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Pole 2 Pole

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THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« on: July 03, 2009, 08:25:02 am »
Yep, i'm bored. It was just a thought that popped into my head yesterday as i was working away. Thought it might make for interesting reading  :D

tomy jackson

Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2009, 08:51:43 am »
worning sines that fall over  ;D ;D ;D

LWC

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Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2009, 08:53:05 am »
Proteckta balls that get caught on everything  >:(

tomy jackson

Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2009, 09:02:23 am »
very strem

Pole 2 Pole

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Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2009, 09:04:21 am »
I think mine is velcro straps. Truth is i don't own any useless bits or pieces anymore. I binned them,lol.

Small but perfectley formed

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Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2009, 12:02:27 pm »
Brodex brush
24 ft excel gf pole
Spit and polish

AJ

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Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2009, 01:27:24 pm »
a pair of Unger gloves.
Too thick, too sweaty and they get trapped in the sections when you are shortening the pole.

LWC

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Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2009, 01:36:21 pm »
Id like to add fixed metal hose reels, as nice as they look and feel, when you pull the hose off at a certain angle it gets caught in the groove, highly annoying and they go tight and the centre breaks...

Free standing hose reels for me from now on. I know someone whos got two plastic ones, cost him £15 a reel, both with 100m microbore and they fantastic, never had any probs with them! Ive got a metal one in bits worst £50 i ever spent times 2  :(

Alex Gardiner

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Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2009, 01:50:13 pm »
Id like to add fixed metal hose reels, as nice as they look and feel, when you pull the hose off at a certain angle it gets caught in the groove, highly annoying and they go tight and the centre breaks...

Free standing hose reels for me from now on. I know someone whos got two plastic ones, cost him £15 a reel, both with 100m microbore and they fantastic, never had any probs with them! Ive got a metal one in bits worst £50 i ever spent time 2  :(

Have to agree with this. I have 2 x Hozelock reels with 100m of microbore on and they perform very well and are light to lift. If you have to go to a metal reel it is best to spend a bit more and get a quality reel that will last.

Most useless items I have sold on. The most useless piece of equipment that I have and have not sold on (yet) are two stainless steel goosenecks that I have never used. I bought them off of a mate 5 years ago and couldn't fit them to a pole as they were just too heavy. I am thinking of fixing them to my garage wall and hanging my bike on them!

LWC

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Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2009, 01:57:15 pm »
Thinking back they were £70...faints

Window Cleaning Services

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Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2009, 02:18:21 pm »
metal hose reels x2 both plastic centre axles broke. now use hozelock plastic reels....Velcro straps...plastic signs that fall over (now fixed by screwing to traffic cone...sorted)...possibly my varistream as its playing up...and finally a £70 battery charger thats lasted only 2 1/2 yrs :( Syd

ftp

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Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2009, 04:07:54 pm »
I don't own anything useless these days (well apart from a sill brush). I suppose the most useless items were a glassfibre extel pole I had and even worse an extender pole.

trevor perry

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Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2009, 05:10:41 pm »
i have got to say its a 40ft pro 10 internal pole, i have only used it a few times the results where poor it is awkward to use and the worst bit about it was it cost £2000  >:(
better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove any doubt

GWCS

Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2009, 06:26:33 pm »
40 foot Ionics Glass Fibre Universal Pole. Left it in the Pipe Carrier, about 8 months ago, not used it since!!

I probably should put it on ebay for a fiver :P Prob too much hassle getting it posted, might just take it down the dump - all its good for imo :D


macmac

Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2009, 07:52:41 pm »
Id like to add fixed metal hose reels, as nice as they look and feel, when you pull the hose off at a certain angle it gets caught in the groove, highly annoying and they go tight and the centre breaks...

Free standing hose reels for me from now on. I know someone whos got two plastic ones, cost him £15 a reel, both with 100m microbore and they fantastic, never had any probs with them! Ive got a metal one in bits worst £50 i ever spent times 2  :(

Plastic/aluminium hozelok all the way, 5 years on & still work perfect! ;) I think these mega-buck metal things are victim of the usual wfp over-hype!!

windowswashed

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Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #16 on: July 03, 2009, 07:58:30 pm »
'Slip & slide' bought off the internet. Too light, used a couple times and retired to the shed never to see daylight again.

marc

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Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #17 on: July 03, 2009, 11:14:12 pm »
i think that slip and slide is surposed to be used in the bedroom lol


Robin Ray

Re: THE most useless piece of WFP equipment you own?
« Reply #19 on: July 03, 2009, 11:50:53 pm »
The hard bristle vikan sill brush. I origonaly got it when i started wfp to use on facias and conservatory roofs. Used it once as a brush, never again. The only use i have found for it was to splater wet cement at the walls of the house when patching in the teroline finish it was very effective for that.