Tower Cranes — Forum Archive

27 Mar 2006, 23:50

I now know how they are constructed, rest easy Mick !

27 Mar 2006, 23:58

Care to share?

Snorri xxx

28 Mar 2006, 01:20

Binocher wrote: I now know how they are constructed, rest easy Mick !

About TIME Mate. :lol:

28 Mar 2006, 03:21

As I work in heavy industry I drive,and train others to drive cranes as part of my duties.I am what is known as P.I.C.C(person in charge of cranes)which means I am legally liable if anyone hurts themselves(electricians,fitters) whilst working on our cranes.Its a thankless task for which I am paid no extra lucre :thumbdown: ..I'm off today tho,yippee!

28 Mar 2006, 03:27

Snorrimon wrote: Care to share?

Snorri xxx

The tall ones build themselves by jacking a gap into their tower and inserting further sections, if thats what u mean.

I'm a big fan of Gantry cranes myself. The two in Hrland and Wolfe can lift whole friggin ships :D

28 Mar 2006, 03:29

Rocket Mick wrote:

Binocher wrote: I now know how they are constructed, rest easy Mick !

About TIME Mate.

We just had a new multi-million pound Super-crane installed at our place,which meant the loss of 42 jobs across 5 shifts,fortunatly all took early retirement with good lumpers and pensions...I don't really like talking shop while i'm off,so I'm afraid I will be clocking off with imediate effect.I still have a week left before I return to Mordor.Some quality family/me time never goes amiss

28 Mar 2006, 03:35

Boatraceface wrote: Mordor.

ROFLMAO...perfect description of a steelworks.

Dark satanic mills eh?

28 Mar 2006, 03:51

Steve Campbell wrote:

Boatraceface wrote: Mordor.

ROFLMAO...perfect description of a steelworks.

Dark satanic mills eh?

Strikingly similar Steve,one or two Orcs kicking about the furnaces an all... I still refuse to align myself with Soron tho

28 Mar 2006, 06:05

The tall ones build themselves by jacking a gap into their tower and inserting further sections, if thats what u mean.

That's it, amazing isn't it !!!

28 Mar 2006, 06:27

i dunno....every time I see it I expect them to sprout two more legs and go rampaging around the home counties torching everything :D

28 Mar 2006, 06:37

Steve Campbell wrote: i dunno....every time I see it I expect them to sprout two more legs and go rampaging around the home counties torching everything :D

"No one would have believed in the last Century".....You gotta love Richard Burton

28 Mar 2006, 06:37

Steve Campbell wrote: i dunno....every time I see it I expect them to sprout two more legs and go rampaging around the home counties torching everything :D

We can but hope...

Snorri xxx

28 Mar 2006, 06:40

Howdy Snorri.Happy with the cup draw are we?

28 Mar 2006, 06:43

Boatraceface wrote:

Steve Campbell wrote: i dunno....every time I see it I expect them to sprout two more legs and go rampaging around the home counties torching everything :D

"No one would have believed in the last Century".....You gotta love Richard Burton

Forgive me...but the actual text of Wells' original is even better (albeit it's IMPOSSIBLE to read it NOT in Richard Burton's voice)........

 No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century
that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most, terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.

28 Mar 2006, 06:46

Forgiven Steve...I can hear Burton's exquisite narration as I read.Marvelous

28 Mar 2006, 06:53

I think we can all agree that being on the receiving end of some heat-ray/black-vapour/getting-drained-and-ingested Martian Genocide would do the human race the world of good.

Of course....London's not what it was in Wells' time, I guess Woking would need to be updated to Washington.

28 Mar 2006, 07:01

Washington, near Morpeth, South of Scarborough not far from Bridlington perhaps..Surely not Washington D.C. And does the D.C. bit mean, Daft Cunts? :shrug: because there is evidence to suggest this may be more than a hunch :D

I have relatives that live in Woking,its very posh.

28 Mar 2006, 07:16

Boatraceface wrote: Howdy Snorri.Happy with the cup draw are we?

Pretty much - to be honest none of them would be easy, but we have a big problem beating Liverpool, Chelsea are bound to cheat their way to a win, so Boro or Charlton will do fine... You've gotta be pretty annoyed with having to replay...

Snorri xxx

28 Mar 2006, 07:27

Dems de breaks with replays Snorri.The squads have to cope with fixture pile-ups if you want to have a real go in these cups.Luckily our league position is safe and he can play me and you at centre-half in league games if required.It could be worse,we're in the Draw for the Smi-final of the FA cup and the Quarters of the UEFA.Not too bad for a small time outfit punching above its weight called Boro :clap: