Gibberings CXLVI: I've Seen Things, I've Seen Them With My Badgers

[knock]

dodgy shit at work earlier, one of the chains on the crane fell apart whilst i was chaining something up, if there had been a load of steel on the crane when it fell apart and somebody was near it... crushed or killed or knocked flying

Dan, how do you get into your line of work? It sounds exciting. Dangerous but exciting. Do you have to be able to pull handbrake turns?

I want to chain things up. How do I get started?

Is it something to do with beetroot? I can eat beetroot!

I'm deadly serious by the way. I want to work with cranes and stuff. WHAT DO I DO?

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

My dad did his apprenticeship building cranes. Just thought I'd throw that in.

 

[brimz]

I'll just have half or a quarter to begin with and make sure ive got a couple of valium just in case i turn into a freaky scatty, scatterbrained, badger ok?

Thankyou Brimstar I probably would have still had them here had you lot not offered such sensible advice.

Anytime you knows that

 

[swampdragon]

It's doing my head in

Ask Treacle - I think he's the xbox expert around these parts.

When you crowd surf in a straight bar / club / mall etc you just know who is interested - from that crowd you pick the guy you fancy - you give him a smile, he smiles back and that's it basically.

Hang on.. how can you tell who is interested, just based on a casual glance around a room?

dodgy shit at work earlier, one of the chains on the crane fell apart whilst i was chaining something up, if there had been a load of steel on the crane when it fell apart and somebody was near it... crushed or killed or knocked flying

Yikes, that's bad. This week a guy at the company I work for got killed on a construction site. He was only 26 and it was an awful accident, especially given my company is very very health & safety conscious. :/

 

[brimz]

Outside my Gaff is one of the 1st cranes ever made .

It's a monument to Stothert & Pitt n Sparows Cranes that used to occupy this huge piece of land

 

[ColtDan]

Its a crane like this knock. no handbrake. start off with the beetroot and everything will be set in motion

 

[Bearlove]

Dan, how do you get into your line of work? It sounds exciting. Dangerous but exciting. Do you have to be able to pull handbrake turns?

I want to chain things up. How do I get started?

Is it something to do with beetroot? I can eat beetroot!

I'm deadly serious by the way. I want to work with cranes and stuff. WHAT DO I DO?

Start with getting your fork truck licence (free on certain courses) - sparrows have a few different courses / look at rigging etc

 

[brimz]

do ya heard of Sparrows Dan ?

 

[knock]

Start with getting your fork truck licence (free on certain courses) - sparrows have a few different courses / look at rigging etc

Fork truck licence. Fucking hell. Now I have an actual attainable goal in life :D


No I don't. There is no licence.

 

[Bearlove]

Hang on.. how can you tell who is interested, just based on a casual glance around a room?

Yes :D - Mind you as I mentioned I have been hit upon buy guys that I would think were 100%straight and not somebody I would approach in a bar.

 

[ColtDan]

Nah dont think i have brimz

 

[parttime crackhead]

but up their own arse I have no time for them (less space for me).

I'm not sure if you meant that. It's fucking hilarious anyway

Its a crane like this knock.

Never mind a crane, get a CRAN! Like this guy...

The Finneston Cran. Belter.

 

[Bearlove]

Fork truck licence. Fucking hell. Now I have an actual attainable goal in life :D

Its nowt - you can get it for free and well worth having on your cv (I have mine = counter reach / counter balance - get them all).

 

[brimz]

No way they were the biggest in the world 60 years ago . Them & Stothert N PItt employed a large % of working class folk in Bath for decades till well till Maggie

 

[brimz]

Nah dont think i have brimz

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stothert_%26_Pitt‎

check it

 

[Bearlove]

I'm not sure if you meant that. It's fucking hilarious anyway

I meant it

 

[knock]

Its nowt - you can get it for free and well worth having on your cv (I have mine = counter reach / counter balance - get them all).

But I googled and:

There is no such thing as a fork lift truck driver’slicence!
There is no central licensing authority.
Every employer has a responsibility, under Regulation 9 of the Provision and Use of Work
Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER 98), to ensure that employees have adequate training
before they use work equipment. The training required in order to operate most fork lift trucks
is explained in the special Code of Practice detailed below.

 

[Bearlove]

But I googled and:

I said Licence ? If you want a fork truck 'Slicence' then I don't know where to look.

.....In theory it may mean nothing - but your in the UK (?), some places will insist you have a 'licence' to work for them in a warehouse setting etc. (I'm old school - not sure about the new fangled rules / regulations etc) .

I have my counterbalance licence !

 

[knock]

Yeah it's definitely a 'slicence that I'm after


I will read up! Swallows looks a useful place to start.

 

[parttime crackhead]

I know a few people who claim to have a forklift license. I don't know if that just means for their current employer, but whenever it's been mentioned it's sounded like something that would stay with you and not just confirmation that that one employer trusted you to rally about in a forklift truck.