Skip to the Loo

A medal for services above the call of duty must go to James Dove MSST of Pirtek Watford, when he attended a failed 20 m3 Geesink Norba Ro-Ro hospital 731 compacter skip at Harefield Hospital recently. The skip had been badly overloaded, which in turn had forced rubbish to overflow and rot around the hydraulic plate and then into the control system, breaking the hydraulic pipe mounts and damaging the hydraulic pipes that operate the internal rams. When the Geesinknorba engineer arrived on site, he immediately contacted Pirtek Watford to say the machine would need replacement hoses and possibly some internal remedial work. In the meantime he asked the hospital maintenance staff to clear the waste material. A wheelie bin of some unspeakable material later and the hoses were revealed. To the amazement of the Geesinknorba engineer, Dove then undertook the removal and replacement of the damaged hoses and aided with the refitting of the mounts. "That is not a job I would have asked anyone to undertaken" he said. "But it says a lot about the level of service expected of a Pirtek engineer." “This is the dark side of the business nobody warns you about,” James Dove concludes.

“I think the best course of action now would be to go and burn all my clothing."