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

[kimtree]

about five years ago i was dropping the top out of an african mahogany when the wind blew the wrong way smashed a fence panel and remodelled (already broken)neighbours washing line

easy fix on the fence but had to take the line home for a bit of welding

 

since then nothing damaged,except myself!

[Treeson]

Cleaning up some palms over a large swimming pool in NZ and thought it would be easier to put the ladders in the pool with a scaffold board running between. Job went fine and cleaned everything, packed up and went to the next job. Two days later we got a phone call from client asking if we could come back and seal the holes created in the pool liner as there was no water left in the pool.

Had a lowering strop snap and drop a large piece of eucalyptus on to a corrugated iron water tank, it looked like an accordian all consertinad (spelling)

Edited September 7, 2010 by Treeson

[tommer9]

Why on earth would you find that funny?

 

:confused1:because told that way, it is funny:blushing:

[Sburdy]

Once towing a two tonne of logs to a nearby farm with a b**ch of drive down, the track was just mud with a righthand bend at the bottom, i never made the bend. The weight in the wet n mud pushed the landy straight through his drystone wall, and hit his backdoor!!

he has since never order'ed loads off us.

[Mesterh]

There are some cracking little tales on here.

 

But, I wonder how many of us have had to claim on the insurance, all the incidents seem quite minor and I doubt they would cost more than the excess the insurance companies require you to pay first.

 

Which leads me on to wonder why my PL costs me so much:confused1:

 

Well OK its not a huge amount of money but it is in relation to my truck and car insurance.Plus from what I hear they are going to make it difficult for people who are new to the game, which is quite possibly the worst thing they can do.

 

Come on someone musta got there monies worth and had a big un.

[Mark Bolam]

I doubt most of the power line mishaps were paid for with petty cash....

[Lurcherman]

Late '80s, 'private job' dismantling a large Horse Chestnut that short-sighted client had conveniently built a shed under. No problem, thought I, just drop timber into Electricity Board Sub-Station, there's plenty of room. Everything going fine until a log inexplicably got away from me, hit big green metal box thing and took out 3 roads, a school and a small industrial estate. It was like a bomb going off! Worse thing was client could not now boil the kettle!

[Graham]

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50k in 1988 when 11kv lines down and jam factory freezers heated up.

 

About 25k 1990 when Becker pulled up huge gas main. The noise was like thunder:001_smile:

 

Blame me for high premiums.

[Stephen Blair]

high 5 graham:sneaky2:

[Graham]

high 5 graham:sneaky2:

 

Wouldn't have been so bad but line was burnt out on a Friday afternoon and about 30 electricity vehicles and occupants turned up for the o/t and gas main gave way on a Sat morning and those guys were lovin it! I just wanted to wake up from a bad dream:001_smile: