Burst Water Main!!

[Nick Drew]

Here are some shots of the aftermath of a machine hitting the main water water feed into Cornwall England whilst I was working on the A30 road job.

The water ran for nearly three days before they could get it under control.....Very embarassing !!

[rvannatta]

Here are some shots of the aftermath of a machine hitting the main water water feed into Cornwall England whilst I was working on the A30 road job.

The water ran for nearly three days before they could get it under control.....Very embarassing !!

hope you werent the hapless chap running the excavator!

[Nick Drew]

Hi Robert,

No thank god!! I am delighted to report that I was not involved with this incident in any way, I was working further on down the road cutting "Batters" at the time this happened, but of course when things like this happen on a site word spreads like wildfire!! and pretty soon everyone had heard about it, it even made it on to local TV at the time.

Nick

[rvannatta]

Hi Robert,

No thank god!! I am delighted to report that I was not involved with this incident in any way, I was working further on down the road cutting "Batters" at the time this happened, but of course when things like this happen on a site word spreads like wildfire!! and pretty soon everyone had heard about it, it even made it on to local TV at the time.

Nick

I saw one of those events on a local highway job here. NO pictures, but I drove by right after it happened and the operator had is bucket over the top of the squirting water trying to convince himself it hadnthappened.

Those machines can make a mess quickly if they hit the wrong thing. With loggers, it is often falling a tree on the wrong thing, which while sometimes tragic, can also be funny. there are many legends of loggers who have set their lunch box on a stump, and then haplessly fallen a tree on it