How has your day been?
Jul 10th 2013, 1:22 pm
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Re: How has your day been?
Jul 10th 2013, 8:46 pm
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Re: How has your day been?
Still here
Jul 10th 2013, 10:18 pm
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Jul 11th 2013, 12:25 am
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Re: How has your day been?
Hiya Bernie- hope you are recovering well.
Jul 11th 2013, 4:40 am
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Re: How has your day been?
Blinking binmen have YET AGAIN smashed a branch off my tree- a huge one this time that blocked the drive and took two of us to lift it. I phoned the council - they apparently have a new crew and what did they want me to do about it?
Well, for starters, remove the branch which is 10feet long, as thick as a man's leg and 6 feet in diameter at the twiggy end, then educate your drivers so they don't keep demolishing the trees. The old crew managed it, so why can't your new one?? Also, when they knock a third of your tree down so it falls across your drive and the street, making it dangerous for cars coming around the corner, get them to stop and move the things. You can't try and tell me that the driver never saw the branch, especially since he had to come back up the street as it is a no through road.
Well the best they can do is make a note of it, and someone might be along to clear the thing this week or next. Meanwhile the postie will struggle to avoid the branch. I told them I held them responsible for any damages or accidents to third parties.
Well, for starters, remove the branch which is 10feet long, as thick as a man's leg and 6 feet in diameter at the twiggy end, then educate your drivers so they don't keep demolishing the trees. The old crew managed it, so why can't your new one?? Also, when they knock a third of your tree down so it falls across your drive and the street, making it dangerous for cars coming around the corner, get them to stop and move the things. You can't try and tell me that the driver never saw the branch, especially since he had to come back up the street as it is a no through road.
Well the best they can do is make a note of it, and someone might be along to clear the thing this week or next. Meanwhile the postie will struggle to avoid the branch. I told them I held them responsible for any damages or accidents to third parties.
Jul 11th 2013, 4:44 am
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Re: How has your day been?
Blinking binmen have YET AGAIN smashed a branch off my tree- a huge one this time that blocked the drive and took two of us to lift it. I phoned the council - they apparently have a new crew and what did they want me to do about it?
Well, for starters, remove the branch which is 10feet long, as thick as a man's leg and 6 feet in diameter at the twiggy end, then educate your drivers so they don't keep demolishing the trees. The old crew managed it, so why can't your new one?? Also, when they knock a third of your tree down so it falls across your drive and the street, making it dangerous for cars coming around the corner, get them to stop and move the things. You can't try and tell me that the driver never saw the branch, especially since he had to come back up the street as it is a no through road.
Well the best they can do is make a note of it, and someone might be along to clear the thing this week or next. Meanwhile the postie will struggle to avoid the branch. I told them I held them responsible for any damages or accidents to third parties.
Well, for starters, remove the branch which is 10feet long, as thick as a man's leg and 6 feet in diameter at the twiggy end, then educate your drivers so they don't keep demolishing the trees. The old crew managed it, so why can't your new one?? Also, when they knock a third of your tree down so it falls across your drive and the street, making it dangerous for cars coming around the corner, get them to stop and move the things. You can't try and tell me that the driver never saw the branch, especially since he had to come back up the street as it is a no through road.
Well the best they can do is make a note of it, and someone might be along to clear the thing this week or next. Meanwhile the postie will struggle to avoid the branch. I told them I held them responsible for any damages or accidents to third parties.
Are they going to do anything?
Jul 11th 2013, 4:45 am
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Jul 11th 2013, 5:16 am
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Re: How has your day been?
If it's in the roadway ring the SES and see if they will come out.
Jul 11th 2013, 7:04 am
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(If you were in Queensland I could put a job in but NSW is a separate system!)
Jul 11th 2013, 8:27 am
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Re: How has your day been?
Along our road, someone would have been out with a chainsaw and a wheel barrow within minutes and you'd never see it again.
Jul 11th 2013, 9:24 am
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Thanks guys and gals (oh, am I allowed to use that expression now without it sounding creepy??) but the man from the council did say that someone will collect it- they just couldn't say when.
My elderly neighbour and I managed to haul it out of the roadway and onto our nature strip, and I picked up the smaller bits that were in the road. The sap was really sticky, and I had to use an alcohol rub to get it off my hands.
My elderly neighbour and I managed to haul it out of the roadway and onto our nature strip, and I picked up the smaller bits that were in the road. The sap was really sticky, and I had to use an alcohol rub to get it off my hands.
Jul 11th 2013, 6:39 pm
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Re: How has your day been?
Blinking binmen have YET AGAIN smashed a branch off my tree- a huge one this time that blocked the drive and took two of us to lift it. I phoned the council - they apparently have a new crew and what did they want me to do about it?
Well, for starters, remove the branch which is 10feet long, as thick as a man's leg and 6 feet in diameter at the twiggy end, then educate your drivers so they don't keep demolishing the trees. The old crew managed it, so why can't your new one?? Also, when they knock a third of your tree down so it falls across your drive and the street, making it dangerous for cars coming around the corner, get them to stop and move the things. You can't try and tell me that the driver never saw the branch, especially since he had to come back up the street as it is a no through road.
Well the best they can do is make a note of it, and someone might be along to clear the thing this week or next. Meanwhile the postie will struggle to avoid the branch. I told them I held them responsible for any damages or accidents to third parties.
Well, for starters, remove the branch which is 10feet long, as thick as a man's leg and 6 feet in diameter at the twiggy end, then educate your drivers so they don't keep demolishing the trees. The old crew managed it, so why can't your new one?? Also, when they knock a third of your tree down so it falls across your drive and the street, making it dangerous for cars coming around the corner, get them to stop and move the things. You can't try and tell me that the driver never saw the branch, especially since he had to come back up the street as it is a no through road.
Well the best they can do is make a note of it, and someone might be along to clear the thing this week or next. Meanwhile the postie will struggle to avoid the branch. I told them I held them responsible for any damages or accidents to third parties.
That's ridiculous! They should have just hauled it up and thrown it in the back with the rubbish.
