Shame they can't get those senior chappies responsible for the H&S creating the bollards plus those similarly senior West Midlands Unit persons responsible for their choice of wood bollards and where they are positioned to go out and do the rounding job with hand files. No need to pay them more on top of their current wages for this useful chore so costs are only for hand files. Such actions would allow BW to demonstrate to DEFRA (and us) that they are determined to save money and spend what little they have wisely!
--- On Wed, 11/19/08, Neil Arlidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Neil Arlidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [canals-list] Re: BW wooden Bollards to be modified and installation to continue To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 8:51 PM westfuttock wrote: > At a meeting at Hatton several modified versions of the BW wooden > bollard were displayed in front of invited parties. Of the 800 plus to > be fitted on narrow locks some 700 are installed. BW propose to modify > the bollards by rounding them off with a router type machine or > fitting a steel capped tube over them. the rounding off with a router > to ground level was estimated to cost about �70000, the steel cap idea > was priced at around �150000. The remaining 150 plus to be fitted will > be modified before installation. Despite all the critical views and > opinions, BW still forge forward with what is now widely accepted to > already be a gross waste of money, spending more money which could be > better used elsewhere, thought you would like to know this. > > > ------------------------------------ BW are now so pig headed, they have lost support from just about everybody. It is about time the Real*** went out at night with a chainsaw! (after of course having passed the chainsaw H&S test) If you got caught the worst you could expect was a rap on the knuckles, like a certain farmer.... -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest - one time member of the IRA (Ickenham Residents Association) Follow the travels of TNC, now in Ireland http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
