Making space for the bikes

[DomP]

There's not really a right place for this but yesterday was concrete pour day for my workshop (day job) to make space in my current place for my bikes.  5m³ of concrete is quite a lot to move and level, I'm aching a bit today!

[DomP]

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[Johnny4428]

That’s a good job done there Dom! What size?

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

That's a fair slab you have laid with steel mesh - it's heavy work for sure - you must be well chuffed.

[davidcumbria]

Good luck with new shed. However big it’s never big enough. 👍

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Good luck with new shed. However big it’s never big enough. 👍

Agreed that's why our double garage has an annex added about two years later.

[Athame57]

Are you sure you're not making a rocket launch pad in the guise of a bike park? 

[DomP]

It's 7200 x 4800, yeah I do feel a bit knackered today but I did have 2.5 helpers.  Making a concrete chute through the hedge out of corrugated tin was the best idea I had, it made it so much easier, oh and hiring a speed float and easy screed followed by 3 pints while it began curing😀

[MCTID]

Marvellous idea to make that wriggly tin chute. 10/10.

I remember watching the Concrete being pumped up to make all the six floors on the new building next to ours in Docklands in the 90's...twas like a military operation with Cement Mixers coming and going all day.......then later seeing the huge Glass windows being manoeuvred into place using small cranes inside the building with suckers on the 4 arms......again it went like clockwork......but the best was a bloke cutting through massive foam blocks at an angle to make the ramps which concrete was then poured onto to finish the pedestrian steps down to 'The Six Public Clocks'.

Thinking back to those days also reminded me that during the construction that building, a fine young man lost his life when he fell 40 feet after he stepped on a flimsy sheet of plywood covering an open shaft. His young Widow later made a heartfelt video about the tragedy, and we showed it to many of our London Underground Employees and our Contractors. We had many tearful sessions as the enormity of a simple f*ck up unravelled to take a young man's life hit home. I'll make no apologies for this as it's a story worth telling again.....because it was a death that should never have happened, and to show that the courage and fortitude of his Wife, Jennifer Deeney is something that's a shining example to us all.   https://www.lattitudesafety.co.uk/programmes/it-will-never-happen-to-me/       

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

I watched the short video - I ended up confused as Jennifer refers to Patrick being killed wheras the text says it was Kieron that died?

[Laverda Dave]

I remember all of that Alan, I was working in the building opposite the day it happened (30TSC). I also remember something falling off that same building some time later during its construction and going through the glass roof of the building below (the 'fingernail' as it was called), the tube station that was also under construction at the time (and I had just left the site about an hour beforehand). H&S is something that has to be drilled into people, there is always the misapprehension it will happen to someone else. H&S on London Underground was always first class from training to PPE to inspections and not being afraid to stop the job.
Back to the thread, Dom, Dave is right, it still won't be big enough, you'll just use it as an excuse to buy another bike!