Try & Help People.......

[Bush Tucker Man]

I was not best pleased at work this morning

I happened to glance out of the doors at about 10:30 this morning to see a Bedford CF camper across the ambulance bays.
The bonnet was up & the driver was messing.
It was blocking one & making access difficult to another, it was fairly quiet & we've got 6 anyway

Half-an-hour later it was still there, so out I wandered.....
It was stone dead, not a click of the solenoids even, he'd tried to earth the block straight back to the battery as a trial.

So after arranging a space to put it in, & with the 110 not too far away. it was removal time.

Hitched up, briefed driver on the route we'd be taking, & hung my On Tow sign on the back door.

Arrived at the Boiler-house yard, he coasted in behind me.
I got out to unhitch............ to find a 3" strap had magically decided to be come a frayed 1" strap

I reckon he'd tried to bump-start it on the way & (I think) had run over it & trapped it on a corner.

Not a word of thanks, or apology, or offer of recompense for the (now) useless strap :twisted:  :x

We have a system in place that allows claims to be made for personal property loss/damaged whilst in use for employment purposes, so I'm claiming for a new strap

It's not the money (it was a Machine Mart 5-tonner at about £10.00), but the principle, if he'd apologised, I'd have chalked it up to bad luck/
But as it was an attempt to keep our doors clear, the Trust can pay (hopefully)

[tenpolequint]

I work in a dockyard.

[Colin 009]

I work in a dockyard.

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[tenpolequint]

Yeah  :roll:

[timberdog]

i had the same matey i stopped to lend a bloke my electric air pump as he had a flat on a Merc Van ..i went into the shop and got some gas and the idiot let the pump under the wheel and drove off and left it :twisted:

[Bush Tucker Man]

I work in a dockyard.

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(got to agree with the  :? )

Your point being?

[tenpolequint]

I work in a dockyard.

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(got to agree with the  :? )

Your point being?

Strops, slings, ratchet straps, chain, cable

[datalas]

I work in a dockyard.

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(got to agree with the  :? )

Your point being?

Strops, slings, ratchet straps, chain, cable

the same could be said if you worked in rather specialised nightclubs

[Wanderer]

Pass me the cloth to remove this coffee from my keyboard and monitor :lol:

[LandRoger]

I work on Salisbury Plain = Trees grass tanks landys trees grass tanks landys???????????????????????????????? Not a stropp in sight,

[Andy the Landy]

SWMBO has some good strops - usually with both feet stamping and steam from the ears :lol:  :twisted:  :P

[Manicminer]

On my way to work this morning I came accross a bloke who had cooked the engine of his car.

I pulled over to the other side of the road in front of him (I was going South and he was going North) and asked him if he wanted some help or towing to a safer spot.

I heard a noise behind me and turned to have a look only to see a car, covered in ice with an area the size of a plate rubbed in the windscreen for the driver to see through, overtaking a bus on the outside of a left hand bend, blindly. He saw us at the last moment and slammed his anchors on, tyres blue smoking and managed to stop about 10ft from my bumper.

I nearly got rear-ended in exchange for a good deed :roll:

[Bush Tucker Man]

Strops, slings, ratchet straps, chain, cable

Is that an offer to name suppliers?

I heard a noise behind me and turned to have a look only to see a car, covered in ice with an area the size of a plate rubbed in the windscreen for the driver to see through .

The people we see who have done that usually arrive on a spinal board, as they can see b*gger all

SWMBO has some good strops - usually with both feet stamping and steam from the ears

I think it's a feminine trait :lol:

[tenpolequint]

 :?  :?
(got to agree with the  :? )

Your point being?

Strops, slings, ratchet straps, chain, cable

the same could be said if you worked in rather specialised nightclubs

 :lol:

[bezzabsa]

I heard a noise behind me and turned to have a look only to see a car, covered in ice with an area the size of a plate rubbed in the windscreen for the driver to see through, overtaking a bus on the outside of a left hand bend, blindly. He saw us at the last moment and slammed his anchors on, tyres blue smoking and managed to stop about 10ft from my bumper.

I nearly got rear-ended in exchange for a good deed :roll:

had something similar before i did my back in, broke down in the wagon (40 ft and 26 tonnes) pulled over to the curb, hazards on - cab up ... and in the 20 minutes i was there i lost count of the number of people that either nearly rear ended it, or pulled blindly up behind it and sat there..only to realise and TRY and pull out from 1 -2 feet behind it!
also had a few 'Coffee bean' gestures   ..mainly from white van man!! people jut dont look or think that because its a lorry it'll move out of their way...

[clbarclay]

I can't help but wounder what people are rushing about for, it may just be me being niev but most people drive like their on the way to the hospital with the wifes in the back seat about to give birth.

[dew1911]

I work in a dockyard.

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 :?  :?
(got to agree with the  :? )

Your point being?

Strops, slings, ratchet straps, chain, cable

the same could be said if you worked in rather specialised nightclubs

Thanks, One well watered Keyboard here...

[Bush Tucker Man]

I can't help but wounder what people are rushing about for, it may just be me being niev but most people drive like their on the way to the hospital with the wifes in the back seat about to give birth.

Yes, I take it easy most of the time as well. perhaps 50mph on the motorways
If I'm in the 'Works Van', I go a bit faster

And as for the back-seat comment, it's not unknown. We've had one in the past 3months

[woody]

a few years ago while still working as a HGV fitter
went out to a breakdown (refuse vehicle 20 + ton)
parked on the grass verge behined the vehicle all warning lights on
lifted the cab squeezed into the gap forwad of the front axle (there's not a lot of room under the cab of a dennis)
started working realised i was a spanner shortsqueezed out to get the spanner
LOUD BANG, turned around to see the vehicle jump forward adout 3 feet and debree flying past the vehicle in a sort of matrix slowed down style
got my sences together went around the rear of the vehicle and there was a car planted firmly on the O/S rear of the vehicle
the driver said the sun was in his eyes :shock:  :shock:

the thing is if i hadn't got out from under the cab, due to the restricted room i would have had 2 broken legs minimum and been trapped  :(scared):  :(scared):