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Ahh, I remember him well. A wonderful case of "apt-onym".
He was one of the most famous of his now sadly deceased profession. I remember how, as storms where advancing towards the coast he, with two of his colleagues, managed, in the space of a mere thirty minutes, to throw together (literally) a 400 yard breakwater using the huge bolders that a fleet of lorries delivered to them.
On another occasion, after a cliff collapsed on a the only road linking a small town to the outside world he, single handledly cleared a one and a half mile stretch whilst using the rubble to create a bridge over the river shortening the journey by thirty minutes and so letting an ambulance in to rescue a woman suffering labour complications (who happily went on to be delivered, unexpectedly, of three healthy triplets).
But perhaps he is most famous for his two thousand yard lob. Landed spot on target. Blocked the road and kept the politician and his literature out of town.
He really was the greatest of the Rock Lob-sters....
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