utterly random picture thread.

[Horse]

Health & safety here
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They're wearing helmets and hi-vis - can't possibly be dangerous

[Felix]

That is how scaffies were when i was a kid minus the high viz. I remember gritting was two men on the back of a flat bed shovelling the grit onto the road.

[Count Steer]

Health & safety here
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They're wearing helmets and hi-vis - can't possibly be dangerous

They've got special little platforms to stand on and bars to grip too. Lightweights.

[Yorick]

Just saw this on local FB group, queuing for the plane and bloody freezing as been delay.

Explains why as many folk come here now as in the height of summer.
Nice warm day today
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[Felix]

Hic

[MrLongbeard]

Nice warm day today

Meh, -2 degrees when I left the house this morning, I was still in my shorts, s'all a state of mind man.

[ChrisW]

Nice warm day today

That's always been the Canaries' thing - the weather's pretty much the same no matter when you visit!

[demographic]

Nice warm day today

Meh, -2 degrees when I left the house this morning, I was still in my shorts, s'all a state of mind man.

Slightly below zero at work today, I was putting a roof on.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Jumper would be more effective.

[Taipan]

Ministry of Information motorcycle dispatch riders on 350cc Royal Enfield motorcycles outside Senate House at the University of London in1944.Source: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images..

[David]

Ministry of Information motorcycle dispatch riders on 350cc Royal Enfield motorcycles outside Senate House at the University of London in1944.Source: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images..

That is doing myOCD no good whatsoever....they should have got the numbers in sequence!

[Taipan]

By the time he was 35, he was the country’s principal hangman. Mr Albert Pierrepoint
Between 1932 and 1956, at least 433 men and 17 women died at the end of his rope. His personal record included 17 hangings in one day - of which he said, ‘was my arm stiff!’ Diminutive, always immaculately-dressed and with a penchant for cigars, boxing and coin tricks, Pierrepoint became a publican in 1946. The irony of the Hollinwood hostelry’s name - ‘Help the Poor Struggler’ - can’t have been lost on him; some claimed a sign in the pub read ‘No Hanging Around the Bar’, although he always denied that. The Struggler, supplied by defunct Salford brewery Groves & amp; Whitnall was on Manchester Road in Hollingwood on the old tram route to the city - but was pulled down in the nineties to make way for the M60. By the time Pierrepoint’s name went up above the door of The Struggler he was well-known for his work executing Nazi war criminals. Tourists would visit the pub to see him, though until he left it, he was always discreet about ‘t’other job’, which brought him into contact with some of the 20th century’s most notorious characters.He hanged several high - profile murderers including John Christie ( the Rillington Place murderer) and William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) , as well as Ruth Ellis , the last woman to be hanged .

[Yorick]

By the time he was 35, he was the country’s principal hangman. Mr Albert Pierrepoint
Between 1932 and 1956, at least 433 men and 17 women died at the end of his rope. His personal record included 17 hangings in one day - of which he said, ‘was my arm stiff!’ Diminutive, always immaculately-dressed and with a penchant for cigars, boxing and coin tricks, Pierrepoint became a publican in 1946. The irony of the Hollinwood hostelry’s name - ‘Help the Poor Struggler’ - can’t have been lost on him; some claimed a sign in the pub read ‘No Hanging Around the Bar’, although he always denied that. The Struggler, supplied by defunct Salford brewery Groves & amp; Whitnall was on Manchester Road in Hollingwood on the old tram route to the city - but was pulled down in the nineties to make way for the M60. By the time Pierrepoint’s name went up above the door of The Struggler he was well-known for his work executing Nazi war criminals. Tourists would visit the pub to see him, though until he left it, he was always discreet about ‘t’other job’, which brought him into contact with some of the 20th century’s most notorious characters.He hanged several high - profile murderers including John Christie ( the Rillington Place murderer) and William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) , as well as Ruth Ellis , the last woman to be hanged .

I watched the film a couple of years ago. Really enjoyed it.

[Skub]

I read his book years ago. Very interesting.

[Yorick]

I still love these concrete machines. Never saw them in uk.

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[KungFooBob]

I still love these concrete machines. Never saw them in uk.

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When I go for my work lunchtime walk I pass a Putzmeister unit with a yard full of them.

[Horse]

I still love these concrete machines. Never saw them in uk.

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When I go for my work lunchtime walk I pass a Putzmeister unit with a yard full of them.

If they're all in the depot that'll be why Yorick never saw them

[demographic]

I still love these concrete machines. Never saw them in uk.

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Concrete pumps, we had a couple on a site I was shuttering on in Keswick
Well, one at a time but two different size pumps with the bigger one for the longer reach

Theyre usually on the bigger sites but in this case it was just me, Alan and Darby shuttering a 3 metre high retaining wall.

[Taipan]

IYKYK...

[Wossname]

1974 Series 1 Granada.( possibly Consul).
What do I win?