3rd March 2012, 01:52 PM
Sith Wrote:Did they also invest in a job lot of those special planning frames that measures 1m to the outside? They left you with an 50mm blind spot all the way round that many uninitiated diggers filled by simply expanding what was visible to fit. On the plus side, this must have increased productivity but probably not as much as the mega 5m by 5m frames we once borrowed from some chaps in Baldock.
All the steel planning frames on a job in Scotland in 1981 had been welded-up by the kids in the local borstal - none were square, and all the rectangles varied quite a lot in size...trying to fit the resulting plans together in PX certainly required quite a lot of 'bodging'.....worryingly they were shipped back to the SDD stores at the end of the job, so presumably there are other Scottish sites of the era with slightly suspect plans? :0