Dandaps
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Dealing with Ignorant D1ckheads
So we have a little job on a bungalow with a power line running above it, our customer the bricklaying firm has got us in and they are the ones paying us. We have erected the perimeter base lift a fortnight ago and the distance away from the power lines was a safe distance as there wasn't any long standards etc, so today we arrive to erect the table lifts and once stood on a completed table I can see that I could easily touch the power line with a 5ft tube if I wanted, so I scan my eyes over the build and can see that from where the proposed ridge for the roof will run the roofers will have the power line at around waist to shoulder height running right through there work area. So I mention to our customer (bricklayers) about the hazard and he goes and gets the homeowner/self builder who arrives with his know it all pal stood with him, I explain my concerns and they both inform me that we can work within 1 metre of this cable which bear in mind is copper, unsheathed and in fact there is four of them and also has risk of death poster on a nearby post. I question this and ask him who's told him that and he tells me the architect :huh: So I tell him well I wouldn't like to be a roofer working within 1 metre of that line to which his know all pal say "well its ok coz I Know the roofer" :huh: I advise them they should contact the electricity board and have it isolated to which they both like "oh yer whatever how much is that gonna cost:laugh:" so I have told them I will not hand the scaffold over and will stick a Do Not Use Tag on it also. I just cannot understand the mentality of some people and then they both look at me as if I'm the stupid one and then they state "its not like its carrying 3000 volts probably only around 300 to 400"
So we have a little job on a bungalow with a power line running above it, our customer the bricklaying firm has got us in and they are the ones paying us. We have erected the perimeter base lift a fortnight ago and the distance away from the power lines was a safe distance as there wasn't any long standards etc, so today we arrive to erect the table lifts and once stood on a completed table I can see that I could easily touch the power line with a 5ft tube if I wanted, so I scan my eyes over the build and can see that from where the proposed ridge for the roof will run the roofers will have the power line at around waist to shoulder height running right through there work area. So I mention to our customer (bricklayers) about the hazard and he goes and gets the homeowner/self builder who arrives with his know it all pal stood with him, I explain my concerns and they both inform me that we can work within 1 metre of this cable which bear in mind is copper, unsheathed and in fact there is four of them and also has risk of death poster on a nearby post. I question this and ask him who's told him that and he tells me the architect :huh: So I tell him well I wouldn't like to be a roofer working within 1 metre of that line to which his know all pal say "well its ok coz I Know the roofer" :huh: I advise them they should contact the electricity board and have it isolated to which they both like "oh yer whatever how much is that gonna cost:laugh:" so I have told them I will not hand the scaffold over and will stick a Do Not Use Tag on it also. I just cannot understand the mentality of some people and then they both look at me as if I'm the stupid one and then they state "its not like its carrying 3000 volts probably only around 300 to 400"
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