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1 hour ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

What I meant Mr Stubs was, if using in an area where bogging down is even a remote possibility, is the MEWP the right tool for the job. 
 

Granted it may have got bogged in transit to operating zone but was operating zone firm enough?

 

Don’t know, just surmising, MEWPs have a place and a time but I can’t help but feel they also present a potentially greater possibility of injury / harm when not properly deployed. 
 

Right place, right job, right operator - undeniably a suitable option but if any of those factors don’t exist the chance of injury / harm is multiplied many fold - we can look to the States for an early indicator of this and as MEWP use is presented as the ‘preferred’ option in UK I anticipate a corresponding rise in associated accidents here - sure as night follows day. 

 

Not necessarily machine / equipment failure or defect related (assuming it’s late machine and properly serviced) but it will be inappropriate use / operator error / complacency related.  Just my tupenny worth for what it’s worth. 
 

 

I dislike MEWPs almost as much as ladders .🙂

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I'm honoured to have my name dragged back into this 😄

 

Fundamentally, the contractor pays for recovery and doesn't charge for the time if it's his (or by extension, his staff's) fault that the MEWP got stuck. 

 

If the customer insisted on putting the MEWP into that position, against the vocalised better judgement of the contractor, then the customer should pay. 

 

I don't think that scenario 2 is very likely though, and thinking about my own machines, I wouldn't allow a customer to push me into a position where I thought that my safety (or that of my machines or subbies) was compromised.

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26 minutes ago, Mesterh said:

I we just watching some videos of  Fred Dibnah. I can guess what his reaction would be to using a mewp. :)

 

 

Fred was a man that loved machinery so would probably love them, but not many reach the heights he did. 

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4 minutes ago, woody paul said:

Fred was a man that loved machinery so would probably love them, but not many reach the heights he did. 

I watched one of his shows years ago, the person interviewing him asked, "What was the worst day you had when you were a steeplejoke? He replied, "it was when I'd climbed to the top of the tower and realised I'd forgotten my cigarettes"😂

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