Hartville, Wyoming

On Wednesday the 15th, we traveled to Hartville, Wyoming to perform a "Mobile Job".  This was actually a redo for us... we had stopped in Hartville on Monday the 13th, but a miscommunication through our dispatch sheet led to our leaving without cleaning their tanks. 

The issue was that the tanks are at the top of a hill that contained a turn too sharp for our trailer to make it up.  The solution: take the compressor, generator, trash pump, 50' length of hard pipe, 50' length of soft pipe, 25' of lay-flat pipe, hydradyne, hose floats, 400' umbilical, dive helmet, weight belt, dive gear, audio/video recording gear, rope bag, laptop, and dive manifold out of the trailer and tote them up to the tanks in the back of the truck. 

This made a simple job into a HUGE job.  The umbilical alone weighed over 200 pounds.  It took two trips with the truck to get all the gear up to the tanks.  Fortunately, both tanks were right next to each other, so once we had everything there it was a pretty quick clean and inspect.

We completed the job and drove five hours East to Ogallala, Nebraska, where we spent the evening before pushing onward to our next job.