Cable strikes!

[d-raittuk]

Was once working with a tarmac planning machine taking the wearing coat off the top of a concrete road section and some numpty had put the lighting cable in the expansion joint rather than dig a trench across the concrete road section. Big bang when we hit it!!

 

love the fact they put it in the expansion joint top blokes lol

[zeroluke]

I klippo'd a garden one year and a boat mast rigging rope got tangled up in the blade. Never seen a mower move so fast! Also another season, a tv cable outside someones house got wrapped around the drum of a rotary conda and the house owner said the cable tv box flew across the room and into the wall. Oops. It annoys me when people leave stuff like that in long grass. Its not often seen until its too late. I think one of the daftest one was one team I sometimes worked with at the time were sent out to plant a tree and hit a water main..

[Arbtech Tree Services]

20 years ago i was working inside Gatwick airport on a project which involved me cutting a steel tube. I checked that the smoke detectors had been shut off in our area and was given the necessary permit, fired up the TS350 and 20 seconds later the fire shutters came down down and shut down half the airport