[Frankybadboy]

working away today in a very very quiet cud de sac.when i get asked how long am i going to be using the public highway??.

what, me says.

how long are you going to be leave that hose on the public highway.
excuse me.i say
we are from the high ways dept and you cant leave that hose on the high way.case someone trips over it.
well what do you want me todo with it.i say

move it.he says



no,pleae move it,we dont want someone tripping over it and claiming on your insurance,

great init i cant climb ladders law,and now you dont want me to use a hose,why dont i pack the fxxking job in and claim dole.mate iam just doing a job,well trying.        

we chatted a bit now,after i clammed down

[John Walker]

The very reason I use backpacks and trolleys.  Always worried about someone tripping or at least claiming they had.  Also, I'm not even sure it's legal to run a hose over the highway and pavements.
i know loads of guys do it every day but that doesn't mean it's ok.  Hopefully it is ok though.

[paul rulton]

thats this country all over

[Frankybadboy]

Sounds like he was just a Jobsworth to me.  Ignore him and carry on.

idid say this to him and he was that happy.

[richywilts]

should of strangled him with it, then when hes choking to death say what was that sorry i cant hear u!!!!!!!!!!

[Pureandclean]

I have started to change some of the ways I have been working. Used to run the hose over quiet roads, so we could work either side of the street.

But December last year, with 3 inch of snow on the ground, estate roads ungritted, managed to get out and start work. After cancelling one customer who complained that the water might freeze, but he had not shifted any of the snow from his property. A chap pulled up in a MPV and asked if he could video me.
I asked why, and he said it was about people coping with the bad weather, so he videos me for a couple of minutes and then said he was waiting for a car to come down the road. Well he had to wait quite some time, seemed very odd to me and my customer.
Well I haven't heard anything about it, but decided to be more careful in the way I work.

When we first went wfp, we used an omni-trolley, it is in the garage with a flat tyre, needs a new battery and pump, but I am thinking of getting it back on the job.

[AuRavelling79]

...

But December last year, with 3 inch of snow on the ground, estate roads ungritted, managed to get out and start work. After cancelling one customer who complained that the water might freeze, but he had not shifted any of the snow from his property. A chap pulled up in a MPV and asked if he could video me.
I asked why, and he said it was about people coping with the bad weather, so he videos me for a couple of minutes and then said he was waiting for a car to come down the road. Well he had to wait quite some time, seemed very odd to me and my customer.
Well I haven't heard anything about it, but decided to be more careful in the way I work.

...

The Lord works in mysterious ways Graeme? 

[Rcs]

itll make a change from someone falling down one of their potholes

[Gleaming windows]

Thats a good point. Bit rich isnt it, them coming along pointing out other peoples errors, they should all be given a wheel-barrow, a shovel and a bag of tarmac   

[matt]

its a "where there is blame claim" just waiting to happen

when it hits the press every tom dick and harry will be at it

trolley for me

[jonnyald]

he probably did u a favour as itll make u think.  theres a lot of "claim-happy " people around,more so at the moment.  i once knew a claim happy woman, she even threw herself under a bus (not fully under) to get a payout . short spell in hospital,then live the life of riley for a few years !!

 i remember when i started this game 2 years back,sittin in my car ,thinking how and if people could claim. far as i know,doing trad theres low risk of a claim agenst me .

[stephen s]

working away today in a very very quiet cud de sac.when i get asked how long am i going to be using the public highway??.

what, me says.

how long are you going to be leave that hose on the public highway.
excuse me.i say
we are from the high ways dept and you cant leave that hose on the high way.case someone trips over it.
well what do you want me todo with it.i say

move it.he says

you are having a fxxking laugh.

no,pleae move it,we dont want someone tripping over it and claiming on your insurance,

great init i cant climb ladders law,and now you dont want me to use a hose,why dont i pack the fxxking job in and claim dole.mate iam just doing a job,well trying.        

we chatted a bit now,after i clammed down

what amazes me Rich is the fact you have highways down your kneck of the woods 

as I said to you the phone yesterday  I would have just told him NO your not moving it and thanks for worrying about people falling and clasiming from your insurance but I will leave it to the insurance company to deal with if need be.


thankfully it was you Rich and not someone like Squeeky clean or gold otherwise we may have had a suicide on our hands 

[daz1977]

i thought u could leave the hose as it is bright yellow as long as u have a trip hazard sign, near it

[Scrimble]

i try and park on custys driveways as much as possible

[weetot]

I,m frightened to get out of bed now for the fear of upsetting folk.

[stephen s]

I,m frightened to get out of bed now for the fear of upsetting folk.

I have to get out of bed whether I like it or not as her husband gets home from nightshift at 08.30         you would think the lazy sod would start putting some overtime in 

[amayze]

You know I got a seven day ban for typing one F followed by three stars, and told not to swear on the forum, yet I see many other threads doing the same !!! Why's that ??

[geefree]

Health and safety . warning signs and should be ok ...

might nip down to my local chippy and tell them to take the "danger wet floor" sign away ... and dry it for me instead.


bonkers !

[gerard mcmanus]

I hope the fall over the warning sign for trailing hoses, I guess they will just want a verbal warning for everything then. Some people a just ditsy and accident prone.

[AuRavelling79]

Did you have warning cones out?