buckingham saddle

[geofore]

mega bucks

Jamie, no matter what craft you'll find craftsmen buy their own tools and/or tweak the tools to fit the work and themselves. Start with the smaller tools and work with your boss to buy the ones that work for you. If you are going to stay in this trade you have time to build a nice collection of your own tools. You don't have to spend mega bucks all at once. Your boss may go for buying it for you now and you pay him for it, so much a week out of your pay. That way you get what works for you and the boss gets a better equipped, faster, safer worker. Your boss should go for this if your a good long term employee but don't expect much if your the new guy with a bad work record.

 

[jamie]

kit

i have been slowly buying some stuff for myslef, at the moment im really skint and paying off debt aquired over the years at Uni,

my boss is now venturing into the LOLER regulations, which state that harnesses can not be older than 2 years (for wear and tear) so when that happens well, the harness that i have will have to go, along with all other harnesses and ropes and new ones bought in.....so i will work with him on that.

i have been with the squad since april last year and work on staying good. the gaffa is talking about getting us all extra saw and climbing tickets and getting in someone to go over aerial rescue (a day of play rescuing each other)

as for the loan from the boss, well he supplies all of our PPE up to a certain price (we get certain boots trousers etc) if we want any more we stump up the extra cash.....hes quite good

and if we are after any homers, he will lend us kit (provided its not a huge job), ive borrowed saws and the pickup for my garden etc

jamie