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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:14 am 
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After completing my mandatory green card course in Sydeny RSL, i had to go through a thorough safety checklist:

Bloodstone boots: Check
Stupid Oz Hat: Check
Hi Vis Vest: Check
Chuck Norris Shades: Check
Handle Bar Tache: N/A

Safety first at all times :lol:


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PostPosted: Thu May 01, 2008 4:14 pm 
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Hey,

why are you in Australia if you don't mind me asking!!!i'm missing something here I think!


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PostPosted: Thu May 01, 2008 8:55 pm 
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The clowns that put some of the fiber optic sensors he designed into a bridge out there were from teh Jay Joyce construction family. Arse of a job, so himself had to go show them how to do it. Nice work if you can get it! :)

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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:54 pm 
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why are you in Australia if you don't mind me asking!!!i'm missing something here I think!


Was there for 3 weeks with work, went the end of march, got back last monday week. We've some sensors on a suspension bridge in a Kangaroo Valley in South NSW, we were out on the bridge doing some maintainance work and putting some new sensors on as well, we had to have lads there from the RTA while we were working on it, hence the ridiculous outfit and sitting an utterly pointless saftey course before doing what we had to do :lol: At least i got to keep the hobnailer boots and the hat as a souvenir though 8)

If you ever want a job that is the least stressful in the world, the south NSW branch of the RTA is the spot to be in.

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The clowns that put some of the fiber optic sensors he designed into a bridge out there were from teh Jay Joyce construction family.


eh??!!!???

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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 2:26 pm 
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Sorry dude, i thought that you said that! :)

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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 3:02 pm 
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never met the man in my life :lol: :lol:

we were dealing with a guy who is originally from Limerick and has his own firm out there based in Blacktown in Sydney and the NSW RTA who own and maintain the bridge. Place where the bridge is was very small, about the size of Inistiouge :lol:

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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 3:30 pm 
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I know blacktown, i worked there. Laid the grandest of waterpipes! :)

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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 3:31 pm 
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You never laid any pipe lad. You were too busy sleeping under a tree :lol:

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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 5:45 pm 
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I know blacktown, i worked there. Laid the grandest of waterpipes!


Was that the job ye got fired from for laying them arseways?

Yeah spent a few days in the offices out there before going down to the bridge, boy racer central in the industrial estate we were in, full body kit place next door and all, hillarious :lol:

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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 6:00 pm 
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No, that was Falcon Street Bridge, North Sydney, and the engineer fucked that up!

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eh were they not the pipes that you thought were like the size of your leg n they turned out to be the size of your house!!! was that not the problem, and nothing to do with an engineer!!!
Damo, shame we didn't get to meet up would have been cool, love the safety first outfit! cool as, as they say!


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PostPosted: Wed May 14, 2008 8:55 am 
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All the engineers fault, and the exscavator driver. Feckin rolled over the mark point and that fecked everything up! We laid those pipes so well it took 4 lads to get them out! :):)

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