You lads get those jobs that anything that can go wrong will? Just finished said kind today. Was digging out founds for a builder, approx 50 cubic yards of material to be removed.
Monday morning we arrive on the job, chat with the builder so we know what we are doing, just waiting on the dumper and 20 yard skip to arrive. Dumper arrives pretty soon, so we stockpile some topsoil for once the extension is built. Still no skip. It eventually turned up at half 1, only 4 hourse late
Tuesday everything was going great, skip was changed over nice and early, working our way through the reduce dig no problem at all. Untill the tyre on the dumper went flat, ripped a chunk out of the sidewall.
Wednesday morning we managed to get another tyre off a spare dumper at the hire company, again, we got stuck in about it untill the skip was full, short while later skip wagon turns up and proceeds to drop the empty skip up the street so he can move the loaded one. He couldnt quite square up to the skip due to a parked car, and then it ended up falling off the runners on the truck, wedging itself solid. See pics. After hours of waiting the engineer came out with his burning kit, hacked off bits of the skip, still couldnt get it off. Ended up with a low loader carrying a 3CX, a 6 wheel tipper and a blocked off street.
Got the job finished today, with a near-stuck digger, lad driving it ended up stranded on the wrong side of the founds, and almost couldnt cross it, but we got the job done. Eventually.
the crowd we use ( 3 shires) are very reliable and they have telescopic arms so they can load skips over a 3 foot wall if needs be =only 6 yds though
its just the abuse i get every time i ring up for a skip,the owner is old school and you can never just get a skip
there has to be a protracted conversation in the style of derek and clive,with claims of "sod off we aint got skips no more, we are a massage parlour now" "no skips for st.albans!"
you know the sort
LLL :laugh:
we had a job at J and K recovery and they recovered a concrete wagon full that the driver had hidden on being told he was getting laid off.
i assume they tell them after work these days as it took some poor sod 2 weeks to kango it out
LLL
