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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 1:36 pm
by seanandruby
Yes you have to climb off every time. It can be wearying when digging out a mass dig, on and off every couple of minutes. You also have to wear seat belts and do a daily check sheet. One thing i hate to see is a digger taking concrete out of the dumper skip and pushing it back and forth, it f**** the brakes etc:
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 2:55 pm
by dig dug dan
You also have to wear seat belts
at the start of the year, i was employed by a builder friend of mine to help him move some 100 tons of topsoil down the garden.
I sat on top of the heap, and loaded him. It was one of those lifton dumpers (now made my neuson).
he used to have to come out of the customers tarmac drive, onto a small tarmac road (private cul-de-sac) along the road past where the heap was, and turn so he was 180degrees, ready to go back in the drive again, where i was loading him.
he did this loads of times, until he got a bit complacent and tried it at speed. As he went round the corner, he flew off sideways, skidding on the tarmac road. It was just as the customer was driving off, who saw nothing, except a hand come up from beside the dumper, waving her goodbye!
I of course laughed, but told him he should have worn his seatbelt. From then on, it was worn religiously
Only cuts and bruises, but he learnt the hard way!
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:20 pm
by haggistini
I recently passed my cpcs 360 10T above and below and you must go through a routine for every time you get in, out, slew around, change buckets, pre start checks, there is a lot to take in and a 3 hour test with a 15 meter trench and a 4x2x2 meter box on the end and you are constantly monitored especially your observations.....You have to own a ticket now for everything but it makes you "safer" (more aware) if not a better or faster machine driver who can butter toast with a grading bucket!!
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:28 pm
by Dave_L
You need to treat dumpers with the utmost respect be it a tiny 750 or a ten tonner, I've got into scrapes with both!
Anyone who sits on a dumper whilst being loaded is asking for trouble IMO.
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:24 pm
by msh paving
I got flung off a 6ton dumper in 1990, 1 week intensive care, 3 weeks in adenbrooks hospital, fractured skull,lots of cuts etc lost sense off smell,blood clot on brain,
ill never know how it happened to this day no one saw it, a sparky saw dumper circiling around me as it drive over my waist.....he stopped it.... 
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:25 pm
by rab1
Sitting on a Dumper while being loaded is an instant sacking offence with the Big M/Cs, unless it`s the fully cabbed type used in major muck shifts and even then the MS/RS must state how the machine cab in question will protect the driver.
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:29 pm
by rab1
Mark in the words of Black-adder, That rhymes with clucking bell.
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:33 pm
by dig dug dan
(got flung off a 6ton dumper in 1990, 1 week intensive care, 3 weeks in adenbrooks hospital, fractured skull,lots of cuts etc lost sense off smell,blood clot on brain,
ill never know how it happened to this day no one saw it, a sparky saw dumper circiling around me as it drive over my waist.....he stopped it....
bloody hell mark, thats bad!! glad you made a full recovery!
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:36 pm
by haggistini
when plant go's bad!!! i dont even like talking about it
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 12:53 pm
by DNgroundworks
GB_Groundworks wrote:My dad refuses to do it when I'm working with him, and healwaysleaves the bucket in the airbrush hectare out the machine despite me and our foreman telling him to leave it on the ground.
Giles what is an "airbrush hectare" thought it might be a typo but i cant figure out what it could be!
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:31 pm
by GB_Groundworks
It's posting off iPhone stupid thing auto corrects what you type,
Should have been always leaves the bucket in the air, when he gets out of the machine
Had some funny mistakes on text as well lol hehe
Edited By GB_Groundworks on 1295703107
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:39 pm
by GB_Groundworks
also re the grading bucket and touching the blade, most dont as when using a toothed digging bucket far more potential to touch the blade and damage it as a totthed digging bucket is a lot longer than a grading/ditching/dyking/rehandling what ever you call them bucket