Competition £200 cash up for grabs!

[Andy Gorman]

What a brillo idea for a competition. I’m getting my flask and I’m going to sit by the edge of the M1 for 2 weeks!

[Robert Lambie]

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

nutter 😉

[Carrie Brown]

:lol1: If I come and join you Big G can we split it …. we could take it in shifts watching :lol1:

Rob, very generous of you, good idea, Im sure plenty of people wouldnt complain to having £200 for doing something so simple 😀

Carrie 😀

[Andy Gorman]

No problem Carrie, but if you fall asleep, I can’t guarantee that I won’t draw a moustache on your face with a big marker pen.

I’m trying to think what the contract is. What would you need a cherry picker for? Obviously it’s off the floor….mmmmm….I’m buggered if I know! Just make sure you pass through Wellingborough. Sod it, I’ll have a guess now: Dewi, in the billiard room, with the lead pipe. Am I right?

[Phill Fenton]

Tough big G – I’ll be parked up on the hard shoulder of the M8 waiting for Rob to join the motorway on his way south via the M74 – he’ll not get to the M1 for hours and I’ll have claimed my prize long before you spot him 😛

Carrie.. you’re more than welcome to join me in my vigil – but I warn you, the nights in Scotland are very cold just now you know 😳

[Andy Gorman]

Ah yes you see, but, he might not stick the name on ’til he gets to Watford Gap services. And, right, knowing how rubbish Rob is at applying vinyl, he’ll probably need someone to stick it on for him. Say, I dunno, at about Junction 15 of the M1. I’d like to offer my services for anyone needing vinyl applying to van/cherry picker type vehicles. £200 per fit.

[Jill Marie Welsh]

If you take a big left turn and things get kind of watery, maybe I’ll spot you.
You could ride above the ocean in the cherry picker basket and steer by remote control.
Just watch out for those nasty icebergs near Greenland….you don’t want to end up like the Titanic.
love….jill

[Carrie Brown]

:lol1: Phil I would be sure to bring my thermals, thank you for your kind offer 😉

Ooooh Big G I never thought of that, yeah he probably would stick it on after maybe, perhaps?? I once knew a girl who had a pair of glasses and a moustache and beard drawn on her …. bless … couldnt help laughing though :lol1: But for £100 I could probably cope with pen on my face ….. second thoughts no I couldnt 😛

Carrie 😀

[Andy Gorman]

That’s nothing, I’ve had a few girlfriends who had beards and moustaches growing on them. It’s the inbreeding round here, I reckon. Mind you, they were the good looking ones.

[Carrie Brown]

:point:

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Are you sure you’re not from Pennsylvania, Big G?
My neck of the woods…
home of the Butter face and Summer teeth!*
love…….jill

*her body is great, butter face is awful!
*summer missing, summer brown….

[Steve Broughton]

Talk about trying to find a needle in a haystack 😀

Here’s a tip folks he’s only about knee high so set your sights fairly low \/ :lol1:

[Paul Goodwin]

I’m going to camp outside his work shop and nab him as he’s leaving 🙂

[image]

Wow! Rob!
What an useful van! I like it!

Can you make a trip to Hungary too? 😉

[Phil Davies]

better get some iron brew in fridge 😀

just in case you come through stoke

hope you do mate could do with cleaning me gutters
with cherry picker

[Andy Gorman]

They only have that cherry picker so that Rob can get into the driver’s seat! Irn Bru’s no good, he only drinks Bacardi Breezers. If you come down south Rob, make sure you bring your chequebook; Bacardi Breezers are about £87 each in our local.

[Robert Lambie]

G, Carrie, Phil if you don’t spot me at least you will have had practice… ill probably see you all next month, up near loch lomand outside the Faslane Submarine base dressed as hippies…. :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

quote :

Talk about trying to find a needle in a haystack

You could be right mate, if you had to go out and search…
It’s just if you spot me on your rounds, so worth while to keep eyes peeled, & it’s a bit of fun… :lol1:
Shouldn’t be too hard spotting the cherry picker due to size, colour and how beautiful the THING is… 😮
Joking aside though, I drove right through Lincolnshire on my last travel a few months ago, saw the signs for boston im sure because i mentioned you when i saw it.
I also saw an elite signs van, impact signs van (not brians) and 1 or 2 others I recognise from the boards… the companies may be duplicate sign makers names but may not have been also… with that in mind I could have possibly been seen by about 5 from this site, and my last trip was not as far travelled as this one will be.

Sooooo… keep your eyes peeled… 😉

Oh yeh… one more thing… if you spot me and you blow the horn… ill stop and write you a cheque there and then. (as long as i get a picture handing you the money for the site 😉 ) Just as long as it’s not down the M1 at 90mph and going the other way! :lol1:

[John Childs]

Lambie’s coming south?

Whur’s me shotgun?

😀

[Carrie Brown]

quote Robert Lambie:

G, Carrie, Phil if you don’t spot me at least you will have had practice… ill probably see you all next month, up near loch lomand outside the Faslane Submarine base dressed as hippies…. :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

With icicles hanging from places they should not 😮

:lol1:

[Mike Grant]

So Rob are you gonna give us an incy wincy clue as to the places you will be visiting???? 😕

And don’t try to pull a fast one by putting the name only on one side!!!! (:)

[Richard]

Got him!

Re-signing SGB Hire to GAP Plant & Tool Hire in Aylesford, just outside Maidstone in Kent.

I’ll get an image up when I get home.[/img]

[Carrie Brown]

Congrats Richard!!!!! :cheer:

What are you going to spend your winnings on then, are you going to treat us all to a drink ??? 😉

Now you did remember to get the name off the side didnt you?

Carrie 😀

I can tell Steve to come in the warm now instead of sitting out on the verge by the main road with his camera :lol1: 😉

[Mark Shipley]

Well done Richard !!!!! :yeeha:

That’s one hell of a commute – Scotland to Kent :car:

I hope there’s going to be a huge presentation ceremony with lots of booze.

Mark

[Steve-Smith]

would u believe it!

i drove through aylesford today 🙄

darn

[Steve-Smith]

well done though richard!

forgot to say 😛

[Richard]

Apparently the “name on the side” is still in the back of the van. 🙄
Forgot to ask who’s name it was, here’s the evidence

I thought I recognised the van when I drove past on my way home from work Monday, and sure enough.

I’ve only just got back from two weeks holiday, so my winnings will probably get swallowed up as soon as my next credit card bill turns up 🙁

[Nicola McIntosh]

nice one richard!!! 😛 😛

well spotted!! 😀

nik

[John Singh]

Well done Richard :cheer:

[Jill Marie Welsh]

….I thought all I’d be able to see was arms reaching out
from the top of the cherry-picker basket.
He must be standing on phone books.
Love…Jill 😮

[John Singh]

Rob told me phone books are not allowed in cherry pickers owing to them not being rain proof. He uses plastic barcardi breezers crates instead.

John

[Robert Lambie]

Richard Hards of Quazar International
WINS the £200 bounty!

It was day two; I was pretty much knackered from my 20 hour shift the day before… driving and fitting signs down the length of the country. I stayed overnight in one of Brightons sea front hotels just 50 yards or so from a sign shop called “Best Signs”. We also passed many sign vans and factories… “We must have been caught by now?” we thought…
This next stop was going to be our longest; it was in Maidstone, Kent.
4 hours had passed on this particular job… “Rob!” I heard… looking 20 ft down I saw a guy standing looking up… “Rob?… Rob Lambie from uksignboards.com?” I started to laugh…. He says “it’s Richard Hards from the site and “I do” recognise that van!”
Down I came still laughing in disbelief at being caught…
After a quick chat, we arranged to meet up at Richards’s factory.

“Would you believe it was only along the road from where I was working?”

As I finished up for the day I made my way to Richards place… very glad I did actually, he gave me a guided tour of a factory unit jammed packed with many different machines. Everything was so neat and tidy and all in its own place… Richard went onto explain that quazar international specialise in reflective products and actually make their own reflective material. I was amazed at the process and vast amount of products they covered. Everything was all new to me… a real eye opener at yet another side to our trade…

The picture below shows a rough route that I took. The yellow road is my path and the green circles where I fitted signs and stayed overnight.

I will list some, “but not all” of the sign companies I saw either in their van or passed their premises.

Pendal signs
Best Signs
Active Signs
Iden Signs
ABC Signs
CT Signs
Sign Base
Blaze Neon
Widd Signs
Adbell Signs
Butterfeild Signs
Ast Signs
Quazar international
Pearce Signs
First Signs

The picture below is the one Richard took once he had spotted me…

The next picture shows Richard and I together in his vinyl cutting and printing room.

The picture below is basically the sign work on the Maidstone depot complete.

well thats it, till the next time i hit the road…. 😉

congrats Richard… & nice to meet you mate!

.

[John Singh]

Yeah but have you given him the two hundred squid?

That was a long haul Rob trecking through Britain
I bet you were shattered
But glad to see you had time to reflect on Richards specialized products (what were they now?)

Neat job anyway

Cherrypickers are good for pickin’ cherries
Are they any good at pickin’ dingle berries

John

[Carrie Brown]

Congrats again Rich!!! 😀

Next time Rob you need to drive a little more to the West …… preferably through Hereford 😛

[budone]

But where is the name on the side of the van?

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Yes, the suspense is killing me!
Do Tell!
Love….Jill

[Carrie Brown]

Oh yeah come on Rob who was the person lucky enough to be named on your cherry picker van lift thingy 😀 the name you left in the van :lol1:

Carrie 😀

[Robert Lambie]

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

well its like this….

what do you mean you dont believe me? 😮 :lol1:

nah, basicaly what happend was, we set off saturday night sunday morning. roughly 1am.
the idea behind the name on the side was because it would stop folk cheating, saying they saw us when they didnt. i had told a few people in conversation when and roughly where i was going prior to the idea of the competition, so this would hopefully make it all full proof.
anyway, like i said it was roughly 1am when we left. it was dark, very cold and raining.
i thought, bugger it.. nobody will see me in pitch dark at this hour in the rain and it would driving through the hills till we hit england anyway.. so i said ill stick it on when we stop for petrol… petrol stop came, still dark & still raining. on i went to manchester…. by now it was about 6am… it was freezing and still raining when sign went up. when i got sign up i said to chris… im going to leave it off… if someone does actualy see the van they will contact me and say so.. BUT…. will also say.. they couldnt see any name on van. basicaly confirming for me that they did actualy see it..
the name was MORT
it was wrote in helvetica bold and was in KELLY GREEN
I used this colour and font so it wouldnt look too out of place on the van, but still be easy read.

hoy! who shouted liar! 😮

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

the name that was actualy cut first… was JILLBEANS. but at 6 or 7 inches high would have been a bit in your face on the van so cut it again as MORT.

hope this clears that up.. ahem…. 😳

[Jill Marie Welsh]

:blush:

[Carrie Brown]

awww bless Jill and Mort, shame the name wasnt put on, could have smashed a bottle of champers and had a proper name ceremony :lol1: 😉

[Robert Lambie]

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

just spotted there carrie… JILL would have been shorter than MORT 😮
i could have saved a re-cut and just binned some letters :lol1:

[Carrie Brown]

:lol1: Rob its always the most obvious things that are missed ….. always the way. Plus we are talking about you here so its to be expected 😉 :lol1: just joking!! 😛

[Paul Goodwin]

As me and Jill are sort of famouse ( and obviously in your thoughts alot :oops:) do WE get a prize too?

Ohh go on pretty please 😉

[Robert Lambie]

exactly what are you trying to imply carrie? that im a bad smeller? 😮 :lol1:

[Carrie Brown]

Yeah Mort you could get the letters that were never stuck on :lol1:

Carrie 😛

[Robert Lambie]

quote Mort:

As me and Jill are sort of famouse ( and obviously in your thoughts alot :oops:) do WE get a prize too?

Ohh go on pretty please 😉

yeh i guess you kinda come under the semi-famous now mate.. so much so. i bought some of phills rolex watches. ill send you one mate 😉 :lol1:

[Paul Goodwin]

Please could I 😀

[Paul Goodwin]

p.s that was a reply to Carie u typed so fast there Rob, and only with my spelling mistake in there too 🙂

[gazfoz]

i definitely agree with carrie on that one……through Hereford/Leominster on the next go if you would be so kind :lol1:

If you decide to do it again that is….

[gazfoz]

soz spelling was wrong…….man im having a nightmare on this keypad.

[Robert Lambie]

quote :

If you decide to do it again that is….

plenty more of those trips coming. i actualy thought about nobody getting it. if that happens it could roll onto the next trip :lol1:

i got a call 2 days ago. i have a job in coventry now! 😮 why oh why did they not know that while i was down there for 5 days. 🙁
oh well, better get me bags packed 😉

[Andy Gorman]

I know a good short cut to Coventry…..via Wellingborough.

Worth a try, I thought. 🙂