damn damn damn!!!

[geoff]

Well I hope your hands not too bad, sounds like a nasty accident.

[ArthurBottlesworth]

Need to advise bosses insurer that there is claim pending

Perhaps talk to your solicitor first .....

[jamsterraskal]

Still in hospital waiting on op index is hanging by a thread just

Below the joint and my punky top is hanging aswell...

Devastated tbh putting a claim in definitely...lads birthday this week

And I'm gonna be potless.

Just hope some people keep this in mind and it's avoids some

Injurys then maybe I can take a small positive from all this

[Johny Walker]

Still in hospital waiting on op index is hanging by a thread just

Below the joint and my punky top is hanging aswell...

Devastated tbh putting a claim in definitely...lads birthday this week

And I'm gonna be potless.

Just hope some people keep this in mind and it's avoids some

Injurys then maybe I can take a small positive from all this

 

who is to blame you or your boss,any more details on the accident how it happened etc

[jamsterraskal]

Well because the big ladders hadn't been replaced I had

To climb the hedge even though I'd already voiced my

Concerns about the hedge not being stable enough......

Halfway through I fell through the hedge went mad and was

Told to have a minute and get back up as I got up within

Seconds of trimming a branch snapped and that's why I'm here

Now I

[Rye Oil Ltd]

Unlucky, wishing you a speedy recovery.

[Tim Stobart Tree Surgery]

Sounds nasty, it also sounds like you have a very solid claim. Get a good solicitor not a no win no fee idiot. You should get 66% of your costs back.

 

If your boss asks you to do something, he should be prepared to do it himself. If not then you're better off working for yourself.

 

On a slightly different thread, a firm In used to work for had an old hedge cutter with a bar brake on it (I think it was a modified chainsaw) that got used when needs must. It was a heavy thing to use but safe. The problem was, when the new one got back from being fixed one time, muggins here took a chunk out of his thigh as i brought it down and flicked my wrist for the non existent brake to stop it. I know that one was my fault, but hedge cutters can be very nasty if you get on the wrong end of them. Throw it a long way if you're going!

 

I hope it heals well and you still have full use. Good luck.

[FatherJack]

Consider this................

 

Use pole cutter as much as possible.

 

I only have a pole cutter with adjustable head, and can do 99% with that. Only have clippers for very small & tight areas.

[peatff]

All the best with the recovery. I worked on local council school gardens and we used electric hedge cutters and pull along generators. I swiped up the side of a Beech hedge and was smothered in greenfly so I let go with one hand to clear them and the cutter swung round and nipped my thigh before it stopped. I had trousers and bib and brace on and it didn't cut me but I had a massive V bruise which throbbed for ages.

[geoff]

I got bit by one, opened my arm up nicely.