![]() I wonder, as he drove to his next visit, if he realised what a big safety impression he had made. I don't need that sort of stress in my life while the rugby World Cup is on. I'd only just got comfortable with the last one. ![]() It was quite funny after the inspector had gone, it wasn't funny while he was here.Īnd so the Sky man went away, but if he comes again and I know him better I'll ask him to clear the gutters out. We didn't tell the inspector about the brakes, which was just as well because we all had a serious bollocking anyway. He hadn't applied the hand brake because this particular tractor didn't have any brakes and the driver had been told to park across the slope anyway. I said it was because the driver hadn't applied the hand brake. An employee was finishing the scraping and he got off the tractor to open a gate and the tractor started to move and nearly hit the inspector. I can remember years ago we were having a safety visit and the inspector was having a look around. In farming we have a terrible record for safety, I'm quite sure that not taking it seriously is a factor. It just goes to show how other industries take health and safety more seriously than we do. He was on his own and he had a lot of ladders on the roof of his van. But I need to stop there, we all need to stop there. Surely he didn't need that sort of kit to reach a satellite dish. As far as I knew he only had to go about 10 feet off the ground and that was up a ladder and here he was kitted out as if he were just about to climb Everest. At first I thought it was a bit over the top. Don't you just love it when someone who thinks they are more technical than you, gets lost.īut shorts wasn't all he was wearing. He was perplexed at first, he couldn't work out why we were still getting a TV picture, something to do with a creeper rubbing through a wire. Yesterday we had a visit from a nice young man from Sky, he was also wearing shorts. Somewhere I have a khaki shirt, khaki shorts and a pith helmet so I can do the white hunter if required, but there's not much call for them around here. It's probably not worth it now, it'll soon be Christmas. I used to wear shorts in the summer but I haven't so far this year. You could always tell these farmers because they used to wear shorts all the year around. There was a time in my life when I used to go to a lot of farmer meetings and at much the same time lots of farmers were adopting what they call New Zealand grazing systems. So far the only body of men who seem to wear shorts in the winter are postmen. I wonder if this a further sign of global warming and I wonder if these men will be wearing shorts come the winter. One thing that has struck me this year is that there is a huge increase in the number of men wearing shorts.
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