Post by spartacus on Oct 27, 2010 22:55:11 GMT -5
OK, so I was a just out of his time pit fitter assigned to a Dosco Mk2a road header in S30's heading at Maltby Colliery with a couple of lads who were always arguing and known as "mam & dad" because of it. Roly was the driver and unnofficial gaffer/chargehand. Polish was his mate.
Some new bright spark engineer had decided that the new junction we were going to build could be done without his presence as long as he thought it through. So he painted a different colour on all the legs and beams with the obvious idea being that we would match them up.
Only one problem, he forgot to send the key document that showed us which pair of legs went in what order. So I was volunteered to call him up and find out the correct order. The nearest phone being some 200 yds outbye...In the meantime the lads decided to put one of the legs up to see how much they needed to cut out. Except it wasn't a leg, it was a support beam.
I got a message from the surveyor that if I measured the length of the legs he could tell us what order they went in (TBH we had already tried that but there was to be another roadway joining the junction and we didn't know which legs were for the wye section) this message I duly passed on.
So they are looking up at the leg they had installed, which was a good 10 yards or so up in the air, laying across the boom of the Dosco. I only had a 6 foot tape with me.
Polish says "We need to take it down and lay it on the floor so we can measure it".
Roly says "You feckin stupid polish get! he wants to know how high it is, not how long it is!"
Best bit? He was serious!
Some new bright spark engineer had decided that the new junction we were going to build could be done without his presence as long as he thought it through. So he painted a different colour on all the legs and beams with the obvious idea being that we would match them up.
Only one problem, he forgot to send the key document that showed us which pair of legs went in what order. So I was volunteered to call him up and find out the correct order. The nearest phone being some 200 yds outbye...In the meantime the lads decided to put one of the legs up to see how much they needed to cut out. Except it wasn't a leg, it was a support beam.
I got a message from the surveyor that if I measured the length of the legs he could tell us what order they went in (TBH we had already tried that but there was to be another roadway joining the junction and we didn't know which legs were for the wye section) this message I duly passed on.
So they are looking up at the leg they had installed, which was a good 10 yards or so up in the air, laying across the boom of the Dosco. I only had a 6 foot tape with me.
Polish says "We need to take it down and lay it on the floor so we can measure it".
Roly says "You feckin stupid polish get! he wants to know how high it is, not how long it is!"
Best bit? He was serious!