Jon Ison
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 posted on 30/1/07 at 10:40 PM |
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Chianese Civil engineering....
Below is an extract from a email I sent back too work last night........
For pistol drill read B&Q cheapie drilling 20mm holes through reinforced concrete.........
"Been a funny old day today, the two tippers are in position but only 4 of the 8 holes required are drilled, we/they hit re bars, what happened
next opened my eyes, they got a steel bit 20mm, with a taper shank, ground the shank paralel with a angle grinder then tried too drill again, lets
just say it did'nt work, re bar cutting drill on shopping list for tomorrow, they are drilling the holes with a normal sized pistol drill
too......."
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nib1980
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| posted on 30/1/07 at 10:47 PM |
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just the same in India, no nanny state health and safety, it's great, the job just gets done!
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Peteff
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| posted on 30/1/07 at 11:57 PM |
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I'll send you my Bosch SDS out Jon, Just got to put a couple of shelves up 
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 31/1/07 at 09:59 AM |
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Could do with it Pete, here is a pic of the best lever we could find, a 7 foot long piece of bamboo
 
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 31/1/07 at 10:03 AM |
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And here are the landscape gardeners out side, must have shifted 50 ton of top soil (clay) with there trendy barrows n shovels, every job out here is
just throw loads of men at it.
The turf they are laying looks like it will be dead in a week and just a bit bumpy.
Health n safety, look, they all have hi vis jackets, safety glass's and hard hats, too lay turf ?? Inside there welding with no gloves a mask
with a broken glass and plastic coverhauls............
 
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 31/1/07 at 10:05 AM |
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And one last one, took this too show missuss, look what was waiting at side of bed, think I will get this treatment at home ? Not.
 
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DarrenW
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| posted on 31/1/07 at 10:29 AM |
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Sounds like you are having a great time Jon. Ive just arrived in Hangzhou. Far better city than Mianyang. 3 nights of luxury now before sluuming it at
the Shanghai Marriott on Saturday!
How are you finding the people and the food?
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 31/1/07 at 11:18 AM |
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food great, problems with labour as they got the cheapest they can, not a word of english and go too sleep evertime you turn your back
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nib1980
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| posted on 31/1/07 at 01:51 PM |
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Lucky you, this was out side the factory in Delhi
 
outside factory
this was the way back to my hotel (the hotel was a lot bette)
 
outside factory 2
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 31/1/07 at 02:34 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by DarrenW
Sounds like you are having a great time Jon. Ive just arrived in Hangzhou. Far better city than Mianyang. 3 nights of luxury now before sluuming it at
the Shanghai Marriott on Saturday!
How are you finding the people and the food?
Just had this mail, whats it like ?
"The other thought is to fly you down to Wenzhou (an hour flight) to Jianan for training on their Pharma post hoists etc as there is a good
chance we are selling quite a few on a contract to Bulgaria."
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DarrenW
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| posted on 31/1/07 at 04:45 PM |
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Ive never been there Jon tbh so cant advise. Its a shame you are saddled with that team. My experience is extremely different as my company has a
policy of hiring graduate staff and training shop floor staff etc. Ive always found the Chinese labour to be very industrious. the company is also
TS16949 accreditted so has fairly highly developed procedures in place.
If you are not happy with some of the team have a word with the company and sack them. Its them or you. Dog eat dog (quite literally over
here!!!!!)
Ive just had a fantastic rib eye steak in the hotel.
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