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Hi all

This looks like a great site.

Me? Although I’m not currently working in the industry (I left the scaffolding world about 4 years ago). I spent 30 years in scaffolding. From a trainee to a contracts branch manager.

I’m working on the railway now, as a track quality engineer. But it’s difficult to let go of 30 years as a scaff.

Cheers
 
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dave b 2 said:
hi wot made u jump 2 the rail pal
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I think it was a Mid Life Crisis thing. I just needed to try something else before I was too old), and what I’m doing now is infinitely less stressful than running a 2mill turnover contracts branch.

I still miss the good old days though (70’s & 80’s), when scaffolding was a great crack, and I could turn a spanner with the best of them.
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Hi Pope

Welcome to the forum
nice to have another Old School scaff on board there are still a few of us alive and kicking :laugh:
 
welcome back into the fold,dont forget,you have the knowledge,that the young ones want,so your experiance,is like a book,let them read it.:D
 
Hello the Pope you must of seen the future in the scaffolding game was getting bleaker.
 
Pope said:
Hi all

This looks like a great site.

Me? Although I’m not currently working in the industry (I left the scaffolding world about 4 years ago). I spent 30 years in scaffolding. From a trainee to a contracts branch manager.

I’m working on the railway now, as a track quality engineer. But it’s difficult to let go of 30 years as a scaff.

Cheers
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Hi Pope
Did you work for SGB? if so have a look at my pictures you may recognise the job!!!!
Regards Tufty
 
Cheers lads

Ok, just a brief history of Pope the scaff.

Started as trainee for SGB in 1975
Got my advanced card in 1982 and became youngest chargehand. Then I went on my travels to broaden my experience.
Working mostly in Nuclear Power Stations, with sort spells on the streets. Heres are just a few of my most memorable jobs:
Severn Bridge maintenance – chargehand (SGB)
Torness NPS Construction - chargehand (Foremost)
Barkley NPS outages – chargehand (GKN)
Hinkley Point NPS outages – chargehand (GKN)
Oldbury NPS outages – chargehand (UBM)
Salisbury Cathedral – chargehand (Deborah)
Oldbury NPS calloff – supervisor/manager. (Deborah)
Hinkley Point NPS calloff – site manager (Deborah)
Sellafield Vit plant construction – site manager (Deborah)
Bristol contracts - branch manager (Deborah)

My Avatar photo was taken on one of the Severn Bridge towers, 700ft above the water, erecting a truss-out with ladder beams.
No harness or safety nets in them days.

Along the way I’ve had the pleasure of working with some great lads :cool:(and a few not so great:eek:).
Some are still on the spanners, some are now multi millionaires. But once a scaffolder, always a scaffolder;).
 
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Pope
See you worked for Foremost have you any pictures I can pass on to Adrian Fennessey!
Regards Tufty
 
Hi Tufty

How about this one of Tommy Hennagan, their most ferocious and feared foremen.
"You're no feckin scaffolder...YOUR SACKED...YOUR SACKED!!”

This one was taken in a Dunbar pub (he’s the one in the middle:evil:).


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:D

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Joe90 said:
Hello the Pope you must of seen the future in the scaffolding game was getting bleaker.
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Yeah Joe, i just wasn’t enjoying it anymore mate. :(
 
Poee
I have passed it on to Adrian who will pass it to Larry I think.
On another note worked with a few lads from Bristol over the years Mac, Dave Perkins and Andy( Forgot his surname) he has a picture of the same scaffold so you must know him
 
Tufty

Yeah i know these lads well, I worked with Dave back in the day. He was one of the best scaffs around at that time. I haven’t seen him for a long time though and i heard he had a stroke some years back.

Mac was also a good lad. Short and stocky and very strong. He has his own scaffolding business now.

Andy Holmes? We go way back to the 70’s and he was with me at Torness for Foremost. A good technical scaff and he later became one of my supervisors on DSL.

Oh well, time to walk down to the track for a quick look…..
 
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