Hippo bargain

[robinbanks]

it released the remains of a Little Tikes buggy onto their bonnet

Repairing that's gonna be a Price, F'shure

 

[Sureitsoff?]

I watched a skip being delivered on to driveway.
The truck couldnt fit through the gap between the gate pillars so left the skip just inside.

Fair eough, easy for collection..... Oh no, the skip hirers dragged it closer to the house to presumably make it easier to fill.
Never did find out how it got collected

 

[GhostIntMachine]

I get that separation is key to recycling but they are pinching things down to the point where fly tipping will be rife again.
I have to have permits to take my little van(privately registered non commercial runabout) in there and Im descended upon by inspectors before I start unloading. The estate car behind ,quite clearly tipping non domestic product-could even be nuclear waste for all we know- is completely unchallenged.

My local council won't allow me to take a van (not sign written) into the waste transfer site, with no option of paying, "because it's trade, mate". They insist that I need to go to the offices at the other end of the borough where I can buy a licence (applicable to a specific vehicle/driver combination only) to allow me top dump limited quantites, for which they will charge me. Turn up in a hire van, or a new vehicle and they won't let me in. But the same council regularly bemoans fly tipping, which has an average clean-up cost of over £2k according to the local rag. They are such a bunch of jobsworths that they can't understand that they are the ones encouraging fly-tipping (as pointed out week after week at council meetings and in the local press)

 

[JohnD]

I watched a skip being delivered on to driveway.
The truck couldnt fit through the gap between the gate pillars so left the skip just inside.

Fair eough, easy for collection..... Oh no, the skip hirers dragged it closer to the house to presumably make it easier to fill.
Never did find out how it got collected

I used to have a buddy with a skip business. I've seen him push skips around with the bumpers on his truck, and drag them with the chains.

 

[Sureitsoff?]

They dragged the skip about 30ft up the drive...

 

[GhostIntMachine]

I've seen him push skips around with the bumpers on his truck, and drag them with the chains.

The smaller skips can be moved by a couple of guys and two Burke bars, providing they aren't too heavy. Generally it's easier jkust to ask thje telehandler driver to do it (assuming it's a site where we have a telehandler)





I have a couple of these bars - the biggest one (above) is just under 5ft long and will lift almost anything within reason. Great for dismantling rotten roofs and floors, positioning heavy structural timbers, as well as bullying out stone copings, etc which are too heavy to shift by hand

 

[Old Salt]

One of our local companies sell and collect their own “hippo bags” for a fraction of the cost of a hippo bag

 

[foxhole]

One of our local companies sell and collect their own “hippo bags” for a fraction of the cost of a hippo bag

Lots of other much cheaper companies doing the same .

 

[Old Salt]

Lots of other much cheaper companies doing the same .

Good

 

[opps]

My local council won't allow me to take a van (not sign written) into the waste transfer site, with no option of paying, "because it's trade, mate". They insist that I need to go to the offices at the other end of the borough where I can buy a licence (applicable to a specific vehicle/driver combination only) to allow me top dump limited quantites, for which they will charge me. Turn up in a hire van, or a new vehicle and they won't let me in. But the same council regularly bemoans fly tipping, which has an average clean-up cost of over £2k according to the local rag. They are such a bunch of jobsworths that they can't understand that they are the ones encouraging fly-tipping (as pointed out week after week at council meetings and in the local press)

A mate of mine knew someone at a Biffa type company. He had a long wheel based Sprinter. Cash in hand, turn up at 3 AM. Problem solved.

 

[GhostIntMachine]

A mate of mine knew someone at a Biffa type company. He had a long wheel based Sprinter. Cash in hand, turn up at 3 AM. Problem solved.

The problem is that I live in a place which has been blighted in the past by fly-tipping. Personally, I'd really like to be able to use the tip, but having to take a day off to go (with loss of income)and get my photograph taken and have a licence issued is just asking too much, especially as I'd also need an Environment Agency Wast Carriers Licence as well, and each time I take even a single black bag I'd have to issue a Waste Transfer Notice. Car drivers don't need to go through any of this whilst the fly-by-nights don't do any of this in any case.

 

[evdamadiynot]

A mate of mine knew someone at a Biffa type company. He had a long wheel based Sprinter. Cash in hand, turn up at 3 AM. Problem solved.

Thats fly tipping without a doubt.
Its rife.
A few years back we had trouble with the company that has done our septic tank for the last 50 years.A driver we had not seen before would only empty one chamber saying the lorry was full and hed be back later.Never did.
The following year was the same and I complained to the office.They were puzzled claiming there should be plenty of spare capacity.
Different driver the following year -decent bloke -even slurped out the third chamber which runs clear anyway.
Got chatting and it turns out the cowboy was doing the rounds accumulating spare capacity and doing backhanders for cash using the genuine paperwork.
It was going unnoticed until he got greedy and did a commercial job with no paperwork and tipped the effluent into some woodland.
He wasnt aware the lorries were at that point being gps tracked( with him in particular) and was caught red handed.

 

[opps]

Thats fly tipping without a doubt.

It is not fly tipping. Theft perhaps, but not fly tipping. The guy at the Biffa waste centre would let him drop his stuff of in return for a few pints.