TMS Guards

Member Joined: Oct 02, 2006 Location: Timbuktu

Exactly , hinge the guards come doors with quick release hinge systems problem solved .
Not to expensive and piss easy to remove . If you can hinge the doors you shouldnt have to take it off but if you have to you can .

ROVworld Webteam Joined: Dec 26, 2003 Location: Scotland

melvodon wrote:

Exactly , hinge the guards come doors with quick release hinge systems problem solved .
Not to expensive and piss easy to remove . If you can hinge the doors you shouldnt have to take it off but if you have to you can .

Ive seen hinged one which do make it easier, still a pain in the ass if TMS stacked on top of ROV and you have to work on it up there.

Other big reason for removing the "doors" is to reduce the affect of current on the TMS - can add a hell of a lot to the drag and subsequent pushing about of the TMS.

Member Joined: Oct 30, 2004 Location: New Zealand

I was just working on a Rig that made us get a working at heights permit to work on the TMS, when it was stacked, if we put a harness on

But if we did not put a harness on we did not need a working at height permit Confused

I have found the it is best to split the system when working on it anyway

Lostboy....

Aren't you at present working on a system WITHOUT guards on either the TMS or the ROV and using it to play with bubleheads????

Shame, shame on you for not thinking of the poor weee bubbleheads.

Last job I was on we had thruster guards with a gap of 15 odd mm on the guard, bubbleheads had sat umbilicals of 75 odd mm dia. and we weren't allowed within 10 meters of them by law (Risk Assesment) in case their umbs got in the thrusters (seaeye electrical ones not decent hydraulic ones)..... that is unless they needed us to get closer......

Result od a bunch of paper pushing w..kers onshore scared shitless for their job if they didn't produce mounds of crap each week.... you wouldn't believe the Power Point presentations we got each month with all the saftey bullshit graphed and colour coded etc. kept some [banned word] in a job for 18 months++

Member Joined: Feb 20, 2007 Location: Outer Mongolia

rayshields wrote:

melvodon wrote:

Exactly , hinge the guards come doors with quick release hinge systems problem solved .
Not to expensive and piss easy to remove . If you can hinge the doors you shouldnt have to take it off but if you have to you can .

Ive seen hinged one which do make it easier, still a pain in the ass if TMS stacked on top of ROV and you have to work on it up there.

Other big reason for removing the "doors" is to reduce the affect of current on the TMS - can add a hell of a lot to the drag and subsequent pushing about of the TMS.

Ray, twice i've disagreed with you within a week, Slingsby TMS, Hinged doors, fekin nightmare!!!!

Member Joined: Jun 05, 2004

ROVsuper, If the bubbleheads can get to the tms I am working on at the moment they have a serious bending problem Laughing

Member Joined: Nov 03, 2005

dont paint it
sooner r later the guards/hinges rust off

ROVworld Webteam Joined: Dec 26, 2003 Location: Scotland

ROV_VALLEY_COMMANDO wrote:

rayshields wrote:

melvodon wrote:

Exactly , hinge the guards come doors with quick release hinge systems problem solved .
Not to expensive and piss easy to remove . If you can hinge the doors you shouldnt have to take it off but if you have to you can .

Ive seen hinged one which do make it easier, still a pain in the ass if TMS stacked on top of ROV and you have to work on it up there.

Other big reason for removing the "doors" is to reduce the affect of current on the TMS - can add a hell of a lot to the drag and subsequent pushing about of the TMS.

Ray, twice i've disagreed with you within a week, Slingsby TMS, Hinged doors, fekin nightmare!!!!

Which bit of me did you disagree with? All I said is Ive seen them with hinges and its still a pain in the ass. The other quote was someone elses...

thinsub wrote:

Did here of a tech losing digits on a chain and sprocket on the TMS on deck. Then we all had to fit some guards again.

He was a Ozzy though.

Yeah he is known these days as FINGERS.

Member Joined: Aug 15, 2006

FINGERS ?? i thought it was [banned word]