some of my missfortunes!!...whats yours??

[TREE-SURGEON-ESSEX]

Few weeks back doing a willow with green house underneath got 99% of the tree down second from last branch section 4ft by 6inch dia chucked 10ft away from green house bloody thing bounced 11ft backwards and broke a panel a felt a right ttt.

 

[testcricket01]

. i like to think im a bit older and wiser now:laugh1:

 

to become old and wise you first have to be young and stubid love that saying.

[jace]

Well older anyway!

[shillo]

dismantling montereys ages ago, pine cone went though chipper and straight through back window of my truck groundie didnt notice for half a day and thought it was odd that the truck wasnt filling up as quick as normal, opened the drivers door and it was full up to the rear view mirrow with chip! had to laugh though. smelt pine fresh for ages after.

 

my list of mishaps is vast! includes power lines (cut of some of dartmouth's power supply for a few hours) phone lines (mainly with the hedge trimmer) splitting logs up with an axe on someones patio once when clearing up we realised that we had broken nearly every slab! dont try that!

[Tommy_B]

dismantling montereys ages ago, pine cone went though chipper and straight through back window of my truck groundie didnt notice for half a day and thought it was odd that the truck wasnt filling up as quick as normal, opened the drivers door and it was full up to the rear view mirrow with chip! had to laugh though. smelt pine fresh for ages after.

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ha ha!! That really made me laugh mate!! I can picture that perfectly, sounds like a cartoon!!

[Andy Collins]

I once dropped a wee hand held chog in a flippant, nonchalent, almost carefree kind of way. I turned to look where it might land, puffing on me rolly as is my want, and to my horror there was Steve Bullman, helmet off and looking up into the canopy, blinded by the setting sun and shouting something about a cup of tea.

 

I tried to warn him, but as I opened my mouth to shout, dropping me rolly in the process, it was too late. Square between the eyes it got him and he went down like a poleaxed thingy.

 

Andy Collins was groundying and he rushed to his aid, muttering something about, hippy climbers and rollups. When I reached the ground, Steve was comeing too a bit, though he had a bit of a nasty gash. He shook his head a few times and said….

 

I’ve got an idea ……. the rest is history:001_smile:

 

You were doing well with this, till you mentioned my name, and working at such a time of day that the sun could be setting:confused1: I never work at such a silly time of day (posted Monday 6/9/10 at 12.35pm and finished:thumbup:) Actually Steve had finished his 7trees by 3.30pm, the sunset was 6.30pm and you were struggiling to get your 3rd tree finished, a bit of haste, didnt look down or shout a warning tut tut

Edited September 6, 2010 by Andy Collins

[parkster]

Was dropping 10ft lumps out of a conifer. Heard a crunch, a subbie had left his new 260 under tree didn't look so new after. I felt really bad, but was a stupid place to leave it. Stayed up there a bit longer just case, didn't fancy a black eye. fixed it the best i could, not great but can still use it.

[Mark J]

I sat on a bollock once.

[Stephen Blair]

was it someone elses or your own?

[Glen Poole]

sunk the top of a beech tree outside a property a couple of years ago, got down had lunch, half hour later started to clear up, one of the limbs snapped on impact & dug into the dirt, pulled it out & heard hissing & the strongest smell of gas, you could see it coming out the ground, main gas pipe, every house on the road had no gas for hours, i had alot of abuse from the residents, then my boss when he recieved the bill from the gas company.