Why did I hire a digger driver.. I could have done as much damage myself!!!

[Tony Way]

Just had a great couple of days.
Needed a trench dug, so thought I'd organize a digger and get an experienced driver to avoid hassle.
Land owner told us where there were potential water and oil pipes (market garden plus greenhouses).
Digger driver went through 2 water pipes and the oil line, plus ripped the end off a raised bed planter. Got them all fixed, and said be careful with back fill.
Get there this morning to find one water leak, dug it out by hand to discover he'd shoved the new joint sideways during back fill and sprung the joint.
To top it all, went up a ladder against a telegraph pole to fix new cat wire, only to hear a crack an find myself heading towards the owners prized pond - fortunately no damage to it or me.

Roll on next week....

Rant over, off to pub.

See you guys

 

[Brightspark2]

Great week!...

Things can only get better!!...

Or can they?...maybe you haven't hit the bottom yet...but once you do its all up from there!!...

 

[Geordie Spark]

Just had a great couple of days.
Needed a trench dug, so thought I'd organize a digger and get an experienced driver to avoid hassle.
Land owner told us where there were potential water and oil pipes (market garden plus greenhouses).
Digger driver went through 2 water pipes and the oil line, plus ripped the end off a raised bed planter. Got them all fixed, and said be careful with back fill.
Get there this morning to find one water leak, dug it out by hand to discover he'd shoved the new joint sideways during back fill and sprung the joint.
To top it all, went up a ladder against a telegraph pole to fix new cat wire, only to hear a crack an find myself heading towards the owners prized pond - fortunately no damage to it or me.

Roll on next week....

Rant over, off to pub.

See you guys

He may be very experienced but what as??

Could have been an experienced plumber trying to make a bit of extra cash!

Joking aside, when I was working (heating/gas/combi boilers etc) there was another bloke in my area doing the same thing and he was a complete disaster - which made me quite happy 'cos I was following him around correcting his catastrophes - anyway, he had a little van all nicely sign written stating he had "Over 30 years experience". I questioned him about it and he told me he has over 30 years experience but not in what he was currently doing!!

The question for today is; When is a lie not a lie?

 

[Knobhead]

Funny plumbers get a mention. If I spotted our disaster team (plumbers) coming onto site with the mini back actor I’d go a check how many Scotchcast through joints I’d got on stock.

Geordie’s seen the write up elsewhere for a 2.6MW furnace I redesigned. It was linked in to the works Trend maximum demand control. It has only been working two days before the disaster team chopped the cable in seven places.