Post #23 by MGI » Fri May 13, 2011 10:58 pm
As I have previously posted I was on a site in the Forest of Dean (Population 65,000 & only 15 surnames) and it was a quagmire, I had to tramp backwards everywhere and I still managed to break chains, the mud had small boulders in it and they kept getting between the chain and the sprocket. John Edkins used to pay me £2.00 every time I replaced a link which was cheaper than sending a fitter out. Tom Kelly was OK because he was on a long & wide and the chains were a long way from the tracks. I had a really old Landrover in those days (1949) and it used to drink oil, I used to fire the Mobil 5 gallon drums into it that I had for the navvy, eventually Jock Ritchie asked me when the next weekend was that the site wasn't working, I asked him why and he said he was going to send two fitters out with a replacement engine because mine was using so much oil it would be cheaper than to keepfiring oil down to me - that buggered it up, I had to suddenly discover where the leak was & remedy it or my cover was blown. (It was probably blown anyway - Jock probably sussed where the oil was going & conned me, like I was trying to con him)