The 9th of May, a Saturday night shift at Kilsby tunnel, nature of the job was fitting light brackets to the tunnel wall in preparation for an up coming renewals job in the tunnel. Now for almost everyone there, there wasn't a single thing particularly taxing about any of the activities undertaken. Certainly nothing that would lead any of them to saying the they had been "knocking their pan out", the reality was that it was a very easy shift indeed as such go.
But one individual present would seem to beg to differ with everyone else who was present in that perception, because he had a "gruelling shift", he had a real "nightmare of a shift", he really "knocked his pan out", complaining that "he'll be feeling the ill effects of such a gruelling night's work for weeks to come".
Below are a few short video clips, initially taken because it is such a rarity to see the individual in them do much anyday, and judge for yourselves whether or not he really "knocked his pan out" or not!
First you see a contractor drilling the first hole for a lighting barcket, then another conteactor places the bracket in position and inserts a rawplug and screw into the hole thats been drilled. Then our esteemed colleagues appears as if out of nowhere and taps the screw home with a hammer, then disappears off into the gloom of the tunnel again. Now with the bracket partially secured in position, a second hole can be drilled, rawplug and screw inserted, and the screw tapped home to complete the process. This was pretty much the sum total of his activities for most of the night, I leave it to you to judge whether or no that constitutes "knocking one's pan out".
But one individual present would seem to beg to differ with everyone else who was present in that perception, because he had a "gruelling shift", he had a real "nightmare of a shift", he really "knocked his pan out", complaining that "he'll be feeling the ill effects of such a gruelling night's work for weeks to come".
Below are a few short video clips, initially taken because it is such a rarity to see the individual in them do much anyday, and judge for yourselves whether or not he really "knocked his pan out" or not!
First you see a contractor drilling the first hole for a lighting barcket, then another conteactor places the bracket in position and inserts a rawplug and screw into the hole thats been drilled. Then our esteemed colleagues appears as if out of nowhere and taps the screw home with a hammer, then disappears off into the gloom of the tunnel again. Now with the bracket partially secured in position, a second hole can be drilled, rawplug and screw inserted, and the screw tapped home to complete the process. This was pretty much the sum total of his activities for most of the night, I leave it to you to judge whether or no that constitutes "knocking one's pan out".
