HH-R Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Only twice had a problem with the Visa verification, once when I forgot my password and guessed it (wrong ) and then buying a phone from Tesco but their computers went haywire. As for Hastings, I was about to insure with them. May reconsider that one then. They've been OK, other than the renewals process is stupid. The best company I've been with for not having to talk to anyone was Swiftcover. Most changes could be made through the website, they even encouraged you to do this by making it gratis but charging an admin fee if you rang them. They want an extra £100 a year though :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 If you don't want to talk to anyone go with quote me happy, problem comes when you actually WANT to talk to someone and the fuckers don't want to know. They should be called quote me happy but piss me off the rest of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 One of my daughters was with Swiftcover and couldn't get a no claims certificate from them when she changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
254575 Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 ugh. steel wheels with tyres are the hardest things to dispose of. not allowed at dump, scrap man wont have them if they have tyres on. I've also had no success with ebay listings for 99p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Tried Swiftcover and turned down. One of the problems is overnight parking - my son works nights and it is in their secure car park overnight but there is no provision to explain this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 One of my daughters was with Swiftcover and couldn't get a no claims certificate from them when she changed. quote me unhappy day to use the new quote as evidence of no claims, only problem is that no other insurer will accept that. Dickheads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Facebook 'for sale' pages can an be useful for old steels and tyres, people often want them to put on cars they're scrapping so the can keep their lots. chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 ugh. steel wheels with tyres are the hardest things to dispose of. not allowed at dump, scrap man wont have them if they have tyres on. I've also had no success with ebay listings for 99pMy local tip allows 4 a year, with paperwork to sign. Thats how I got rid of the 3 old ones from the zxq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakebullet Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Ebay cheapskate bastards. I've put on some surplus (read shit colours) pool ball sets for £8 a set delivered. Some twunt has just bought 3, and then messaged wanting a discount on them. Ignoring they're cheaper than anyone else, it's not like I can stick 3 boxes weighing 2.5kg each in the post for the same delivery price as one box. I'm prolly going to get a neg for daring to make a fivers profit in total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Tidybeard Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 do you list a postage discount? some post discounts are only about 25p per item anyhoo ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Ebay cheapskate bastards. I've put on some surplus (read shit colours) pool ball sets for £8 a set delivered. Some twunt has just bought 3, and then messaged wanting a discount on them. Ignoring they're cheaper than anyone else, it's not like I can stick 3 boxes weighing 2.5kg each in the post for the same delivery price as one box. I'm prolly going to get a neg for daring to make a fivers profit in total.Respond with two words. Fuck off. myglaren and jakebullet 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philibusmo Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 It's quarter past 2 in the morning and I'm wide awake in a hospital ward of coughing, snoring sleep talkers. I'm just about to be hooked up to an IV drip and my system is full of morpheme, tramadol and ibuprofen. This is all due to an accident at work yesterday at about 3 in the afternoon. I was in a machine called a Crendon Squirrel, similar to a hydraladder which is a bit like a self propelled cherry picker. It's controlled by foot pedals in the cage to drive it and change the height of the cage. My job involves building structures over the tops of kiwi orchards of hail cloth stretched over cables winched to about a 1.5 tonnes of tension up on wooden poles about 5.5 meters in the air. I was driving the squirrel under the kiwi vine canopy which is about 1.7 meters tallThe plants are trained across wires at this height, supported by steel box section sat on top of wooden poles. I was going to slow down as I was entering a tighter section to manoeuvre when the drive pedal stuck down and slightly right and sent me at full tilt into the poles, while the cage shot upwards as I had just tapped the other pedal to stop the cage scraping the ground. Effectively all the controls jammed solid and I had no control over the machine.It pushed me up into the canopy and bent me over backward over the back if the cage and then dragged my chest, face and neck across the wires and vines. My left arm got caught between the top of the front if the cage and a metal box section and was pushed forwards from the wrist, almost to the elbow across it whilst also being pushed upwards into it. It was crushed, twisted and snapped between the top of the cage and the beam. Luckily one of my colleagues managed to hit the emergency stop on the side if the machine as I was struggling to find the one in The cage while bent over backwards. He then reached up into the cage and hit the up and down pedal until it unstuck and lowered me to the ground. The upshot is that I have a clean snap across the left radius, a chunk if bone smashed off the wrist end of the ulna, a big puncture wound and crushing from nearly at the elbow to the wrist and possibly a bone at the base of my hand broken too but it was difficult to tell from the x rays. I'm in pain despite all the drugs in my system, my left thumb doesn't seem to be working and I'm under observation to make sure I don't have complications from the crushing before they set my arm in the morning and asses just how serious the damage is to my wrist. It was a freak accident, i've been driving these machines for the past 5 months without incident and it was recently serviced and had been working fine up until that moment. I'm certain it wasn't operator error and I don't blame the company as they'd taken all reasonable precautions. I'm just a bit miffed that my arm is royally fucked even though I am thankful that it wasn't worse. I have two puncture wounds to my neck from where it was dragged over the wires and vines right next to an artery which would have been far more nasty and possibly even fatal. On the plus side, being bent over backwards at about 90 degrees has fixed a small twinge I had in my upper back. Cavcraft, michael1703, mercedade and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Glad your back is better mate, saves on osteopath bills! Shitting Nora, as the saying goes. You were bloody lucky that it wasn't much, much, much worse, although what you have is bad enough. Hope the drugs keep the pain at bay and wishing you a speedy and complete recovery. Ken anonymous user and philibusmo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Fuck me man your lucky/unlucky. *delete as appropriate. I wish you a speedy recovery, i hope there will be a investigate into the accident and your company will sort you out for loss of earns and everything. philibusmo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtriple Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 You lucky bastard! Back fixed for free Seriously though, it does sound like you were lucky (in a very unlucky way) as it could have been an extinction level event for you. I hope your arm is not too bad (though it doesn't sound great ) and repairs properly. Bet you are going to get expensive metal bits in there - makes you much more attractive to the scrap man when it comes time for final weigh in Get better soon. philibusmo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saucedoctor Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Holy fuck, that sounds grim. Get well soon sir. philibusmo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M'coli Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 In the name of the wee man, that's some set of events you've been through, and still face with the setting of the bones etc. - I'm glad you're alive to tell the tale. When you get more aware, I hope you have some fit (and expert at their job, obviously) hospital staff to take your mind off things. philibusmo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philibusmo Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 In the name of the wee man, that's some set of events you've been through, and still face with the setting of the bones etc. - I'm glad you're alive to tell the tale. When you get more aware, I hope you have some fit (and expert at their job, obviously) hospital staff to take your mind off things.I'm hoping to get another x ray today as the radiology department seemed to be staffed by the residents of castle anthrax from monty python and the holy grail! I think that what I find most annoying is that after looking for ages for a fun, manual car in NZ the spending 3 days changing the clutch on the Metro (update coming soon) I only got a couple of weeks of use and now won't be able to drive a flipping manual! I might have to sell it and get an auto. Edit: thank you so much for your sympathy as well. I know I've met a few of you but the warmth of strangers from the internet is very touching. I love this little beige corner of the internet. Coprolalia, myglaren and M'coli 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 phil?? the fuck?? least the break is clean on the arm but wrist breakages arent fun hope it sorts itself philibusmo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Similar thing happened to a guy i knew but he got pinned to the ceiling by the machine and crushed to death. Hope you heal well and that the nurses are fit ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael1703 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Nothing that bit of matting and a splodge of resin doesn't sort out (mate did GRP roofing, so had loads of materials in the garage)Delta became City Sprint around 1998.Oops, correct.... I did work at city sprint for a while too, had a 305 for years and many gt550's and cx's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philibusmo Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Here I am, still alive with arm elevated to stop blood pooling around any crushed muscle. All seeming alright so far, my arm has swollen a bit further but blood supply to my hand is only a smidge down, so I probably won't need too much hacked out of my arm. When I first got in, with the amount of crushing and pressure it had been under, there was a bit of a question mark over whether I would loose my left hand so I'm pretty stoked that it seems to still be alive along with the rest of me. sporty-shite, cms206, oldcars and 17 others 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philibusmo Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 And here's the contraption I was driving. 0.2 out of 5 euro ncap stars. michael1703 and beko1987 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 And here's the contraption I was driving. 0.2 out of 5 euro ncap stars. That looks safe as fuck. michael1703, oldcars, mercedade and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Bloody hell, that sounds horrendous. Cherry pickers scare the shit out of me but that wasn't in my mental list of ways they could hurt you. I hope you make a full recovery. philibusmo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael1703 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Looks more like a trebuchet myglaren, Supernaut, wuvvum and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Get well soon! philibusmo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saucedoctor Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 I have to say Phil that despite your being wiped out on opiates, and only having the use of one hand, your spelling and punctuation is flawless . When I got bashed up and hospitalised some years ago I didn't even know who I was for about a week. I'm told I kept saying "BENSON & HEDGES, BENSON & HEDGES" over and over again. philibusmo and Skizzer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skattrd Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Sorry to hear about your accident Phil, get well soon mate.What's the score with health insurance etc? will you be recuperating over there or flying back to Blighty? philibusmo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordperv Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Looks more like a trebuchetI thought the same thing Wishing you a speedy recovery phil philibusmo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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