No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Maybe microgeneration is the way of the future. Along with hopefully much better/cheaper battery storage in vehicles and possibly within houses too.

Or we'll be on the big dirty fossil fuel generator with our own home brew fuels, while others Flintstone it 😁

Yes when I was in collage one of my friends dad was a lines man with the ESB, there was a bad storm around Christmas time and as well as here parts of France were without power. My mates dad went to France to help after they had all the issues in Ireland sorted. The following 2 years my mate wasn't eligible for the collage grant because of the extra over time his dad had earned the December & January. Every time that rest of us got our grant money he would be giving out (in a joking kind of way) about how his poor dad had to risk his life during the storms and that he was now getting punished for it.

Work alongside GNI a bit myself at the moment twould be a nice number and plenty of perks to the job too but it would absolutely ruin a young lad serving their time or just finished there time a retirement home for broke up fitters is what one beat up fitter told me it is.

I had a read of the weather thread yesterday. You wouldn’t believe the same shoite on it, some saying it was only a bit of wind etc.

Unfortunately there are some people in all walks of live who cannot comprehend the complexity of certain situations. And usually these people are the ones that have the least understanding of the subject.

You've been lucky if you've never experienced it, I've worked with customers in several different industries and some are definitely worse than others. I've experience the red carpet treatment too don't get me wrong. My point wasn't that all customers are like that but there have been enough.

Once travelled in country wide snow storm from Navan to a business near Mallin Head because network equipment had failed to restart after a power cut, was meant to be met by a courier with spare equipment, only to be met with irate customer due to courier refusing to travel as snow had gotten too bad. Was suggested that I should travel back to get the part, it was a Friday evening after hours too, I did what I could to get their site partially back online and went to the nearest hotel, didn't receive too much thanks for my effort either. On the other hand I've had customers offer gifts of bottles of whiskey etc for my trouble, which I'd refuse, found one in the back of my van after getting home one evening having refused it earlier, so no not all bad either.

From my short time working with equipment on farms, farming folk are definitely by far the most welcoming especially if you have an interest yourself.

Sometimes, Spent most of my career as a Hardware Field Engineer for IBM. Usually my time was spent on more electro mechanical equipment like Industrial Printers, ATM's and Tape Libraries but was also given more general IT and Network training/certification like Cisco, so out of hours/emergency calls were likely to be anything with a plug, from equipment in Data Centres, Comms Rooms to Retail EPOS systems.

It was but there is some truth to the old saying about "jack of all trades"

Asking for a friend...

For a cold,wet, blustery day out, it looks like it was warmer on the "youtubers" thread.

Personally don't doubt that esb workers on the ground do there job & what's asked off them.it's the lack of investment in the existing infrastructure in rural countryside by the company I think is a issue.

I'm talking old,rotten in many cases,poles & lines with tall trees close by that have in the past & do cause trouble in windy storms.

ESB maintenance locally here anyway is unusual nowadays it seems to me, seen more of it 20 years ago.

Use to send a tractor & saw round years ago, now it's a small team of lads doing a quick dressing beneath lines.2 seasons growth later & it's back up.

wrong tread how do ypu edit or transfer to another tread does anyone know

Bungalow bliss on RTE tonight, we bought this bungalow because it was wrecked and we could afford it @€325,000 and they have €130-140,000 to put into it 😳😳😳

Half a million for a small bungalow Jesus they should have got a house in Donegal

The couple involved in this build are coming across as two really nice, down to earth people. I hope it all works out for them.

Stayed in manys a tin roofed house on my travels but in fairness hearing the rain hit off it was little and often and always welcome out there.

Reminds me of 2004-2006'ish property fetish that was going on. Every w@nker talking up their 'portfolio'.

As bad as it was in the early 2000's & recession years, I don't envy young people starting out today.