It seems every time there is a dirty job to be done,
I get it.
"Lance, there's a huge stain on this sail", "Lance, the boat ran aground", "Lance, can you help me get rid of this body". It never ends. Jerry (our fearless leader) comes in this morning and says "what do you say we dye some rope". Our concerns of whether we're dressed for this or not were met with the typical "you worry too much"; and within the hour he'd rigged up a system using state of the art equipment for the task.
The process consisted of a 50 gallon drum and a plastic shipping tube left over from an order of battens. The tube was cut down to 6 feet, then filled with the paint/dye mixture and placed inside the 50 gallon drum. One person fed the rope into the tube, another pulled it out the other side while squeeging off the excess, and a third pulled the slack of the rope and laid it out for drying.
The process took about 3 hours and we ended up doing two runs of over 400 feet. It turned out beautiful. Now we're just hoping it doesn't rain before the lines dry as one of our technical advisors sent an email telling us that if it gets wet, it can take days to dry.
No comments:
Post a Comment