15th July 2005, 09:50 AM
This is one of my major bug H&S bears.. "The Old slippery mud covered floor right next to the boiling kettles routine, I have so many times nearly burned my jubblies off by that last minute skid by the kettle/Urn.
It must be the most leathal area on site but is seen as a traditional hazard also whats all this working in the pouring rain mularky! You know the one where everybody starts to look at everybody else and think the same thing "Is he gona rain us off or not" any useful archaeology has stopped and you just hunker down in your trench like a first world war soldier smoke a fag and hope it stops.
When you are usually soaked you wonder back to the site hut nearly kill yourself on those great planks that some idiot didnt put chiken wire on and the ones that have always tear your hands to pieces when you move them.
Having ruined the site we all sit in damp clothes risking chest complaints in a damp hut because most units dont provide you with wet weather geear other than those old fishermans friends type yellow rain coats and trousers that you sweat so much in just putting them on you have to immediatly take them off.
Another corker is the Hi-lux 4X4 wobble special going home after the wheels have gone out of balance due to the mud in them and you end up holding on to the steering wheel for dear life while it trys to yank itself out of you grip.
Or we could look at the lack of mushroom caps on grid pegs and I know of a very nasty story of a wessex guy who... well lets just say sat back on one....
Also a lack of hot water on most sites too is good un so, as was mentioned, we all eat bits of dead folk with our egg sarnies.
And why oh why do units buy those crap mattocks that do that comedy metal bit sliding down the shaft to smack you on top of the hand routine when you lift the damn thing..
There is also the great satan that is hoeing baked clay in 30C and wondering why your back hurts and the person next to you starts crying.
And to end with the crowning turd in the water pipe the Mohammed Ali of all fits of anger and frustration the top dog of all frustration and venting of spleen....... yep its the old flat wheel on the Wheelbarrow shuffle we all do at least once a week generally exhasperated when you go up a slippery plank and it all falls over the side. I mean why! Why do unit keep em at every unit there is a barrow in the store room that should be thrown but always makes it out on site.
It must be the most leathal area on site but is seen as a traditional hazard also whats all this working in the pouring rain mularky! You know the one where everybody starts to look at everybody else and think the same thing "Is he gona rain us off or not" any useful archaeology has stopped and you just hunker down in your trench like a first world war soldier smoke a fag and hope it stops.
When you are usually soaked you wonder back to the site hut nearly kill yourself on those great planks that some idiot didnt put chiken wire on and the ones that have always tear your hands to pieces when you move them.
Having ruined the site we all sit in damp clothes risking chest complaints in a damp hut because most units dont provide you with wet weather geear other than those old fishermans friends type yellow rain coats and trousers that you sweat so much in just putting them on you have to immediatly take them off.
Another corker is the Hi-lux 4X4 wobble special going home after the wheels have gone out of balance due to the mud in them and you end up holding on to the steering wheel for dear life while it trys to yank itself out of you grip.
Or we could look at the lack of mushroom caps on grid pegs and I know of a very nasty story of a wessex guy who... well lets just say sat back on one....
Also a lack of hot water on most sites too is good un so, as was mentioned, we all eat bits of dead folk with our egg sarnies.
And why oh why do units buy those crap mattocks that do that comedy metal bit sliding down the shaft to smack you on top of the hand routine when you lift the damn thing..
There is also the great satan that is hoeing baked clay in 30C and wondering why your back hurts and the person next to you starts crying.
And to end with the crowning turd in the water pipe the Mohammed Ali of all fits of anger and frustration the top dog of all frustration and venting of spleen....... yep its the old flat wheel on the Wheelbarrow shuffle we all do at least once a week generally exhasperated when you go up a slippery plank and it all falls over the side. I mean why! Why do unit keep em at every unit there is a barrow in the store room that should be thrown but always makes it out on site.