Find a hand by the machine they run, and ask for them by name.
This is the store front. You say what you run, you open the page of a hand who runs it, you read the work in that person's own words, and you ask for that hand by name. Nobody is ranked, nothing is scored, and no name is here that the person did not put here.
Large excavators standing close together in the yard at evening · The group's own photograph
You say what you run, and the page opens on the hands who run it.
The machine comes before any name. What you run decides what you see, and inside a family the hands are names in no order.
A family is a kind of machine, not a model number. A tracked excavator, a motor grader, an articulated rock truck: each is a family. Tell us the make, the model and the size of what you run, and we will say which family it is before you look at a name.
A hand is listed for the families they run and for no other. Somebody who has seen a person work asks for them by name, and this page is where that name is found. It is the same act a foreman has always done from the yard gate, written down so the person on the other end of it is paid.
The owner says what they run.
Tell us the family and what comes back is the hands listed on that family. A family you do not run is not a heading you have to read past.
If the family does not match, no hand shows.
There is no near enough. A way of working taught on one family is not offered for a second family, however alike the two look from the ground.
Then by name, and in no order.
Inside a family the hands are not sorted by anything, because nobody here is picked from a ranking. You read the pages and you ask for the person.
Our own crews first, and nobody listed before they have said yes.
What is on this page is what is true on the day you are reading it. A store front that filled itself with made-up names would be worth nothing to the first real person on it.
The first hands are our own crews, on our own machines, and each is listed when they have said yes. Today the register holds no hand.
A listing is made from a real person's material: their photograph, their introduction in their own words, their résumé in their own words, and photographs of their work, with their yes to being listed under their own name. Nothing on this page is a sample, a placeholder or a person we invented to fill a column.
The yes is asked for on its own, and it is recorded with the name of the person who took it. It can be taken back, and when it is, the page goes. Nobody at Even Steven can put a name here for somebody else, and neither can an owner.
Every family the instrument covers, including the ones with nobody on them yet.
A family with no hand is shown rather than hidden, because what the instrument covers is part of what you are reading.
Tracked excavator.
No hand yet.
Dozer.
No hand yet.
Motor grader.
No hand yet.
Articulated rock truck.
No hand yet.
Wheel loader.
No hand yet.
Directional drill.
No hand yet.
Tractor.
No hand yet.
Skid steer.
No hand yet.
Compact track loader.
No hand yet.
Telehandler.
No hand yet.
Under each family the hands stand in the order the register's folders sort, and in no other order. It is not an order of merit, nothing on this page moves a name up it, and nobody can pay to sit higher in it.
No hand is listed today. When the first hand is listed, their photograph, their own words, their seats and the frames of their work are here, under the families they run.
The machine narrows it. The name is still yours to choose.
A family of machine is how you find a page. A person is what you ask for.
Orange excavators in a row with their booms up in low sun · The group's own photograph
Their face, their words, their seats, their work, and the standing of the record.
Seven things, and not one of them is a mark out of ten.
- The photograph
- The person, in a photograph they gave usTheir own, or the group's of them, with their yes. A person's face is on their own page, and nowhere else on this site does that rule change.
- The introduction
- Who they are, in their own wordsWritten by the person, not by us. We do not tidy it into a house voice and we do not write it for them.
- The résumé
- The seats, the machine or the family, the ground and the yearsIn their own words, with nothing scored. Nobody here grades a person's account of their own working life.
- The families of machine
- The families they run, and no otherA hand shows for the families they run. A machine outside them sees no page.
- What they are asked for on
- The work people ask for them by name onTheir words for it, in the words a crew would use on the radio.
- The photographs of their work
- Frames of the work, each with their own captionTheir photographs, or the group's, and the caption under each one says who took it.
- The standing of the record
- Sessions admitted, released, in service, ended, withdrawnCounts of what has happened, written in words. Nothing in them is a score, and there is no total to beat.
No score, no rating, no rank against the next name, and no opinion of the work. Whether the work was good is a thing the people who ask for that person already know.
Five steps, and the third one reaches the person as well as us.
Find the family.
Say what you run. The family of machine is the way in, and it is what narrows the page. Tell us the make, the model and the size if you are not sure which family that is.
Read the hand's page.
Their photograph, their introduction, their seats and the frames of their work, in their own words. Read what they were recorded doing and what they were not, and read it before you ask for anything.
Ask for that hand by name.
The ask reaches Even Steven and it reaches the person. It is not a booking and it is not an order. The person can say no, and nothing about their listing changes when they do.
The pick before the pass is the clearance and the count.
A person on your crew picks whose way of working runs, by name, before the pass, and puts their own name on the choice. That choice is the human authorization the machine may not move without, and it is the start of the count.
Paid every hour, ended on notice.
Hours in use are counted in sessions, and you and the person being paid read the same count. It ends when your crew chooses something else or the person withdraws. What an hour costs is written on the covenant, in one place.
No ranking, no score, no paid place, and no name here without the person's yes.
Each refusal below protects the reason a person would put their name on this page at all. Take one away and the rest stop meaning anything.
- No ranking. Nobody is picked from a list sorted by anything. You are asked for by name, by people who have seen the work.
- No score. A session is admitted or refused on equipment and paperwork alone, and no check anywhere grades how a person worked.
- No leaderboard. We do not keep a list you can climb, and there is no list you can fall down.
- No rating. Nobody rates a way of working, and no star or number sits beside a name.
- No paid placement. Nobody pays to be found first, because inside a family there is no first.
- No listing without the person's yes. A way of working goes into the repository because the person said yes, on its own, to it being licensed under their name, and it comes out when they say so.
On blind, wet or soft ground every measure you could rank by turns on you. The careful operator works slower, corrects more, and reads as the worse one right up until the quick one is in the water. A list sorted by any of that would put the wrong name at the top, and this page is built so there is no top.
A record can show a day where nothing went wrong. A score cannot.
The best hands are known for what does not happen.
A quiet day on hard ground is the work. No number on any list can show you one.
Excavators working a cleared corridor in winter, booms up along a strung pipe · The group's own photograph
If people ask for you by name, tell us which seat and which ground.
This is the operator's door. You are not applying for anything and there is nothing to sign. Tell us who you are and what you run, and a person writes back.
A listing goes up only after you have said yes to it, in writing, under your own name, and it comes down when you say so. Nothing goes on this page from this form on its own.
Sending opens your own mail program with the message written out and addressed to [email protected], and nothing is stored on this site.
Four readers, and what each one finds on this page.
Say what you run. The hands listed on that family are here, in no order, each with their own page. You ask for one by name, the ask reaches them as well as us, and a person on your crew picks by name before the pass. That pick is the clearance and the bill.
Your page carries your photograph, your words, your seats and your work, and it is here because you said yes to it under your own name. You can take that yes back. Nothing on the page grades you, and no list here puts you above or below anybody.
Nothing on this page can move a machine or stop one. Asking for a hand by name starts a conversation, not a job. A way of working proposes and never authorizes, and a person on the crew clears the work by name, on the day, every day.
Nobody on this page is being supplied to you as labour. What is licensed is a way of working, for the family of machine it was taught on and the job it was licensed for. The person stays where they are, keeps their name on it, and can end it on notice.
Ask for the hand, not for a number.
If you own the machines, say which family you run and which hand you want. If people ask for you by name, put your own name forward.