Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 01, 2017 8:29 pm

tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 01, 2017 6:12 pm Just waiting for the sound of brick bats in the mixer on a friday afternoon to signal the last guage of the day, then try to get rid of all the muck on your board as soon as possible.

i hear you brother, best sound of the day!

The sound of t he Happy Stones.......I want it played at my funeral....You guys ever worked in Germany a la auf wiedersehen pet?....i did 6 years there in the 90's....best time of my life.

peppermintpaddy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2017 5:21 am

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 01, 2017 8:29 pm

tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 01, 2017 6:12 pm Just waiting for the sound of brick bats in the mixer on a friday afternoon to signal the last guage of the day, then try to get rid of all the muck on your board as soon as possible.

i hear you brother, best sound of the day!

The sound of t he Happy Stones.......I want it played at my funeral....You guys ever worked in Germany a la auf wiedersehen pet?....i did 6 years there in the 90's....best time of my life.

na i havent, was tempted to go work in europe at one point, cant remember the exact country now tbh, but ive only ever worked in the UK and Australia

yep, i worked in germany in the early 80s, a place called Wuppertal and also Neu beckam, we were on £240 a week but that was 6 days a week 12 hours a day.
Those characters in Auf Wiederson pet were very accurate. I can recall people who were just like them. The bloke who came up with that show got the idea when he was on the ferry coming back to england, he was listening to a load of brit brickies having a crac about the mad times they had in germany and then got chatting with them.
Did you ever work for a bloke called Jeff Peach? A well known and very big subbie. ahh good times
charlie

tightenupvolume1 wrote: yep, i worked in germany in the early 80s, a place called Wuppertal and also Neu beckam, we were on £240 a week but that was 6 days a week 12 hours a day.
Those characters in Auf Wiederson pet were very accurate. I can recall people who were just like them. The bloke who came up with that show got the idea when he was on the ferry coming back to england, he was listening to a load of brit brickies having a crac about the mad times they had in germany and then got chatting with them.
Did you ever work for a bloke called Jeff Peach? A well known and very big subbie. ahh good times
charlie

No,I was never there in the 80's....my kids were small and I couldn't escape the mrs then......Jeez,that wasn't very good money in the 80's for those hours!......I worked with a mate in Berlin mainly....we had offers to go elsewhere but we loved it in Berlin....never heard of a Jeff Peach....There were loads of subbies in Berlin in the 90's.....we worked for a Pat Mc Grath from (near) London,Billy Redmond from Wexford ,another Irishman nicknamed "the hammer"....all double good blokes,we always got paid off them ....and a selection of tricky Dutch fuckers who paid up,but usually with a struggle....I still don't trust the Dutch to this day,they cant all be lying weasily cnuts can they?(obviously this doesn't apply to any Dutch members of this esteemed forum.....no offense chaps)
I always thought Auf Widersehen Pet was too vanilla.....very entertaining tho,but not realistic in my opinion...

Yeah, the tea breaks in that programme were nothing like ours, 10 minutes in the morning, half hour for dinner and ten minutes in the afternoon, not not 31 minutes or 11 minutes! If we got on the site at 5 past 6 we had to wait in the tea hut until 7, very strict. On saturday around 4 o'clock we would send the labourer to the shop to get applefkore wine and a few beers, we would drink whilst working until about 5 and then just stop work and kick a ball about and generally feel good, another few quid to take home or piss up in the pub, they turned a blind eye, we had cabin fever!.
charlie

I worked in Holland in the late seventies with the Poms. They were nearly all Geordies and they were hilariously ignorant. They called the Dutch fooken cloggies. It was a great little country and did several stints while living in Bangkok. We made a lot of money and some of it even came from work.

tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2017 2:38 am Yeah, the tea breaks in that programme were nothing like ours, 10 minutes in the morning, half hour for dinner and ten minutes in the afternoon, not not 31 minutes or 11 minutes! If we got on the site at 5 past 6 we had to wait in the tea hut until 7, very strict. On saturday around 4 o'clock we would send the labourer to the shop to get applefkore wine and a few beers, we would drink whilst working until about 5 and then just stop work and kick a ball about and generally feel good, another few quid to take home or piss up in the pub, they turned a blind eye, we had cabin fever!.
charlie

jeez-that was a tough regime.....most jobs we were on were fairly easy going.....the drinking on the job was pretty rife in the 90's....One site we were on in Spandau,the poliers (german foremen) were all pissed by 12 o clock lunch time....if you wanted to ask them anything about the job,you had to ask them in the morning...
We usually worked 5 1/2 days...,mainly house building,but we did work on a Frank Gehry job in Pariser Platz, a stones throw from the Brandenburg Gate.....We were promised a job on the Reichstag also,(by a fookin cloggie) but it never materialised.......Norway is the place i'd like to work ,but there doesnt seem to be any brickwork there,it's all timber......BTW....anyone know the two joiners who used to spend 6 months mainly on Victory Hill,a Scotsman and his buddy a German lad...? They spent the other 6 months working in Norway.....it's crazy wages in Norway.

I am thinking of taking up psychiatry when i get to Cambodia, i can see a lot of potential on this site for some patients.
charlie

tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2017 7:06 am I am thinking of taking up psychiatry when i get to Cambodia, i can see a lot of potential on this site for some patients.
charlie

haha...you'd be worked off your feet counselling the headcases in Cambo......more looneys per square mile in SHV than anywhere else,the problem is ,you'd never get paid.!