Concrete edging kerbs
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GB_Groundworks
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this makes me laugh so much haha, i've lost 3 stone recently so does that mean as i used to be 21 stone and now 18 stone i could get away with the extra weight as my body is used to it haha, its only a kg per man haha jobs worth.
Giles
Groundworks and Equestrian specialists, prestige new builds and sports pitches. High Peak, Cheshire, South Yorkshire area.
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Groundworks and Equestrian specialists, prestige new builds and sports pitches. High Peak, Cheshire, South Yorkshire area.
http://www.gbgroundworks.com
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Tony McC
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Nearly 30 years ago, meself and my owld feller were laying big kerbs on a job allegedly run by a respectable construction company but actually run by an extremely militant union mafia. The union had seen off groundworker after groundworker with their petty attitudes, the very worst of the silliness that afflicted too many unions in those days, and we were just the latest to take up the challenge of getting the access road constructed on time.
The union steward stopped us while we were lifting a kerb into place wanting to know how heavy it was. When we told him, he consulted his little rule book and told us that we had to have three men lifting that weight. Where the #@%! do you put three men on a kerb?
All this was well before the advent of kerb lifters and manual handling regulations, but it resulted in yet another reason for the union pillocks to call a halt to all work on site, and later that day we were paid off and asked not to return.
A few weeks later, the main contractor had been pushed to the brink of bankruptcy by the repeated delays, walk-outs, sit-ins, work-to-rule etc, and sacked the entire workforce. Shortly after that, we were back on site, laying kerbs in the way we preferred, working the hours we wanted, taking lunch when we wanted and going home with money in our pockets. That was the beginning of the end for extremist militant unions in the construction industry, thank god!
The union steward stopped us while we were lifting a kerb into place wanting to know how heavy it was. When we told him, he consulted his little rule book and told us that we had to have three men lifting that weight. Where the #@%! do you put three men on a kerb?
All this was well before the advent of kerb lifters and manual handling regulations, but it resulted in yet another reason for the union pillocks to call a halt to all work on site, and later that day we were paid off and asked not to return.
A few weeks later, the main contractor had been pushed to the brink of bankruptcy by the repeated delays, walk-outs, sit-ins, work-to-rule etc, and sacked the entire workforce. Shortly after that, we were back on site, laying kerbs in the way we preferred, working the hours we wanted, taking lunch when we wanted and going home with money in our pockets. That was the beginning of the end for extremist militant unions in the construction industry, thank god!
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