I Wish I had, had my camera with me today!

[Grizzly]

What i saw today still makes me smile now.
I wish we had camera phones or I had even a basic camera with me.
Take some very large silos for milk storage.
Which were having their outer clad surface cleaned using a pressure washer.

Take one safety cage suspended from a very large crane, add one operative with pressure washer lance in hand.
Tie a long scaffold board sized plank across the front of the cage.

And watch the cage swivel first anti-clockwise until R/Hand side of plank hits the silo.
As the operative pressure washers the L/Hand side of the silo in front of him.
Then watch the cage and plank swing clockwise until the L/Hand end of the plank hits the side of the silo. As the operative washes the R/Hand side of the silo.
Like a large human watch balance wheel!

It was all surreal as this guy lance and cage swing first one way and then the other.
Which would of made a brilliant clip for you-tube.

Only in Cornwall is what I say!
Brilliant bit of lateral thinking, some of the site engineers I was with reckon he was getting dizzy prior to using the plank.
You can't make this stuff up, can you.
Grizzly

[monkey spanners]

I bet you would get dizzy too! I'm not keen on cherry pickers let alone a basket on a cable!

Jon :)

[taz24]

What i saw today still makes me smile now.
I wish we had camera phones or I had even a basic camera with me.
Take some very large silos for milk storage.
Which were having their outer clad surface cleaned using a pressure washer.

Take one safety cage suspended from a very large crane, add one operative with pressure washer lance in hand.
Tie a long scaffold board sized plank across the front of the cage.

And watch the cage swivel first anti-clockwise until R/Hand side of plank hits the silo.
As the operative pressure washers the L/Hand side of the silo in front of him.
Then watch the cage and plank swing clockwise until the L/Hand end of the plank hits the side of the silo. As the operative washes the R/Hand side of the silo.
Like a large human watch balance wheel!

It was all surreal as this guy lance and cage swing first one way and then the other.
Which would of made a brilliant clip for you-tube.

Only in Cornwall is what I say!
Brilliant bit of lateral thinking, some of the site engineers I was with reckon he was getting dizzy prior to using the plank.
You can't make this stuff up, can you.
Grizzly


Its true then.

Every action has an opposite and equal reaction.

taz

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[paul_h]

Awww, why don't you have a camera anyway?

It's part of the standard equipment needed to do my job.
Not for funny stuff like that unfortunately, but the amount of times I go back to the office and a manufacturer tech wants pictures, or if they say your provided serial model is wrong, or to show poor install/flares, or to record start up actions or faults etc. I need a camera just as much as I need a socket set.

[Grizzly]

what about the sites that won't allow camera's. We have several that won't allow mobiles on-site let alone camera's or phones with camera's attached
Grizzly

[Brian_UK]

You'll have to get yourself a hidden spy camera instead...

http://kgbcameras.co.uk/cameras/chewing%20gum%20hidden%20camera%20large.jpg

From here..
http://kgbcameras.co.uk/cameras/hiddencamera.htm