Things you don't hear, see, do or say in the work place any more.

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Poptop2, Jun 3, 2015.

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  1. Pony

    Pony

    Parquat, and Allen Sythes; the most deadly piece of garden machinery. Two wheels, engine and a dirty great big cutter bar at the front, no guards. If you for a milisecond lost concentration the front end would dig in and throw you over the handle bars in front of the still running cutter bar with the drive to the wheels in gear.:eek:
     
    Pony, Jun 4, 2015
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  2. Terrordales

    Terrordales Nightshift

    At least Paraquat worked properly.
     
    Terrordales, Jun 5, 2015
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  3. rock65

    rock65

    Fire buckets full of sand with a thick layer of fag ends on top, handy for people dotted around the place, just finish one and light up again. Another thing nobody used was parking brake on lorry trailers, the used to be a cable and pulley set up always seized through lack of use, didn,t appear to bother sorting them at mot time, now fancy pull out button affair,sackable not to use.
     
    rock65, Jun 5, 2015
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  4. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    We used the trailer brake religiously at the two general haulage firms I worked for. I came into the yard once and the boss was telling me to pick up a empty flatbed and get away to a local firm to load for Scotland. I began winding the legs down and he had a moment and uncoupled her. Our yard was on a slope and I hadn't had chance to take the airlines off or ratchet the trailer brake by then. The airlines stretched and popped and 25 tonnes of steel coiler and trailer gathered speed and went straight into Bookers cash and carry wall. He never said a word. When I got back from Scotland he had put up a big sign saying - Trailer brakes must be used.
     
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    Poptop2, Jun 5, 2015
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  5. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Last year at work my mate dropped his drag trailer off at the top of the yard I was sat in my cab at the bottom of the slope 50 yards away and suddenly the trailer began to creep forward and gather speed. I just had time to jump out of my cab and drag my mate ( who was trying to stop it with his shoulder:rolleyes:) out of the way before the 10 ft long drawbar arm with 10 tonnes and travelling down the yard at 15mph went straight through my cab where I had been sat - writing my truck off . The brake was on, but failed. We use chocks too now.
     
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    Poptop2, Jun 5, 2015
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  6. rock65

    rock65

    How many do you see now get out, first thing they do is pull fifth wheel handle, just mad,why would do that, and you can't tell them anything, they know it all!
     
    rock65, Jun 5, 2015
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  7. " more tea vicar"?

    " more tea vicar"?

    Here's one for you Malc
    The hammers at SDF
     
    " more tea vicar"?, Jun 16, 2015
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  8. Wonty

    Wonty

    Probably my gripe of the day.....Deep breath......
    • Use spreadsheets to calculate things!
    • Write anything down, as reports seem to be out of favour with the illiterate bright young things and their 47 A* GCSEs that range from My Favourite Playground Ride to Grass Identification but none with a title 99% of the members on TLB could recognise!
    ........and exhale......

    It has been been a wonderful day......can you tell ;)
     
    Wonty, Jun 16, 2015
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  9. Furyblade_Lee

    Furyblade_Lee

    I miss the banter with about 50 office girls / women at British Gas when I was in my early twenties. I was an engineer, but got away with murder with a lot of them when we walked through the office... In fact they would instigate a lot of it, and many a time they had me and few of the other younger guys red faced, totally embarassed and heading for the exit sharpish.... There would have been many sackings for sexual harassment, and that was just the women!!!!

    Also the smoking room at the end of that office. Vile, yellow , stale stinking place, could not even peer far through the door, thank god all that stopped years ago.
     
    Furyblade_Lee, Jun 16, 2015
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  10. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    I don't know if they run occasionally, but I can hear them on a still summers night Sat in my back garden. Nothing like the old days,but still at least one going
     
    Poptop2, Jun 16, 2015
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  11. " more tea vicar"?

    " more tea vicar"?

    I thought I heard it last week
     
    " more tea vicar"?, Jun 16, 2015
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  12. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    There were a couple of lads started at our place a few years back. Right know it all's. They were put on the Glasgow run. One refused saying it was too far and he had never slept in a truck before and the other asked where it was as he had never been north of Manchester. They practically run the place now. T@s
     
    Poptop2, Jun 16, 2015
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  13. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Pheww. Thank God, I thought it was a ghostly sound come back to haunt me for my past wrong doings.
     
    Poptop2, Jun 16, 2015
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