Massive new groundworks job - My son and i started this morning :)

cookiewales · Post: # 43541Post **cookiewales** Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:52 pm

loved that giles still laughting :p

rimexboy · Post: # 43542Post **rimexboy** Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:56 pm

Dont let health and safety see this no hard hat or high vis top tut tut

Sun Nov 29, 2009 2:57 pm

i sent 2 guys over to explain that to him, but obviously their PPE wasn't upto t-rex spec haha

rimexboy · Post: # 43562Post **rimexboy** Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:57 pm

GB_Groundworks wrote:i sent 2 guys over to explain that to him, but obviously their PPE wasn't upto t-rex spec haha

mmmmmm im lost for words pmsl ??? ???

flowjoe · Post: # 43564Post **flowjoe** Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:03 pm

Think the guy on the left has white finger, weve got a chisel as blunt as that at the yard.

Sat Dec 05, 2009 12:43 pm

going to be expanding the fleet this xmas just found all the bruder stuff to go with his big tractor and trailer

but then theres this from jcb how cool?

Tommy · Post: # 43679Post **Tommy** Sat Dec 05, 2009 9:42 pm

Are you sure that it's a wise choice, afterall, a lowloader alone is a hugely significant investment.

Injured · Post: # 43692Post **Injured** Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:36 am

What buckets do you get with the JCB??
Also wheres the roll cage? H & S might shut you down if they see that. :p :p :p

henpecked · Post: # 43883Post **henpecked** Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:00 am

rice is ok, lucky you ain't working for peanuts.

Hp

Post: # 43988Post **Dave_L** Sun Dec 20, 2009 12:29 pm

My boy is working all hours these days, trying to make the job pay and finish on time.

mickg · Post: # 43989Post **mickg** Sun Dec 20, 2009 12:37 pm

awesome Dave

Injured · Post: # 43990Post **Injured** Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:27 pm

cool wish I had a lad now too. My 2 girls are not interested in toys like that.

Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:00 pm

is that the bruder paver?

we did a site and there was a kid next door to it who had a form of autism and he was absolutely obsessed with black top and laying it. he was 9 and a nice kid but he would just stand there and ask a million questions about the pavers the rollers the aggregate size and he could remember it verbatim, and repeat it back to you but would then ask the same questions again.

he'd ring my dad up and my dad would spend a hour or so each time going through it all again. he then got our blacktops guys foremans number and would do the same. but it got so bad they stopped answer his calls. he still rings my dad now and again 3 years since we left the job same questions same answers but he's a nice lad. we got him the bruder paver and cat roller. he used to come on site after they'd finish and crocuch down and smell the tarmac for 10-15 minutes at a time.

his parents used to ship him off to us for days on end in the holidays, must be so hard for them. but we'd get him ppe'd up and he'd just play with his toys. he could remember the weight and width of each roller, the laying depths etc. aggregate sizes bitumen percentage etc, we used to give him the tickets from the drivers.

i miss him actually, sometimes he was a pain and a health and safety nightmare but what can you do, he didn't have a rational understanding.

i hoping santa brings all the stuff on my lads list from bruder, added pretty much every bit of kit they do consrtuction wise haha.

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rab1 · Post: # 43994Post **rab1** Sun Dec 20, 2009 7:40 pm

that young lad will be working for dave in a few years. you smell that?, thats the smell of tarmac in the morning. :p

:p

Post: # 44002Post **Dave_L** Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:01 pm

I hope he'll be working for me in 13 years! He's digger-mad as many youngsters are these days.

The paver is a "Made in China" affair but I guess it is an official Vogele product as it's an exact copy of the 1803, with detail like extending screed & working material conveyors.