Anyone branch out into doing guttering?

[sloth]

It's ok, I'm sure his insurance would cover it...

[likeitorlumpit]

So you think it is ok to damage property and hide it? The real lesson would be if you had owned up and had to sort the damage out.

 

ditto:thumbup:

[felixthelogchopper]

It's ok, I'm sure his insurance would cover it...

 

I wasn't even going to go down that path.

[Pedroski]

Last year I cut through someone's overhead BT telephone cable with a hedgecutter. Rather than tying a knot in it and pretending it wasn't me, I phoned up BT and got put through to Openreach, and explained what I had done to the phone line of an elderly and vulnerable customer. I told the customer what I had done and she was cool with it. The Openreach guy was out within half hour and the phone line fixed with a new bracket on the side of the house to increase the height of it over the garden by a couple of feet. All free of charge as the line was previously below 10ft high If it had been chargeable then my insurance would have covered it.

[arniecardigan]

I'm just guessing from all the negativity that if I were a member of the travelling community that happened to work in the Arb industry then I wouldn't be welcome on ARBTALK??

Surely in this day and age that can't be right can it? I've worked with some travellers who put alot of so called arborists to shame in skill and effort applied to get the job done!!

Just because I drive a transit and live in a caravan does'nt mean I can't be good at my job or honest for that matter!

[Hodge]

Last year I cut through someone's overhead BT telephone cable with a hedgecutter. Rather than tying a knot in it and pretending it wasn't me, I phoned up BT and got put through to Openreach, and explained what I had done to the phone line of an elderly and vulnerable customer. I told the customer what I had done and she was cool with it. The Openreach guy was out within half hour and the phone line fixed with a new bracket on the side of the house to increase the height of it over the garden by a couple of feet. All free of charge as the line was previously below 10ft high If it had been chargeable then my insurance would have covered it.

 

How much is your excess pedro?

[Hodge]

Don't mock, think I destroyed two people's cable connection today with my strimmer. Was doing a building front of three flats in a terraced house, and one of the wires got tangled around my strimmer.

 

I've put the wire back against the wall and said nothing - the property is for rent so it shouldn't be too bad, as a new tenant will probably end up getting the cable engineers out again, but it's a real lesson to be more careful and how easy it is to wreck stuff.

 

In saying that I'm using my mower now for most work where I had used the strimmer and qualcast before so it's much quicker.

 

Are you serious? That's bad practice IMO, honesty is the best policy is what I have been told. An ex employee of mine dropped a tree on a national park footbridge once and I called them and told them about it, they thanked me for being honest and said usually people don't own up to damage but as I had I would have to pay for the damage!! I let my insurance sort it out and I had to pay the excess, I was a bit gutted but hey ho that's how it is, about a year later the national park called me up and offered me some work which i did and it led to another 3 jobs so far:)

[Ian C]

I'm just guessing from all the negativity that if I were a member of the travelling community that happened to work in the Arb industry then I wouldn't be welcome on ARBTALK??

Surely in this day and age that can't be right can it? I've worked with some travellers who put alot of so called arborists to shame in skill and effort applied to get the job done!!

Just because I drive a transit and live in a caravan does'nt mean I can't be good at my job or honest for that matter!

 

Your very welcome here.

 

No it doesn't but most arnt!