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Its the stupid things they are crap at - so many deaths are due to crush injuries by reversing lorries. Here in UAE our indian banksmen are ten times better. The two deaths last year at scunny were totally avoidable.
You poor sod working for multiserv, all the s
tty jobs! Steel's days in the uk are numbered, hope you view it as a stopgap (from other threads I believe this to be the case).
I'd be interested to know what qualifications you have. Pm me
You poor sod working for multiserv, all the s
tty jobs! Steel's days in the uk are numbered, hope you view it as a stopgap (from other threads I believe this to be the case).I'd be interested to know what qualifications you have. Pm me
Since we're getting some British Steel reminiscing on...
I had a chat with Dad about his time there earlier. He did a uni industrial placement at Corby steelworks in the '70s. They made steel coils to be used for making tubing (lamp posts and suchlike). The coils were made by taking a BIG steel bar, heating it until it's white-hot and running it though a series of rollers to bring it down to the correct thickness. The conveying of this steel was around 40mph apparently!!
Anyway, sometimes this coil would fall from the rollers onto the floor and basically snake around in a crazy fashion. At which point some ballsy (powerfully built) types would leggit out with oxy acetylene torches and cut the thing up until it stopped!
Bugger that for a game of soldiers.
I had a chat with Dad about his time there earlier. He did a uni industrial placement at Corby steelworks in the '70s. They made steel coils to be used for making tubing (lamp posts and suchlike). The coils were made by taking a BIG steel bar, heating it until it's white-hot and running it though a series of rollers to bring it down to the correct thickness. The conveying of this steel was around 40mph apparently!!
Anyway, sometimes this coil would fall from the rollers onto the floor and basically snake around in a crazy fashion. At which point some ballsy (powerfully built) types would leggit out with oxy acetylene torches and cut the thing up until it stopped!
Bugger that for a game of soldiers.
if anyone was standing near a strip mill during a cobble they'd get certified. even old hands wait til the fun stops before going anywhere near. scunny rod mill exit speed is 60m/s iirc, or nearer 120mph! cobbled rod can hit the roof [40m] before you could blink.
nothing like a steel mill in winter, toasty warm! only thing i really used to
at was the method for checking dimensional tolerance. basically, you take a piece of balsa wood and hold it against the running steel at 7-800 degC and checking that against std.
only stupid story from my current workplace doesn't involve me [before my time] but concerns someone changing the call to prayer on one of the african worksite's with GnR's 'welcome to the jungle'
funny at the time i guess, but the chap got sacked for doing it.
nothing like a steel mill in winter, toasty warm! only thing i really used to
at was the method for checking dimensional tolerance. basically, you take a piece of balsa wood and hold it against the running steel at 7-800 degC and checking that against std. only stupid story from my current workplace doesn't involve me [before my time] but concerns someone changing the call to prayer on one of the african worksite's with GnR's 'welcome to the jungle'
funny at the time i guess, but the chap got sacked for doing it. shirt said:
used to work for corus, that'd be scunny BOS plant/casting house ^^^
too many 'fk, that was close' moments in my time there [witnessed, and participated in!].
Agree, I worked in Port Talbot for 15 years. I was nearby when the blast furnace blew up, certainly had to change my underpants!! I enjoyed my time there but I'm glad I'm out now, dangerous place to work.too many 'f
k, that was close' moments in my time there [witnessed, and participated in!]. As for work stories, I have a couple from the railway where I currently work.
'Frank' is a train driver and a bit of a practical joker. One time he is coming into 'Sodor' station. He hides down underneath the cab window and produces a Sooty hand puppet up to the window, who then elegantly glides the train to a nice stop at the station, cue much hilarity from passengers on the platform!
Another time 'Frank' is waiting to join the train which has just arrived (it's a diesel multiple unit so you access it from the passenger compartment.) He is wearing dark sunglasses on a not so sunny day. As he enters the train he pretends to be blind feeling his way onto the train etc and gets assisted on by some passengers. Once inside though he turns right into the cab not left to the passenger compartment, you can imagine the look of absolute horror from those passengers who had just helped him on!!
'Frank' again. On some trains there is a hole in the cab door at eye height where the driver can keep an eye on passengers whilst stopped at stations etc (mostly used for perving on pretty women :-) ) Anyway, Frank use to amuse himself by squirting a water pistol through this hole and watching how people reacted when getting wet, trying to figure out where the hell this water had come from, eyeing other travellers with suspicion!
'Frank' is a train driver and a bit of a practical joker. One time he is coming into 'Sodor' station. He hides down underneath the cab window and produces a Sooty hand puppet up to the window, who then elegantly glides the train to a nice stop at the station, cue much hilarity from passengers on the platform!
Another time 'Frank' is waiting to join the train which has just arrived (it's a diesel multiple unit so you access it from the passenger compartment.) He is wearing dark sunglasses on a not so sunny day. As he enters the train he pretends to be blind feeling his way onto the train etc and gets assisted on by some passengers. Once inside though he turns right into the cab not left to the passenger compartment, you can imagine the look of absolute horror from those passengers who had just helped him on!!
'Frank' again. On some trains there is a hole in the cab door at eye height where the driver can keep an eye on passengers whilst stopped at stations etc (mostly used for perving on pretty women :-) ) Anyway, Frank use to amuse himself by squirting a water pistol through this hole and watching how people reacted when getting wet, trying to figure out where the hell this water had come from, eyeing other travellers with suspicion!
Pugland53 said:
As for work stories, I have a couple from the railway where I currently work.
'Frank' is a train driver and a bit of a practical joker. One time he is coming into 'Sodor' station. He hides down underneath the cab window and produces a Sooty hand puppet up to the window, who then elegantly glides the train to a nice stop at the station, cue much hilarity from passengers on the platform!
Another time 'Frank' is waiting to join the train which has just arrived (it's a diesel multiple unit so you access it from the passenger compartment.) He is wearing dark sunglasses on a not so sunny day. As he enters the train he pretends to be blind feeling his way onto the train etc and gets assisted on by some passengers. Once inside though he turns right into the cab not left to the passenger compartment, you can imagine the look of absolute horror from those passengers who had just helped him on!!
'Frank' again. On some trains there is a hole in the cab door at eye height where the driver can keep an eye on passengers whilst stopped at stations etc (mostly used for perving on pretty women :-) ) Anyway, Frank use to amuse himself by squirting a water pistol through this hole and watching how people reacted when getting wet, trying to figure out where the hell this water had come from, eyeing other travellers with suspicion!
'Frank' is a train driver and a bit of a practical joker. One time he is coming into 'Sodor' station. He hides down underneath the cab window and produces a Sooty hand puppet up to the window, who then elegantly glides the train to a nice stop at the station, cue much hilarity from passengers on the platform!
Another time 'Frank' is waiting to join the train which has just arrived (it's a diesel multiple unit so you access it from the passenger compartment.) He is wearing dark sunglasses on a not so sunny day. As he enters the train he pretends to be blind feeling his way onto the train etc and gets assisted on by some passengers. Once inside though he turns right into the cab not left to the passenger compartment, you can imagine the look of absolute horror from those passengers who had just helped him on!!
'Frank' again. On some trains there is a hole in the cab door at eye height where the driver can keep an eye on passengers whilst stopped at stations etc (mostly used for perving on pretty women :-) ) Anyway, Frank use to amuse himself by squirting a water pistol through this hole and watching how people reacted when getting wet, trying to figure out where the hell this water had come from, eyeing other travellers with suspicion!
I like the water pistol one.
Pugland53 said:
As for work stories, I have a couple from the railway where I currently work.
'Frank' is a train driver and a bit of a practical joker. One time he is coming into 'Sodor' station. He hides down underneath the cab window and produces a Sooty hand puppet up to the window, who then elegantly glides the train to a nice stop at the station, cue much hilarity from passengers on the platform!
Another time 'Frank' is waiting to join the train which has just arrived (it's a diesel multiple unit so you access it from the passenger compartment.) He is wearing dark sunglasses on a not so sunny day. As he enters the train he pretends to be blind feeling his way onto the train etc and gets assisted on by some passengers. Once inside though he turns right into the cab not left to the passenger compartment, you can imagine the look of absolute horror from those passengers who had just helped him on!!
'Frank' again. On some trains there is a hole in the cab door at eye height where the driver can keep an eye on passengers whilst stopped at stations etc (mostly used for perving on pretty women :-) ) Anyway, Frank use to amuse himself by squirting a water pistol through this hole and watching how people reacted when getting wet, trying to figure out where the hell this water had come from, eyeing other travellers with suspicion!
'Frank' is a train driver and a bit of a practical joker. One time he is coming into 'Sodor' station. He hides down underneath the cab window and produces a Sooty hand puppet up to the window, who then elegantly glides the train to a nice stop at the station, cue much hilarity from passengers on the platform!
Another time 'Frank' is waiting to join the train which has just arrived (it's a diesel multiple unit so you access it from the passenger compartment.) He is wearing dark sunglasses on a not so sunny day. As he enters the train he pretends to be blind feeling his way onto the train etc and gets assisted on by some passengers. Once inside though he turns right into the cab not left to the passenger compartment, you can imagine the look of absolute horror from those passengers who had just helped him on!!
'Frank' again. On some trains there is a hole in the cab door at eye height where the driver can keep an eye on passengers whilst stopped at stations etc (mostly used for perving on pretty women :-) ) Anyway, Frank use to amuse himself by squirting a water pistol through this hole and watching how people reacted when getting wet, trying to figure out where the hell this water had come from, eyeing other travellers with suspicion!
Those are great stories. 'Frank' seems a bit of a legend
Customer of mine use to back-up all of their data into tape and would take them home in the boot of his BMW at the end of the day. Info stored was critical to the business, they couldn't operate without it.
Cue a massive fire one day, destroys everything including toasting every car in the car park..................all except the BM!
Cue a massive fire one day, destroys everything including toasting every car in the car park..................all except the BM!
A previous employer and a horrible misunderstanding of google adwords..
£1500 on the account, no daily limit.
Email round the office telling everyone to repeatedly click the links as this "will make them loadsa money".
The rest of the office must have been just as thick too as they blew the whole lot without questioning.
I have a great many stories from that place but that one sums it up the best.
£1500 on the account, no daily limit.
Email round the office telling everyone to repeatedly click the links as this "will make them loadsa money".
The rest of the office must have been just as thick too as they blew the whole lot without questioning.
I have a great many stories from that place but that one sums it up the best.
shirt said:
if anyone was standing near a strip mill during a cobble they'd get certified. even old hands wait til the fun stops before going anywhere near. scunny rod mill exit speed is 60m/s iirc, or nearer 120mph! cobbled rod can hit the roof [40m] before you could blink.
Few places on Scunny where you don't ask why there's a fking massive hole in the roof. It's usually for 1 of 2 reasons:1) rotten as a pear, about to rain down on you
OR
2) something red hot, molten and travelling faster than my Austin 1300 could ever dream off has gone a bit off target.
Guys here can remember the days you could ride plates down the mill, to check for stuck rollers..... Or to save the walk
We got sent out to paint some switches white, and in a moment of genius decided to loosen the lids off our 5l of White hammerite we were carrying to save messing about on site.
About halfway down the track one f the guys trips over, arse over tit and manages to end up elbow deep in White hammerite, then rolls around on the floor in the ensuing White puddle.
The rest of us are in tears of laughter, 5l of paint goes along way!
About halfway down the track one f the guys trips over, arse over tit and manages to end up elbow deep in White hammerite, then rolls around on the floor in the ensuing White puddle.
The rest of us are in tears of laughter, 5l of paint goes along way!
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