13th June 2013, 09:37 AM
Dinosaur Wrote:@Barkingdigger -That sadly only applies where the diggers are capable of doing the digging - I've had several occasions over the last few years where I've had to dig stuff since no one else on site seemed to have the faintest. The one and only dead Viking with shiny stuff that this unit's ever had was dug by yours truly cos everyone else walked off to go dig a ditch somewhere! I've even been accused of making features up by another PO who was just a c**p digger (one of the up-and-coming Lego-brick school generation) -good news I'm old and crafty enough to have got OSL profiles done through 'em to prove the point. We've got an awful lot of stuff round here on our sh**e local selection of subsoils that the 'dig the soily bit, record it and move on to the next section' generation are never going to get
Dino, fair enough - it only works if the "soldiers" are competent and the "officers" are free to lead! As for incompetent "officers" and "NCOs", that speaks to a whole lot bigger problem with the industry... As the saying goes, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys!
And as for the whole spoil-heap location issue, there is a cosmic law that dictates the best features will ALWAYS be under the spoil-heap! Not sure if this still applies to spoil carted away by muck-lorry, but they rarely slow down enough to check under...