stump grinding incidents

[bob]

once found a cable with stump grinder dragged it down road more wire than ive ever seen cut off 360 homes i was about as popular as a pork sausage in a synagog several grand later all sorted

[bob]

once had to dismantle a hornbeam and grind stump due to a gas leak smack under stump gas board had to stand at bottom of tree whilst dismantling with gas masks and fire suits and big extinguishers no prob whilst we dimantled around them then we had to grind it we warned them we would set off sparks when we hit concrete or granite but they were happy to stand as close as us till we hit a granite set. Gas men can run:asshole2: me and my mate just stood there smiling at each other job sorted and gas leak fixed

[base]

A chap that i work with ripped up some electric, that had been laid down by a homeowner to a barn conversion he had done, the question was asked and under ground services sir? answer was no, computer said yes ,

 

have hit drainage pipe in a carvan van park (static home types), skimmed the power cable for street lights got away by the skin on my teeth

 

i always ask if there are services underground,

[Yorkshireman]

whilst grinding out an oak butt , in fact the one in my avatar, the machine kicked out a horse shoe which must have been there since at least the mid 1800s !

[Lee Winger]

BT lines,brand new valtra tractor rear window, cable tv, double glazed windows, chain link fencing, i've had a few incidents in the last 12 years of grinding..lol

[bob]

2 car windscreens

[PeteB]

Once had some large London Planes to fell in Colwick, Nottingham. The developer decided to root them out with a 20t swing shovel. All the services were marked out in the pavement, but an 11kv cable had migrated. The "crump" was impressive, the local industrial estate wasn't impressed with the lack of electrickery!

[TheTreeWiseMen]

Driver's side window.....quickly followed by the passenger's side window. Luckily no-one in the car at the time, so I packed up and left...

[Rentachimp]

My previous boss had a stumpgrinder hit a small piece of wood, which got thrown back toward him and snapped his leg. Pins, Leg brace; the lot.

[vduben]

none personally but a mate did a double decker bus(top window)

a window 3 stories up!!!

a school window

and a bt cable all in about 6 months

hes a little keep with the throttle