I used to operate most of them we had in the yard, but my own was a 35M. They offered me the 72M which at the time was the biggest in Europe, but it meant too much time working away(months at a time with virtually no notice) and the mrs put her foot down.
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I used to operate most of them we had in the yard, but my own was a 35M. They offered me the 72M which at the time was the biggest in Europe, but it meant too much time working away(months at a time with virtually no notice) and the mrs put her foot down.
That disgusts me.
Lucky bastard.
I got breakfast, lunch and dinner for free while I was there too. I've had easier and more lucrative shifts believe it or not.
smudgedj
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Me too tbh mate. Plenty of jobs were hurry up and wait. I once drove down to Pinewood studios, booked 6 hours travel time down(we got the same travel times as crane drivers) and was told to park up and wait. 12 hours later they came and said they didn't need me so I went home. Got six hours travel back too. 24 hour shift for doing fuck all.
I was crane driving in Portsmouth dockyard.
I know what you're saying about waiting around. We stopped that type of nonsense where the civvies were concerned; they used to book a crane all day for an hours work. So you used to sit in the cab all day for fuck all, not so bad in the mobile but in the tower cranes it was bitter in winter with no heaters and only pigeons for company. In the end they got the crane for an hour (job dependent)
BlueTangerine
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I got breakfast, lunch and dinner for free while I was there too. I've had easier and more lucrative shifts believe it or not.
Don't tell me.. I'll get upset :) Had my fair share of easy jobs, though I always give a days work, just a mindset I have. But if told to wait for the rain to pass - I have sat there and waited :) and got paid for sitting down. Roundabouts and swings. "if the money is in for it" - that's what we tell ourselves, circumstances are covered for.
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Fuck that. I preferred to climb anything higher. The highest I climbed on spikes(wood pole)was 60 feet and the rest was on smallish 100+ pylons.I used to operate most of them we had in the yard, but my own was a 35M. They offered me the 72M which at the time was the biggest in Europe, but it meant too much time working away(months at a time with virtually no notice) and the mrs put her foot down.
I never really had a great head for heights but managed to bullshit myself through it.
I was crane driving in Portsmouth dockyard.
I know what you're saying about waiting around. We stopped that type of nonsense where the civvies were concerned; they used to book a crane all day for an hours work. So you used to sit in the cab all day for fuck all, not so bad in the mobile but in the tower cranes it was bitter in winter with no heaters and only pigeons for company. In the end they got the crane for an hour (job dependent)
Most are only available for a minimum 8 hour hire. I worked for 3 different access companies and 8 hours was always the minimum, one of them was 10 hour minimum. The only exception was for valued customers and even then they only got it knocked down to 4 hours. It was a great way to make overtime. The customer had to pay for 8 hours no matter what, so most of them got a bit bolshie about it and would sign our timesheets for 8 hours, even if we had only been there an hour. They always said the same thing "If we have to pay them for 8 hours then they're going to pat you" Once we added travel time on top we could and did make a fucking fortune in overtime.
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I'm a carpenter, so yes
Don't tell me.. I'll get upset :) Had my fair share of easy jobs, though I always give a days work, just a mindset I have. But if told to wait for the rain to pass - I have sat there and waited :) and got paid for sitting down. Roundabouts and swings. "if the money is in for it" - that's what we tell ourselves, circumstances are covered for.
We had some horrible jobs too. Drive to Glasgow and spend 12 hours straight taking window cleaners up to clean the windows on tower blocks. 12 hours in the pissing rain, keeping the cage no more than a few inches away from the window so they could reach it and keeping the cage in constant motion so they could get through it all as quickly as possible. Then when the shift was over we had the easy bit of driving back to Manchester.
The easy jobs were very fucking easy though. 3 of us once spent two weeks doing 18 hour nights(including travel to and from Birmingham) and all we had to do was raise the boom with a load of lights on, and then bring it back down in the morning. We clocked up about 240 hours in a fortnight. The depot manager even got a bollocking from one of the directors who had clocked our wage slips for the week.
BlueTangerine
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I'm a carpenter, so yes
Just like Jesus. I bet that **** left his shavings all over the place for the painter to sweep up too.