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Hi,

I live here too mate! and i agree with you on the whole! My problem is i have a Missus in a good job who bloody loves the place, and in all fairness we are now settled!
So, if you know of work let me know, as my job finishes next week and we planned on being here a bit longer!

Cheers
 
Unbelievable ?

Dont get that Phil , do you have a contact number or e-mail adrress bud
 
HAHA,imagine supervising 300 indians,feck me that's an army,and none of them having a clue:eek::cry:
 
hahaha
cant be any worse than managing some of the dumplings who are in our game now , OUR BELOVED CITB are a complete embarassment to our game and the sooner the HSE investigates them the better.
How many chancers in the scaff game today ? Probably about 50% and getting carried by the decent guys , all they have to do is keep there mouth shut and labour , then they get up the ladder to suck more c--k

Ive supervised 50 Philipinos and they have more of an idea than some back here
 
Havespannerwilltravel said:
You would be surprised Bigfish many of them are extremely competent and I knew a Nepalese foreman who could manage 800 on one site with no problem.
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Sounds like a logistical nightmare HSWT,i just cant imagine how you'd have time to brief/visit/paperwork so many men:eek:
 
BIGFISH
you gee them the job , tell them how to do it and if when you come back if its not finished then they are bumpted ? easy peesy

they are good workers and wont take the pish, if you treat them fairly then they repay that unlike here with all the want-to-be-scaffs who couldnt put nut in a monkeys mouth
 
harvey said:
hahaha
cant be any worse than managing some of the dumplings who are in our game now , OUR BELOVED CITB are a complete embarassment to our game and the sooner the HSE investigates them the better.
How many chancers in the scaff game today ? Probably about 50% and getting carried by the decent guys , all they have to do is keep there mouth shut and labour , then they get up the ladder to suck more c--k

Ive supervised 50 Philipinos and they have more of an idea than some back here
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More then that.
I was on a site a few weeks ago and there were Scaffolders, apparently - who could not base out an Independent.

To me, that aint bad training. Thats bad application and poor effort.
I mean how hard is it to work out 4 Boards and 1 inside Board? - A Board is 9inches (225mm, but whos counting? :p), so 9 x 4 = 36 inches, give a bit for Board deficiencies/twisting/bowing and such, say what? - 38 inches inside to centre of Standard?
And inside Standard what? - 12 inches to centre, off the wall? To allow for the Brickwork being out of line and such?


Not exactly rocket science...

People are going to be lazy and useless, regardless of what training or experience they have. Its human nature.
It just seems that theres more w@nkers doing Scaffolding then other trades, lol.
 
Most of us have done the courses and we have seen it ourselves where there are guys who just havent a clue and the instructor STILL puts them through , now that is not only dangerous to the person but also dangerous to the people they work with and the public.
If the HSE ever did an undercover investigation on these courses over 6 months to a year then CITB would be shut down 100%

I did an absceil course couple years ago and they are totally strict and if you **** up you are out , if you cant do it you are out , if you are unsafe you are out.

We hear scaffs complaining all the time about absceilers taking there work away, well they are 100 times safer and better trained and there training body is 100 times better than CITB. If you do 1 of there courses and accidently go onto 1 line you are immediately failed Our beloved CITB is nothing more than a money making gimmick and has let us all down big time
 
All training is a money making gimmick though.
Do you really need a Harness Inspection course to make you able to see if a Harness is fit for use? No... its a load of bullshiit, but its yet another scheme used to swindle more cash from us.

Me? Ive been a Chargehand since i was 22 and i was a Part 1.
Why? Because i was highly trained? No - Because i put some oompf into learning and doing things properly.

Im still learning, just last month i worked with an old boy who showed me half a dozen uses for a DH that i never thought possible - I now LOVE that fitting, lol.


People either wanna listen, learn, adapt and overcome or they dont.
Training cant offer that - All training can offer is a better chance at getting a job.

I got my Advanced in 2008 for no other reason then it sticks me higher up the ladder then other Scaffolders when looking for a job. Its not right, but its life.
 
how old you jason

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harvey you ever been offshore
 
Im 30, but i ache like an old b@stard.
Knee is f.ucked, elbows f.ucked, wrists f.ucked, lol.

Cant imagine how a 60 year old Scaffolder must feel!


Offshore?
Id like to have a go at that one day, but with my accent (Cockney and common as muck) i think ill find life hard on the rigs up in Aberdeeeeeeen.
 
Jason
I agree with most of what you say but your missing the point Im trying to make.

I dont hate a money making scheme if it delivers better scaffs but it so doesnt. It gives people a card that says they are qualified , read that "QUALIFIED".

The CITB (fraudulently in my opinion) gives a card and lets people go out into the working enviroment doing probably the most dangerous job in the construction game saying they are "QUALIFIED"

I have been scaffolding for 25 years,done my c/hand, foreman , supervisor , manager and co-ordinator and I got those positions because I always want to learn, I sometimes end up back on the spanners which doesnt really bother me as long as Im working but these people that CITB are sending out are not qualified to be given a card , end of.

They (CITB) are a disgrace to the scaffold game and they WILL be found out, I know of at least 6 complaints that companies have put to HSE regarding the standard of there pass rate. Every scaff I know has seen the extent of these shams when they have been on there own courses over the last 20 years.

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Spent most of my working life offshore, also africa Europe and all over England , so Ive been about
 
So the CITB centre in 'Glasgee' aint going to get a Christmas card from you this year then? ;)
 
hahahahaha

No xmas or birthday cards lol the instructors know there stuff but it pains me the way they pass dumplins
 
dh fittings lol ive a pair for earings do anyone need them put in post for you same as the band and plate sgb srew plate to knock people out with and the band on you feet to kick the **** heads in f uck them !
 
i agree with you harvey mate,your done your learning like most us and we are still learning,i"ve been scaffolding 25yrs now,and gree with things you say and some of what jason says,CITB is to easy to pass now,and there putting our lifes at risk passing guys who cant really scaffold cos instructors pass them and there not upto the standard.sometimes i think as do alot my mates our game is a joke,really good scafs out work and abroad fcukers in work,what does that tell us.

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i have meet a good 12 scafs on the job,who got there cards by just doing the courses at the wk end,god what is that all about aswell.
 
Steve

Ive been in the game since I was 15 , yeh 15 , going out at weekends and giving family a hand then went offshore at 19 , Im now 41 and been,seen and done it.
Looking to work abroad as I got a taste last year over in ghana , malabo and guinea but will take whats going just now if its long term.

I agree that our game in this country is a joke and its getting worse thats why Ive been putting CVs over seas for couple years now and hopeing to do my NEBOSH this year to try and get out of it

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I still say that the only way to try and get better guys in is to have a skill test before employers employ these people
They do it with other trades , and they aint half as dangerous as ours.
 
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