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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Steven Shoreditch on September 18, 2010, 09:45:56 am

Title: Amputee
Post by: Steven Shoreditch on September 18, 2010, 09:45:56 am
Are there any amputee window cleaners out there?
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Post by: Steven01903 on September 18, 2010, 09:51:37 am
 ???
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Post by: gewindows on September 18, 2010, 10:04:39 am
Theres a window cleaner round here who has lost an arm, he works trad.
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Post by: rg1 on September 18, 2010, 10:48:49 am
I am sometimes amazed at some of the posts on here..this being one of them. ???
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Post by: gewindows on September 18, 2010, 10:54:51 am
The thread or the post?

If its my post you should come round to a village called Little London just outside Basingstoke, thats where this chap works.

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Post by: p1w1 on September 18, 2010, 11:20:24 am
there is a window cleaner local to me who has lost an arm i believe he has been going for years trad only..
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Post by: gewindows on September 18, 2010, 11:23:36 am
Might be the same bloke, whereabouts are you p1w1?
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Post by: p1w1 on September 18, 2010, 11:29:08 am
braintree, the guy cleans in a town called sawbridgeworth just outside harlow..
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Post by: Ross G on September 18, 2010, 11:29:18 am
where are the "I make so much money during the week that on Friday I get legless" posts  ???
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Post by: Tom White on September 18, 2010, 11:30:07 am
There was a blind window cleaner (he must've had some limited vision though; people who are blind are rarely 100% blind) who recently made the papers since he unfortunately got ran over by a car and killed.  He was a top athlete; a runner; and competed in the para Olympics (or was wanting to).

You've got to respect guys like this who just get on with their life despite their disabilities.  I've two arms, two legs, slanty eyes, and I moan like a little girl on a Monday morning.
Title: Re: Amputee
Post by: Llaaww on September 18, 2010, 11:43:03 am
There was a blind window cleaner (he must've had some limited vision though; people who are blind are rarely 100% blind) who recently made the papers since he unfortunately got ran over by a car and killed.  He was a top athlete; a runner; and competed in the para Olympics (or was wanting to).

You've got to respect guys like this who just get on with their life despite their disabilities.  I've two arms, two legs, slanty eyes, and I moan like a little girl on a Monday morning.

I hope thats not the bloke who went round with the barrow. I had a lot of respect for him, for getting up and making a living the way he did.
Title: Re: Amputee
Post by: Neil Gornall on September 18, 2010, 12:36:42 pm
There is a guy in this area, Spalding/boston who only has one arm,

He has been trad for years, but saw him about a year ago working wfp.
Title: Re: Amputee
Post by: Steven Shoreditch on September 18, 2010, 01:17:27 pm
What a coincidence!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-11355367 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-11355367)
Title: Re: Amputee
Post by: rg1 on September 18, 2010, 03:19:37 pm
The thread or the post?

If its my post you should come round to a village called Little London just outside Basingstoke, thats where this chap works.



Sorry matey!  I meant the thread ;)
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Post by: BORBRYCE on September 18, 2010, 03:49:44 pm
I am one hundred per cent completely deaf in my left ear, have been for 20 years. Does that count? As I only have one ear, that works like. Is there an award going for special needs windies then? Am I to be entered into a prize draw?
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Post by: mci services on September 18, 2010, 03:54:00 pm
I am one hundred per cent completely deaf in my left ear, have been for 20 years. Does that count? As I only have one ear, that works like. Is there an award going for special needs windies then? Am I to be entered into a prize draw?

eh
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Post by: BORBRYCE on September 18, 2010, 04:02:26 pm
Ha ha. Stu, can I have one of your big lugs. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Darranvps on September 18, 2010, 04:55:38 pm
One of my employees has only one arm, but we just tied an Unger pole onto the stub and stuck a squeegee on top, he manages really well.
He also has no legs from the knees down, but we put some stilts on him, they are the extendible type which saves us money with ladders. He can reach about 10.5ft High!

Because he is disabled we can park the van where others cant, which saves us money on parking etc


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Post by: Ross G on September 18, 2010, 06:49:50 pm

how about replacing the stilts with 2 pogo sticks and then suggesting he wear a head band with a scouring pad on it, bingo no more problems with stubborn bird crap eh ?

just a thought  ;)
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Post by: Darranvps on September 19, 2010, 04:05:19 pm

how about replacing the stilts with 2 pogo sticks and then suggesting he wear a head band with a scouring pad on it, bingo no more problems with stubborn bird crap eh ?

just a thought  ;)

Good idea, do you know where I can buy some from?
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Post by: Ross G on September 19, 2010, 05:08:27 pm

headband no idea
Pogo sticks no idea
scouring pads no idea if married ask wife

 :-\
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Post by: scud on September 19, 2010, 10:22:29 pm
There is a guy in this area, Spalding/boston who only has one arm,

He has been trad for years, but saw him about a year ago working wfp.


  Neil, he is my wifes cousin.

  Amazing that even with only one arm he is a complete w****r.
Title: Re: Amputee
Post by: darren clarke on September 19, 2010, 10:28:19 pm
there are loads of disabled wc, just ask the benefit office every one they catch seems to be a wc
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Post by: mci services on September 19, 2010, 10:33:44 pm
there are loads of disabled wc, just ask the benefit office every one they catch seems to be a wc
;D
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Post by: Tom White on September 19, 2010, 11:08:30 pm
there are loads of disabled wc, just ask the benefit office every one they catch seems to be a wc
;D
;D
Title: Re: Amputee
Post by: Londoner on September 20, 2010, 06:50:42 am
there is a window cleaner local to me who has lost an arm i believe he has been going for years trad only..
How does he wring out his cloths?
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Post by: Helen on September 21, 2010, 12:55:08 pm
Theres a window cleaner round here who has lost an arm, he works trad.
Is he still going....wow, when we were full on WC'ing. loads of people mentioned him and that they had cancelled him as they were too worried that he would fall off the ladder! I take my hat off to him. At least he is getting out and doing something, not like some of these fat lazy job dodgers you hear about :)
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Post by: telboy on September 21, 2010, 05:12:51 pm
there is a window cleaner local to me who has lost an arm i believe he has been going for years trad only..
How does he wring out his cloths?
Probably stands on one end and twists ???
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Post by: gewindows on September 21, 2010, 05:26:13 pm
Theres a window cleaner round here who has lost an arm, he works trad.
Is he still going....wow, when we were full on WC'ing. loads of people mentioned him and that they had cancelled him as they were too worried that he would fall off the ladder! I take my hat off to him. At least he is getting out and doing something, not like some of these fat lazy job dodgers you hear about :)

I saw him up a ladder once when I went through Little London. But your point is a very good one regarding the difference in attitude between him and the fat lazy job dodgers you get on here  ;)
Title: Re: Amputee
Post by: bad trippy on September 21, 2010, 05:46:20 pm
A bloke with one hand worked in my area for years and years, even had a couple of lads working for him, this was the days before wfp, the bloke had a hook instead of a hand
Title: Re: Amputee
Post by: Steven Shoreditch on September 21, 2010, 08:26:58 pm
A bloke with one hand worked in my area for years and years, even had a couple of lads working for him, this was the days before wfp, the bloke had a hook instead of a hand
I work one handed most evenings when the missus is out and I have free access to the internet.