It’s been a while since my last upload for all sorts of reasons, the weather doesn’t make it easy to film the action when I’m also operating the shear and feeding it. Also, when material arrives I need it through the shear and out of way quickly which leaves no time for filming. Anyway, this is a real mix of things from the last few weeks, a bit lacking in continuity but I guess that some of you guys will like it. Extra Information, having just looked through the video myself ( I filmed some of it weeks ago) I'll explain a couple of things. When we press and shear the orange skip with our name on it I zoom in on the date it was manufactured - 1984 ! that skip was forty years old, it would have repaired really, the driver had just tipped it and the tipping bar ripped out, anyway, impetuous me, I sheared it ;-). in a couple of clips we're shearing extruded aluminium. In another clip our John is tipping a ten tonne SG skull, two foot thick in the middle, this type of metal isn’t made to break easily-and it didn’t. It was an absolute bastard, I’ve never hit anything so many times and from maximum height…but it broke eventually, I managed to get into about six or seven pieces. I had to place barriers around it so that I didn’t pebble dash everything around me-including me. It didn’t help that we had torrential rain for most of the day and previous night, unfortunately I didn't have time to film it.
Mark