SATURDAY 2 DECEMBER     RV1

About 40 degrees today.

One of our men, digging holes for pool path lights, dug up the pool water line! Bugger.

I cancelled all pending work by the heating/cooling company, whose attitude and delays had really annoyed me, and found a different company who were prepared to come today and check the compressors in the kitchen units. The problems with these were ongoing – and so were the power spikes!

The diesel fuel tank that had been at Fly Camp was moved here, next to the gensets, to provide an extra fuel source for those, due to the high rate of fuel use. I couldn’t work out why no one had known how much fuel would be needed – but it was one of the few issues that was not mine to deal with, so I didn’t fret about it.

The two electricians went out to do a task for FMG at the water bore site, got bogged out there and had to get one of the men to trundle out there with the forklift to get them out. Then they used the company’s air compressor to re-inflate their tyres, ran it without oil and so that was now U/S!

The one electrician – B – who had been almost a permanent fixture here since early in the project, had a run in with the nasty Hedland Safety Officer. He was working on a car park light up at the top of one of the poles. He had put a ladder in the back of his ute and was up the top of that. No safety harness. Nasty man took photos of this on his phone. B saw him doing this and gave him the bird – which was duly photographed too. The man then raced off back into Hedland and posted it on a Facebook page as an example of poor worker behaviour. But it backfired, because his boss questioned him about what actions he’d taken about it, and whether he’d ordered B down. He hadn’t. So he was taken to task for not doing anything. The story all came back to us quickly, because there were a number of people in the FMG office in Hedland who detested this man.

 

Later, it was pointed out to B that the light pole was actually hinged, and that he hadn’t needed to go up the ladder at all! Duh.

John had a Hedland trip in the morning, purchasing needed materials. In the afternoon, he was sent to RV2 to bring back some steel that was needed here, but had wrongly been taken there. On the return journey, the carrying frame on the Canter collapsed under the weight, 5kms from RV2. John hid the steel in the bush and tied up the frame, which would have to be welded here before the steel could be retrieved. He was very late getting back here, to the extent that I was becoming worried about him.

Down at RV 2 a crane was placing their Pod 3 buildings into position.

There was some unexpected excitement at RV2. A strong willy came out of nowhere, picked up the site office donga and then dropped it askew, so that the cement blocks that the building chassis normally sat on, came up through the floor. It made a bit of a mess. The men who were sitting eating lunch in there at the time, got a real fright. Luckily, it was S’s day off – the office desk and filing cabinet had slid right across the floor.

The sewerage smell was strong again tonight.