Sunrise at Enslow…
…Sunset at Gill Mill
Tim C:
Muckaway:
We should really explain to site staff that when they wash our wheels (and they appear to like doing it given the time we sit there) that once they’ve finished, we’re actually picking up the dirt with the wheels again and taking it out
I wouldn’t waste your breath telling them Nathan if they’re not bright enough to work it out for themselves they’re probably beyond help.I got out of the cab to get my ticket signed by the machine driver a few weeks back,I put a hard hat on,I wear specs anyway-they have to wear eye protection on this site-and some jobsworth comes over and tells me I have to put gloves on if I get out of the lorry-whatever next.
Long sleeved glow coat and eye protection, a must when delivering to a power station we’ve been working at .
Currently at Raf Brize (what a surprise) watching the Raf dogs training. On that note, I can think of at least one Smiths driver who “men in uniform, walking the dogs” would excite him no end 
Nathan great shot of your foden buddy , one thing is your shovel behind cab needs a polish 
JAKEY:
Nathan great shot of your foden buddy , one thing is your shovel behind cab needs a polish
It was but it gets used so often…
The banksman wandered off at the hardest part…came back for the “back under the digger bucket” bit
Muckaway:
The banksman wandered off at the hardest part…came back for the “back under the digger bucket” bit
Have you got tractor grip tyres for winter site work Nathan.We used to have them years ago.
Cheers Dave.
No Dave just our usual; Ive got some Hancooks fitted to the front, theyre designed so stones cant jam in the treads…They seem to be working. We used to have Toyo tyres and we seemed to be forever getting them changed.
I was talking to one of our dumptruck drivers today who said Gill Mill is estimated to last another 20odd years: Not bad when it was given 25years when opened in '89. Just got “the look” from Mrs Muckaway when I said Callum could be parking up there in years to come…
Loading ■■■■■■■■ at M&Ms recycling centre at Cassington. Smiths (Construction/plant) division do the crushing and screening for M&Ms, whos’ waste sorting plant is impressive; A series of hand picking and blowers remove all scrap/ rubbish from the skip waste from which the fines are taken out and the rubble moved by an old Volvo A20 dumptruck to the crushing area. The shovel in the photo was an old one from Gill Mill sold onto the Construction side for hire work.
Muckaway:
Loading ■■■■■■■■ at M&Ms recycling centre at Cassington. Smiths (Construction/plant) division do the crushing and screening for M&Ms, whos’ waste sorting plant is impressive; A series of hand picking and blowers remove all scrap/ rubbish from the skip waste from which the fines are taken out and the rubble moved by an old Volvo A20 dumptruck to the crushing area. The shovel in the photo was an old one from Gill Mill sold onto the Construction side for hire work.
A cracking working pic that one Nathan.
Cheers Dave.
Overshoot the runway and you enter the water feature…
Muckaway:
Overshoot the runway and you enter the water feature…
I always believed that if a hand shovel was well used it would be shining,sounds like yours is rusted into it’s holder Nathan and still has the price tag on it !!!Anon 1.
Health and safety dictates where and when we cant use a shovel, Dennis…
Muckaway:
Health and safety dictates where and when we cant use a shovel, Dennis…
How can you trim your load off Nathan if you can’t get up onto the load with your No.10 shovel then? I suppose you just stamp on the anchors a few times before you leave the Quarrie then? Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
Muckaway:
Health and safety dictates where and when we cant use a shovel, Dennis…How can you trim your load off Nathan if you can’t get up onto the load with your No.10 shovel then? I suppose you just stamp on the anchors a few times before you leave the Quarrie then? Cheers Dennis.
You can only release excess material off the lorry out of the tailgate Dennis.
Yes, no getting on the back with the Spear and Jackson these days! If you are overloaded at our old quarry you have to get a ‘supervisor’ to watch you opening the taildoor and drop a ton out when you only wanted half, then go back and top up again. We queried this when the ruling was bought in and were told that the loaders would always get the load right and level, YEAH! When loading tarmac it was often a guess load so it WAS your fault if you put to much on though. 
Pete.
I use my weigher when loading; I can carry 15.7t I have the payload plate read 15.5. When on muck I carry 15 if loaded with a mini digger and about 14.5 if its a big machine; doesn’t matter then if machine driver carries on emptying his bucket after Ive sounded the horn…
Ive got this job sussed 
Muckaway:
We should really explain to site staff that when they wash our wheels (and they appear to like doing it given the time we sit there
I went on a site years ago with a Leyland Reiver and my mate had a Scania 6x2 with a lift axle. There was no washing wheels back then but as we were leaving the Scania had his trailing axle high in the air. The site foreman asked him if he could lift the drive axle as well then there would be a lot less mud on the road, (he was serious). It was illegal to run with the axles up back then and he got stopped running home with a flat on the lifted axle once and made to get tyre services out to change it.
Anne,fetch me the Paracetamols !! I’ll have 4 !! How many drivers fell off their tippers ? this lot sounds like H & S gone mad,no wonder the country’s knackered with all the rules and regs which will never be rolled back as there seems to too many vested interests that employ the “jobsworths”.When I was operating and this stupid legislation was starting to take hold,I did manage to stand up to the ■■■■■■■■ on the basis of common sense but since then it appears to have engulfed the whole of the industry which is ,of course,very sad.Especially if it prevents Nathan from doing a bit of “honest collar” with a No.10 shovel !!! Despairingly,Dennis.