Ahh, remember this well... We were busy on the receiving desk as usual and I got called outside to help some of the yard guys out... Walked outside the warehouse and this is exactly what I saw... A 7ton forklift had been left completely un-attended with the handbrake off, god knows, but either the machine jumped into gear or the operator jumped off!! but this could have turned out bad, just lucky the drain got a bit twisted and nothing more...


The good old mobile crane :) Quite often these were called into the yard to assist with heavy lifs or complicated lifting operations. Sometimes it was something as basic as slinging a container, or maybe awkward, like moving expensive machinery or pipework spoolpieces etc.


I like a laugh!! Took this snap one day as I saw two of the office guys raking around in the skip... I asked them what the hell they were doing, as I thought they had lost their minds, but it seemed that some important shipping related documentation had been accidentally thrown in the bin... Oh dear...

We had a man who worked with us who was the longest serving in the entire crew. Paul Kennedy was a master at tying in awkward loads into containment units and always did an absolutly pro. job at making sure everything was complete and correct. I can only assume he got so good through years of experience, many of which he worked offshore prior to getting into the logistics game. Good guy, crazy, but in a good way :) Ashinface.


One thing every rig goes through a lot of is parts like this. It would not be uncommon to see 3 or more crane hooks to go through our hands every day when things were getting busy offshore. Anything from a needle to an anchor!