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Re: Technic Crane...Best Place to Start
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lugnet.technic
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Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:25:34 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.technic, Ross Crawford writes:
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> > My tower crane was done from just looking at cranes working locally (and the
> > occasional chat with an operator - around here they're generally happy to
> > have a chin-wag if they see you checking stuff out). And I was lucky when my
> > local TAFE had a course for crane operators - they set up a small tower
> > crane in the car park, and I got to watch while they were training!
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> What's a TAFE? I mean, really.
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> Sometimes getting you lot to explain your local abbreviations is like, well,
> like a TAFE pull.
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> More seriously I am guessing it's a union?
Sorry!
TAFE = Technical And Further Education is name given to tertiary institutions
in Aus for technical rather than acedemic courses. They usually grant diplomas
rather than degrees, but the distinction is grey at best...
Also, by coincidence, that same TAFE is where I got these shots
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=25642 although this was not a
training job - they were replacing heating / air conditioning plants on the
roof.
ROSCO
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| (...) What's a TAFE? I mean, really. Sometimes getting you lot to explain your local abbreviations is like, well, like a TAFE pull. More seriously I am guessing it's a union? The union that represents unionised construction equipment operators has a (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-02, to lugnet.technic)
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