Surely the engineers would put a ladder up past the height of the school sign to where the bits for them to stand on start anyway? They’re not going to shin up from the bottom.
MS3 turned up in our area last week and told a neighbour they were going to place a telegraph pole outside of his house, he wasn't happy with the location they wanted it in and were happy to move it a few feet to a better location, no fuss no drama. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
They sometimes put them there if there's a problem with people parking half on the pavement when dropping kids off at school. We had a similar approach taken with a bin on our street. People are forever getting stuck on my street (mainly due to unsuitable vehicles using it), so often pull onto the pavement to get round cars coming the other way. There's a snicket half way down the street and there were lots of near misses, with kids nearly being knocked over by irate drivers piling onto the pavement to get past someone, so they moved the bin to stop them and it worked very well. About a month ago, the bin moved back to where it was originally on the inside of the pavement and there were several more near misses. The Parish Council contacted ERYC and asked them why they'd moved it and they said it was due being hit by vehicles all the time. The Parish Council reminded them, that it was put there so that if vehicles hit anything, it would be a bin and not children and they apologised for a 'clerical error' and moved it back again within a week.
About a month ago Northern Gas decided that they needed to lay a new gas connection to our house. It’ll all be done in a day, they said. A single small hole in your drive that’s all, they said. We’ll then drill underground by your existing connection using a mole, they said. Animal exploitation, I said. **** off smartarse, they said. It’s a tried and tested, low disruption drilling method which results in minimum surface damage. Knock ya’ sens out then, I said. Then the fun started. They couldn’t find the old gas pipe. Half a day searching for it which included digging a big hole on our drive which yielded the electricity and water supply but no gas. They eventually realised the gas came in perpendicular to the drive via a shared connection with our neighbour. So they dug up part of her drive. That established that the connection wasn’t shared at all but it was woefully undersized. They then decided to lay a brand new connection. So on day 2 they dug up the road in front of our house. And a foot wide channel across our drive, under the side gate and down the path to the back door. The poor mole now long since forgotten. Day 3 they laid a new gas pipe. Day 4 someone else came to connect it. Day 5 another bloke decided our gas pressure was now too high and called another bloke to come and fit a new regulator. It then went quiet for a few days. Day 9 someone turned up to fill all the holes with the rubble they’d dug out. Day 10 a team came to mend the hole in the road. Day 11 a team turned up to fill all the holes on our property then went away again because a) they didn’t realise how much had been dug up and didn’t have enough concrete and b) the concrete they did have wasn’t the right type anyway. Day 12 someone came and filled in all the holes with enough of the correct concrete. Day 14 they came to pick up all their barriers, signs and whatnot. Great opportunity to erect a pole in front of our house whilst they’d dug a big hole though but lack of joined up communication means I got away with that one.
I have this vague memory from primary school where me and one other kid got taken to the then new KC Stadium because we didn't have permission forms for a school trip that everyone else was on that day. We had a tour of the stadium I think, and were given City kits (I already had that season's kit but anyway). Then there was this photo taken on the AstroTurf pitches outside and we were told specifically not to smile like you normally would for a photo, we had to look glum. Didn't think much of it but as an adult now I'm pretty sure it must've been for one of those classic compo-face HDM articles. Absolutely no idea what the story would've been and what we were glum about, but it seems we must've been exploited in some way looking back.
It’s not getting past the sign it’s the implications of slipping off the ladder or climbing the pole before the engineer attaches his safety harness to the pole.
A gang of groundworkers I once came across while working on the same property had no problem finding pipes. 8.00 am unload mini digger and bobcat 9.00 ish pull up water main. Sit drinking tea until leak fixed 2.00pm ish pull up gas pipe Not quite as protracted a repair as yours, but the same cast of thousands. Put up warning signs, install new supply, connect to meter. Remove warning signs.
Not long after moving into a house the neighbour asked if I could smell gas in the back garden, no not me. Turns out she had the nose of a **** house rat and had been complaining for years already. Consistently fobbed off because all the services are in the front gardens. Woken one sunday morning to find a gang of british gas workers digging up my rear garden lawn, all the others had been concreted over or built on. Turns out when doing the original installation the main man was holding the plan upside down.
