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DaveDCB
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Seen that one a while ago.. but it simply highlights any builders using strongboys to hold up the back of a house are plain and simple cowboys!!
Simon edwards
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That is one awful thing to see,makes you feel a bit sick,!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
well it'd make the beam a POP to get in spot ... just got half a house to rebuild after
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DaveDCB
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I think Simon was referring to the backhoe reversing over a person!well it'd make the beam a POP to get in spot ... just got half a house to rebuild after
Nearly had the same once, old lady wondered into the works area, she’d moved barriers etc, walked straight behind me as I was reversing(reverse bleeper was as loud as they come!!) - thankfully I’d seen her and stopped!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
I missed the link in your comment Dave ... pretty grim that -- head down on the phone certainly didn't help though did it -- jaywalking into a BHL bucket'd be bad enough, without all that followed
Storrsy
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I saw your laughs emoji and thought riiight!I missed the link in your comment Dave ... pretty grim that -- head down on the phone certainly didn't help though did it -- jaywalking into a BHL bucket'd be bad enough, without all that followed
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
yeh went back and edited that .... pretty awful end that .. just goes to show how easily accidents happen, sadlyI saw your laughs emoji and thought riiight!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
and how it pays to keep your wits about you, out and about ... leave yer phone in yer pocketyeh went back and edited that .... pretty awful end that .. just goes to show how easily accidents happen, sadly
Simon edwards
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Got to be your worst nightmare something like that.
Storrsy
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Yeah, messed up.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
certainly was ... saw a pic some time ago of someone who'd been tracked over by a 15-ish t crawler reversing blind - just squashed into the sandy ground they were working on
there's also one about somewhere of a guy getting wrapped up in a big lathe by a loose sleeve cuff .... very VERY sobering vid
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6feetdown
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Bloody Back Hoe Boys
CPS
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Poor fucker did t even know he'd done it
Lancs Lad
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
tailing lift points snapped off BTLs .... obviously not designed to take half the load, only tail it for standing up or laying it down
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Storrsy
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Lorry gets stuck in narrow village lane near Saltash
The HGV, carrying 40 tonnes of seed, is wedged between a house and a wall in the Cornwall village.
www.bbc.com
This has been in the news this week. Had to get a crane into lift the trailer over the houses apparently
Lancs Lad
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Wonder who paid ? Not exactly an accident ? Reckon insurance coughed up?Lorry gets stuck in narrow village lane near Saltash
The HGV, carrying 40 tonnes of seed, is wedged between a house and a wall in the Cornwall village.
This has been in the news this week. Had to get a crane into lift the trailer over the houses apparently
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