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    Where I work

    Some of you know that I work in a granite quarry so today I took a few pictures that give look through a very small window of my workplace and what I do.

    I work as an electrician, not an instalation electrician who might put in asocket for you, although thats where I started out but a quarry maintenance electrician, a totally different beast. I am part of a team of six and we work continental shifts, 12 hours on, 12 off, 4 days on, 4 off, rotating days and nights.

    The quarry produces nearly 5 million tons of finished product from washed chippings to tarmac, rail ballast to dust, thats nearly 30000 ton a day.

    Here are some pictures.
    Last edited by pigletwillie; 07-03-2008, 09:13 PM.
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    I think continental shifts sound fantastic - are they as good as they sound as is that how you get time to have 3 allotments?

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    • #3
      Its a long day when working but as I only work about 135 days a year I find continental shifts an absolute dream.

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      • #4
        I think 12 hour shifts of physical work sound a nightmare, not a dream, but I guess you're used to them PW?
        To see a world in a grain of sand
        And a heaven in a wild flower

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        • #5
          When we've been working on launching a new magazine we've worked a few 12 hour shifts and have to say I've enjoyed the chance to get totally involved in that day's work.

          But I guess different routines appeal to different people and we all have our own preferences. I do wish we had more opportunity to choose in the UK though. Working 135 days a year sounds like heaven to me!!!

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          • #6
            I am on call 24Hrs a day 365 days a year! It's called being a resident!

            PS 366 days............forgot it's a leap year!
            Last edited by Snadger; 07-03-2008, 10:46 PM.
            My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
            to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

            Diversify & prosper


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            • #7
              I like my shifts, 365/24 doing what I like when I like. This retirement gets better every year
              It's not the growing old I mind but the growing stupid with it!

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Snadger View Post
                I am on call 24Hrs a day 365 days a year! It's called being a resident!

                PS 366 days............forgot it's a leap year!
                Me too, coz I'm a wife and mother!
                ~
                Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
                ~ Mary Kay Ash

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by piskieinboots
                  thank you for the 'small picture' PLW, I found it really interesting

                  Jeannine - I worked in the print trade* in the 80's & 90's - 10 to 12 hours days were normal on press day (coffee on tap), 14 hour days were normal when special publications were going to press ..........sigh.......how I miss it

                  *newspapers then moved into commercial press i.e mags


                  Of? ..................
                  Be right up your street piskie..........this is the view from my living room window over 43 acres/16 Hectare of green desert!
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                  Last edited by Snadger; 08-03-2008, 08:29 AM.
                  My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                  to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                  Diversify & prosper


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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by JennieAtkinson View Post
                    Me too, coz I'm a wife and mother!
                    I asked for that didn't I?
                    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                    Diversify & prosper


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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Grandpadragon View Post
                      I like my shifts, 365/24 doing what I like when I like. This retirement gets better every year
                      It's dreadful Grandpadragon, but some of us have to do it. Permenantly on call for gardening, lunch, aperos in the evening, have a day off when we want one, time to sit and mull over the pressures of life, shake our heads wisely at the folly of youth. I know just how awful it can be.

                      But after 40 years plus of work, including far too long working shifts and my final job at B&Q working 12 hour night shifts, looking back it was all great fun but enough is enough thank you.
                      TonyF, Dordogne 24220

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                      • #12
                        My dad deals in dumptrucks that would be fine in your quarry Piglet
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                        Happy Gardening,
                        Shirley

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by shirlthegirl43 View Post
                          My dad deals in dumptrucks that would be fine in your quarry Piglet
                          Thats some Tonka toy shirl!
                          My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                          to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                          Diversify & prosper


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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Snadger View Post
                            Thats some Tonka toy shirl!
                            LOL, I would love to drive one of those - or Piglet's Caterpillar shovel loader. Strange lass aren't I
                            Happy Gardening,
                            Shirley

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                            • #15
                              I want a big truck like that Shovel Loader, and I'd park it right outside the Nasty Kebab Shop and honk the horn when THEY are trying to sleep, like their customers do to us until 3am every morning.
                              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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