Thread: 5 Hours To Tighten A Nut

Originally Posted by BMKal

And just to keep on topic - at that same mine site I mentioned above - a fitter damaged his knuckles badly one day when installing a new hydraulic hose in a difficult to reach location on a loader or dozer. The open end spanner he was using slipped off the fitting and he slammed his hand into something solid.

The very next day in his "safety" briefing to site - the same mine manager I referred to above issued a mandate across the site that - "from now on, open end spanners shall not be used on site to install hydraulic hoses and pipes - only ring spanners are to be used for this purpose".

Believe it or not - this "mine manager" is now the Managing Director of a large mining company. Obviously goes to show that you don't need to have too much between the ears to be promoted up to senior management in some companies at least.

And this is the type of genius who earns a million bucks a year.

It’s all about lost time injuries, to keep contracts *

Originally Posted by BMKal

And just to keep on topic - at that same mine site I mentioned above - a fitter damaged his knuckles badly one day when installing a new hydraulic hose in a difficult to reach location on a loader or dozer. The open end spanner he was using slipped off the fitting and he slammed his hand into something solid.

The very next day in his "safety" briefing to site - the same mine manager I referred to above issued a mandate across the site that - "from now on, open end spanners shall not be used on site to install hydraulic hoses and pipes - only ring spanners are to be used for this purpose".

Believe it or not - this "mine manager" is now the Managing Director of a large mining company. Obviously goes to show that you don't need to have too much between the ears to be promoted up to senior management in some companies at least.

So now all the replaced hydraulic hoses have a ring spanner attached.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

You're not Robinson Caruso there, Dave.

The opera singer?

Originally Posted by crash

So now all the replaced hydraulic hoses have a ring spanner attached.

That’s how they keep people employed at the mines

Do up the hydraulic hose

Undo the hydraulic hose to remove the spanner

Do up the hydraulic hose

Undo the hydraulic hose to remove the spanner

Do up the hydraulic hose

…………………

No wonder the price of iron ore has gone up

It’s actually come down… a lot

Originally Posted by Tombie

It’s actually come down… a lot

Price of the finished product hasn’t
Bloody steel prices are through the roof

Just heard on the radio today about WAs 5.4 billion dollar surplus () because of the royalties from the price of iron ore

More like steel prices are correct, rather than bashed by **** imports.