[dave0123]

[quoteyou could use a trolley or a backpack][/quote]

true but if your only only doing one house it could take a long time to set up.. just health & safetly gone mad to be honest

[BORBRYCE]

It would have been better to move the van, just to be sure. Perfectly safe non the less and well highlighted by cones and yellow hose. If anyone pulled you up for that, they would need to have a very good reason in writing I would have thought. I also like the fact you have your hose reel at a sensible working hight and do not lift it in and out on the job all day long. For those who say this is impractical, have a look and see how to enable slack on the hose so it drops immediately to the ground. Without this "slack" the hose would rise up when pulled and create a real hazard. It all seems as safe as it possibly could be to me, given the position of the van.

[DaveG]

Cheers guys

Ronnie, I put a platform in for the hosereel and its so much better working at that height and the reel stays in the van all day. When pulling the hose out, it just falls down without creating a "trip hazard".

[Frankybadboy]

frankybad boy was told by a highways dept guy that it wasn't allowed

i was just about to say that stu.causing a hazard on road and path by some low life of the highway agency,and this was in a dead end cul d sack

[♠Winp®oClean♠]

winpro while reading your post about the disabled buggy it brought back a scene from JAWS...

 

Yeah, it was pretty similar, trust me!

[George P]

slightly off topic but sometimes you can make a better desicion than authorities, a few years ago we were working on main rd with cherry picker and van on rd, although all all were sectioned off we were told that as we only had permit for cherry picker to be on rd we would have to move van - i replied that the speed on the road was 30mph and we had deliberatly put van up from where we was working so if someone hit the van it would mean they didnt hit us in cherry picker, therefor safer for it to be there. good point he said, leave it where it is then.

[christopher b]

I think a lot of us do it!
although it is illegal. van parked  facing oncoming vehicles ( its there in highway regulations  but who on earth takes any notice) no one unless someone hits you and immediately your in the wrong.
warning signs giving notice to an obstruction or hazard should be placed were they can be seen by oncoming vehicles in both directions ( your OK there)
they must clearly indicate the type of hazard ?
they can be placed of the carriageway (road) so long as any public footpath is not reduced to a with no less than 1.2 Mtrs

all the legal wittering can be found at the ministry of transport, its all under "traffic signs manual"

[prestige cleaners]

i do it.

Im finding my hose starting to split after doing this for many years, (cars, trucks, buses etc) its starting to get very short!

[bobby p]

im sure its not illegal,but id be scared a chancer might trip on purpose  and be straight onto claims direct  . im not w/f/p   but i  am aware of the chancer personality  and they are very common now.    i was once wed to one  for starters and her sis was another  chancer who threw herself under a bus to get compo . on my round an elderly chancer  followed me and walked into my ladders on purpose as i was carrying them to my van  but failed to break his skin .  that Billy Murray is advertising it on telly and it gives people ideas


  

[windolene]

Hi,

Crikey :
I am traditional. This looks dangerous to me. Why not move van over to other side

[dazmond]

looks dangerous?ITS A BLOODY HOSE ACROSS A ROAD!!!

ITS HARDLY A HAZARD REALLY!!


bobby sounds like you should choose your girlfriends more carefully!try and go for one with a career or job prospects!!

[Paul Coleman]

I'll run it across the footpath - with a rubber mat and a warning sign on it.  I won't run it across the road though.  It probably is illegal or unlawful.  Bear in mind that not all vehicles have got four wheels.

[H S and Son]

Those cones could be construed as being a hazard 

[Tom White]

Those cones could be construed as being a hazard 

I've tripped over a warning sign in a supermarket before; honest! 

With life comes an element of risk, but I'd guess with some certainty that we've a greater risk of crashing into someone and killing them on the way to work, than a trailing hose we put out tripping someone and killing them.

Of course there's a risk.  There's two blind fellas I know in Chepstow who walk with just a cane (though I think one has a guide dog now, and I clean the windows of the other).  And I once reversed in a tight spot and trapped the stick of one of these blind blokes under my rear wheel, which caused a bit of a kerfuffle.

Ian_Giles has also had problems with trailing hoses and getting 'told off' from the wife of this same blind bloke; he put a post about it here.  She's very protective of her blind husband.

But I think we can only take reasonable precautions and make sure we're insured and keep our fingers crossed that nothing happens.

It's only a hose at the end of the day and there's far greater hazzards out there caused by other tradesmen.