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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: SIR Philbutt on 17 January 2013, 20:39:11
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These workmen are installing cast-iron bollards to stop nurses from parking on the pavement outside the Royal Hospital in Belfast . They are cleaning up at the end of the day.
(http://www.butterworths-int.co.uk/Pictures/Ebay/380589_4175691352749_124586311_n.jpg)
Can you spot how they did not get home early that day ::)
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Big strong lads .. can easily lift it over ....... :)
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Ooooo, not seen that pic for a few years...
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I bet their will blush when their finish up ;D ;D ;D
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Ooooo, not seen that pic for a few years...
+1...... :D :D
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Ooh, dissappointed. Thought it was going to be a thread on the herculean work Irish navvies did in Victorian times.
I remember a clip on TV when the young male presenter tried to do the work of a navvy on the Caledonian canal. He failed of course. The navvies did it day in and day out.
I think the camera makes the bollards look closer than they are. With a good run at it..........
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Ooooo, not seen that pic for a few years...
+1...... :D :D
and another. ;)
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Ooh, dissappointed. Thought it was going to be a thread on the herculean work Irish navvies did in Victorian times.
I remember a clip on TV when the young male presenter tried to do the work of a navvy on the Caledonian canal. He failed of course. The navvies did it day in and day out.
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Chris Barrie did a series about machines, one of which was earth movers/diggers. He set off stating that a Navvy could dig a trench 3' x 3' x 30' each and every day! :o :o :o :o
It'd take me a week ........ at least - assuming my back could keep up.
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My great great great Granddad was a navvy.
He lived to over 100 (we live a long time in my family, cept my dad :-[ ),
and I remember my Grandad telling me he remembers him digging his
garden over to plant potatoes and the neighbours being amazed at how fast he worked, and that my great grandad (who was the grandson of the navvy, and probably in his late 20s) couldn't keep up.
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Two dozen spuds and a gallon or two of Guiness at the end of the working day and they were ready and eager for the next one. :y
Many of them had grown up digging turf out of the pest bogs in Ireland and came over here to do much the same thing for wages which were a fortune to them at the time.
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::) ;D ;D :y
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Peat bogs,not pest bogs. :-[ ::) ;D
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Bet their van will fit between the bottom 2 bollards
Yep this pic was doing the rounds a couple of years back.
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Ooh, dissappointed. Thought it was going to be a thread on the herculean work Irish navvies did in Victorian times.
I remember a clip on TV when the young male presenter tried to do the work of a navvy on the Caledonian canal. He failed of course. The navvies did it day in and day out.
I think the camera makes the bollards look closer than they are. With a good run at it..........
Indeed Varche :y :y
When building the railways the navvies are reputed to have shifted 20 tons per day, EACH! :o :o :o No wonder they had a good piss up after work! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
These were extremely strong men indeed who did a very tough job for very little money, and often died in accidents that frequently happened. No H&S then! ::) ::)
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I was expecting a picture of a couple of Coracles painted in Surplus Pussers Crabfat! ;D