Life in Hell

[nick lamb]

I occasionally do operator work for other contractors.It usually means I do abit of sick cover,holliday cover or filling the seat untill they get a permanant operator.I haven't done more that three days in a row for years but I quite enjoy it.One of my deacent jobs is ripping in a local quarry and one of my horrible jobs is covered in this thread........
Over the last 20 years I cover a local domestic landfill site sometimes lining the cells with clay and other times on the tip itself.It stinks,it's dangerous and its so mind numbing a halfwitt would get bored.It pays well enough though.

[macca1]

what cab you inside of there D5 or D6 mate

[nick lamb]

The job entails an 8am start allthough I fire the machine up at 7.30 and do a few checks on it then have a pint of milk whilst she warms up.'She' is a Cat D6H series2 lgp diff steer dozer.No aircon,no radio no reversing camera and no other general comfort.On the positive side it has a heater,glass,breathing equipment and reasonably tight fitting door catches(this keeps the dust out of the cab).
Each 10hr shift sees about 6 to 800 waggons a day bring in all the stuff we recycle(plastic,cardboard,paper etc) and of course the stuff we don't recycle (that,s everthing in your black bin).Large quantities of hospital waste spice the day up with lashings of incontinance pads,nappies,bandages,syringes and other unmentionables.
We (2x Cat D6H,2x D6R,1x D6T,1x D7RWS and some big blue compactors) spend our time towing the trucks both on and off the tip.This is extremely hard on your neck as you spend nearly all day looking at the respective waggon driver waiting for his instructions..The waste they leave is then dozed to the edge of the tip where you leave it in a heap at the edge of the face(you never push it over).One of the 3 compactors then tramps onto it and kind of 'irons' it on the edge of the face.
It's a simple and straight forward job that can easily lull you into sleep but that's where things could prove deadly.......
on average we hook up to about 200 trucks each day and the truck driver stands at his bumper waiting to hitch you on for his tow.If the dozer operator falls asleep,answers the phone,sneezes,farts or whatever he could loose concentration and plow straight into the waiting truck with the driver as the sandwich filling.

[nick lamb]

sorry Macca,didn't see your post mate.A D6H LGP

[diggerjones]

think i saw your pics in plant mag this week. see you got a radio in that cab. i had a radio built into a wooden box, that i used to cart round.

[nick lamb]

Hi Dylan.Plant mag pics? it's news to me.Which one is it as I will have to have a trip to the newsagents

[diggerjones]

classic plant and machinery page 13. d8h 68a sent in by n lamb[

[diggerjones]

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[modelman093]

Each 10hr shift sees about 6 to 800 waggons a day bring in all the stuff we recycle(plastic,cardboard,paper etc) and of course the stuff we don't recycle (that,s everthing in your black bin).Large quantities of hospital waste spice the day up with lashings of incontinance pads,nappies,bandages,syringes and other unmentionables.
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What, no shite hawks - or is it too far inland?!
Angus

[FOWLER MAN]

Hi Nicky
LIFE IN HELL If you had a n old 22A or 7M or Challenger 33 with a cab in a cardboard box you would realy have something to complain about.
Fred