Hello all from a new member.

[Steve_cock_on]

Hi fellow hard working builders, DIYers, and artisans.

Things I have tackled over the years, mostly in my family homes but some paid.

All plumbing and sometime back gas boiler install, 1st and 2nd fix wood, cabinetry, kitchens/bathrooms,

installs and renovation, brick inglenook fireplace, all electrical, block paving, I now realise my aversion of

tradesmen (the trades are as goods as 100% men) is quite profound.

Next job personal door in side of garage single brick wall, which I am not sure about support pillars, so will

have a question soon, when I formulate it so it makes sense.

Regards

Steve S

[Tennentslager]

Welcome Steve

Interesting handle, wouldn’t like to imagine the accident if you were Steve_cock_off ?

[Steve_cock_on]

Thanks for the welcome.

Yes agreed, it goes back many years to when I was an apprentice toolmaker, 

a chap shouted out, "that will do for me, as you can't get better than cock on"

young and impressionable. 

[JFDIY]

I was going to suggest a. Engineering background, nob-on or cock-on is an often used term.

 

Made a conversation about weights of babies rather funny the other year, one lad suggested he was 10lb at birth, 'what?..... cock-on?'. Came the reply. To which the reply was 'well.....I'll have to check with my mother..but I think so' ?

[ToughButterCup]

' At's cock-on lad ... is a common phrase oop 'eer (West Lancs) lad. But I haven't' heard it used by younger trades people. 

 

Maybe the phrase dates the speaker? 

Welcome. 

[dnb]

Haven't heard the expression for years being down south. Still used up in the flat farming lands where I grew up, although usually to a much lower specification than tool making!

Welcome!