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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:58 pm
by seanandruby
back on the long days again. leave home at 5 am and get home at 8.30 pm. dont mind working long hours but 5 hours is just commuting, car, train and tube then ten minutes walk. split second timing with connections, otherwise longer day. to expensive to lodge in the smoke. still it pays the mortgage ( just about ) 
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:23 pm
by Dave_L
Blimey Sean - and I moan somedays about my journey to work!
Top man!
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:36 pm
by lutonlagerlout
you have to go where the work is m8,loads and loads of civils lads from luton are on the rock and roll now, ad bly's are down to a skeleton crew, tamdown are finished, flatbase have cut back.
going to be a tough year methinks
LLL
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:09 pm
by seanandruby
..... you know the old saying...when the going gets tough blah, blah , blah. sink or swim lads ???
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:22 pm
by msh paving
have tamdown finished as in bankrupt or just scalled down?
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:32 pm
by Dave_L
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:28 pm
by msh paving
Tamdown regeneration have been working on a job in Kings Lynn which is the 3rd biggest job in UK £400million a new paper mill for palm paper a German company, every one on the site is German except a few from Cemex and Tamdown who have finished now and few others, all the british out off work and there 200-300 or so Germans hear!!!!!!!!!the concrete structure is imported from germany by boat last i heard 3000 lorry loads onto the docks to the site, 6 tower cranes 8 crawler cranes all from Germany 3off em are 300 ton crawlers....thats why we got no work........they have everything come over from Germany,practilly no British input.Not even made construction news or contract journal
ALL THE MEN COULD BE LOCAL>>>>>wheres the government on this
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:53 pm
by Dave_L
Ah! Another Contract Journal reader!
Do you get it in paper or electronic format?
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:42 pm
by msh paving
i get the free paper one,but sometimes read on line as there is some good plant videos on.took me years to get a free copy, been at SED every year since 1993 only got free copy 18 monthes ago
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:02 pm
by Dave_L
The electronic download one is good, same content as the paper copy, but saving the planet (and it's free) at the same time!
Edited By Dave_L on 1232838179
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:17 pm
by msh paving
did you read the article about the guy digging his wifes drive up and dumping on her car, he's a mate off mine does my sewer connections 
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 8:29 am
by Dave_L
No I missed that one, when was that?
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:06 am
by msh paving
last week,he made all the national papers and contract journal, he got 12months suspended for 1 year 100hours comumity and 1200 quid fine
im trying to find it online,there was a vid on youtube
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:17 am
by msh paving
Angry engineer digs up wife's drive
10:06 16 Jan 2009
By Grant Prior
Furious civil engineer Kevin Covell dug-up his estranged wife's driveway with a JCB following a row over damage to his car.
Covell dumped tons of rubble on his wife Jeanette's car after accusing her of pouring paint stripper on his own vehicle.
King's Lynn magistrates in Norfolk heard how Covell had moved out of the matrimonal home and relations between the pair had soured following a fight over access to their daughter.
The Daily Telegraph reported that Covell drove his digger to his wife's house in King's Lynn last September after paint stripper was poured on his car.
Neighbours watched as Covell dug a 10ft by 8ft hole in the driveway and dumped the rubble on his wife's Vauxhall Astra causing the roof to cave in.
The court heard there was no proof Mrs Covell had attacked his car. He admitted criminal damage and was given a 12 week custodial sentence, suspended for one year and 180 hours of community service.
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:32 pm
by lutonlagerlout
all that lads that drink in my local,who work for tamdown have been paid off,so scaled off or bankrupt it makes no difference to them
the result is the same
LLL