The Arbalk morning register!

[AHPP]

3 hours ago, Bob_z_l said:

Sadly I'm Telecom first and Firewood/Chainsaw milling as a sideline. I am hands up not 100% arb   My heart is..... but bills are Telecoms

 

Must go where the work is, sadly it is Landan. 

 

 

 

p.s Till I retire, win lottery, premium bonds....etc  Then Bets are Off  :-)

 

 

 

Put your hands down. No foul.

What do you do then? Connect wires in one of those green boxes on the side of the road? Spike up poles to make calls with a comically large handset? Thrash out million pound deals with Peter Jones? Steal iphones from a moped?

 

[PeteB]

Awake far too early again, gives me a chance to read paper i suppose! Looks likely to be a hot one! Be good out there!

 

Goes, Trite. 

[Mick Dempsey]

Winching out an ash that has fallen in a river today. 
 

A lot of unknowns, chainsaws in boats is always a tricky combination. 
I’ll try and document it for your delictation. 

[Stubby]

13 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Winching out an ash that has fallen in a river today. 
 

A lot of unknowns, chainsaws in boats is always a tricky combination. 
I’ll try and document it for your delictation. 

Good luck today Mick ! Good morning all . 

[Bob_z_l]

Good Morning

 

Don't feel like a millionaire.

 

re: @AHPP  after a Telecoms apprenticeship in the 80's and 20+ years working on the exchange equipment, fibre optics, switches and later software I left. Did a telecom role on London Underground. Inside, Outside, Deep Under and trackside. Promoted upwards and eventually got weary of the pressure and deadlines. After a spell working at Gatwick for ea$yJet I returned to BT (by chance). On a project migrating peoples line connections with a view to rationalising them onto the last equipment remaining, whilst the rest is switched off. Power and cost savings and a government mandate.

 

Eventually there will be no exchange fed power to phones, barring a select few special cases and everyone will be fibre/ IP.

 

Chainsaws because I live rurally. My jobs are inside and at some points rarely saw daylight  and so the joy of being outside stopped any melancholy.

 

I (chainsaw)mill when the opportunity arises, and act as groundy when asked. Keep active , fit and occupied.

 

My nearly 60 years in a nutshell. 

 

 

Have a great one. 

[maybelateron]

Morning all,

 

I'd forgotten how scratched you get moving around inside a yew. Vicious dead twigs etc.

 

Dying pine dismantle today only 2 miles away, and I am on the ground. Some nice fuel for the boiler as well.

 

Be good, stay safe.

[roboted]

Good Morning All. 

[Stephen Blair]

Morning, up and away yesterday looking at jobs, near 300 mile round trip, another morning out looking at sites just now, waiting for landowner for a meeting. 

[AHPP]

5 hours ago, Bob_z_l said:

Good Morning

 

Don't feel like a millionaire.

 

re: @AHPP  after a Telecoms apprenticeship in the 80's and 20+ years working on the exchange equipment, fibre optics, switches and later software I left. Did a telecom role on London Underground. Inside, Outside, Deep Under and trackside. Promoted upwards and eventually got weary of the pressure and deadlines. After a spell working at Gatwick for ea$yJet I returned to BT (by chance). On a project migrating peoples line connections with a view to rationalising them onto the last equipment remaining, whilst the rest is switched off. Power and cost savings and a government mandate.

 

Eventually there will be no exchange fed power to phones, barring a select few special cases and everyone will be fibre/ IP.

 

Chainsaws because I live rurally. My jobs are inside and at some points rarely saw daylight  and so the joy of being outside stopped any melancholy.

 

I (chainsaw)mill when the opportunity arises, and act as groundy when asked. Keep active , fit and occupied.

 

My nearly 60 years in a nutshell. 

 

 

Have a great one. 

 

 

Mum and dad have just lost the faithful old wire phone. Same handset for forty years. You could hear the little dits as you dialled it. I'm sat looking at the empty rawlplugs, like the height marks on a doorframe of a lost child. Replaced with some ting tong Fisher Price bullshit on a base station that plays music. That'll last a year or two before the battery goes.

Edited June 4 by AHPP

[sime42]

That's unusual these days I think, not many people have landline telephones now. Well, based on my limited data set; I know hardly anyone who uses one. Those few that do are in the older generations. We're in the odd position of having to pay for a phone line that we don't use. Virgin don't allow the option of not having one. Now that they're not exchange powered, there's no advantage over a mobile. (Not that I think that's progress, it's probably not. Same as getting rid of FM radio transmition. I'm also of the Luddite mindset)