Please excuse the title. As you can imagine, I am not referring to keeping 'er indoor’s happy, it means that the beaver has been judged by his gaffer to be competent enough to have a bit more training.
Boss called me into his office yesterday. " Come in helmet and shut the door ". (A typical greeting).
" I need someone to be trained on low loaders carrying roof trusses, would you like a couple of day’s training? "
Beaver thought this warranted a humorous reply…" Yep, you can truss me! "
After a few seconds of silence, the following reply came my way. " We are a progressive company and care about our employee’s mental health. Is there anything you would like to discuss with me? ". Hmm…after a sheepish look and a quick reply of " no " from me, and a rather weary shake of the head from him, he said " Good. Shut the [zb] up and pin back your listener’s ".
It would appear that my couple of trips with the chipliner has been deemed a success, and now the low loader’s are on the agenda.
So today I have been delivering to new-build sites. A new dimension in tight spaces has been introduced to my eyes! Along with extremely impatient tele-handler’s that always seem to be ’ just going on a break ’ as I get there. I had an older chap with me showing me (literally) the ropes. Really knowledgable and patient chap. Lots of tuition of placement of straps, positioning of the load, etc. Bit of turtle’s head when the securing rope’s are cut once the straps are off, much to the tele-handler’s amusement.
Anyway, point of the post is to let fellow noobs know that the chance to do other types of trailer DOES come your way with a bit of patience!!
Please excuse the title. As you can imagine, I am not referring to keeping 'er indoor’s happy, it means that the beaver has been judged by his gaffer to be competent enough to have a bit more training.
Boss called me into his office yesterday. " Come in helmet and shut the door ". (A typical greeting).
" I need someone to be trained on low loaders carrying roof trusses, would you like a couple of day’s training? "
Beaver thought this warranted a humorous reply…" Yep, you can truss me! "
After a few seconds of silence, the following reply came my way. " We are a progressive company and care about our employee’s mental health. Is there anything you would like to discuss with me? ". Hmm…after a sheepish look and a quick reply of " no " from me, and a rather weary shake of the head from him, he said " Good. Shut the [zb] up and pin back your listener’s ".
It would appear that my couple of trips with the chipliner has been deemed a success, and now the low loader’s are on the agenda.
So today I have been delivering to new-build sites. A new dimension in tight spaces has been introduced to my eyes! Along with extremely impatient tele-handler’s that always seem to be ’ just going on a break ’ as I get there. I had an older chap with me showing me (literally) the ropes. Really knowledgable and patient chap. Lots of tuition of placement of straps, positioning of the load, etc. Bit of turtle’s head when the securing rope’s are cut once the straps are off, much to the tele-handler’s amusement.
Anyway, point of the post is to let fellow noobs know that the chance to do other types of trailer DOES come your way with a bit of patience!!
I had a real dodgy moment today. I was about to cut the final tensioned securing rope on a huge roof truss today.
After an extra look at the tele-handler’s forks, I was happy that the machine had the weight. As I cut the rope, the truss clanged on the forks and I crapped myself.
Just inspected the Primark’s when I got home. Skidmark’s longer than Santa Pod’s.
