Work or not - Fingers crossed

[cookiewales]

well boyos am supposed to be starting a 800m2 job monday cant make contact with customer its a two hundred mile round trip so fingers crossed :p :;): :;):

[seanandruby]

Good luck, hope it works out for you. I'm back tomorrow 100 miles at 4.30 am. Not looking forward to the trip as they've forecast icy fog. Which way you headed?

[cookiewales]

junction 22 on the m1 am driving from york just hope some one is there its all motorway so should be okay am also setting out at 4 30 so will miss traffic :p :;): :;): have a good year

[flowjoe]

Put the battery back on the van after re-charging but the van and Mrs FJs car wont be leaving the drive for a day or two, major snow fall yesterday. I will get a lift to the yard failing that i will WALK, nothing will stop me tomorrow a.m.

Have you guys seen the long range forcast, GRIM

[Injured]

I am hoping to be back on site in Halebarns tomorrow but dont hold out much hope of doing any work as i fear the sand will still be frozen like before xmas so I think I will be coming home again and not get paid or any slabs laid

[Suggers]

Been freezing every night for last fortnight down here in SE - -3 tonight - snow forecast for tues/wed - bloomin marvellous - happy new year to you all...

[ratty]

Hope it comes off cookie. :;):
Hard work when you cant make contact with your clients to know weather to book other work in its place.
Not sure whats going to be happening in the north west as the forecast for the week is for temperatures not rising above -4 at best and feeling as cold as -12 ???

[flowjoe]

Suggers, its what they have predicted for Friday you should worry about.

The `Countryfile` forecast showed some serious stuff hitting your area and throuhout the midlands, just hope they get it wrong as is the norm

[Injured]

Hope you all fair better today wasted 50 mile round trip for me. Everything frozen solid so no chance of laying anything.

Just hope things thaw out in next day or two but cant see it.

[cookiewales]

well boyos 200 miles round trip no one there then spoke to one of the factory bosses my contact has been away back tuesday so should make contact then fingers crossed no good for laying but can stack out 200 ton off setts i hope cheers cookie keep smileing it can only get better cheers cookie ps my website is back on :p :;): :;):

[Dave_L]

Stacking out 200ton of setts? Sweet Jesus..............

[cookiewales]

Stacking out 200ton of setts? Sweet Jesus..............

nice warm work in this weather we once had for tarpoley cheshire 1000 ton to sort into sizes that was mind blowing we had them delvered all at once on open ground take a look at the finshed job makes the job in the old days they would have come to site allready sized.reclaimed all mixed up thats why they could get smaller joints :p :;): :;):

[Dave_L]

Yeah I guess that ain't bad work in cold weather, keep moving and all that.

Worst job in the cold has to be a roofer, up and and not moving about very much.

[Tony McC]

When we re-paved one of the main streets in the centre of Liverpool with reclaimed setts, they were not only mixed sizes, they were still contaminated with the old pitch jointing, all of which had to be cleaned off prior to re-laying. We used somewhere around 4,500 tonnes over a 3 month period, with three laying gangs to be supplied each day. And this was through the summer, so the pitch was soft and pliable, making it much harder to break off from the sett edges.

In the end, we had a system whereby the setts were delivered to site and tipped under a flyover bridge out of direct sunlight, and then I had a couple of Tipperary lads who would come in at midnight and work through the cool of the night until 9 or 10 in the morning cleaning off the pitch and sorting the setts into gauged widths. They'd get through 30-40 tonnes per night between the two of them. Soul destroying work, but they were on a price per tonne and were making just as much as the tradesman sett layers, which isn't bad for what were essentially labourers.

[cookiewales]

and i would have to say they would have worked harder pitch is a bitch not only goes every where sticks like shit to a blanket mind you would love to see 4500 ton infront of me now he he ps will wake up from this cobble layers dream or not :p :;): :;):