What are you doing this weekend ???

[jims-terrano]

Well I've survived my course, all I have to do is get up early to get to York for 8 for breakfast then 8:45 teaching some kids on a bunch of flight sims.

Trouble is I wanna get working on my truck.

 

[solarman216]

Further to my earlier post done day one of flat roof, removed 1 tonne chippings from same (all lowered by electric hoist plus raised 47 kg propane and 15 rolls felt) cut out some bad patches and repaired plus run two lengths torch on under felt, got 15 more to run tomorrow but at least most of the prep work has been done but absolutely knackered now as lad I had was useless he 28 me 68 I kept going ALL day he had to keep stopping for rest:doh:doh:doh, Rick

 

[jims-terrano]

Further to my earlier post done day one of flat roof, removed 1 tonne chippings from same (all lowered by electric hoist plus raised 47 kg propane and 15 rolls felt) cut out some bad patches and repaired plus run two lengths torch on under felt, got 15 more to run tomorrow but at least most of the prep work has been done but absolutely knackered now as lad I had was useless he 28 me 68 I kept going ALL day he had to keep stopping for rest:doh:doh:doh, Rick

Rick, I'll hire my son out to you :lol:lol:lol:lol:lol

 

[johnb5177]

Rick, I sympathise. Climbing, felling, coppicing, clearing.... I couldn't find anyone to keep up with me.....even at 64........:nenau

 

[don simon]

Watching the rugby.

 

[solarman216]

Jim/John, no they do not make em like they used to, this guy today was a laugh, he looked at me and decided that he could piss over my head, when I said I was not going to carry a 47kg bottle of propane up those stairs without help, (we had a hoist for the scaffold lift) so he carried this bottle on his own, but I could see when he got to the top it was too much for him, (he did not know I could see him from the roof), but the overall picture is he could only work in short bursts, ten mins on 20 mins off plus smoke breaks and drink breaks, whereas I keep going steady all day, Rick

 

[firebobby]

Sorting out a cheap Vauxhall corsa I got for my daughter, new interior, wheels and had to fit new CV boots today...getting there

 

[Daemo]

I got to work, got a 45 sq mtr flat roof to felt, torch on, planned for Monday but forecast is rain, got to do it while it is dry, Rick

My old man had his own bussiness as a flat roofer he did it for years, I always remember as a little kid going to see him in hospital after an accident with a bucket of that hot bitumen/tar, he fell carrying something and put both his hands into a freshly poured bucket of the stuff, it was just in the wrong place.. Needless to say his hands were bandaged for a real long time..