Track Safety

[Mark Bolam]

😂

[Rough Hewn]

Last century!
That makes you sound really old!

22 years ago is last millennia….

[Khriss]

Anyway.... 🙄.. Looks like a bit of a long shot mate, K

[Khriss]

( before they start  sharing 8 track best of, hits.) 

[Mark Bolam]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I know Mark, just trying to give some perspective on how things have changed.

Back then it was no names no pack drill, on site with boots and helmet and keep moving.

Joints rolled on the minibus on the way home.

Not saying there weren’t a few laughs of course.

There was one job I spent a day or two on (Polegate bypass in East Sussex) just as a man with a pair of hands, I wasn’t there on this particular day but heard about it.

They had fenced off a little pond with tape cos of newts or something.

Anyway during the day the lads had blown all the chip into the pond completely filling it up with chip.

Ecology bloke turns up to check on everything finds his pond full of 25cube of chip.

Not one fook given by anyone, nothing came of it.

I was a junior engineer for McAlpines in the early ‘90’s.

Thursday night was McAlpines night in the local.

Always a ‘big night’.

This was back in the days of ‘lock ins’.

 

I witnessed blokes heading into their caravan in the morning after a lift from the bar, quick change of clothes, and into the cab of a Cat 215 or a D6, and put a full shift in.

 

Unbelievable.

 

I’d be puking both ends of the night trying to keep up with them.

 

We built the road though.

 

 

[powersawsquirell.]

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