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this is no joke, having a bigger spanner/set of grips does make it easier to work on seized up fittings
 
Apprentice that we share is a girl.
she worried aboutt he same things

After a few weeks she realised if its heavy it is a two person job regardless 🙂

Just keep your nails short!
splitting a nail down the middle will really ruin your month!
 
a while back i grabbed a heavy pot titanium 40 kw chucked it up in the air to get it at the right height for lifting onto my knee to put it on the jig,as it came down door caught on my knee,and sheered off
 
Oh my I can't listen no more some idiot stood or her ear phone I shall listen tomorow when I buy some more 🙂
 
You will gain muscle by performing the everyday tasks of your job. I would not try to do specific tasks at the gym as it will not help you when you have to lift a boiler up at a awkward angle or are in a loft space perched across the joists cutting and soldering pipework all day long.

When I started in the industry I put on 2 stone within a year.

Totally Buff....... Totally McDonalds
 
Never arm wrestle a plumber for a bet. Strength will come through experience doing the job. Hands wrists and arms if you want some pre-prep.
 
Also: don't take no notice of the male comments in the mostly male plumbing world. I know a few female plumbers that get on with the job very well.
 
Also: don't take no notice of the male comments in the mostly male plumbing world. I know a few female plumbers that get on with the job very well.

I don't, I take nothing to heart at all!

If someone says something deliberate to hurt me though they will find that they'll be wearing their balls as earings. 🙂

No only joking am a laid back person, I take as much as I give!

I JUST NEED SOMEONE TO SET ME UP AS A APPRENTICE! It's a shame nobody lives near me on here ill lighten up there job ;-)
 
We eat sleep and fart just the same. And to be honest if the men on site don't like my banter I'll shove it so far up there bum that they will never see it again.

you can tell your from Yorkshire you sound just like my missus, it must be a yorkshire woman thing :clap:
 
We used to have a little lady working with us. Due to the natural build of most women, she wasn't strong enough to lift a lot. She couldn't even use a heavy drill. Which made her fairly useless to us. Men are built better for it, hence why trades are dominated by men. But I suppose if you're following safe lifting guidelines you shouldn't be lifting a lot by yourself.

Strong wrists and hands will come with time on the tool. You'll end up with the biggest hands going though.
 
hannah.
I'm not a plumber. My husband and other men lift things that i can't imagine a woman moving so I'm sure as a young person training you will experience difficulties - don't let it get you down.

all the plumbers I know have bad backs & bad knees.
from what Mr TP tells me there are many areas of the work where you may find you have a natural advantage being smaller.

On the one hand some men may think you wont ever be able to make a career as a successful sole trader because you will not be able to life things on your own.

But in the long run who wants to do all the donkey work, when you can pay an unskilled man the minimum rate of pay to do that for you! My husband still works on the tools but has a team of muscle men he calls upon for hard labour (mmm ).
You are training as a plumber because you have brains, not just an unusual passion to keep the nations toilets flushing.

And lots of good advice from the men here (there are some women plumbers who post on here occasionally).
 
splitting a nail down the middle will really ruin your month!

Like this?

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Slashed my thumb 5 years ago at the base of the nail bed. Nail still splits every now and again.

Then, because I wan't satisfied doing that, I tried to cut me knuckle off!
 
Oh no I hope to god I don't do this EVER it look really painful :-(

You will, and worse. Most of us have hands that look as though we've been chopping wood on them.

Toilet roll and insulating tape, that's your first aid kit from now on kid!
 
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As a plumber there will be some nasty injuries coming your way, only yesterday I started off by slicing right through my fingertip and then in the afternoon I was knelt on the kitchen worktop and accidently turned the electric hob on with my knee under the dustsheet and scorched right through my trousers.
 
As a plumber there will be some nasty injuries coming your way

Aint that the truth :smile:
I think i've cut myself somewhere or other every working day of my life, some bad some i don't even know i've done until i see the trail of blood.
At quick count that is over 10,000 cuts :smile:
 
. Most plumbers be it small or large have the same failing body parts. Its starts with the brain, then the knees 😉

also alot of pain in the wallet.


Your not wrong there! 3 years and I feel like I'l never get my mind back!
 
when I was fifteen i jogged through a plate glass door on my way to going for a swim, didnt hurt on my way through, but falling back into long shards of glass made a bit of a mess of me! being as it was a party the female contingent and a couple of lads all fell down in dead faints looking at the results, it would seem that your guts are under pressure and opening your stomach cavity up causes them to pop out. So muggins popped myself back together (stomach wounds really dont hurt, especially when your going into shock) trotted into the kitchen and rang me mum at home as thats where all the parents were that night. She wasnt impressed from memory, but the old man and the house owner my best mates dad arrived in quick time, beating the ambulance, and off I went to A&E in the back of my mates dad's week old jag, all connolley leather in beige AND red by the time we reached hospital. Average speed 95 according to the coppers who followed us into the A&E entrance, who backed off fairly quickly as the old man heaved me out of the back when I spirted claret everywhere. A few stiches later (actually 5 hours worth of stiching) and all was well, great scars still to prove that beer and plate glass dont mix! once the coppers saw the back of the jag they walked away as well, didnt want to push their luck it would seem and as the mates dad mentioned later, they enjoyed the run!!! insurance company even settled the claim for a brand new interior all round. Had that happened nowadays the world would have sued each other, back then everyone was happy this nugget survived.

Still hurting myself nowadays, seems I dont learn 🙂
 
I remember this Kirkgas, what did it heal like and how long did you have a carrier bag Duck taped round your hand in the shower?

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This is it stitched, and this is it today, you can just about see the scar, I have full movement in the thumb which is the main thing, but very little feeling due to nerve damage, but it could have been a lot worse, think it was only two weeks till I got the last stitches out
 

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