BS: How many chairs have you stacked?

Subject: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: GUEST,Skipy
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 06:27 AM

I think with 20 festivals, 17 folkforms, countless years running clubs, village quizes, & assorted functions etc. etc. I am well through the 10,000 barrier.
If you feel that you have not stacked enough then at the end of the next event that you have enjoyed - go the extra chair!
It really cheers up the organiser!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 07:51 AM

I saw this thread title and I knew, I just KNEW it was a Skipy thread. It's a good number mate, and considering the Health and Safety implications of chair stacking in this day and age will be difficult to beat.

I trust that you now carry out the requisite actions of Risk Assessment and Method Statement before even one chair is stacked and then not exceeding the permitted stack height.

There are indications that new European legislation may outlaw the stacking of chairs in any public place.

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 08:12 AM

There are indications that... Without giving a source, that's just peddling another rumour, and there are too many rumours littering this place.

I agree with Skipy. No evening is compete without stacking a few chairs, unless all the seats are nailed down.

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 08:59 AM

Many. But now in the US you have to file an Environmental Impact Statement, hold hearings, and get governmental approval before you can begin.

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: Mooh
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 09:30 AM

Having worked on a jobs where setting up and taking down chairs was part of the job description, many, many thousands. These days only after choir practice, and at events where I happen to be hanging around at the end, do I stack chairs.

I kinda miss it...

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 09:36 AM

At Maidenhead , we dont have to stack the chairs , just rebuild the Skittle Alley !

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 10:44 AM

well, in 29 years in the same folk club, I have done my thousands of chairs, plus helped assemble and disassemble stages, tents and scaffolds. (Our club runs 3 events each year, one is a two day, 6 stage festival with weeks of prep...)

Lots of fun...*grin*...and you meet the most interesting people while hefting strange objects!

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 10:50 AM

Minus several thousand I'd guess. I always seem to end up putting them out, but when it comes to stacking them again, I always seem to be busy doing something like lugging the bands PA about or such like....

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 01:11 PM

I'll count the legs and divide by four. Back to you later.

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 01:54 PM

Let's stack hands before discussing further..

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 02:45 PM

If the bands were stacked how high would it be?

(sorry)

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: Blowzabella
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 02:51 PM

Too many! I do, however, draw the line at carting sandbags about....

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Jun 06 - 03:55 AM

I had a job for 6 months where I would spend Monday morning taking 8 bus seats out of a bus and Friday afternoon putting them back in.... Evre tried stacking bus seats?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 22 Jun 06 - 04:29 AM

If you take the seats out of a bus it must then become a van with windows. Was this a fuel saving measure LtS or just one of those pointless exercises that bosses often dream up?

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jun 06 - 04:35 AM

"you can take the seats out of a bus but you can't take the bus out of the seats"?
Medication time.

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: Charmain
Date: 22 Jun 06 - 05:07 AM

Ahoy there Blowzabella - am with you on the sandbags but will add orange netting and those evil iron prickers that hold it down - my chair stacking days aren't over yet though!

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Jun 06 - 06:11 AM

During the week the 24 seater bus was a mobile adult literacy unit. At the weekends it was the local youth club bus... removing a third of the seats gave us room to bolt down the cabinets holding the AL stuff. It was always a bus.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jun 06 - 10:58 AM

'Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 01:11 PM

I'll count the legs and divide by four. Back to you later.'


OK. Got it. 27,341

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jun 06 - 11:05 AM

Never stacked all that many chairs. But I have stacked laundry hampers - the 85 lb variety. Thousands. The industry standard is to stack them 6 high. I'm proud to say I often got them 12 high. Of course this makes unstacking them a problem.

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: GUEST,cllr
Date: 22 Jun 06 - 11:29 AM

Not just from organising folk events
Being in a political party I have been stacking racking and packing chairs for nearly three decades.
I was doing it when i was a young conservative in the late early eighties and still doing it earlier this year as a deputy chairman Political.
What ever role you have, even if you are just attending an event (folk or otherwise) please help with stacking chairs
Cllr

Subject: RE: BS: How many chairs have you stacked?
From: GUEST,Skipy
Date: 22 Jun 06 - 11:41 AM

Cllr. Here is the capital I that you failed to use in your last post.
You could send it to Joe Offer and have it changed then you could have your lower case i returned to you for future use.
Skipy (pedant)