How many more sites have changed to 1pm arrival

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  • moulesy
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    edited October 2020 #32

    Playing cards "dawn t'pit"? Surely not! wink

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    edited October 2020 #33
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  • JVB66
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    edited October 2020 #34

    When site staff are expected to be on duty untill 2000 hrs then many try to have a lunch break together at a time when they are not on duty,  Not after 2000 at night,,  more chance at lunchtime ,   as it has been noted on sites that now (although temp on some sites) and hopefully as they say in the future a permanent 1300 arr time  ,, now many offices are closed untill the 1300 arr times ,unless on some sites staffing levels are such it can be covered

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited October 2020 #35

    Can I join?🤔

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  • huskydog
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    edited October 2020 #37

    As I posted earlier, at Moreton-in-Marsh last month the wardens were booking people in from 10 o’clock, so your just surmising again 

  • JVB66
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    edited October 2020 #38

    Have you  tried reading my completed postwink

  • huskydog
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    edited October 2020 #39

    I used to work down a garage workshop pit , does that count cool

  • JVB66
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    edited October 2020 #40

    When i was an apprentice we all did work in what many used to call "the pits"undecided

    Ps did go down t pit (Woodhouse) with BILsurprised

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  • KeefySher
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    edited October 2020 #42

    All this talk of  dan t'pit brings back memories laughing

    I wonder how many have slept underground for a weekend in a nickel mine whilst on an outage.

    Had the trick played on them where colleagues lit up outside a refuge in a non explosive atmosphere mine.

    Caught a double decker bus down a level after getting off the cage.

    Driven round in windscreenless, roofless Toyota Land Cruisers that had been assembled from crates of parts slung under the cage.

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  • EmilysDad
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    edited October 2020 #44

    I work with a load of ex-pit men .... does that count too? 😏

  • KeefySher
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    edited October 2020 #45

    You mean Big K for training, followed by Gascogne Wood, PoW, Maltby, Gedling, Betws and loads of other coal mines here in the UK.

    Fair few coal mines around the world, but always found non coal more fun to work in. Bauxite in Jamaica, Oz, Venezuela, India. Nickel in Canada. Gold & diamond in South Africa.

    Although Linghan Phalen in Nova Scotia was good for lobster in ice melt season. West Virginia were a lesson. Sault St Marie in the winter was a shock to the system going from -30 to plus 30 and back in a shift. The big open cast in N & S Dakota. Open cast in Oz were an eye opener.

    Amazing opportunities to see the world whilst digging up muck tongue-out

    After all, everything man needs comes out of the ground.

  • KeefySher
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    edited October 2020 #46

    No. Get back to yer tin filling foot-in-mouthlaughing

  • Rocky 2 buckets
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    edited October 2020 #47

    I’ve still got my Grandfathers snap tin, all dinged & tarnished but it’s got lots of history👍🏻

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited October 2020 #48

    Talking of tin, I’ve been down a tin mine - does that count? 🙂

  • Rocky 2 buckets
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    edited October 2020 #49

    Where you working down Poldarks Tin mine Tinny?👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited October 2020 #50

    They don’t call me Tinners for nothing😂😂

    I live across the road from a disused mine shaft as well👍🏻

  • JillwithaJay
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    edited October 2020 #51

    wink

  • ABM
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    edited October 2020 #52

    Somebody on here has a nice sense of humour, Jill  wink

  • davetommo
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    edited October 2020 #53

    Carefull boys the headmistress is here

  • JVB66
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    edited October 2020 #54

    At least there has been a "warning" instead of the usual methods/"options" cool

  • JollyKernow
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    edited October 2020 #55

    Evening

    Tomorrow I'm having lunch at 1 pm.

    Oh yeah, I'm not on site lolyell

    Next week I am on site and lunch will be at 12, or 1, or 2 or sometime to suit, or might be not at all depending on business! The modern world eh?!wink

    JK

  • wedgy
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    edited October 2020 #56

    I'm very impressed and a bit envious of your C.V. makes my 30 years at POW look a bit dull, but still the best time of my working life. Amazing what the phrase "snap time" has brought to light🥪🥪🥪

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  • Takethedogalong
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    edited October 2020 #58

    I’ve never worked darn a pit, but did once hide striking miners from Silverwood in our LC Squash Courts as HM’s Police Force tried to round them up and bash them a bit. 😁 We didn’t take sides, the next day we gave a couple of lost Bobbies a cup of tea! They were imports from elsewhere with strange accents😬

  • EmilysDad
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    edited October 2020 #59

    OK ..... Sorry Keith 😉😉

  • cyberyacht
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    edited October 2020 #60

    Deepest I ever worked was a bank vault. I'm sure that doesn't count.

  • Rocky 2 buckets
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    edited October 2020 #61

    If you were there as a Bank robber & had to dig your way in-it possibly could👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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