The Mk1 scoop I designed and made was put to Good use today, at 7:00am this morning Shell and I had 2 guttering Jobs to do, they were not a complete clean Job just a clear out.
Now these Jobs were on a busy road and with 1 being the main shop of the village, it becomes very busy during the week, early Sunday morning was the only option open to us for minimum disruption to ourselves.
As you can see from the pictures the whole length of guttering was a solid extra garden, to use the gutter lance would have been possible but very time consuming, I decided to give my Mk1 gutter scoop a try out and I must admit, I was more than impressed with it, I was able to slide it under the deep rooted mass with ease and scoop out the garden.
I did have one scare when the Mk1 became detached from my pole and was hanging out of the guttering, what had happened was, With all the twisting and pushing I inadvertently unscrewed the elbow joint from my pole, luckily I was able to re-screw the pole back into the Mk1 from the ground, It does need a bolt through it somehow, the Mk1 is bolted to the elbow but the elbow is not bolted to the pole.
Signs and Hi-vis Jackets plus Shell standing as H&S officer was the order of the day.
You can see a bit of the muck on the floor, Once the Gutters were clear, the cleaning up began, Hard broom and shovel with a few buckets of water from the shop and the first big Job was complete, the second Job was the restaurant opposite, Just beyond the scaffold in one of the pictures, this Job had a garden in it as well, but withing 10 minutes the second Job was complete, the 2 Jobs were done in 70 minutes including cleaning time, then it was back home in time for breakfast.
The garden you see in this picture run the full length of the guttering
Just a tiny bit of the mess to clean up.
Job Done
The full run finished
