I’m sure there was someone on the old forum who offered a nationwide Kubota immobiliser removal/disabling service? Can’t remember who though.
Think that was Local Diggers. Not sure what happened to him, but I know I've done two recent last minute jobs where people have called me after he's had to cancel last minute. He was well shot of the last one though!
I turn up, and there's a gang of Eastern Europeans beavering away with basic hand tools (clearly bought from the builders merchant that morning), overseen by a surly man mountain of a Polac. I'd agreed £200 on the phone with him, he said it would take about two hours and I was kicking around the yard otherwise so why not? I used the ripper to loosen up the cracked sunken concrete back to where he said he wanted to stop, then stockpiled it neatly with the grab. This was an eye opener for them, they were clearly used to people chasing lumps around with a bucket

. I called the head honcho over, and said to him, "if you wanna get your blokes to trim those edges square with the stihl saw, I'll grab them too". "No;" he says. "We leave. Is stronger."

I wasn't gonna argue, he was all of fourteen stone, and muscle too. "I want you dig out little bit. I have type 1 coming". Ah, ok. Sounds a little less cowboy.


I start scraping down to a sensible level. "No. Less". I scrape off a token two inches- bearing in mind we're on soft Selsey sand here. "Is good. I have two bags type 1 coming" I'm biting my tongue so hard here that I worry it'll start bleeding. No way in hell will two bags cover half of it- even though I don't see a whacker plate on site. I dare not ask how much concrete they have booked- all I know is that it's due in an hour and I want to be the other side of Chichester before the s**t hits the fan
Luckily he didn't kick up about paying me £200 for an hours work- we'd shaken on it when I arrived., and after all he had booked a man and machine in for a day at more than that. I don't even feel sorry for the householders- they had clearly shopped on price, and thought they were getting a good deal.
