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It could not have had you bad as I only got had once now I look for it everywhere.

All the money in the world would not get me to do that job FairPlay to you for sticking with it.

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Billhook I've been thinking about my time in pickers I've spent over a decade in them 6 days a week for 12 hours a day. Two incidents that really stick in my head are been on a job on my own on a sat putting rails in the gabble end of a building, the mewp I can't remember the make but a big machine got up around 80 ft and it cut out. Not a sole in site and a crap signal. I was to far from the building to climb and the mast was covered in grease. I sat there wondering for about an hour when these 3 lads came past drunk as lords. They eventually worked out how to lower me and I took um back to the boozer. The other time I was on a column and beam job I'd just squashed my finger between steel and a sledge but could not stop as it was the last day with a crane got the last been in at around 545 going off dark started to descend in the picker suddenly all the weight came off my machine I'd crossed the jib of my mates machine wedging him against a steel column. I got my basket next to his lashed them with a lanyard and lifted him back up the basket popped off the face of the column and sent us up in the air with such force it near threw me out of the basket. He was thrown against the controls column and hurt his ribs. 99.9 % of the time it's the operator that's at fault the other 0.1% can't be planned for your in the hands of the unknown. If you hire a machine in make sure it wasn't a steel erector that used it before because that's the industry where there abused causing week and warn parts. If I ever had a machine off another job I tested it to it limits very close to the ground.:lol: What ever you decide put a vid up of you practising your descent from the basket

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If you had a 50 and a farmi wp36 you would be set for anything one day Rodney one day

He's in a jim going up your talking about an emergency situation going down with a picker falling at the same time. Why don't you just borrow a big air bag to jump into:lol:

What do you think will change if Scotland is given independence. Ive spent a lot of time in Scotland working its a beautiful country. Use to hate the winters waking up frozen to the side of the caravan was never good a good start to the day.

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Keep it just in case you ever run out of loo roll:lol:

Who's that with as when i looked at doing it the cost of premium made it unfeasible

This has to be the most bigoted post I've read on arbtalk

A loaded timber lorry will soon find the soft bits Most driver will tell you its your responsibility to get them out if stuck. Ive had it happen with an 8 wheeler and it took some getting out even with the right machinery

Genie lifts are the best machines on the market but get an operator that does not know the limitations and you would be surprised at the outcome. Im afraid by the very nature of the job the machines were used beyond there limits 140 ft of jib can be wispy at best My answer is if your not confident in your machines ability or are nervous about falling stay on tera firma. How often is your machine checked.

I've found the exact opposite face bookers want it done for nowt and calls off the site want a quote.

I never tied in to the basket in all the years I was in a picker. When I started I was expected to walk steel so getting in a picker was a dream come true. But never felt safe been tied to it. We had this drummed into us on ipaff and other courses If your harness is connected to the fall arrester at the rear and you fall out of picker and are left dangling 20 mins the bload supply will be cut off to your legs and you no what that means. Trust me I've been hung from a rear connect harness it's not good.

What causes this ?

Now theres an idea might swell have another over the EU as well, will it happen not on your nelly

Get in a 140 ft genie lift boom it out and pull the joy stick down you will not stop in the basket. The requirements of health and safety cover all mewps one can be very different from another . I never clipped in to a picker when on the steel as it was my biggest feet been trapped in a basket going down seen it happen and the outcome. If putting a rope in makes you feel better crack on but id practice the procedure as i think it all take longer than you think to set it and go getting over the side of a basket is harder than you think. What sort of harness are you wearing when in the picker Mind you id love to read the risk assessment

Spent a lot of Tim in a picker accidents happen in a flash no time to think you may get enough time to jump if your lucky. Mewps used in arb are a lot different to construction I've never really felt safe in a machine that has jacks. Mind you there's nothing like moving a 140 straight boom while out at full extension to wake you up in the morning an inch on the ground is two foot in the basket. Especially if some clown had doctored the speed control.

Dunno but I bet briquette seller all be on he waiting list

Facebook is not that good for getting work we have a few pages on facebook never got any big jobs off it just good for people seeing what your up to. Websites the way forward best thing we have ever done

I'll pop two bags of flour in the post you no the drill

Why ohh why did I look I can't unlook now