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bigkit wrote:Only just noticed the pics above, what a plonker I am!!! Still wasn't a bad idea tho'

Until the H&S dept catch you

Have driven most of them over the years ,loved them Caterpillar 235.

As some of you know,i pride myself in my machine skills,safety record,work ability & machine upkeep,& i dont take risks.By which i mean that if i dont feel 100% safe doing a job,I DONT DO IT.(& my company has had a few calls from hirers about me refusing to do a job as I dont feel safe....

Testosterone,peer pressure, call it what you will ,stupidity there are just so many names for it and then people ask why we need Safety and Health regulations.It sad to hear that A person died a work but if one was to apply the 5 step theory to accident causation there was more than one opportunity ...

Really enjoyed them pictures Many Thanks.

Bloody Irish men no matter where they go they dig a hole

Gee there are some old dinosaurs,OOOOh! the thoughts of the hours I spent in them

From my seat time experience a Q-hitch has allowed an excavator bucket to be used for the job it was designed for,I saw operators dig with a grading bucket because the task to be done was to small to warrant a bucket change,from my desk time I see that quantities of stone and materials used for spec...

Well said lads and it is the reason I went back to school as I got sick of jumped up whelps with out the least bit of cop on climbing the ladder and not knowing enough,to know they know nothing.

Any person who abuses equipment like doesn't deserve any future seat time,to see equipment being abused like that really gets up my goat