by PorkChop » Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:00 pm
When it comes to work I am one of those guys that 99.9% of the time does not make mistakes and if I do I catch them pretty quick. Well today I had to switch tanks. I purposely shut the clean oil line going into one tank and left the other one for the new tank closed for a little bit. I do this so the oil dump in the treater rises and when I open the new tank up I can see the oil going in there. Having real thick oil sometimes it’s hard to tell. Anyways this process can take some time if no oil is coming into the treater. So I will typically go check some other things and come back. well today I forgot to go back. About an hour ago when I was doing my paperwork I remembered I did not open the valve. Thank God I got there in time before the oil got into the gas lines and into the burner. That would’ve been a big problem. Oil and fire don’t typically mix well. All is good but it was a tense 25 minutes of driving. Had I not thought about it tonight I would’ve either been called sooner than later by the fire department or I would’ve had a hell of a mess in the morning. Never a good feeling when you know you screwed up!