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Permalink Reply by Thermo on June 27, 2012 at 20:34

oh how topical. ground out a stump on a patch of land next to a clients house today. bit of flint next to the stump buried in teh ground shattered and flew off in all directions. somehow managed to reach the front door of a house a fair distance away, chipped the window and the door. didnt know till after i left. got to go back and see tomorrow. she did say she needs to be there to show me the mark as its small!!!!  ho hum such is life!

 

managed to pebble dash the side of a car with gravel from a strimmer when i first started out, his old bmw which was his pride and joy.

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Permalink Reply by Andy Lawrence on June 28, 2012 at 22:13

Yeah, did a customer's car window last year which cost £120 to repair. Cost of the job? £120.

Also did my own van window a couple of weeks back. :-(

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Permalink Reply by Sean @ Eclipse on June 28, 2012 at 22:25

This happened to me a while ago. A stone (apparently) took out a side window in a Fiat behind me. I always try to stand in the firing line of the strimmer to take the brunt of anything that might get thrown up. The owner of the Fiat started to get a bit stroppy. I took it for a while, but after a bit he annoyed to the point that I phoned the Police to see how I stood. They said that he would have to prove that a stone was flung up from my strimmer and hit his car. They also said I should stand my ground and not pay him.

Guess what I did? Yep - paid up to keep the peace, and stop him bad mouthing me to others.

But what really annoys me is that I once hit a stone in tall grass and smashed up the bottom of my mower. It cost me about £150 to fix plus the inconvenience of running about to get the spare etc. When I tried to get some money out of the customer for the repair, they asked me to stop going to cut the grass. I bet it would have been a different story if the stone had gone through their lounge window!

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Permalink Reply by 2p6qs98d2phid on June 28, 2012 at 22:28

Glade im to the only one :-)

Andy Lawrence said:

Yeah, did a customer's car window last year which cost £120 to repair. Cost of the job? £120.

Also did my own van window a couple of weeks back. :-(

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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Austin Powell-Allen on June 28, 2012 at 22:53

That was my first thought to get the customer to claim through there car insurance as the glass excess in most cases is only £50 or £60 and it does not effect insurance premiums, then I would have paid there excess.

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Permalink Reply by Craig Downey on June 30, 2012 at 11:58

I have smashed 2 patio windows, and employee smashed the window on our van, patios - more like French doors, cost £90 for one and £50 insurance excess, think van was about £70, fella from auto glass said its happening all the time, the van window was from the mower, it doesn't fire stones that often but when it does, they don't half move. Strimmer does it more often but like someone has said bit less on the trigger and your normally ok.

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Permalink Reply by Martin Fiddes on July 2, 2012 at 13:01

Typical! I read the thread the other day, thought that's never happened to me then fired a stone through a shed window with a brushcutter! Removed glass fragments and frame, went off to get some perspex and replaced it within an hour so the story ends well but I'll be careful which topics I read about from now on! 

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ashley on July 5, 2012 at 21:42

i chipped a window when a stone flew up from the mower customer wasnt fussed at all told me to forget it! also smashed a small window again with the mower cost me 55 quid and this year i did the passengers door on the van from about 30 feet away !

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