eggsarascal
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Everything posted by eggsarascal
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I can’t see that happening, I can only talk from the water industry, the water authority I worked for are owned by the French and Canadians, there is very little chance of it coming back into public ownership.
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Like most forums, the interesting things have been done, controversial gets people typing. I do enjoy interesting, mind.
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Say something controversial, that gets the chat started.
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Good to know it’s not just me he’s pestering for them.
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Really, I’m not that far from you, it’s wet and grey but it’s 19.2 degrees in my box with no heating on.
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When I went to OZ for our kids wedding there was a car/van lot that dealt only in hailstorm damaged vehicles.
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Correct, my last 7.5T living box was exempt, annual MOT was all that was needed. Some folk will say, if it’s got a tacho it needs 6 weekly and O license, it’s nonsense,
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I’ve subbed into a company today that I’ve not worked for before, we had a young lad with us, big lump of a kid admittedly, who earned his coin, £120/day. Talking to the boss man, the young’un is VfM, when we got chatting over a pint the boss said, I either pay him that rate or he’ll be off elsewhere. As Mick says, you want cheap, get someone on the dole, or down the pub, but don’t expect much from them,
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Working away accommodation
eggsarascal replied to Logrover's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Motorhome or caravan, there are plenty of 5 van sites around the country from as little as £10-£15/night. Have breakfast before I leave and usually go out for a meal at night, pocket the rest of the digs money. Doesn’t always pan out if receipts are needed by the company I’m working for, but most aren’t bothered. -
Ya can’t get CaRT to dredge in most places, never mind dig out, yes I know it was a joke. It is a p1ss take though, pleasure boaters and live aboards pay strong money to have their boats on the cut and the government are cutting funding to CaRT.
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I’m sure I read somewhere that low bridges were mitigated by working boats always being loaded to the gunwales keeping them low in the water, the only time they were empty was when they got to there destination, they were then loaded again for the onward/return journey. There’s a saying, can’t remember it exactly but it’s along the lines of, a bird should be to perch on the gunwales and drink from the cut.
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Only you!
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As I mentioned, the Midlands snookers it, to get around the vast majority of the network 57’ long and a beam of 7’ is maxed out. Like lots of our national assets the cut has been given away to a ‘charity’ who’s directors earn a small fortune every year. The thing is, the work boats on the cut earn damn good money. I was talking to the lads on the fuel boat at Longport Wharf a few weeks ago, they said they’d never had it so good, bang in the middle of summer!
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With a draft of 2’6” you are dragging ya arse on the bottom on a lot of inland waterways, it’s just never going to happen. We can’t sort out freight on rail which took over from the cut. It would/could work but as you say, no long term thinking. When you’ve got network rail bosses taking internal flights weekly because the rail network is so unreliable…
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Yes I agree, and believe it or not there still are plenty of work boats on the network. The narrow canals of the Midlands are the pinch point. We’ve also all got use to the ‘just on time’ approach, that doesn’t work on the inland waterways, lack of water at times and stoppages like the one I posted just don’t allow it, not to mention the lack of underinvestment in the cut, which like most things doesn’t make sense, more and more people are paying to use the network yet less maintenance is being done.
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Yeah tidy work, my mate was telling me a culvert collapsed about a mile away from there last year, it was a six week stoppage. Fortunately for him he was on the right side of that collapse.
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I bought a flat that I’m renting out until my pension kicks in, may even rent it out longer. I’m still in my box.
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There is room to wind there, he’s not bothered now his supplies are replenished. It’s not a bad spot and he can still do his work.
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Yep, that’s the one. On the L&L.
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Got a call from a mate on Thursday, “any chance you can swing by Egg”, off I go to Cheshire to be greeted by this. Gawd knows how long he’s going to be there. He’s a mile n half from the nearest bridge/road, it was fun dragging his trolley full of supplies back to the boat along the muddy towpath. That’s his boat nearest to the stoppage on the right hand side, fortunately he’s got Wi-Fi and can work from the boat.
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Some how I must have scrolled by this!, I don’t do jealously, if I did this would be somewhere close to the start. I didn’t get to see any of those.
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Now you have got me thinking, Jools Holland and his band, can’t remember their name, played a good set.
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I said there was probably some I’d forgotten about at that gig, reading Anno’s post just reminded that The Who were at Hyde Park Corner, I’d probably forgotten about them being there because they were bloody awful, that’s coming from a then mod.
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Life is to important to get some cash, you must be a really busy man!
