Tales from tree work

[Graham]

Telling these is going to make me look like a complete amateur:001_smile:

 

We turned up at a golf club to fell a Lombardy in the car park. Put a face into it and it immediately fell down across the car park:blushing:

 

Dead elm in the garden of Mrs Thatcher's right hand man. Damn thing went sideways taking the chimney and conservatory with it:sneaky2:

 

A lad working for me put a tree through some 11kv overheads sending showers of sparks everywhere. Put the freezers at a jam plant in reverse and thawed all the fruit out!

 

That's a few I'm admitting to.....feel better now:001_smile:

[Mark Cattell]

Not my story but.... big New Zealand lad over here was on site on his first day and was cooking up his breakfast on a open fire he had got going on site. he was frying eggs on an old shovel that he found on site... the lads did not tell him they cleared all the dog sh*t up the previous day with the old shovel.... he was surpired when all the lads turned him down for a fry up.....

[Tree Man Tom]

My top 3 stories that had me in stiches would have to be...

 

Me walking along with a saw in my hand, going over to a conifer hedge we had just removed to cut the stumps lower. Wondered over and dissapeared down into the ground, i had fallen down a manhole, the cover was rusted through and covered in ivy. No way would i have spotted it. Once i had got my head around what had just happened and i relised i was ok i just burst out laughing.

 

We were taking down a eucalyptus, all had to be lowered there was garden shed below, hedging that couldnt be damamged etc... my boss was climbing and lowered one small branch off, as he cut through the branch and it went for abit of a swing, the rope slid off with it being such a smooth bark. It all happened so gracefully and the branch managed to miss every target on the way to the ground and landed as if my boss was meant to put it there!

 

Finally when we had our old hilux at work, we felled butt of a cherry tree into the back of it, it went into the back with inches to spare and took up the whole bed of the truck. As it came down the front end was launched up in the air and then came down with a mighty thud. Needless to say nothing was broken on the truck but it had me in stiches!

[adbat234]

Whilst working on the power lines my mate needed a crap.

Into the busheas he dissapeared with a tub of hand wipes to wipe his arse after.

Only problem is these said wipes were not hand wipes(unbeknown to him).

They were industrial de-greasing wipes for the non-conducting poles.

About 10 seconds after wiping his tender little bum my mate was in agony jumping around and begging me to clean his sphincter for him.

Obviousley i declined as it was far too funny to watch him suffer.

I almost spewed laughing for the whole 3 hours he was in pain lol.

Mozza it was ste at tilhill, was u there that day:lol:??