MGI wrote:Kieran, do you remember Jody who was a fitter on the rope machines, and a Irish lad called Bill something, I think it might have been Geary? Not to mention Jock Ritchie who had the shout in the workshops!
MGI wrote:I knew your Dad, he was at BCHC when I was there... In fact he drove the Cairngorm before I did because they gave it him for a day or two whilst his was in dock for some reason. I went out to Chelmsley Wood to drive it on a very small pipeline that was running parallel to the M6. The agent asked me to string out a load of pipes with it, up a hill (offroad in a field) carrying them free on wheels and on a side camber. I said it wouldn't do it - just then Stan turned up on his chinese six because he had left his brothers in the Cairngorm, I said to him " they only expected me to string those pipes up that hill with this, I refused because it'll never get up there" He told me he thought it would because it was supposed to be a rough terrain crane and it had four wheel drive so I went back to the agent and told him that apparently it would do the job. I picked up a pipe, slewed it to the high side and set off - within 10 feet I was bogged to the *******s and it took me all morning jacking myself up on sleepers to get back to terra firma, your old man was long gone when I finally got out - I was absolutely cream crackered hand balling those sleepers a foot at a time and filthy dirty! To put the tin hat on it, there was a JCB 3 driver there and he said he would string the pipes, I replied scornfully that if the Cairngorm couldn't do it, a machine specifically designed to move loads over rough terrain, there was no chance that 3C excavator could do it, but just to complete my day he strung out every single pipe right to the top of the hill! It was only 2 wheel drive to add insult to injury!
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