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Post by Lotus Eater on Nov 12, 2006 20:08:11 GMT 7
Ventured into town this afternoon to meet friends for lunch at the Brazilian BBQ place - great place for carnivores. Afterwards we potterd around the area. Workman arriving to trim the trees Tree trimmer - please note safety gear. Then we wandered into a new spectacularly clean Daoist temple And back out onto one of my favourite streets - Bamboo Street. Here they make all types of wooden and bamboo products. Bamboo stripper at work Making wonderful lattice Broomstick anyone? Bamboo waiting to be used And no wander down any street in China is complete without a bicycle photo And back home in the university they are doing it again!! Power hosing the trees to exterminate all of the leaves off that are likely to upset the neatness of the internal roads while the Education Commission is here. This place is entrancing!!
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Post by AMonk on Nov 12, 2006 22:54:51 GMT 7
"Safety gear" Is that the jacket he's wearing, the handlines to grab ahold of, or the machete to fend off rabid birdies??
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Post by Raoul Duke on Nov 13, 2006 0:07:39 GMT 7
Yeah, he seems perfectly safe, what with those power lines to grab onto if he needs them. Nice pitchers, babe.
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Post by kcanuck on Nov 13, 2006 4:59:45 GMT 7
Neat to see some parts of China are still green, we're under a blanket of snow up here.
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Post by Ruth on Nov 13, 2006 9:20:30 GMT 7
Glad to see the tree trimmer had on his 'Sunday best' suit jacket. Something else about that picture: I don't see any part of the ladder, which leads me to believe he is standing quite a bit higher on it than I would be comfortable.
Great snaps of everyday life. You continue to exceed yourself.
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Post by Lotus Eater on Nov 13, 2006 20:21:38 GMT 7
He climbed the ladder to get to a branch, climbed up higher, then out along the branch. The ladder is leaning against the tree with his mate happily watching. Not as safe as I would like! And at one stage he was standing ON the power lines to reach the branches to trim.
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Post by Ruth on Nov 15, 2006 9:04:34 GMT 7
Jeepers I've watched guys around here doing scary things, but that beats it all.
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Post by Lotus Eater on Nov 15, 2006 10:47:15 GMT 7
My WPHS guys back in Oz would have closed every single work site in China!
The 2nd mine explosion/accident has occurred this week in Shaanxi. So frustrating when it is such a huge industry - there has to be enough money in it to ensure as much safety as possible.
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Post by Ruth on Nov 16, 2006 5:46:59 GMT 7
Of course there is enough money. It's just lining pockets instead of going towards worker safety precautions.
My friend's husband is in an industry where the 'small leaders' are paid 1000/month. Small leaders head a work group of 10-15 men doing manual labor. You can bet the workers are making a lot less than their supervisors. The 'big leaders' entertain provincial inspectors to the tune of 1500 kuai lunches and trips to Juhua Island (just offshore). They inspect in Xingcheng so frequently because of the seafood and other amenities. Our city is the place where wealthy Beijingren come for summer vacations. One lunch with the inspectors can eat up more than a month's salary for the unit supervisors, maybe two for the common workers.
My guess is the coal mines don't operate much differently.
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Post by Newbs on Nov 18, 2006 8:10:04 GMT 7
Great stuff Lotus. I especially liked the lattice one. It always seemed to me that part of the attitude to "safety" in China was the message that safety was for wimps, and I don't care about my safety, therefore I'm not a wimp.
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