Carbonrocket Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Well I am into the processing of sewage, clean it, remove solids and process them for farm use. We have a machine to dry the product sludge (****). Then add lime to kill E coli. The lime causes the product to heat up and the kill percentage will be reached. Unfortunately we had a large quantity of lime added to the product. This had the effect of excessive drying of the sludge and caused a blockage in an output pipe. Well the pump pushing it up the pipe increased in pressure and after a while a standby air compressor also fed in high pressure air to the pipeline. Sooo.. A slug in a pipe with high pressure behind it? Well that's an air rifle is it not? A big one! So it spat out a 5kg, 8inch diameter slug that hit a parked up JCB, at 15m it shattered the side window and cracked the forward window. This caused a load of razor sharp high speed shards to fill the JCB cab, lucky the driver was not in the cab at the time. It also spat out a load more product to 25m. I have had to fill in so many reports and investigations I feel sick! Here are the piccys! Carb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapp Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 It's a poo cannon! ZB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperfection Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Good job no one was inside it cos that would have taken a little while explaining to the A&E staff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRS Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 are you allowed to shoot JCBs with an airgun hope its on the genral licence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted March 27, 2010 Report Share Posted March 27, 2010 That is a Big Cannon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Elvis Posted March 27, 2010 Report Share Posted March 27, 2010 wHAT A LOAD OF c R A P!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasper3 Posted March 27, 2010 Report Share Posted March 27, 2010 many years ago, i use to fit windscreens to JCBs and other plant...so glad i gave it up...thought it was a **** job then that must of had some force coming out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipper Posted March 30, 2010 Report Share Posted March 30, 2010 Terrible ! When **** hits the van ? lolol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_R Posted March 30, 2010 Report Share Posted March 30, 2010 Reminds me in a way of a sculpture called "Shooting into the Corner" by Anish Kapoor, where huge slugs of red wax have been shot into a wall for ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.