WTF Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 3 hours ago, AlanShimmin said: I was literally just going to say this. I'm going for 24th September. what year ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeCurious Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 11 hours ago, Numbnuts said: As I mentioned the other week the crossing outside Sam Webbs was to be lifted . Started today . Thats every crossing now I believe has been lifted at least once . Lessons have been learned ?!! Clearly not . How f*cking heavy is a brick pavior that you need a mechanical excavator to lift them up, or is that to level the sand beneath it. Not a single hand tool in sight, like a level, a mallet or a spade. Not even an attempt to stack the bricks and two men to watch? You can tell it's only public money eh? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanShimmin Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 8 hours ago, CallMeCurious said: How f*cking heavy is a brick pavior that you need a mechanical excavator to lift them up, or is that to level the sand beneath it. Not a single hand tool in sight, like a level, a mallet or a spade. Not even an attempt to stack the bricks and two men to watch? You can tell it's only public money eh? Exactly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanShimmin Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 9 hours ago, WTF said: what year ? 2088 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holte End Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 8 hours ago, CallMeCurious said: two men to watch? Excuse me, but in todays health and safety regime, One banks man, a banksman for the banksman, to the side I would expect a health and safety liaison officer, two foremen, a DOI works inspector and his manager, if anything there are not enough people to carry out this procedure. Tim Baker is right, this job has taken so long because of labour shortage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanShimmin Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 2 minutes ago, Holte End said: Excuse me, but in todays health and safety regime, One banks man, a banksman for the banksman, to the side I would expect a health and safety liaison officer, two foremen, a DOI works inspector and his manager, if anything there are not enough people to carry out this procedure. Tim Baker is right, this job has taken so long because of labour shortage. You missed out Tim Baker in the background doing an interview with Paul Moulton to justify the latest cost/time/scope/smashing seagulls with a digger/general slippage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skins Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, AlanShimmin said: You missed out Tim Baker in the background doing an interview with Paul Moulton to justify the latest cost/time/scope/smashing seagulls with a digger/general slippage. “Because you don’t understand it” ”Social media doesn’t understand it” 🙈🤣 Edited July 28, 2021 by skins 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanShimmin Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 22 minutes ago, skins said: “Because you don’t understand it” ”Social media doesn’t understand it” 🙈🤣 Paul Moulton: "so explain it to us then" Baker: *silence* 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramseyboi Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 10 hours ago, CallMeCurious said: How f*cking heavy is a brick pavior that you need a mechanical excavator to lift them up, or is that to level the sand beneath it. Not a single hand tool in sight, like a level, a mallet or a spade. Not even an attempt to stack the bricks and two men to watch? You can tell it's only public money eh? This is a very good point. I am all for being lazy and using machinery when needed but surely in this instance that job could be done much more quickly and with less damage to the bricks which can presumably be re used if the blokes in the photo just used hand tools? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxman34 Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 31 minutes ago, Ramseyboi said: This is a very good point. I am all for being lazy and using machinery when needed but surely in this instance that job could be done much more quickly and with less damage to the bricks which can presumably be re used if the blokes in the photo just used hand tools? Probably couldn't get up again if they knelt down #Beerguts 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeCurious Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Or maybe the two guys are there to ensure no seagulls are harmed during the operation of the digger bucket... you know because you can't sack idiots only legislate for them. Never mind the Beaman report will sort it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chief Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 bit of an observation for you, a pothole crew arrived down my road yesterday, curtained twitched for a bit then got bored as they literally did nothing but drink tea and read a paper for 4 hours then filled a 1 foot square pothole in the 5 minutes before lunch and left. if thats what the pothole crew get up to i can easily see why the prom will take 10 years to finish. 1 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc.fixit Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 They filled a few little holes in the lane and left even more. Can't see any tangible reason why 'cos they are all a good few inches deep and over a foot wide. It isn't as though they got so far and are then coming back, it just appears random. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanShimmin Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Does anyone know the reason for all of the square holes they're digging randomly along Central prom and Harris prom? Thought they were getting ready to put the final surface down but not there's new hole digging. Could just be they ran out of round holes and have square holes left to use up. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbnuts Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, AlanShimmin said: Does anyone know the reason for all of the square holes they're digging randomly along Central prom and Harris prom? Thought they were getting ready to put the final surface down but not there's new hole digging. Could just be they ran out of round holes and have square holes left to use up. Yes , the random hole diggers had finished their other random hole digging so Tim Baker, with authorization from Nick Black , instructed the minions to walk along the Prom and wherever it seemed the area was finished, to dig it up and make sure the cones and harris fencing hire was justified. On doing so they have been instructed to leave the random hole , fencing and cones and move on to the next one so the level of disruption is maintained. Edited July 28, 2021 by Numbnuts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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