Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:41 pm
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.
Pics:
by the way: The truck was only 4 days old!
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.
Pics:
by the way: The truck was only 4 days old!