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If you wish to go-up in the world how about being a tower crane driver. Now that is a very skilful job, but to me seems very boring, unless i have a decent camera or binoculars, but then nice to record what u see.

dieseldog69 said:

Hurst road in Walton on Thames was a great job for digging up German bombs that hadn't exploded in the old reservoirs, I dug up several, I used to get a lot of the archaeology strips when we were starting new quarries, we did a strip near Datchet for CEMEX where they were extracting gravel for the terminal 5 project, that saw us find loads of Roman pottery, gold coins, bones, fire pits etc, really interesting that it was barely 100mm below the surface of the topsoil, I found a grave site from the black plague in Windsor, had it not been for the basement dig we would have never dug that deep.

I try to keep my smoking to a minimum, but we can smoke in the machines, they are not that strict, I prefer to be busy to make the day go faster, I like laying deep drainage, drag boxes and big pipe, day just flies by!

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Cool photo... you sitting on ya bum and taking pictures of the bloke doing the real work
I’m jealous of the finds!! Not the bods or bombs.. think I would scream and run away... did your bucket go “clank” a few times on some unexploded bombs??? Just the Roman stuff!! Did any artifacts fall in your wellies ????
As i will valuate and sell them on the black market for you !!! Erm!!!! Wor Lass will.. she i s the dodgey one and sells the stuff illegal not me.. I report everything to my nearest important person.. anyhoo
are they well kitted out in your little cabin.. CD players and that or are they like defenders inside .. with metal everywear and big on off switches that resemble a 1950s Russian nuclear power station..
Are you still on the fags or have you got a lecky tab? I Used to smoke 47 a day until I got one of these lecky ones!
It’s brilliant.. don’t even think of having a tab now!! But it’s early days!! I ownely bought it an hour ago

discool said:

If you wish to go-up in the world how about being a tower crane driver. Now that is a very skilful job, but to me seems very boring, unless i have a decent camera or binoculars, but then nice to record what u see.

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discool said:

If you wish to go-up in the world how about being a tower crane driver. Now that is a very skilful job, but to me seems very boring, unless i have a decent camera or binoculars, but then nice to record what u see.

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imagine the shipping container crane operators would be very monotonous

certainly wouldn’t fancy being in a crane when there building sky scrapers

gstuart said:

imagine the shipping container crane operators would be very monotonous

certainly wouldn’t fancy being in a crane when there building sky scrapers

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Monotonous indeed.. saying that.. it’s like big boys Lego or Tetris... imagine all them stairs in the sky scraper ones... do they have toilets right up in the tall ones ... or do you just piddle out the window

Weldy said:

Cool photo... you sitting on ya bum and taking pictures of the bloke doing the real work
I’m jealous of the finds!! Not the bods or bombs.. think I would scream and run away... did your bucket go “clank” a few times on some unexploded bombs??? Just the Roman stuff!! Did any artifacts fall in your wellies ????
As i will valuate and sell them on the black market for you !!! Erm!!!! Wor Lass will.. she i s the dodgey one and sells the stuff illegal not me.. I report everything to my nearest important person.. anyhoo
are they well kitted out in your little cabin.. CD players and that or are they like defenders inside .. with metal everywear and big on off switches that resemble a 1950s Russian nuclear power station..
Are you still on the fags or have you got a lecky tab? I Used to smoke 47 a day until I got one of these lecky ones!
It’s brilliant.. don’t even think of having a tab now!! But it’s early days!! I ownely bought it an hour ago

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Oh yeah, bluetooth connectivity, CD player, look at this pic below.



It has a full 360 degree camera system, the full digital display for the machine, and that big box with "ICON" in yellow lettering is the GPS machine control system we have on 80% of our 13 tonne and up diggers (we have a lot of them perhaps 25 now!) it is fantastic, no engineering pins, no level pegs, no spray lines for where to dig, no need for a rotating lazer to get the depths, you have it all on the screen in front of you, brilliant bit of kit, some blokes don't like it but it is the future, saves time and money and means we can get on faster with a higher degree of accuracy.

I will most likely die a smoker, nothing compares to being able to sit back roll a fag and relax with a cuppa.

Wow!!! Didn’t realise they were that high tech!! Some blokes probably don’t like it as they are old school.. it’s the same in every trade mate.. but I bet you can get you job done quicker and more accurate than they could with old school methods!! And I bet will be driving themselves next..so you might be unemployed!! Smash the machines!!!!!!! What where those peoples called that didn’t like the industrial reveloution and broke everything??? I would google it... but I would end up on the porn.. anyhoo Only thing missing out of your cab is cable tv.. so you can get babe station on the night shifts ..
Joking aside.. I’ve been off fags for 3 years and only use this little lecky thing about 5 times a day.. my lungs feel 30 years old again...
still not good as I’m only 25 . But I can run to the shops now I couldn’t even run a bath when I was smoking..
Saying that.. if I ever move from this flat above the shops i will struggle!!
But it’s worth a try.. you do actually enjoy it more than rolling a tab and having a cuppa!!!
In fact that was a blatant lie....
I want a tab and a cuppa !!!!!!

Does the computer actually tell you to the mm where your bucket is?? Or is it like my fabrication .. to the nearest postcode

Just zoomed in and seen your Leica measuring Mabob... so they don’t use cheap stuff then!!!

Weldy said:

Just zoomed in and seen your Leica measuring Mabob... so they don’t use cheap stuff then!!!

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Very accurate, when you are digging footings or drainage you have to keep the bucket within the lines of dig, keeps you to within +/- 25mm, it seems as though it should be impossible but the calculations are based on positioning of dipper and boom and the receivers are behind the centre of the slew ring so being off line is exaggerated so to speak so it is easily calculated, the kit costs over £30,000 per machine fitted and calibrated.

No need for cable, I get 20 gig of data on the phone and a subscription to NOW TV so I can watch movies and TV in the cab when I'm not on here or on Twitter.

That is impressive. I’m amazed by tech now.. 25 mm on a machine that size is incredible... and even the price for the set up but when you think 30k isn’t much
How much does it cost a year for a few numpties to measure out , paint lines.. knock in pin.. then pull them all out because they realised they had the plans upside down.. it could pay for itself in 6 month!!

Oh on Twitter , LZ , rolling tabs and having cuppas... are you sure they don’t drive themselves as it seams your busy with doing everything else apart from work lol ..
Thanks for the chat mate..I love this forum , you get to know about things first hand that you would never get the chance to in life in general .. it’s a general knowledge forum too..
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And if you get the heads up on any “findy” Site’s . Give me a nod and I will be down in an instant.. I will pay top dollar for artifacts or even info on where to go.. even old rubbish tips with olld bottles!!! errm she will pay top dollar I’m mean... I’m just a collector.. she’s the ruthless one!!

I am going to a job in Portsmouth after the one I'm on now, I am told that I will be bulking out an old rubbish tip that is at one corner of the site, if I find anything interesting I'll give ya a shout, Portsmouth being an historic port, there should be some bottles and bits for sure I'd say.

dieseldog69 said:

I am going to a job in Portsmouth after the one I'm on now, I am told that I will be bulking out an old rubbish tip that is at one corner of the site, if I find anything interesting I'll give ya a shout, Portsmouth being an historic port, there should be some bottles and bits for sure I'd say.

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Fab !! Really appreciate it..If you don’t mind I’m actually a collector and love the history behind anything!! I’ve never sold anything I’ve found or been given. If you actually pick up and old object that’s been buried for a few hundred years I’m sure it might get to you too!! So don’t pick them up!!! As I don’t want you pinching me bottles !!

Saying that Portsmouth!!! Erm .. 3.9 efi disco 10mpg from Newcastle!!!!!!! Ermmm!!!!
Do you know this LZIR???? do they do a relay service like the RAC???
I could keep pretending to break down every 20 mile and get trailered the next 20... it would half me petrol bill !!!!!!!

Weldy said:

Fab !! Really appreciate it..If you don’t mind I’m actually a collector and love the history behind anything!! I’ve never sold anything I’ve found or been given. If you actually pick up and old object that’s been buried for a few hundred years I’m sure it might get to you too!! So don’t pick them up!!! As I don’t want you pinching me bottles !!

Saying that Portsmouth!!! Erm .. 3.9 efi disco 10mpg from Newcastle!!!!!!! Ermmm!!!!
Do you know this LZIR???? do they do a relay service like the RAC???
I could keep pretending to break down every 20 mile and get trailered the next 20... it would half me petrol bill !!!!!!!

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You never heard of Royal Mail?

dieseldog69 said:

You never heard of Royal Mail?

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How am I going to fit meself in an envelope!!! Come on mate.. I thought I was the stupid one!!!