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worst cock up? - drpeterwardle - 20th June 2005
Did all the usual trying to find out where the services where,
+ radar survey + cat scans etc.
Peter
worst cock up? - fleecey girl - 20th June 2005
I decided to pretend to be a rally driver with a crap site car on a rural excavation. Great fun until I hit a mud patch and went into an amazing skid. I ended up most of the way up the spoil heap.
The car was so rubbish though that no-one noticed it was full of spoil. I haven't been pretend rally driving since [:I]
"Fleecey and Lovely"
worst cock up? - Curator Kid - 22nd June 2005
On a watching brief I was working on a few years ago, the machine driver went through a big water pipe that flooded the site in the morning. After it got turned off and the water levels dropped, the same driver went back to work after lunch and blew up an electricity cable. The contractors had been assured by the client that there were no services on site, so they were a bit peeved - especially as the whole site was unsafe and everyone had to give up and leave until it was fixed.
Worst cock-up I was ever unfortunate enough to be involved with wasn't one of my own luckily, and was a methodological one which I've ranted on here about previously. Having to excavate within the 60cm wide foundations for a terrace of houses on a nicely-preserved early post-med manor in London. What a joke.
worst cock up? - trowelfodder - 24th August 2005
due to the increadable health and safety provided by a certain mid wales arch company my best would have to be running a full wheelbarrow with flat tyre up a slippery bouncing ramp into a skip only to find couldnt stop at top and running head first into skip - which of course would have to be empty (sods law). Then look up to see a little old lady pearing in as am uttering some rather choice words about my predicament - not best behaviour for working at a cathedral!
Am def wiv deepdigger on the unit choice being other worst decision - Bastards!
worst cock up? - deepdigger - 24th August 2005
I remember that dig! Great fun, probably one of the worlds best qualified archaeologists as a superviser, proving everyday that he was clueless about British archaeology! Bloody great bloke to work for, absolutley first class!!
deep
worst cock up? - trowelhead - 25th August 2005
Worst cock up is agreeing to works with these people in Ireland, yep still bitter but back in the game chinchin MG:
Truely Fab Irish Cock up below:
http://www.bajr.org/DiggerMagazine/The%20Digger28/article3.html
worst cock up? - Mole - 26th August 2005
Worst smelling mistake was a watching brief on a new slip road beside a busy motorway - 1/2 hour into the strip we breached a live sewer which was running fairly full. After an hour of the construction crews manager trying to blame my team for not spotting the pipe ('you can see f*****g invisable pits but not a bl***y sewer pipe')he noticed the runoff was now flowing down the side of the motorway - traffic stopped for 3 hours to clean up the mess![xx(]
We have never worked with that company again - they still blame us!!
worst cock up? - muddyandcold - 9th September 2005
I had just started working for a unit in the SE and on a large evaluation next to major town and hospital. Maching was going well until a Transco helicopter landed nearby! Apparently, we were machining over the main gas supply to the hospital [:I]
The project officer had't checked services..... We drank well that night .......
worst cock up? - muddyandcold - 12th September 2005
an ever eager digger (now DC officer) was happyly digging away on a fairly stratified site (his third ever excavation). At the end of the day we noticed a row of mortar columns? When questioned he answered that he had simply taken the softer soil away from the 'hard stuff'... When suggested that he had actually excavated postholes in relief he laughed and walked off!
He has since completed a degree in archaeology (another topic), and hopefully has learnt something on the basics of strat.....
worst cock up? - troll - 15th September 2005
planning committee allows multi storey car park to expand on condition that it`s downwards as either side of building is sensitive. Team of diggers dutifully arrive with 3cx and concrete breaker attachment to assess ground beneath lowest floor of said car park. All goes well for a bit until security guards come rushing over screaming for the archs to stop. Concrete was falling onto the cars parked in the floor below...oops....[:0]