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Rhys said:
Aye, the you dump a bag and a bit into a bucket of water, mix it and hoik it around.
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wonder what weight a drum of finish is............the youngin keeps saying it heavy to carry............:RpS_thumbup:
 
id imagin the weight dependant on how much your mixing is 25kg of dust obviously (if your doin one bag) and they say its roughly 11 litres of water to a bag one litre weighs 1kg so thats 11kg = 36kg plus the weight of the bucket and obviously more you mix the more it weighs but in sure you all know that, if the lab complains about the weight tell him to shut up and man up ffs haha
 
i remember one of the first jobs i did as a lab was a loft conversion but we wassnt allowed to knock up in the house (apparently:RpS_sneaky:) and i was also not allowed to use a mixer as i had to appreciate how easy it made my life so there i was knocking up gauge after gauge with a plunger in the garage then had to walk back up the driveway to the front of the house right through the house up 3 flights of stairs, lump it onto me shoulder and up a ladder where me and the bucket couldnt fit through the opening together so i had to stop a few rungs down from the top balance and lift the bucket above my head holding onto the ladder with just my feet and legs slide the bucket onto the floor climb up and pour it onto the board, then go all the way down for another mix straight away haha.
those were the days:RpS_crying:
 
Artisan998 said:
wonder what weight a drum of finish is............the youngin keeps saying it heavy to carry............:RpS_thumbup:
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theres nothing better than the look of a 17yr olds face when hes trying to lift a tub and pour it onto the board. i imagine its a quite similar expression to what jimmy saville would have seen several hundred times, only slightly older
 
bloody annoying though when they do manage to pick it up start to pour it and thier arms just melt and it tips the spot board over:RpS_cursing:
 
lol. yeah it normally starts with a groan, then the about to explode red face, then the arms start shaking, and then even tho youve alredy said dont lean it on the edge of the board, 2 seconds later its all on the floor. have you ever had the, can you do it for me lol. erm, no
 
lol. yeah i no. theres that stage of getting strong but nothing hurts yet. tho even at 21 my old labourer used to still go all floppy at about 3 o'clock
 
Haha ...............my old boss - the bully - used to want to wrestle with me when I first started, but he didn't want to play any more after I started to grow and used to throw him about a bit :RpS_biggrin:
 
Still have the old Raleigh cog welded to a bit of tube - was using it the other day.. Going to be mixing some s&c in the bath tomorrow for a shower room.

I remember when I first started, lifting 3/8ths boards up a staircase on site - managed about a dozen before my arms fell off lol
 
Rhys have you got a drill and a transformer or are you just a bit backwar......set in you're ways?
 
my old boss used to wrestle with me a lot. and the longer i was there, the others just joined in lol. i had no chance
 
spunky said:
Rhys have you got a drill and a transformer or are you just a bit backwar......set in you're ways?
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Aye, got two of each lol.
Only use the podger if its a small job or limited room to work. Now excuse me as I'm off to play my banjo...:RpS_thumbup:
 
had a lab the other week giving it all the biggun about goin to the gym and to be fair when he got changed for work (yes gibbo we get changed before and after work to keep my motor clean) he was pretty ripped so when i knocked up a bag and a half with him jumped on me stilts and told him to get the bucket onto the hop up so i could reach it he almost expolded i think he managed to lift it about an inch of the floor haha. i had to get back off me stilts and do it meself but the look on his face when i casually lifted it and put it where i wanted it was a picture, he just couldnt get his head around him not being able to lift it despite goin to the gym all the time and then me just like it was standard haha
 
exactly tekkers all the way mate took me a while to get to grips with it when i was just a wee lab, have had a lab try to pick one up strain to much fart......well he thought hed farted he shat himself straining too much haha
 
jrplastering said:
had a lab the other week giving it all the biggun about goin to the gym and to be fair when he got changed for work (yes gibbo we get changed before and after work to keep my motor clean) he was pretty ripped so when i knocked up a bag and a half with him jumped on me stilts and told him to get the bucket onto the hop up so i could reach it he almost expolded i think he managed to lift it about an inch of the floor haha. i had to get back off me stilts and do it meself but the look on his face when i casually lifted it and put it where i wanted it was a picture, he just couldnt get his head around him not being able to lift it despite goin to the gym all the time and then me just like it was standard haha
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I get changed aswell always have done
 
fair play i was expecting a "G**" comment so i thought id cover it before you did haha
 
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