I was mowing today and I sat my Tanaka 2501 trimmer down for about 10 minutes to go point something out to my worker and I noticed that the trash truck had came but didnt think anything about it until I went back and saw 2 empty trash cans on the curb. My trimmer was a good 5 feet away from the trash cans and right next to my truck I called the trash company and they told me that it must have been crushed by now.I called the owner and he said that I should make sure that I keep anything that I dont want taken at least 10 ft away from the cans I believe that the workers took it and put it in the truck. This was after having a flat this morning on the trailer and my JD 797 taking $46 in gas and my F350 taking $90 all in all I probally lost $200 today Just figured that I would share my day.
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Garbage truck took my weed wacker
I would be at the trash company's front door FIRST thing in the morning. Talk to the top dog that is present, try to be respectful, and request a reimbursement. The driver/worker should be held responsible for the cost - IMO. :usflag:
This is correct....don't let this go by. The trash guys surely weren't dumb enough to pitch out a good line trimmer - they had to see you were there working on the premises with your logo'd vehicle and all. If they did pitch it, the trash company owes you reimb. for the machine. If the guys stole it, the trash company owes you for the machine plus the worker/s need fired.
Before you head over there, take pictures of where your vehicles were parked. Was it obvious that a lawn care crew was working?
Place a second trimmer in the same spot that you had it where you left it, as well as the garbage cans were. Take pictures and document again.
Take pictures, and try to get a letter from the customer that you were working on the yard, that you were explaining something to the customer, and that the operator of the truck should have been smart enough to realize there was a lawn care operation at the property.
Now.... the biggest problem you're going to have is trying to prove that it was indeed the garbage people that took it, not someone else driving down the road. I'd assume the garbage cans are along the road?
I always wondered what would happen if you left your stuff real close to the trash when you were cutting. I always keep my stuff right in front of me. You should get reimb. for the trimmer either way with what happened to it.
I have a filed police report with a description of the trimmer and the trash cans but the POPO says that there is nothing that they can do about it I have the serial # for the trimmer so I am going there tommorow to see what I can get accomplished.
THats my point exactly and I know people who have worked in trash before and they would keep anything that looked decent and this was a 6 month old trimmer that was probally still hot when they got to it .
Remember - "Keep your head on straight, be polite." More often than not, it's the right way. :usflag:
same thing happened to me last year but with a chain saw theres a thread on here somewhere about it
It isn't the trash haulers job to determine what is "good" and what is "junk." If they leave things at the curb, then the complaints will come, "... they didn't take everything I put out for the trash."
A couple of years ago, a sign appeared on several power poles on a street in the neighborhoods I regularly work. The sign was asking the whereabouts of a nearly-new Honda mower. I inquired at the house, as was told this story. A high-school boy cuts lawns after school. He put his Honda mower down by the street for his father to haul to a property he was intending to mow after school. His father had not yet picked up the mower before the trash haulers came along. Yes, the Honda mower went into the trash truck. The kid had parked the mower near the street, near to where the trash barrels were normally positioned for weekly pickup. The timing between his father's intended pickup and transport of the mower, and the trash haulers coming along the street was inopportune. Seeing hand mowers at the street for trash pickup is not an unusual sighting. The haulers did their job -- put all the items at the street into the trash truck. The young man's Honda mower was gone!
I would not be surprised the trash haulers put the trimmer in their truck. They were just doing their job. As for one of them having a "new" trimmer, I doubt it. They have a set route, and are nearly on the run every time I see them. I know the man who covers our area -- he has some of my business cards, and has gotten me business. He says he regularly takes two 25 ton loads to the dump every day. He has no time to make assessments about items left at the curb. His only focus is to get all those items in his truck, move on to the next stop, repeat, ... repeat, ... all day long. It is a tough job.
I would be very surprised if any recompense is coming from a trip to their office. They have little sympathy for complaints.
A couple of years ago, a sign appeared on several power poles on a street in the neighborhoods I regularly work. The sign was asking the whereabouts of a nearly-new Honda mower. I inquired at the house, as was told this story. A high-school boy cuts lawns after school. He put his Honda mower down by the street for his father to haul to a property he was intending to mow after school. His father had not yet picked up the mower before the trash haulers came along. Yes, the Honda mower went into the trash truck. The kid had parked the mower near the street, near to where the trash barrels were normally positioned for weekly pickup. The timing between his father's intended pickup and transport of the mower, and the trash haulers coming along the street was inopportune. Seeing hand mowers at the street for trash pickup is not an unusual sighting. The haulers did their job -- put all the items at the street into the trash truck. The young man's Honda mower was gone!
I would not be surprised the trash haulers put the trimmer in their truck. They were just doing their job. As for one of them having a "new" trimmer, I doubt it. They have a set route, and are nearly on the run every time I see them. I know the man who covers our area -- he has some of my business cards, and has gotten me business. He says he regularly takes two 25 ton loads to the dump every day. He has no time to make assessments about items left at the curb. His only focus is to get all those items in his truck, move on to the next stop, repeat, ... repeat, ... all day long. It is a tough job.
I would be very surprised if any recompense is coming from a trip to their office. They have little sympathy for complaints.
Was your trimmer on the lawn, or on the curb? If it was on the lawn, then I think you have a real beef. Picking up the trash does not authorize them to trespass on your clients lawn and take things. Plain and simple. I think that either they have some short bus riders working there, or one of the trash collectors just got a new Tanaka. If it was a Craftsman, or a Homelite, I would let him have it with my blessing, but a Tanaka!
I remember reading a post about this a few years ago on Lawnsite. Seems another member had the same thing happen to them. Garbage guys here wouldn't take it unless it had a bulk waste sticker on it or was in a special city trash bag.
your right may not have even been them.
Around here, if you put anything that has the smallest piece of metal on it at the curb it will be gone. Not by the trash guys but by the scrap and junk collectors. I was roofing my house last summer, i threw the old drip edges out by the alley, they were gone in less than 15 minutes.
Absolutely !! I tell my guys not to put any equipment down, except in a locked enclosed trailer.
I friend of mine set a gas hedge trimmer down at an apartment complex, while he raked the clippings off of a large shrub. The clipper was gone before he went all the way around the shrub. ( 20 years ago before we were introduced to real big city crime)
By all means, go complain to the refuse collectors. Tell them that your trimmer was too heavy for you to carry it with you and that your irresponsible and would like a do-over. Maybe his mommy will kiss it and make it better.
I'm so mean !!!
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