The blaring building site radio is a cultural icon.
Some workmen came yesterday to put the finishing touches to the scaffolding.
Now I don’t know about you, but I always associated the name Makita with big and beautifully made power tools. Yesterday I learned, to my total surprise, that they also make a building site radio – and here it is, the Makita BMR100 Job Site Radio.
From what I can gather, rather than a volume switch it seems (at least to my ears) to have only an on / off switch, is set to maximum volume and is permanently tuned to Heart FM.
I looked it up and the bloody thing costs £159, which seems a tad steep for a radio. I suspect it contravenes a number of European (if not galactic) noise abatement by-laws.
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I think there are several companies that make these things. The plasterer that we had recently had a JCB branded one, it was about twice the length of the one in your photo but it did have a volume control. In our case the plasterer used to sing along to it.
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