monkey spanners
28-06-2008, 10:05 PM
Going back fifteen years or more to when i was an arrogant know it all young 'engineer' i would sometimes find myself working on sites with a guy in his sixties, he'd be fitting a new milking parlour and i'd be fitting a new milk tank.
He had the air of someone who had seen it all before, the vagueries of customers, young know it alls, etc.
He had been doing the job long enough not to have to think about it, you could always get a hand lifting a unit into place or borrow some tools or get a bracket welded up for the pipework or such.
You would always know when he was on site as a few lines of "Pearl's a singer" would come floating out from the milking parlour.
He'd be in his seventies now. I've not seen him around for a few years.
It make you wonder where we would be and possibly who we would be without the peolpe who have set us an example early on in our lives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc-lY8WRj5Q&feature=related
Jon
He had the air of someone who had seen it all before, the vagueries of customers, young know it alls, etc.
He had been doing the job long enough not to have to think about it, you could always get a hand lifting a unit into place or borrow some tools or get a bracket welded up for the pipework or such.
You would always know when he was on site as a few lines of "Pearl's a singer" would come floating out from the milking parlour.
He'd be in his seventies now. I've not seen him around for a few years.
It make you wonder where we would be and possibly who we would be without the peolpe who have set us an example early on in our lives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc-lY8WRj5Q&feature=related
Jon