The Skip Magazine

This month’s Skip Hunk is Dave ‘The Pie’ Haskins from 5 Star Skip Hire. You may have difficulty picking him out, what with his face being as red as his truck!

Q. Hi Dave. I’ll ask the obvious question to start with - what’s ‘The Pie’ bit in your name all about?

A. Well, it’s quite easy to explain really. I always have at least one pie a day - have done since I was about 15 I think. (Apart from one time at my Nanna’s in Whitley Bay when the chippy closed early due to a potato theft).

Q. Wow, that’s an impressive claim! So what’s the best thing about working at 5 Star Skip Hire then?

A. There’s an absolutely cracking pie shop two minutes from the yard. Second best is Amanda in the office - partly because she’s a cracking good laugh, but mainly cos she loves pies. Sometimes we eat lunch together on a wall.

Q. So, have you been busy recently then - it looks like you’ve caught the sun on your rounds.

A. Yeah, I’ve been busy. This isn’t sun burn though. My blood pressure’s shot from all the pies.

Q. Oh, right. There’s a down side to all things enjoyable I suppose. So, what’s your favourite thing about The Skip magazine, Dave?

A. The logo. It looks a bit like a cross-section of a pie.

Q. I suppose it does, when you think about it. They say beauty is in the pie of the beholder! Do you have any other hobbies besides pastry products, then?

A. Yes, I’m part of a Band Aid tribute act, actually. We play round the local pubs every Christmas for charity.

Q. Oh great. For a minute there, I thought everything about you was going to be pie related! What’s the band called?

A. We’re called ‘Do They Know It’s Ginsters?’

Blinking heck, that’s enough for me. Pie pie everyone!

Our well-chiselled Skip Hunk for this month is Dave, from Hart Waste Collections. We’re told it’s been his long-term ambition to appear in The Skip, and he's hoping this will launch his modelling career.

We usually ask our Skip Hunks a few questions, but when we tried to decide who was going to interview Dave, nobody at The Skip had the courage... especially when we were warned not to make him angry. Apparently we wouldn’t like him when he’s angry, or something...

Well, Dave - your long-term ambition is now fulfiled! Let us know how the modelling career goes. Good luck!

Here you go, girls - this month’s entry has gone that extra mile for your added enjoyment by getting his ‘tats’ out and braving the topless pose. A fine effort in the true spirit of Skip Hunks!

It’s time to meet Kris from Armstrong Waste in Dumfries...

Q. Hi Kris, please can you tell us a little about yourself and your position at Armstrong Waste?

A. My name is Kris Henderson, I am extremely good-looking, and big headed! I am the transport supervisor; I look after the day-to-day running of the vehicles. It is mainly office-based but I really enjoy it.

Q. So what do you most enjoy about working for the waste management company?

A. I enjoy dealing with customers, keeping the morale of the staff on a general high and, most of all, winding up my boss (wind your neck in George! And stop pushing my buttons!)

Q. What do you like to do when you're not working, Kris?

A. I enjoy going to the gym, (not that you can tell from my picture) playing football, watching football, eating football and sleeping football.

Q. It’s fair to say you like a bit of footy then! What do you like most about The Skip magazine?

A. I like The Skip magazine for the Skip Chicks, so come on ladies lets see some more pictures please!!!

Q. Here, here! Well said, Kris. Finally, is there anything else you’d like to share with our readers?

A. I think I should have been Skip Hunk sooner!!! I mean Peter Nelson (Armstrong’s driver - Issue 25) better looking than me? I don’t think so! PS. the newspapers in the truck window don’t belong to me xxx (Whatever you say, Kris...!)

Ladies – do you like big men with tattoos, who sweat lots and smell of oil? If the answer’s ‘yes’ - it’s your lucky day.

This weeks skip hunks are Scott (he only has one name – maybe he’s a bit like Prince or Seal – who knows) and Peter Nelson from Armstrong Waste Management in Dumfries. Scott is the one sat in his truck and Peter is the dude in the shades.

Hell hunks! Can you tell our intrigued female readers a bit about yourselves and wat you do?
Scott – I’m the number one skip driver
Peter - And I’m a big hunky sweeper driver

Modest! So, what do you enjoy about your jobs?
Scott – Customer satisfaction (I’m not sure if that’s an innuendo or not – Ed)
Peter – Getting paid

Very honest Peter, but probably not what your bosses want to hear! And what do you both like to do when you’re not working?
Scott – Walking, cycling and motorcycling
Peter – Fast cars, easy women and watching a crap football team – Celtic!

And what do you like about The Skip magazine?
Scott – The Chicks!!! (You’ll be gutted this month then! – Ed)
Peter – The birds (You too! – Ed)

Finally, is here anything you’d like to say to our readers?
Scott – Mine extends! My skip arms that is!
Peter – Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough!

Lovely! And on that final frightening note – thanks hunks, it was a pleasure. Keep on flexing those pecs…

Peter

Scott

Craig "Crusher" Adkins makes a big impression in the April edition

Do you long for the days when all men had hairy chests, wore gold chains and posed in photographs like 1970’s Burtons catalogue models

Well, STOP YOUR LONGING… LONG NO MORE – because this month’s Skip Hunk is a hairy chested, gold chain wearing, slice of prime British beefcake.

Ladies and ‘not so sures’, I introduce to you, Mr Phil Bott, a driver for K.C.M. Metals & Skip Hire in Rotherham.

Hi Phil! Thanks for being this month’s Skip Hunk. Tell us a bit about yourself?
Well, I am 43 years of age – you can't tell from my sexy body though can you?. I drive a Ro-Ro and I’m an ex-army man - still active in the TA.

Did you hear that ladies – he used to be a soldier! They wear uniforms and run around lots. Stop your dribbling!
So what do you like to do Phil, when you’re not driving your Ro-Ro?
I like meeting new people but most of all rooting through skips. I’m basically a fully qualified skip rat.

And what do you do in your spare time?
I don't have much spare time but when I have got some I like to watch Rambo and read The Skip Mag. I like nothing better than ogling the skip chicks!

We aim to please. Anything else you’d like to say, Phil?
Yeah – keep up the good work!

Cheers – we’ll do our best. You can put your vest back on now Phil – you’ll be using your nipples as coat hangers if it gets any colder!

Hubba Hubba! Once again dear readers we have an absolute corker of a Skip Hunk for you this month. Tuck in your napkins and get ready to dribble! I haven’t seen a face this well pulled since the heyday of Paul Gascoigne.


The Skip hunk for February is Shaun from H Wicks Skip Hire in Barrow-In-Furness and he’s all pumped up and ready to woo the nations ladies with his facial contortions and penchant for woolly hats.

Shaun – I put your photo into the popular face recognition website, www.myheritage.com and it reckons you’re a cross between the Steve Buscemi, Britney Spears, Kathy Bates and Alfred Hitchcock (seriously it does!). How does that make you feel?
Britney Spears! Bit wide of the mark on that one I think.

So then Shaun, tell us a bit about yourself.
Well, I’m a skip truck driver for H Wicks up in Barrow-In-Furness – and that’s about it. Is that good enough?

Not really – what do you do in your spare time?
I like walking my dog, Rusty and breathing in the fresh country air – it makes a change from picking up smelly skips all day long.

What do you like about The Skip magazine?
I like the funny stories – the writing in it’s great.

Do you have any messages for our female readers?
Yeah – Garlic is the new Viagra!

Hmm, OK. Have you got any amusing or strange stories that you’d like to tell our readers?
Don’t be silly, I live in Barrow – nothing happens here!

That’s a shame. Thanks for the photo anyway. Keep pulling those faces!

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This interview was originally published in Issue 19 of The Skip, February 2007

Starting the year of in style, He’s the Macaulay Culkin of the Skip Hire world – but with attitude! Ladies and Gentlemen put your waste industry hands together for this month’s Skip Hunk, Joe Cunningham.

Joe is The Skip magazine’s youngest ever hunk and was put up for the honour by his dad, Lee of CCS Skip Hire in Manchester.

Many people over the years have told me that working with children is a ‘nay nay’ (Andy Crane, Gloria Huniford, Grotbags from The Pink Windmill – the list is endless) but I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Children are just little adults I thought…

Ok, Joe, what involvement do you have in the skip industry?
Don’t know what ya mean!

What kind of stuff do you like to get up to when you’re at the yard?
Digging.

Anything else?
No.

Ok. And what do you like to do in your spare time?
Ride about in the wagons.

Anything else?
Watch Man Utd.

At this point Joe became so bored with the interview he decided to completely ignore me and the questioning stopped. I was disappointed and relieved at the same time. Interviewing is indeed a ‘nay, nay’ – Grotbags was right.

This interview was originally published in Issue 18 of The Skip, January 2007

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Paul Waterworth wins the award for skip hunk of the month in November 2006

Not to be out done by his colleagues that appeared in our September issue, heres Antonio Couvinhas who gets the award for "Skip Hunk of the month for October 2006"

Not one but 2 Skip hunks raised the game in our September issue.

The first one is John Caerio

The Second one is Joe Gato a man of little words but his cool shades speak volumes

Here is our Skip Hunk for August 2006, introducing Mick a 38 year old Sagittarius from Irvine

For our birthday edition our readers were treated to Steve Weaver from Alan's Skip Hire who posed in his Birthday suit to become our Skip Hunk of the month

Tam Morrow a 46 year old Taurus from Perthshire is our Skip Hunk of the month for June 2006

All the way from Glasgow we present "Wee Willie Wilkie" who is our Skip Hunk for March 2006

We present Tony Fry who is our Skip Hunk for February 2006

This month’s hunk is a Yorkshire terrier from Halifax. Craig, a 21-year-old Libra, works at Calder Vale Skip Hire and has applied every month to be Skip Hunk and for his sheer tenacity, we are making him Christmas Hunk this year.

Q: Craig, what made you decide to become a Skip Hunk
A: The challenge really. I never thought I’d be chosen from all the many your magazine must get each month. This is a proud moment for me.

Q: What are your interests besides waste management?
A: I love me booze and socialising. When I’m not doing that, I like drilling things and power tools in general.

Q: What is the best thing you have ever salvaged from a skip.
A: Some drill bits funnily enough. Beauties they were. Worth about £250. And they fitted my Makita 6300LR like a glove.

Q: Handy! What are you asking Santa for Christmas?
A: A holiday! Actually, I am booked in for Australia on 18th December. Going over to spend a month with the rellies.

Q: And finally, have you got a Yuletide message for all the lovely ladies who are dying to clap eyes on the Christmas Hunk?
A: Oh yes, I am young, free and single and willing to be Santa’s little helper. Just phone Calder Vale for details!

And this month, we have two beauties: Rocket and Skippy from E Taylor Recycling. Here they wax lyrical on the lives, loves and weight issues of skip drivers in Leicester

If you have seen our magazine on Have I Got News For You then these are the Skip hunks that made Paul Mertons Day!

Q: Rocket. Lovely medallion. Is it inscribed?
A: It’s a medal of St Christopher, the patron saint of travellers. It wards off the evil spirits I meet on the road.

Q: Would you like to explain your nickname?
A: They say I go like a rocket. I’m a careful driver of course but I get my work done fast and efficiently.

Q: What is the best bit about your job?
A: I love the whole kit and caboodle. I used to deliver parcels and it wasn’t nearly as much fun. The best bit is getting really stuck in and all mucky. It’s the little boy in me.

Q: What do you hate most?
A: Being clean. Skippy is always washing himself. He’s obsessed with keeping himself pristine. His tattoo on his left arm says ‘Cleanliness is next to Godliness’. I ask you!

Q: What is the strangest thing you have ever found in a skip?
A: It’s not so much strange as bloody handy – a brand new pair of boots that fit me beautiful. I wear them to this day. I get a lot of my clothes from skips.

Q: Who is the weirdest customer you have ever encountered?
A: Well it’s all them lonely housewives isn’t it? No stories though. My wife might read this mag!

Q: Skippy, you look like you work out. Describe your training routine.
A: I run about 10 miles before work, come home, have a ten-egg omelette but take the yolks out of 6 of them, then it’s the gym after work. I normally train for about 1½-2 hours a day, abs, then bi and triceps. I concentrate on the upper body as the running takes care of the rest. I try to work in a lot of aerobic stuff as well, aquafun, salsa fitness, that kind of thing. Diet is important too…(Quite. – ed)

Q: Does Rocket go to the gym with you?
A: No he goes to fat camp.

Q: What is it like to work for E Taylors?
A: Brilliant. I’ve been here 10 years now. I’ll never leave.

Q: You look like you enjoy your job.
A: I do. I love customer relations. It’s amazing how they respond when you are helpful.

Q: Do you have any advice for other skip drivers out there?
A: Keep smiling, and eat plenty of fibre. A good digestive system is worth millions.

This week, all the way from the sunny south coast, we bring you Darren ‘the Rev’ Priest, a 36-year-old Sagittarius working for Southampton Skip Hire. Darren takes his top of and lifts the lid on skip hire by the sea.

Q: Darren, great pecks, do you work out?
A: The job keeps me fit and active. That’s what I like most about being a skip driver, the freedom of being out and about and the physical work involved.

Q: How long have you been in the trade?
A: Oh, about 4 years now so a relative newcomer I suppose. I love it though. I’ll never leave…

Q: Glad to hear it. But there must be down sides to the job. What gets on your nerves most?
A: Idiots who overload. Why can’t people understand the simple concept of not putting 8 cubic yards of crap into a 4 yard skip? It’s madness!

Q: If you took over the company, what would you change?
A: I’d pay the drivers a lot more and cut down their hours.

Q: You might not have much of a business then, Darren. Do you have a nickname at work?
A: ‘Priceless’. It’s up to you to guess why. My wicked sense of humour or… something else….

Q: What do you do when you’re not at work?
A: I’ve got two kids so don’t get much free time. I like fishing though, and going to the pub, of course. I love me football as well. ‘Come on you Saints!’

Do you detect a rather religious undertone…- Ed?

Martin Fletcher, a 23-year-old Leo from Stockport,invites us into his life as a skip wagon driver.

Q: Martin, pleased to meet you. Like the nipple.
M: Cheers.

Q: How long have you been in the skip trade?
M: About 3 years now. Man and boy!

Q: When you’re not out and about on the wagon, what do you enjoy doing?
M: Sorting the skips…no seriously, the usual sort of stuff, drinking, go-karting, body piercing...

Q: What are your dislikes?
M: I don’t have many but it really winds me up when my colleagues stick bits of coffee in the sugar pot so my tea winds up tasting queer.

Q: If you could change the world, what would you do?
M: Get rid of the present bloody government.

Q: Have you ever said I love you and not meant it?
M: Everyday. To my skip wagon, not my girlfriend of course!!

Q: What is the weirdest thing you have ever found in a skip?
M: Dead ducks. I thought they’d flown in there themselves at first – like a ducks’ graveyard. Turned out some tosser had shot them for sport and didn’t fancy cooking them. So he threw them in a skip whilst doing the extension.

Q: What are your hopes for the coming year?
M: Man United winning.