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[FleetEng]

No pictures of a cx16 refurbishment yet. Or have you got it out on hire! Ha

It’s in the workshop awaiting the borer to become free.

 

[FleetEng]

Awesome job, but out of interest, what’s the price of a new bucket?

its getting hold of a bucket thats the difficult part, not a stock item and fairly lengthy lead-times for manufacture. i was told that this bucket was going on a machine for export somewhere sandy and it needed to be at the docks asap

 

[FleetEng]

I didn't get a picture of the new rod but heres a 60mmx 2125mm rod that came through the door for a repair..... how do they manage these things!!

 

[V8Druid]

how indeed ?

 

[Quattromike]

how indeed ?

Where there's a will there's a way

 

[V8Druid]

Where there's a will there's a way

and usually a knob at the controls

 

[Maffume]

and heres a nice little tele handler tipping ram that had to be stripped and re piped, I do quite a few of these, they usually end up all bent when someone drops the headstock into a skip and tries to drag move it round the yard in reverse.

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gave driver a bollucking for that the other day,
to be fair if i see it again hes down the road, shame hes employed

 

[V8Druid]

gave driver a bollucking for that the other day,
to be fair if i see it again hes down the road, shame hes employed

just tell him it's unacceptable behaviour/treatment of the equipment and will result in instant dismissal if it happens again .... might make him think twice, if he has more than one brain cell

 

[FleetEng]

gave driver a bollucking for that the other day,
to be fair if i see it again hes down the road, shame hes employed

Don’t go sacking him, drivers like him keep me in business!

 

[Maffume]

Don’t go sacking him, drivers like him keep me in business!

We have one forklift as a site groundworks have another but that's a separate point.
Say there's 30men reliant on him to enable them to complete their work.
Then he renders that useless by being a fecking idiot.
How much of an effect would that have on the job and the cost implication.

How many hours do you honestly think it would take to get hold of one and change it.
Ardent hire machine as most would be.

We'd be stuffed for at least a day, even if we brought another in whilst it was down.
I doubt they are a stocked part at hire nor jcb ?

I can understand that these men keep you in work and that much is at least helpful though.

It is mad what you see though.

 

[doobin]

It is mad what you see though.

I did a little tree and site clearance job last week on a local cottage development. I watched the driver on the 4 tonner stoving the toothed bucket again and again into the dumper skip, face shovel mode, in order to try to get the last bits of concrete out. No finesse, and the dumper driver just sitting there on the seat. He kept trying and trying, smashing the bucket into the skip making both machines shake like shitting dogs, oblivious to the fact that 3" of bucket teeth would render his attempts to get the last concrete out futile. Then he swung the lot over the heads of the ground crew.

It's tiotal madness, and outside of the men on this forum who at least take some interest, I think it's the norm in the UK groundworks industry. Hard not to get worked up about it when you could do the whole job better and safer, but it's not good for blood pressure to worry about it.

I see a sharp divide between 'farming/rural based' groundworkds contractors, and housing development types.

 

[Maffume]

I did a little tree and site clearance job last week on a local cottage development. I watched the driver on the 4 tonner stoving the toothed bucket again and again into the dumper skip, face shovel mode, in order to try to get the last bits of concrete out. No finesse, and the dumper driver just sitting there on the seat. He kept trying and trying, smashing the bucket into the skip making both machines shake like shitting dogs, oblivious to the fact that 3" of bucket teeth would render his attempts to get the last concrete out futile. Then he swung the lot over the heads of the ground crew.

It's tiotal madness, and outside of the men on this forum who at least take some interest, I think it's the norm in the UK groundworks industry. Hard not to get worked up about it when you could do the whole job better and safer, but it's not good for blood pressure to worry about it.

I see a sharp divide between 'farming/rural based' groundworkds contractors, and housing development types.

Without being too offensive and I don't aim it particularly at anyone.
However.
People don't treat stuff like their own.
There is such an I'm all right back attitude that on a daily basis I'm disgusted.
I've worked, I own my own tools and equipment, not plant.
I give a Damm about cost.
I look after stuff I am given and stuff I have brought.

I'm sure most on here are the same.

I don't want to see your freshly polished cab, I really don't give a Damm about that, we work in the mud, we carry dirt with us.

But we should look after what earns our crust.

We should treat whatever it is we have access to with care.

Yes we need to push it at times, sometimes to abuse to achieve.
But not through bone idleness.

I don't like the way we have gone.
Just treat equipment like you take a responsibility for it.
Your job the same.

Have the guts to put your neck on the line and stand by our working actions.

I don't give a Damm about so much but people just don't seem genuine.

That saddens me.

 

[V8Druid]

anything I don't own and hire/use/have use of, goes back better than it arrives .. I have pride if they don't

 

[TiltyShaun]

anything I don't own and hire/use/have use of, goes back better than it arrives .. I have pride if they don't

I agree with that but I am guilty of being neglectful of some of my own!!

 

[V8Druid]

I agree with that but I am guilty of being neglectful of some of my own!!

aye --- know what you mean ... got a small list