Damage Report

[Mr Ed]

Ha. Well, some years back I managed to drive a county forwarder up so steep a bank it looped the loop completly with me inside. Came to rest on its arse end facing upwards, the battery escaped its underbonnet prison on a mad glass killing spree, flying through the windscreen and escaping out the side window, via my head, where it managed to deposit half a pound of ground glass in my scalp.

 

Pulled the bugger upright with a digger and carried on...

[atree]

I just put $3 grand (which i had 2 replace)worth of climbing/ rigging gear through our 12" chipper.was the subbies gear 1st day i work with him,opps!will look before i start the chipper up nxt time

[Dean Lofthouse]

One of my staff unhooked the smaller of my 2 Greenmech chippers (as pictured in the 'chipper advice' thread) from the truck when it was 3 weeks old without applying the handbrake, it proceeded to roll backwards down the customers driveway and smash straight through their garage door and finally came to rest against said customers tumble dryer! One or two tiny scratches was all that was to be found on the chipper but the garage door was f*cked!

 

One thing people tend to forget is trailers have auto reverse brakes, so when parked on a hill backwards handbrake wont work

[Dean Lofthouse]

Ha. Well, some years back I managed to drive a county forwarder up so steep a bank it looped the loop completly with me inside. Came to rest on its arse end facing upwards, the battery escaped its underbonnet prison on a mad glass killing spree, flying through the windscreen and escaping out the side window, via my head, where it managed to deposit half a pound of ground glass in my scalp.

 

Pulled the bugger upright with a digger and carried on...

 

 

aahh, thats what happened :wave:

 

Joking aside that sounds scarey.

 

My mate had a similar experience on a tractor. There was two of them on it, one sat on the mudguard. It turned over wrapping the one on the mudguard round between the axle between the rear wheel and the mudguard. My mate was trapped underneath the tractor looking at his mate, not nice.

[stihllearning]

first job back this new year,huge ash stump to grind with my small grinder as acess was a problem.first day freakish bouncing flint through the conservatory,second blew piston ring on stumpy.engine ruined,managed to finish the stump but it owed me a sh&t load of money.

[Tree cutter Stu]

i smashed a £350 window with the stump grinder i was using boards to. The worst thing is the stump was only for £80 oh well

[Ben]

Rolled a tractor about 5 years ago whilst side arming, the field I was in was about 3-4foot deep in bramble and I was driving though it keeping an eye on the level of the hedge,I found a hole with the front wheel but coz of the bramble it didnt drop all the way in, back wheel went over the same hole and next thing I know the tractors tipping over away from the hedge with the side arm now 20ft up in the air and still spinning.

 

Odd thing getting out of a tractor when its on its side.

 

 

Got the tractor pull upright and there was no damage (the brambles had saved it).

 

 

:)

[Mike Hill]

I rolled a 20ton dozer twice and then back onto its tracks.Worse thing was that a can of blue log marking paint arc'd across the batterey,exploded and covered me in paint and made me a abit deaf.

[Will Ayers]

years ago i drove a forklift clean through the roller doors on the side of a warehouse. there was a forklift shaped hole and everything. my boss was great about it, he just made me stand guard all night to stop the thieves getting in until it could get repaired. the bill?............£3500:blushing:

 

it was that job that made me want to work outside and hence work in arb

[kimtree]

damaged a fence panel $100 to fix a few years ago,I did manage to back over a fairly new 441 with the chipper 3 weeks ago:sad: