has anyone done any scaffolding work or know much about it? particularly in the mines? i have a couple of mates with very little experience that have got jobs at some mine up north through someone they know. They are claiming they can make 300K + and want me to go up there with them.
im no stranger to hard labour but dont know much else about scaffolding in the mines or scaffolding in general....
You have some very retarded mates.
unless they own thousands of tonnes of scaff not a hope in hell of clearing 300k a year. Maybe, just maybe if they were on a really good job, skipped their rotation home every week for a year and were 10+ year advanced scaffies, running the crew! then they might pull 150 k a year.
my cousin is on pretty much the best site in qld and works 10's, 6 days a week on a 3:1 roster and pulls 2000 net/pw but only on working weeks. Good dough but not 300k a year lol.
If you're a goer you could do alright but you need tickets and most sites want intermediate as a minimum which means 2k worth of courses, if your going to do that your better becoming a rigger/doggie IMO. Plus you need all your other bullshit coal board cert, work at heights, height rescue, Ewp, blah blah
shutdowns are the best money, got a mate at work on 3 weeks annual leave and working a shutdown it's 12's 7 days straight for 3 weeks at 50/hr with 20% uplift on the night shift! which'll be half the swing.
but the shutdown shit is not a full time gig, just fill in shit, most guys do it between jobs or on their holidays.
i just did my intermediate ticket, was flirting with the idea of having a go at it when the job I'm on finishes in 9 months. I think if your going to do blue collar work your best off getting all your tickets and be multi skilled.