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I've told them quite a few times about these lights but the manager of the workshop is a complete ******** ! Refixed them two years ago but they use them as a step into/out of the pit. Completely **** poor install needs ripping out and done properly with right materials. The firm I work for as...

Yep I must remember to stock up on some blanks

I have the Bosch compact professional 36v SDS it has no rotary stop and the batterys are 1.3ah and don't last that long to be honest.

I'm not doing this work for my business I have a day job for a highway lighting firm and this work is in the vehicle maintenance workshop in the council depot. I'm not happy with the install at all

Just to clarify I'm NOT Compex certified. Yes I've worked on the Shell sites at stanlow and tranmere but at all times was supervised by one of the Electricians on site who was fully certified. Yes I fitted flameproof glands onto lead screened SWA cable whilst on site but they where all checked...

Use proper cutouts for street lighting columns. Avalable from TOFCO, Lucy lighting and Charles en direct. I tend to favour the Lucy Trojan units or the Charles en direct modular units. To the post have the little access door with a wooden backing board to fix cut out too ?

Can fix almost anything with some electrical tape and some tie wraps lol only joking. Tend to keep some of the Greenbrook version of the chocbox on the van, some blanking plates conduit box lids. And a good selection of spare Wylex plug in MCBs/3036 fuses. Plenty of choc block and have some...

I'm waiting to see what the Mrs makes of them LOL

I spent two years working directly for a local authority in there street lighting department, they didn't like me because I worked for a contractor beforehand. Remember one day making off an SWA marking my black core green & yellow and my grey blue got told " what the **** you doin that...

Would say a good quality ground stand weighed down with some slabs

Let me guess the blue poly pipe was used as conduit for twin & earth ?

The battery's don't last long on the multicutter

I've used something called T wash for priming Galv columns before painting them black.

The Vivaro is a nice van to drive but I would never buy one myself due to all the problems I had with mine ( company fallout van ) I like my Vauxhall Combo van only issue I have is that there isn't as much room in the cab as say a VW Caddy, but the trade off is more space in the back.

My latest box is a Technomate TM800HD not done much with it yet as I need to sort out my dish farm and realign the Astra/Hotbird dish on the front of the house.

Latest Trend is card sharing using a Linux based receiver connected to the Internet and joining an (illegal) card share network can get all of the euro and Arabic sports channels with this and yes the porno too. I've even herd you can get the Sky channels like this too.

I've seen that done on a 16mm to make it fit a 10mm lug ! Not that I would ever do such a thing...

Going to try and see if the operative concerned will let me post the pictures of the burns he received to his hand. It's an ongoing investigation at the moment and he may be sent down the road for not following ERG39 and wearing correct PPE.

Had a job like this once on a big lighting install main feeder pillar was installed behind crash barrier on highway but the nearest DNO service was accross the field so a small pillar was install with a DNO service and 80a 3PH isolator, For volt drop the cable accross the run was 185mm 4-core...

I dont fit Wylex anymore last two Wylex boards i fitted where a bag of sh*te poor quality terminals in the busbars and the MCBs. Plus the last one i fitted one of the RCDs was faulty 230v going in and only 120v coming out. I like Hager at the moment im also looking forward to trying a Curve...