My hand warmer and my glove have excellent contact. No couplant needed.
Winter Field Work
Frozen fingers, cold couplant and batteries that quit before you do. For every industry. 14 jokes.
Every kickoff meeting in January starts by breaking the ice. Ours was on the walkway.
Why does a battery read full at breakfast and empty by ten in the cold?
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It's an optimist until the first scan.
How much daylight does a winter inspection crew get?
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Enough to find the weld, not enough to finish it.
Why did the couplant sit out the winter job?
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It couldn't go with the flow.
Winter inspection is mostly a search for the one finger that still works.
My gloves have two modes: warm enough to work, or thin enough to work. Never both.
You might be a winter inspector if you have ever kept a bottle of couplant inside your coat to keep it from freezing.
The crew lined up the instruments next to the heater so the batteries would last. By lunch the instruments had the best seats in the shack, and the crew was standing outside holding the clipboard. Nobody complained. The instruments had been tested more thoroughly than anyone else on the job.
Frost on the scaffold,
hand warmers in every glove,
coffee turns to ice.
Couplant, Winter Edition (n.): A gel that has decided to be a solid until further notice.
Nobody warns you that safety glasses fog up the moment you lean over the one weld you need to see.
Ever notice that short winter days mean you start in the dark, finish in the dark, and the weld you needed is at noon?
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Frost.
Frost who?
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Frost thing tomorrow, bring warm couplant.