Shambolic?

[Gardenmac]

Is it normal practice on a busy main road to have a flat back parked in the direction of oncoming traffic with no warning signs and for the flat back to have a guy with no ear defenders, helmet or harness, standing on the back as the vehicle moves, cutting the hedge!!!!!

[NFG]

Hi

 

In France he would be standing on top of a pile of pallets

 

 

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[Johno219]

Sounds very unprofessional to me. Round here we would use a step ladder on a tractor loader

[treequip]

That is unprofessional and dangerous as well as being seriously unproductive.

 

Tele handler with a pallet in the forks for me

[Ty Korrigan]

Was the guy on the ground filling a saw whilst smoking a Gauloise?

Because if it was a Gauloise then you where definitely in France.

Ty

[TGB]

All of the above might reasonably happen in Spain too. Only the driver would be taking to a friend walking level with the cab.

[Ty Korrigan]

We recently lost a large roadside Lawson removal job to a local weekend wood warrior.

I cycled past on a Sunday (making a noise forbidden here on Sundays) and saw this chap with zero ppe, fag in mouth, back cut only no gob and a mini digger working from the road (no cones, signs etc) pushing the trees back over into the garden.

Machine driven by his missus holding a toddler with Downs syndrome on her knee.

Just as I stopped the tree he was felling got swung around almost 180 degrees by a combination of the felling cut, the machine bucket slipping off due to the toddler screaming and wriggling as well as the vines which had grown up into it and its neighbours. The tree crashed down blocking the road and trapping the guidebar of this blokes saw bending it like Beckham.

As it was his only saw (a top handle by the way) the tree could only be moved a little but enough to let cars by with a scratch or two.

Wood warrior then sat down on the kerb whilst his wife handed him a bottle of Muscadet.

Sadly, being a Sunday cycle and my one moment of utter peace I didn't have my mobile on me with which to film it all.

Ty

[Paul Cleaver]

Is it normal practice on a busy main road to have a flat back parked in the direction of oncoming traffic with no warning signs and for the flat back to have a guy with no ear defenders, helmet or harness, standing on the back as the vehicle moves, cutting the hedge!!!!!

 

sounds like a mobile stop go boards job

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

We recently lost a large roadside Lawson removal job to a local weekend wood warrior.

I cycled past on a Sunday (making a noise forbidden here on Sundays) and saw this chap with zero ppe, fag in mouth, back cut only no gob and a mini digger working from the road (no cones, signs etc) pushing the trees back over into the garden.

Machine driven by his missus holding a toddler with Downs syndrome on her knee.

Just as I stopped the tree he was felling got swung around almost 180 degrees by a combination of the felling cut, the machine bucket slipping off due to the toddler screaming and wriggling as well as the vines which had grown up into it and its neighbours. The tree crashed down blocking the road and trapping the guidebar of this blokes saw bending it like Beckham.

As it was his only saw (a top handle by the way) the tree could only be moved a little but enough to let cars by with a scratch or two.

Wood warrior then sat down on the kerb whilst his wife handed him a bottle of Muscadet.

Sadly, being a Sunday cycle and my one moment of utter peace I didn't have my mobile on me with which to film it all.

Ty

 

That's totally unacceptable! Muscadet with no grilled sardines, well out of line!