » Thu May 13, 2010 12:27 pm

farmerc83 wrote:Just heard about an idea to dump tons of fresh hay on the spill to soak up the oil then skim it off. Anyone heard this too and is it something they are seriously considering?
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Re: Oil Spill in Gulf

Postby Bourbon » Thu May 13, 2010 1:08 pm

The hay seems to work in the video, but the amount of hay needed would not be feasible.

Check out this comparison on Google Earth.

http://paulrademacher.com/oilspill/#bat ... ge%2C%20la

You can put in your city or region and compare the size of the spill.
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Re: Oil Spill in Gulf

Postby gator » Thu May 13, 2010 1:09 pm

golf balls and hay bales........................we've reached the very innards of the 3rd circle of hell if after years of study and practice, a catastrophy finally occurs, and all these sumbitches can give me is golf balls and hay bales......................................in the middle and bottom of the frickin' gulf.

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Re: Oil Spill in Gulf

Postby MudHog » Thu May 13, 2010 1:29 pm

gator wrote:golf balls and hay bales........................we've reached the very innards of the 3rd circle of hell if after years of study and practice, a catastrophy finally occurs, and all these sumbitches can give me is golf balls and hay bales......................................in the middle and bottom of the frickin' gulf.

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Re: Oil Spill in Gulf

Postby deltadukman » Thu May 13, 2010 1:31 pm

Yeah....you'd think all the indians(dot not feather) that have "injuneerin" degrees would be able to figure this one out with out afro engineering it. But hey this is America and we have a reggin in the white house....guess when they said "i've seen crazier chit, this is what they were talking about...
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Re: Oil Spill in Gulf

Postby gator » Thu May 13, 2010 1:35 pm

welp, i've been following this thing, and for me and mine, ya'll can keep it as simple as you'd like..............but, the day a dump truck load of Titliest (R) and some of ol' bess', the milk cow down on the farm's' supper fixes this, is the day Satan rolls up and ask for some long johns cause hell has froze over.

hay bales and golf balls.......................what the heck ever :lol:

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Re: Oil Spill in Gulf

Postby jdbuckshot » Thu May 13, 2010 1:59 pm

i say they take 5280 foot of pipe, and form the sections together and start lowering them down. they could have them ready in 100' sections or longer. the kind of pipe that threads together or welds together. and when the get to the top all they gotta do is pump it out of the pipe. all they need is 53 piecies of pipe 100' long.

They need to quite screwing around!

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Re: Oil Spill in Gulf

Postby gator » Thu May 13, 2010 2:03 pm

i beg your pardon JD.......no one is screwing around!!!!

i mean, we ARE talking golf balls and hay bales to stop and prevent one of the largest ecological disasters known to man, or some such..........

what are you expecting anyhow???? rocket surgery :lol:

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