Beane Street East

Silent site at the corner of Beane Street East & Hills Street, 16th April 2018

Silent as the grave. This site, a mid-sized apartment building on the corner of Beane Street East and Hills Street, has been silent for a few weeks now.

Tigertail cover for visibility only, 16th April 2018

As I stood there looking at it and wondering why, the people responsible for preventing workers from being fried by powerlines saw me and told me what was going on.

The striped yellow cover over this powerline ("tigertail")can't prevent it from electrifying anything or anyone it touches. It's just preventing the powerline from being damaged by making it more visible to trucks and cranes and so on.

Powerlines too close for safety, 16th April 2018

Here in this photo, we can see how close the powerlines are to the scaffolding on the Hills Street side of the site. That's too close. Close enough that a strong wind gust (which we've had plenty of) or a slight tilt too far of a piece of equipment or building material could come into contact with the powerlines and that would electrify the whole of the scaffolding and anything or anyone touching it. That's an ambulance job and probably one or two cases of body-bags so no wonder the site is closed down until it's sorted out.

Good luck to all who sail in her and may work safely resume sooner rather than later.

 
 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford

For the last couple of weeks I've been putting out the call for local tradies to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

And I've just realised I left out a whole slab of local contractors and businesses and makers and growers by just calling for tradies. So any locally owned business or any local maker or grower can send me their work contact details and a bit about their work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.