2nd March 2008

Hi everyone, not been on for a while, work has been crazy and the high winds have been giving me nightmares. We still got there though and all the courses have finished on time. We normally like the trainees to experience the wind at sometime during the course just to feel the effect that it has on the control of the machine. (or the lack of control). This last course has experienced all the elements - including snowstorms on the first day and at the end of it we have produced six excellent operators.

Four of the lads go straight to work tomorrow, Wayne from Sheffield goes to Leeds for Falcon. Ken from London is on for MPS in that fair city. Steve from Bristol is in Bristol for "Wombat" and lucky lucky Smiler Mark is in Bedford for, would you believe £20 an hour on a pedestrian crane!! I have to tell you that is a one off but good luck to him.
I hope to hear from the other two lads shortly and good luck to them all. It goes to show that work is out there if you make yourself busy and sell the qualifications gained here. I can't give you or guarantee work but I can certainly train and qualify you to do the work safely and competently.

Looking forward to tomorrow. Six new lads, three from the UK, one from Nigeria and two young men from Brazil.

I'll come back on soon and let you know how they all got on.

Bye.