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factory signage: Halifax
Just thought i would show you all what i have been up to today.
L J
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looks great john 😀
did it take you long to do? 😀
nik
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Hi Nik, didn’t really time it but i think about 2 hours to fit & 3 hours traveling round trip.
I am training a sign fitter to do all my fitting. when he is experienced enough, best thing i did setting him on as he is a fresh pair of eyes to this job & has come up with different ideas on how to fit to the way i have always done it.
Should save time on the next job.John
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is it the van or the sign ?? or both 🙂
Lynn
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Posted the van sometime ago Lynn.
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What access equipment do you use to fit a job like that John? Personally, I would just use a ladder.
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know you did only kidding !! is that dybond (or alternative?) looks good, is it difficult to fix to that sort of cladding ?
Lynn
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Phill looking at it you could use the van for access
Lynn
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Hi Phill, recent posts about Trestle’s, same as Rob has is what i am researching at the moment, still deciding on what size i need, For the moment still using ladders & step ladders. I carry 2 sets of each in the van at all times.
It’s H&S with employing 3 girls & now a fitter that has made me decide that i must buy proper equipment before 1 of us slips & falls.Lynn, It’s all acrylic 5 mm with stand offs except the light green square which is glued, screwed & pop riveted just to make sure it stays there (Have visions of it falling on someones head)
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Peter did a removal truck yesterday with ladders but it’s like you say John
which is the best size to cover all requirements especially now with the health and safety stuff.Lynn
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We have been discussing this all day Lynn (it seems) shall we go for a 10′ trestles & 10′ staging, or 12′ trestles & one 8′ staging & one 16′ staging as well. Thinking it would cover most aspects.
L J
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this is the next job we did yesterday. light box this time 10′ x 4′
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The “9” on the door looks really nice. 😉
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Tut Tut John, no hard hats or harnesses!. you shouldnt really post the incriminating evidence on the boards!
Nice sign though
Peter
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Nice job John. Looks cold tho.
Why rivett the green to the acrylic? Would vhb tape not have been OK? I thought a rivett would have risked cracking the acrylic face.
On the cherry picker, is it law over there to have two in a basket? or is one guy just the driver? Harness and hardhats are law here too, but no one wears them either 😕
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Nice one John….
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quote Peter Normington:Tut Tut John, no hard hats or harnesses!. you shouldnt really post the incriminating evidence on the boards!
Nice sign though
Peter
I have enough bovver with the H&S bloke at this firm, he wont let me go up ladders, not allowed to smoke in the open air car park, (they want you to go into a wooden Porta Cabin instead) Have to sign a declaration before setting foot on this site to work.
They Insisted they pay for a cherry picker, then wouldn’t let me use it because of a technicality like i haven’t got a license to operate it, :lol1: so they bring in a team of engineers to take out the old perspex signs & feed in the new ones while we supervise
So what did these two Wally’s decide to do, “we will use ladders!” no need to use that dam great machine. Well you’ve never seen anything like it with them raving the old perspex front trying to slide it out…………….so after watching them perform for a while i had to insist that they use the cherry picker to put in the new fronts as i am responsible for them. so they did & got on with it a lot better. (not my fault they didn’t wear harness etc)
It’s only a year or 18 months ago that we put up all these 3 light boxes with me operating the cherry picker (still without a license) They needed a new logo adding to the signs this time so they insisted on completely new fronts to these light boxes & replace all 11 ally signs on posts with new ones. Must be nice to have so much money to throw at me.
Shane, yes mate it was bl**dy freezing at 1degree.
Steve, all in a days work, all i can say is, if H&S left us alone, job would have been done a lot quicker.
L J
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So…….. if their operators were licensed (ipaf), then they should have had hard hats, both wearing high vis jackets, and harnesses. Question is, who checks their license? Also, who’s responsibility was it to ensure that the machine had a current LOLER certificate?
I, and one other here have our ipaf licenses, however, our classes are for trailer mount and van mounts up to 26 metres, so in theory we wouldn’t be able to operate the “self propelled” machine you had there.
In order to operate all machines (licensed) you need to take tests in all classes (5 in total I believe), surely it would make life easier (and more people who “go legal”) if there was just one license that covered all!
Chris.
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we having similar issue at the moment with a large local pharacuticul factory…. lots of changes are now happening to make us more H&S, like harnesses etc. Kinda changing times that we live in.
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Chris i quite agree mate. Another way of looking at it as well is that I have held a Class One heavy goods license for 26 years, which in the old days entitled me to drive anything from a lawn mower to an articulated lorry with the exception of PSV Public Service Vehicle.
Before the H&S laws got so stringent I have operated all types of Cherry Picker lifts (to put them in one category) over the 9 years in this business.
But a class one means nothing nowadays.
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quote Shane Drew:Nice job John. Looks cold tho.
Why rivett the green to the acrylic? Would vhb tape not have been OK? I thought a rivett would have risked cracking the acrylic face.
On the cherry picker, is it law over there to have two in a basket? or is one guy just the driver? Harness and hardhats are law here too, but no one wears them either 😕
Shane, in the words of John Childs:
It’s just that when I lay in bed, listening to the wind howling through the eaves, I really do drop of to sleep easier knowing that my signs are held up with nuts, bolts and big fat washers rather than a bit of sticky tape.I can’t help it.
My sentiments exactly.
2 men in the basket is essential for this job Shane, the perspex panels are 10′ x 4′ & 4 others each 6’x5′ all too heavy & cumbersome for one person. -
you forgot to mention that they drove the cerrypicker into the wall i thought that was the best part of my training hahaha
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quote Marekdlux:The “9” on the door looks really nice. 😉
-MarekI missed this earlier…. cheeky Marek, very cheeky :lol1:
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quote Chris Dowd:So…….. if their operators were licensed (ipaf), then they should have had hard hats, both wearing high vis jackets, and harnesses. Question is, who checks their license? Also, who’s responsibility was it to ensure that the machine had a current LOLER certificate?
I, and one other here have our ipaf licenses, however, our classes are for trailer mount and van mounts up to 26 metres, so in theory we wouldn’t be able to operate the “self propelled” machine you had there.
In order to operate all machines (licensed) you need to take tests in all classes (5 in total I believe), surely it would make life easier (and more people who “go legal”) if there was just one license that covered all!
Chris.
Good point Chris – All this H&S nonsense makes life very difficult for the average hard working small business person who is simply trying to make a living as a signmaker 🙄
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quote Shane Drew:I missed this earlier…. cheeky Marek, very cheeky :lol1:
:lol1:
-Marek
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