not too heavy, you just need a fatter apprentice.
Jerry just because there is an 8 hour day does not mean they have to let you go home with pay. Maybe things are different there, but everyplace I know of the 8 hour day just means you get 8 hours, it does NOT mean you can force the contractor to let you go home early, because someone else's machine breaks down.
Sorry for not explaining myself better, spearing water main pipe is a no-no
Spearing concrete pipe with protection on the forks( tire strips) I see no problem with it.
Jerry just because there is an 8 hour day does not mean they have to let you go home with pay. Maybe things are different there, but everyplace I know of the 8 hour day just means you get 8 hours, it does NOT mean you can force the contractor to let you go home early, because someone else's machine breaks down.
I know what ROPS posted. We have similar hours here. It's just the minimum working hours for the day. It does not mean the contractor must send you home, unless he wants to. Most contractors nowadays just give us raingear and keep working. Some do let us go home. Some stop work in rain but make you hang around the job to get paid the time. Whether the boss lets you leave early or not is at his discretion. If your machine breaks down, usually we are given another machine to run, or you help the mechanic, not go home.