JohnnearCfon
18 years ago
There used to be a pile of miscellaneous "junk" (very nice junk though) at the far end of the Quarry Tours display area (both inside and outside the black corrugated iron compound). Amongst the items were a FR wooden chassis flat wagon (mostly just ironwork, wheels and matchwood). There were other items there too. Has anyone any idea what happened to it all?
Also, there used to be Spooner's Rail Bending Wagon on site. Last year I saw some of the ironwork (the rollers and the "modified Jim Crow") laying on the ground in display area. No sign of rest of wagon. Later in the year even these had vanished. Any info on that too please?
hymac580c
18 years ago
Hi John, there was a rail bending wagon and other bits and pieces at Llechwedd floor 5 during the christmas holidays. I will post them on the Llechwedd album.
All the best
Bellach dim ond swn y gwynt yn chwibian, lle bu gynt yr engan ar cynion yn tincian.
JohnnearCfon
18 years ago
I have now uploaded a photo of the wooden flat wagon. Judging by the photo of wheels, including a couple of painted sets, uploaded by Hymac580c, this wagon is now totally destroyed.

I wonder why Llechwedd have so little regards for their own property? The Spooner wagon in particular is unique, it was even in one of the booklets that Quarry Tours published some time ago "Llechwedd and other Slate Railways". Now look at it!
hymac580c
18 years ago
I asume because the present management have the intelligence of a' Donkey'. And are just running the place on the ideas of the past with no new interests nor knowlage on how to go about improving these ideas. I think getting a job there is a matter of 'who you know' and not ' what you know'.
Does anyone know who the present manager is? And what did he or she did before?
Bellach dim ond swn y gwynt yn chwibian, lle bu gynt yr engan ar cynion yn tincian.
JohnnearCfon
18 years ago
I understand that the Quarry Tours section gets through managers like they are going out of fashion. I do wish I could say more but had better not on an open forum.

The mine (quarry?) also had a change of manager about a year ago for similar reasons.
DylanW
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18 years ago
the present manager has been with the company for a considrable amount of time.
A sibrydodd yn welw ei wedd, rhowch garrag las ar fy medd, o chwaral y Penrhyn, lle''r euthym yn blentyn i''r gwaith.
Vanoord
18 years ago
Good reply Dylan. Presumably he's been in the position of manager for a considerable amount of time!

I'm sure if you have any more 'junk' lying around - odd relics of the past, rail benders, saw tables, antique machinery, that sort of thing - that we can find someone to take it off your (collective) hands rather than put your colleagues to the trouble of having to dispose of it 😉
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JohnnearCfon
18 years ago
Given an affirmative on Vanoord's last point I would be up there with a lorry (or 3) tomorrow. Oh, I mean Monday.
hymac580c
18 years ago
I have knowkage now who the manager of Llechwedd now is. He has been with Llechwedd since 1974/5 and is of good interlect. Although I have not seen for around 10 years.
Although we appreciate the fact that slate extraction and marketing is the main priority at the quarry. I hope that A. R. will take an interest in preserving our slate herratage wich is letting less. And not send rare artifacts and vintage machinery into the hands of the scrap man.
Good luck
Never let your best rest untill your best is better and your better best.
Is that how it goes?
Bellach dim ond swn y gwynt yn chwibian, lle bu gynt yr engan ar cynion yn tincian.
DylanW
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18 years ago
"JohnnearCfon" wrote:

Given an affirmative on Vanoord's last point I would be up there with a lorry (or 3) tomorrow. Oh, I mean Monday.



I hope you are not going to tresspass and steal anything
A sibrydodd yn welw ei wedd, rhowch garrag las ar fy medd, o chwaral y Penrhyn, lle''r euthym yn blentyn i''r gwaith.
JohnnearCfon
18 years ago
"DylanW" wrote:

"JohnnearCfon" wrote:

Given an affirmative on Vanoord's last point I would be up there with a lorry (or 3) tomorrow. Oh, I mean Monday.



I hope you are not going to tresspass and steal anything



I did say "GIVEN AN AFFIRMATIVE"
scooptram
18 years ago
all the bits and pices from quarry tours went...........you got it in the scrap mans skip :guns: :guns: :guns:
JohnnearCfon
18 years ago
I despair of that place!

I wonder if the shareholders realise he is scrapping stuff for say, £100 per ton instaed of seling it at say, £300 per ton? Doesn't seem good business practise to me!
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18 years ago
"scooptram" wrote:

all the bits and pices from quarry tours went...........you got it in the scrap mans skip :guns: :guns: :guns:



You figured out what our boss is doing wrong yet Dylan?
DylanW
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18 years ago
wel, it's only missing if the owners don't know where it is, which they do, so it isnt.

and as to your question jagman, NO!
A sibrydodd yn welw ei wedd, rhowch garrag las ar fy medd, o chwaral y Penrhyn, lle''r euthym yn blentyn i''r gwaith.
JohnnearCfon
18 years ago
A simple question for DylanW.

If you can get (say) £300 per ton for an item, what business sense does it make to only get (say) £100 per ton for the same item? Especially as it takes men's time (= wages) plus fuel etc to do it, where as if sold the buyer would dismantle said item! :confused:
DylanW
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18 years ago
Simple! To make sure nobody else profits from it
A sibrydodd yn welw ei wedd, rhowch garrag las ar fy medd, o chwaral y Penrhyn, lle''r euthym yn blentyn i''r gwaith.
Vanoord
18 years ago
Good thinking that man!

For example, if someone were to buy something you guys consider to be 'scrap' and - seeing as they had nowhere to store it at home, living as they do in a 5th floor flat with no elevator - decided to donate it to a museum, such as the one in Llanberis, then there's every chance that the museum would sieze the opportunity to re-open the Dinorwic quarries and go into competition with Greaves.

I suppose the concept of selling something on the basis that it is not re-used or re-sold other than back to Greaves at 1% of the original cost would not appeal?

Can we have a "Vanoord bangs head against wall" icon please?
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DylanW
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18 years ago
:thumbsup:
Sorry to go off topic here :offtopic: but some guy (dont know if hes on here or not) gave one of our secritaries such a boloking for what happend at floor 5, that she went home quite upset. Verry gutless on his part i would think.
That sort of thing is not needed, as she had nothing to do with the exercise.
As if she was on the digger...
A sibrydodd yn welw ei wedd, rhowch garrag las ar fy medd, o chwaral y Penrhyn, lle''r euthym yn blentyn i''r gwaith.
JohnnearCfon
18 years ago
"DylanW" wrote:

Simple! To make sure nobody else profits from it



So, DylanW, exactly how would/could anyone make a profit out of the winder that was destroyed (or the more recent stuff)? Especially if it was taken down and displayed in YOUR Quarry Tours section, or sold to WSM, Llanberis.

Oh, and I agree, being rude to a secretary is stupid, "Don't shoot the messenger". I would love the opportunity to be VERY rude to RHD though! :guns: :guns:
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