Holland-Work

Havespannerwilltravel said:
If I remember correctly those two guys werent scaffolders. Neither were the guys in the lifeboat from the Saipem barge that hit the dockside.
One scaff fell from Scarabeo 6 in 97 and there were a few more incidents around that time.
I think the guy who ended up crippled was from Norwich way and he actually fell at the Hoogovens Steel Works (now Corus). That was while working on SGB Sprint.
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The lad who fell in 97 was Chris Macgregor if I remember rightly?
 
To work in Holland or Belgium you need SSC (health and safety)certificate costed me 200pounds and I have done it in Poland. Atm there is hundreds of polish and germans scaffolders(cause of Lithuanians working for 7euro/h in Germany germans have to work in Holland now) Im polish and I didnt like very much the way they work there now.They use Layher system which any idiot can do after 2days course.Every holland or belgium firms or agancies employing scaffs through polish agiancies and they have tons of them.
You can earn 450euro/netpay per flat week (they give you free accomodation).

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mikeboy said:
Orite Lads, was wondering if any one had any idea of work in holland Ship yards etc?
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To work in Holland you need SSC(health and safety)certificate. I have done my for 200pounds in Poland as Im Polish. They use Layher system which any idiot can do after 2 days course and these "scaffolders" with no before experiance got a job there so atm is tons of them now playing with Layher system. You can earn 450euro/net pay per flat week plus they give you free accomodation (quite good condition).Whole holland agy recruit "scaffs" from polish agy and they can have unlimited number as they take any tramp who can hold the hammer in his hands so good luck hehe.
Holland agy Debotech.nl, Agitech.nl
Hertel employs scaffs but I heard they **** there to work for.
To work in Holland or Belgium direct for the scaffold firms you need have a permanent accomodation which you have to prove.
 
SSH and ACS

Hello everyone,

I'm Mark Cox went into Scaffolding straight from school in 1984, I'd been labouring for the same company on weekend and summer holiday, so it was a given that I just start work there when I finished school. I used to work for City Scaffolding in Cambridge, SGB in Cambridge and London, GKN, GCS London, Admiral and some others I can't remember!

I was working in Holland and Belgium for SSH in 1991 and 1992 through a UK company called ACS - they were a great outfit I thought. An English guy Tony used to be the main man and the owner was a Scottish guy.

We worked on some oil rigs and boats in the dry docks in Rotterdam and then moved to Zandvort and worked on Hemveg 8 which was a power station just outside Amsterdam.

They hired us Brits as the cloggies had no idea how to build a scaffold out of tube and fittings, it was all Quickstage for them, we were earning top money, working hard and playing even harder...god knows how I'm still alive to be honest, the night life was more dangerous than the scaffolding! You can imagine dozens of British scaffolders earning good wages and living in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, I actually lived above a pub for a while, the owner was a Geordie and his dutch girlfriend used to run an "Adult Establishment" - sheer madness! I never did save up much money.

I met some great guys out there but there were some tragedies too...a couple of guys ended up in a mental hospital - basically too many raves and ecstasy pills on the weekends, one guy (Bob) got back to his room pissed one night and decided to deep fry some chips, sat down next to the cooker and knocked the saucepan all over himself - terrible terrible burns. But the worse was when I was running a small team building a bridge inside Hemveg power station, we were up very high and an Irish Lad called Joey stepped on a trap and went straight through, I actually got hold of his overalls as he was going but it was too late, he fell about 50 feet onto a gangway and that was it. We all got down to where he'd landed and I remember giving him mouth to mouth and pumping his chest, but it was too late and he died there and then. Tragic. RIP Joey.

After that me and my team were treated brilliantly by ACS and SSH. ACS flew Joey's coffin back to Ireland and we were given some time off (with pay). After that we went back down to Rotterdam and worked on a refinery for a while, but then 4 of us (Myself, Mark Creighton, Mark Featherstone and Denis McNamara) decided enough was enough we finished up and left for Thailand.

Seems like another lifetime now, I got out of the game 1 year after and moved to Australia for a while and somehow got into the Internet industry, I ended up moving back the UK, built up a good Internet company and sold it about 7 years ago. I still have a couple of mates I worked with who are still on the tools, I miss the crack but I'm grateful I don't have to do it anymore.

I'd love to hear back from anyone from my past - so please get in contact.

I changed my surname to Burcher years ago but I was known as Cox back then.

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hi mark, i was there from 92 untill 2000, mostly worked on the botlec but did go on many jobs working for acs though tony changed the name of the company to hydro carbons. Yea had some great times there many i cant remember now.
My name is Keith Miller, but known as Windy Miller.
 
windy miller said:
hi mark, i was there from 92 untill 2000, mostly worked on the botlec but did go on many jobs working for acs though tony changed the name of the company to hydro carbons. Yea had some great times there many i cant remember now.
My name is Keith Miller, but known as Windy Miller.
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Thought you had a bar in Thailand Windy??
 
windy miller said:
hi mark, i was there from 92 untill 2000, mostly worked on the botlec but did go on many jobs working for acs though tony changed the name of the company to hydro carbons. Yea had some great times there many i cant remember now.
My name is Keith Miller, but known as Windy Miller.
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oi,oi,Windy.,,........long time etc,.Last btime I saw you was in Pattaya..(jon kawasaki)....hows it angin mate??where r ya now??....Im back in Holland..(for me sinns)!!!stay lucky bud...
 
still have, in soi 8 Pattaya and the house in Kanchanaburi.It does ok, but not enough to retire on yet mate. How are you any way,I see your in the Philippines, are you working there or just living the dream ?

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Hi Ya jon , good to hear from you , yea i remember seeing you in pattaya , you said i ll come and see you tomorow , but you never did, or did you get distracted ha ha ha ha. ive just finished a job in luxemburg, so im just relaxing at the mo
 
windy miller said:
still have, in soi 8 Pattaya and the house in Kanchanaburi.It does ok, but not enough to retire on yet mate. How are you any way,I see your in the Philippines, are you working there or just living the dream ?

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Hi Ya jon , good to hear from you , yea i remember seeing you in pattaya , you said i ll come and see you tomorow , but you never did, or did you get distracted ha ha ha ha. ive just finished a job in luxemburg, so im just relaxing at the mo
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Ha ha ha........came back next day an searched for your bar........ON SOI 6 (!!!!!) Let me have the name of your bar,an Ill give you a look.....was over there jan / feb earlier this year,maybe back around nov/dec........take it easy mate....
 
hoping to get there next month, depending on work load, the missus went back last month for a quick visit, she s back here now says its quiet.
it would be good to see you again.

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yea mark, where did those years go, glad your doing good mate, better than scaffolding, on saying that, id do it all again.
 
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