Calling Mr Briggs!!!

[Norman the Storeman]

Here's one for all you Stackers that have had the luxury of working in the sexiest job in Supply...POL, F&L, Aviation (or whatever else they call it these days!).

What & where was your biggest uncontrolled release of product?

Mine was back in '89 at Abingdon where I was carrying out a one man bulk up (naughty) of an old AEC tanker with FFO from the Command reserve BFI No 7. I snuck off for a tab & sunbathe behind the pump house and as it was a nice summer's day I promptly nodded off. I was gently awoken by a wet sensation around my arse & legs & the strong smell of FFO. Feck! The auto cut off didn't operate (surprise, surprise) and there was a nice fountain of smelly FFO spouting from the Emco lid on the bowser...nice!
All in all a decent spill, around 33.000 litres. Filled up all the interceptors on camp & lifted up the tarmac on the road leading up to the BFI.
Didn't get fizzed as PSA had not actioned my F6415 and I wasn't supposed to be on the BFI unsupervised. My SNCO got a rocket though and he gave me a sound thrashing in the cylinder compound...great days!!! DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[sausage2]

Not as big as yours fnnnar.

Now I don't want to hijack the stakers forum, however I had an incident a few years back, concerning a hydraulic rig.

This rig is a big bit of kit, and is used to pressurise the aircraft hydraulic system, so we can have hydraulic power on the ground.

I was bleeding the rig prior to fitting it to the aircraft, when I too went for a crafty tab. in the meantime, the self sealing couling hadn't self sealed and the rig emptied its content on to the hanger floor, the spillage covered the entire hanger floor, and was about 6 inches deep, the rest of the shift was really chuffed with me.


Oh what fun we had cleaning that lot up, even the FS got his overalls on.

still 6 hours later I was ready to go again.




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[dantura]

Spills... Try mopping up 101sqn's every week!!!!.....

b*ggers try and use the 'old a/c' excuse every time....lol


Had a good 1 in Seeb in '01. Usual thing...cut off didn't work on LM, p*ssed over the top, all hands on deck, deployed spill kit, contained the product, sweating buckets, implimented the spill plan and called local fire service. They turned up after 1/2 hr, all very calm and just proceeded to hose it all into the sand...B*stards... We never really paid too much attention to the 'odd little leak' after.DT_Xtremez_42:

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[kit]

In training on my first time on a 'live' ac i kinked an oil filtter and emptyed the T-birds sump on to the floor during its ground run-oops!DT_Xtremez_03:

not very big, or scary but it made me feel a right twit- always have to check now just in case!

 

[enginesuck]

When i was a bay waller i was building a rb199 g/box and asked my oppo whether it was coupled on the turn over stand properly after i had lowered it on with the crane
'Aye no probs dude' Cue me turning it over and CRASH ! 20 grand of g/box dinked on the floor !!!!

NOT HAPPYDT_Xtremez_42:

 

[Stax]

Did a spillex not long ago. First one in a while, MGM would have been proud, we had a water bowser marked up as Avtur, crashed into the gate of a BFI, earlyish in the morning. Present are OC LS, OC Fuels and sundry pther SNCO/WO's from Fire, SMC, Fuels, MT etc. Lights, Camera, Action! OC Fuels stops a wagon heading down the road and hands the driver the scenario, including details of what to do (ring 7777 and tell them its an exercise). Righty Ho! says the driver (a mover and therefore works for, and is known by, the aforementioned OC LS.) He spins round and shoots off aong the waterfront, never to be seen again! After a few minutes when realisation dawned, we had to stop someone else and it was "take 2", we got that in the can mind. Best bit was, we were so impressed with his gall, he got away with it!

 

[rest have risen above me]

I once filled a GR4 radome with 45 litres of OM15. Damn those none self sealing couplings. And the bluddy heavies made me refill the rig as well as clean it up.DT_Xtremez_42:

 

[The Helpful Stacker]

Not a spill of mine but a notable one from my days on 'The Wing' (thumps clenched right fist to chest) was notable for the small amount spilled but large paperwork and bother that followed.

A certain member of Tiswas (who may have enjoyed Milky Bars occasionally) was carrying out a one-man RTR (naughty naughty) on a Wessex at night, somewhere in the emerald toilet. Open line nozzles and bulky gloves not being the best of bed fellows when the time came to stop fuelling on the toasty warm point stuck behind a nightsun the fuel it wouldn't a stop flowing. In what we understand was a blind panic the said operator yanked the open line nozzle still squirting at full tilt out of the a/c, across the nightsun, over the loadie's boots and then finally chucked it to the ground, the impact shutting off the flow.

Now from what I understand from the crew (who shut down to check any possible damage) the amount of fuel spilt wasn't that much and they told said operator not to worry as they were heading back to Aldergrove anyway. Unfortunately for Cpl Milky Bar he was a very new and wet behind the ears wing mong and so he decided to follow what he saw as the correct procedure and contacted FLS to inform them of the fuel spill. To cut the story short he was lucky not to lose his tapes for carrying out an illegal one-man refuel (contrary to TSW standing orders, because we all followed them), all for the sake of what was believed to have been 15 litres of Avtur, a slightly splashed nightsun and a loadie's boots.

DT_Xtremez_42:

Oh, and then there's always the poor lads who were on the last SH force exercise (Rustic Legion) on Otterburn who ended up digging half the training area up to take back with them (double bagged of course) because the Ops Room escapee who had decided to come out into the real world wanted every spillage, no matter how small, dug up and returned to Stafford. The place looked like swiss cheese afterwards.

 

[Norman the Storeman]

Ah, one-man refuels. Those were the days! Middle of the night at Grosvenor, rudely awaken by Buzzard, 2 Lynx inbound, 2 mins, for RTR. All the other lads down town in Mulligans hammered...nice. Ran out in me tracky bottoms, boots undone, with me softie & ear defs, half asleep. Carried out 2 text book refuels then back to the cabin & straight in me scratcher. Woke up in the morning thinking I'd dreamt it (nice). Went out to do QACs & realised the pump was still on...get in! DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[I look like Bruce Willis]

I trust that all spillages were dealt with IAW the station environmental spillage policy, although I doubt it in Sausage2 case.

 

[Norman the Storeman]

I trust that all spillages were dealt with IAW the station environmental spillage policy, although I doubt it in Sausage2 case.

Only required if spillage occurs in Uk or EU.

If spillage occurs in Middle East it's considered as 'returning to source'.

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[propersplitbrainme]

Not caused by me, but spillage screw-ups I have known...

At Lyneham a bowser driver in an Avtur twin rig flipped the trailer as he rounded the perri track at the end of the runway. What a bloody mess, stuff went everywhere including into a nearby stream. All the spillage kits on camp and we were still ****ing into the wind, it was like trying to mop up a complete pint with one square of napkin.

During Op-telic at Akro, a hydrant fuelling system was set up between the main bulk store at the mole, the BFIs and the dispersals. Whilst pumping several thousand litres from one part of the system to another during night shift, the duty POl guy decided to catch a few Zeds. He only awoke when all hell broke loose as an enormous lake of Avtur began spreading out from an overflowing bladder.

 

[Norman the Storeman]

Not caused by me, but spillage screw-ups I have known...

At Lyneham a bowser driver in an Avtur twin rig flipped the trailer as he rounded the perri track at the end of the runway. What a bloody mess, stuff went everywhere including into a nearby stream. All the spillage kits on camp and we were still ****ing into the wind, it was like trying to mop up a complete pint with one square of napkin.

During Op-telic at Akro, a hydrant fuelling system was set up between the main bulk store at the mole, the BFIs and the dispersals. Whilst pumping several thousand litres from one part of the system to another during night shift, the duty POl guy decided to catch a few Zeds. He only awoke when all hell broke loose as an enormous lake of Avtur began spreading out from an overflowing bladder.

Aha! I know that very individual. He went to sleep in the landy because the office was full of mossies! He was very lucky that he woke up at all & didn't suffocate in his sleep from the fuel vapours.
I do believe however that his SNCO did attempt to suffocate him later on. DT_Xtremez_31:

 

[The origional Pob]

I spilt my coffee once...that was a harrowing experience as the t bar had closed for the day!. Had to have councilling for that one.DT_Xtremez_08:

 

[The Helpful Stacker]

Aha! I know that very individual. He went to sleep in the landy because the office was full of mossies! He was very lucky that he woke up at all & didn't suffocate in his sleep from the fuel vapours.
I do believe however that his SNCO did attempt to suffocate him later on. DT_Xtremez_31:

I know the chap too. Couldn't have happened to a nicer individual.

One wonders that if he had his canoe with him he could have paddled out of trouble.....DT_Xtremez_15:

 

[Norman the Storeman]

I know the chap too. Couldn't have happened to a nicer individual.

One wonders that if he had his canoe with him he could have paddled out of trouble.....DT_Xtremez_15:

Nice one! DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[superstacker]

I've got a spillage for you, names will not be mentioned but serving wing guys will know who im talking about.

Out in Basra on the BFI, we worked out a method of getting fuel out of the permenant BFI from the emergency discharge points, into our TBFI kit. Due to power shortages we had to be able to refuel with no electricity.

So basically we started sucking from a 600,000 litre metal tank, into a pillow tank. Shift handover draws near and the refuel is about halfway through, so I hand over to night shift, and instruct him when the refuel is done to knock the pump off and disconnect from the large tank....

So im in breakfast the next morning, and the offgoing night bod is in with me. Mess door ruffles open and a rather irate CPL is running towards us, shouting various obsenities, and to get into work, BOTH OF US!!!!!

It would appear that the line had not been disconnected by the night worker, and physics had taken over, the force of the big tank to small had burst the tank and filled the two tank bund with Avtur. Estimates were around 150,000 litres spilt but luckily into the bund.

But the story doesnt end there....

we spent the whole day recovering this product, using some of the wings kit (i was on a PMOC det then), and managed to pump it into an empty TFC.

We then marked this tank on the board as quarentined and hid the book away.....

So what does the night shift guy decide to do? (New night shift), he issues the fuel to half the MT fleet, the Herc that was taking me home on endex, and to the Wing MWAD as well.

Careers became jobs on that tour!

 

[The Helpful Stacker]

I was part of the work party that stripped down that EBFI last year. It was in complete rag order and most of the stuff we sent back had to be robbed of spares to repair the more permanent site opposite TDA4.

Now those poor sods of KBR are running the leaking, temperamental bitch of a site.

 

[Bartman]

Even worse is that the certain individual is now a wing mong! He's now learning to spill fuel properly...

 

[Norman the Storeman]

Even worse is that the certain individual is now a wing mong! He's now learning to spill fuel properly...

I think you'll find that he is not new to the world of spillages either. I think he's been involved in at least one in each hemisphere now.

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