Ouch On Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 8:09 PM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of them was 48” I think and washed out a railroad track... And it was > our fault... > > *From:* Chuck McCown via AF > *Sent:* Saturday, August 13, 2022 5:00 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Cc:* Chuck McCown > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Release of Liability Review > > I have repaired tons of stuff, bought trees, bought sod, whatever it takes > to make the landowner happy. Not really their fault either if they don’t > know it is there. Just the cost of doing business. GL takes care of > hitting the city water main and washing it all into someone’s basement > etc. My crews have hit 4 city water mains and it is no picnic. 2 of them > were our fault. > > *From:* Steve Jones > *Sent:* Saturday, August 13, 2022 3:32 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Release of Liability Review > > When the attorney feeds back I may update the erosion control. But I'm no > taking liability for somebody who chooses not to water. Even if I put sod > down it still needs water. I can the soil back in a condition conducive to > root growth, but I cant control what the landowner does. > I'll add a link to the JULIE website so customer can see what my > responsibilities are there. I do think adding that the customer may need to > expose their own things that's a good idea. > Will be waiting on the attorney for the what I will do's since that can > open a whole lot of liabilities. > I've read through a bunch of them and they range from pristine restoration > all the way to fuck you, pay me. > I just dont want to hit some leech field tie in and have to pay for that. > I carry more insurance than I need but I prefer to not use it. Most > everything I can locate with the utiliguard, and I can repair most anything > I hit unknowingly. > An example is a nearby guy knicked an unknown LP run to a garage. It > leaked half a full tank and he had to pay for it out of pocket. I'd pay it > too, I just dont want to be obligated to. > > On Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 12:30 PM Chris Fabien <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I wouldn't sign either if I were a homeowner. I think you need to more >> clearly define what you will and won't do, and what you can and cannot >> reasonably avoid. For example, you can reasonably avoid a private >> power run to an out building if the homeowner discloses it's >> existence, you should have equipment to locate the exact path/depth. >> Other things that are not locatable, what we do is put the >> responsibility on the homeowner to locate & expose. We typically have >> to do this for drainage lines, dog fence wires etc. And you definitely >> do want a disclaimer of liability for hitting something that was not >> disclosed and you would have no way to know of it's existence. >> Whether that disclaimer would stand up in court is another issue. I >> also think telling the homeowner they are responsible for future >> erosion control is going too far, your crew should be doing enough >> restoration to stabilize the ground and get grass growing again. >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 11:15 AM Steve Jones <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > You guys who do this want to review this and tell me what im missing. >> Ive sent it to the attorney for review but shes more an estate attorney, so >> may be that there are some gotchas im missing. I dont like that its 2 >> pages, but I like liability even less. >> > This is more for residential, small commercial and WISP/FISP work . I >> assume if I get into a bigger drill and bigger work, those contracts will >> address all that. >> > >> > Thanks in advance >> > -- >> > AF mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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