A slow start in the morning caused me to get a teensy little bit (a lot) stressed. Two tippers in the yard and discussions about neatness of load for something that is going two minutes down the road and then falling off the back on purpose and into a shredder. Thankfully stress doesn’t make me mean, it just makes me stressed. It’s rare for me for it to happen but this felt like there was a lot riding on it today. I want to keep the client positive.
The wood all gets shredded and sold to a company that burns wood for power. I tried to get them to buy my wood direct but they weren’t having any of it. So I pay the tip and they sell it. Wizard wheeze there they’ve got.
The metal can be sold if I cut it down enough but that’s time and staff. We were running the grinder when we could to cut it down. Jethro must have his ears ringing this evening. God only knows how many metal cutting discs he burnt through but it was A LOT. But – it had the effect of giving me one load that was positive at the end of the day.
Two vans were running on relay all day. Apparently the guys at the tip were astonished at how quick we were loaded up. We left the guy at the weigh bridge my company card, as we knew it would run and run and we were often sending one van before the previous one was back. The slow start turned into a repeating pattern, and as the space in the warehouse grew, the forks started to really make sense. Thank God we had them. Some loads would have been impossible.
If we hadn’t hit queues at the weigh bridge from artics coming in full, I reckon we would have managed to clear the whole job. As it is, we got an ungodly amount processed. 38 trips in two days at an average of £71.99. There you go, maths fans. Fuck me I’m knackered. But I’ll be back there first thing tomorrow for the last push.
First thing tomorrow morning I’m sending Canice with a load of pallets to the pallet reclaimer. We might get another positive load out of that. Meanwhile John and I will strip the wood we can strip and maybe cut down more metal. Time pressure is off so long as we can empty it tomorrow. Business owner won’t charge the client for a day of spill back into October. I asked him. A lot of the extra work is sorting. If there’s any plastic in the wood it’s a mixed load which costs double. It’s knowing when you have time to strip it and when it’s worth paying the extra. Time is money too.
Phew. Now a bath. I’m in it. Need to clean my nails and put myself down for the night. Self tape tomorrow at 5am. Got a bit of filming to prep for too. I’m missing a day of Panda tomorrow and I’m sad about that.
AlBarclay 