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Tommy
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Location: Stoke

Post: # 58783Post Tommy

Sent our apprentice up to our dump to load the skip with green waste and brash with our front loader.

The wagon driver flagged us down later in the week when he came to collect it. Apparently his hooklift can lift a max load of 24 tonnes, but has a max road legal load of around 15 tonnes. His wagon couldn't get it off the ground.

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Sorry for the quality of the photo, it was knocking off time on Friday

What he'd done, is instead of loading the lighter bulky stuff, he compacted all the rotted stuff into the skip.

The Biffa bloke came back and dropped a smaller skip for him to empty it into, and he (Biffa) tried to lift it again, and despite being half emptied, still couldn't lift it from the ground.

rab1
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Joined: Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:19 pm
Location: scotland

Post: # 58789Post rab1

you`ve got to love them, only an apprentice can feck up like they do.
once heard one try to drill through a purling with a durium tipped sds drill bit with the hammer action on. ???
God loves a tryer

GB_Groundworks
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Post: # 58794Post GB_Groundworks

If the front wheels aren't in the air when they lift a skip you haven't got your money's worth hehe
Giles

Groundworks and Equestrian specialists, prestige new builds and sports pitches. High Peak, Cheshire, South Yorkshire area.

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