diggerjones
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This chap used to train up and down them. DAN
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Monkeybusiness
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He used to live there - I guess that’s why you’ve posted this Dylan? His Mrs has one of the council houses are the bottom of the hill.
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Monkeybusiness
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Have you climbed it? You’re blowing out of your arse at the top!!!
diggerjones
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Them fuels tanks for fueling the pump house. The pipe line from lake Vyrnwy in wales to Liverpool goes past.
diggerjones
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Think he lives at black park in whichurch
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Monkeybusiness
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Yeah, got a studfarm there now I believe.
There used to always be new white range rovers parked outside the house by the waterworks - never quite added up somehow!
JD450A
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Richard Hunton
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Some operation that fella 
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Richard Hunton
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Genuine, I'd love to be involved with something like that, rather than throwing stone into a screen......
But being made to feel like I'm a brain surgeon.
Not getting any better on my job
But being made to feel like I'm a brain surgeon.
Not getting any better on my job
JD450A
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Genuine, I'd love to be involved with something like that, rather than throwing stone into a screen......
But being made to feel like I'm a brain surgeon.
Not getting any better on my job
Sack it off
I was given bad news earlier concerning me being needed on another Highways England Jaunt in a few weeks time...... Lovely Jobs and I tend to enjoy them, just a shame about the execution and the requirement for utter bollocks.....
I constantly go through the motions regarding whether being a owner Operator is the best course of action. As said numerous times you won't get rich from it and i've got to be honest whilst I love some of the work we do, the reality is I'm mentally and physically drained atm..... s**t loads of work, not enough time. That job is dragging as unfortunately I've got to craic on and get it done before the brickys get to DPC as there is no room around site.... normally I would f**k off and get some other work done until I want to return but on this job the space is so limited i've got to craic on
Richard Hunton
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I'm on a basic labour only rate, I've spent 4 and a half days getting inducted 7 hours a day sat in the truck is worse than prison.
2 thousand tons of stone to screen has turned into 9 and a half thousand ton, I just can't be arsed with it, a shift feels like a week
2 thousand tons of stone to screen has turned into 9 and a half thousand ton, I just can't be arsed with it, a shift feels like a week
JD450A
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I'd be skipping the f**k out of the gate
Personally if your good and Self Employed basic Labour rate needs to be a minimum of £20/hr.... I won't say what I go out at as it's a public forum and liable to put noses out of joint. But I Make more as a seat filler than I do with a 1t machine. It serves two purposes, 1) Does'nt rile me to be sat in someone elses machine, and 2) people only have me when they want/need me/the emotional support I bring Your time is too precious to be unhappy IMHO..... whilst I appreciate not everyone has the financial stability to tell people where to go, you won't change that by working for jelly beans and being unhappy.
Furniss
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Years ago I got asked to drive a 20T on a reinstating pipeline job and I agreed
fecking hell not for me that kind of work, talk about groundhog day, was ill with it by the end I was so bored, saw it out then bought a 1.5t and ifor Williams and started out for myself after that.
doobin
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Damn right you won't get rich from it. Im off later, an hour driving there towing the 1.7, probably three/four hours on site and an hour back, all for £300 and mainly because I'm a mug who feels sorry for a guy calling me up yesterday with a hard luck story about being let down. Must be the third in as many weeks. It's manic out there at the moment. I'm torn between making hay whilst the sun shines, and getting on with my own jobs that will make much more profit but can wait (until my customers start getting mad). Take out the £40 for 40 miles each way in the truck and that £300 is down to £260, a little more for the digger and some cherry and you're down to £220. Ain't brickies on £200 a day for a string line, a trowel and a Ford Focus?
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Lynchy
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£190/200 a day,off by half three on digger,wouldn't thank you for grief sorting jobs,payment out
Grahams
Don't complain - suggest what's better
Hope you are not wreaking that good dumper!
JD450A
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No but it will need new sprockets and tracks by the end of the job as it's getting some use.
One of those days today, hired digger and driver got a track off.... I fixed it and lost my phone, went on with railway only to have one of the contractor lads overspool the winch.... spotted it and kicked the cable off myself as I was'nt happy with it....
Tommorow is another day.... Oh Found my phone.... it's been levelled around the site and is now f***ed.
Furniss
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It depends what floats your boat, a lot of satisfaction comes from steering your own ship, building a business, improving your equipment year by year etc
Yes its a lot of work......... I dont like the paperwork and from time to time you fall upon an oddball customer , but we have only had to chase money twice in 18 years and I really wouldnt want go back to working for someone else now.
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Storrsy
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Yeah, definitely don’t do this for the money- when you work out all the time spent looking at jobs, paperwork, organising materials- then usual running cost I often think I’d be much better of sat on someone’s else’s machine and let them have the grief. BUT you can’t beat that feeling of satisfaction pulling of a successful tidy job with happy customers- that’s what swings it for me.
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