Your most nightmare of a job

[arbwork]

nightmare whilst doing it ( and getting it! ) spent the whole weekend getting to it! getting it off and replacing with spare cover and today delivering it to see if we can salvage it

[Andrew Gale]

In terms of arboriculture, the worst job we've done recently was to remove the cones from a Monterey pine that were overhanging a neighbours roof which, when they fell off, broke his roof tiles.

 

We had to hand pick them off and stash them in a bulk bag suspended under where we were working; what made it more of a challenge was that the neighbour had his roof repaired BEFORE we removed the cones...................no pressure!

[breffni]

Today.

[Mark J]

I had a job as a de-palleteriser at a wine bottling factory once. It involved sending ten thousand green bottles down a conveyor belt.

 

Tree work wise, my nightmare job was discovering that the 10ft high leylandii hedge I was going to reduce to 6ft around the garden extended 5 metres into the field at the back. There was also the time I wiped out the port of Tyne's hgv fuelling pump with a transit. That wasn't my finest moment...

[Haironyourchest]

This is such a good thread - it really makes one appreciate life! Tomorrow, when I get some line in my glove and feel like I should have tried harder in school, I'll just think of pounding stakes in a blizzard, or that tractor, and everything will be good again!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

In terms of arboriculture, the worst job we've done recently was to remove the cones from a Monterey pine that were overhanging a neighbours roof which, when they fell off, broke his roof tiles.

 

We had to hand pick them off and stash them in a bulk bag suspended under where we were working; what made it more of a challenge was that the neighbour had his roof repaired BEFORE we removed the cones...................no pressure!

 

 

My mate picked them up by the sack load after we'd felled a few big 'uns.

 

Sold them @ £5 / bag as "Victorian kindling" at Cothele Christmas market!

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Any work that has been underpriced. One that sticks in my memory was clearing rhododendron ponticum from hillsides on the west coast, which was hard work in cold wet conditions and the fact that the job was massively underpriced made it much worse.