You know what you can do with your ******g chainsaw?

[TommyDodd]

Not impressed. Got home from an expensive trip to the garage (replace bearing, service, MOT) to find one of the abutments for my lift-out bridge broken and the approaching track wrenched thru 45 degrees. Prime suspects are the contractors my neighbour used to drastically shorten his willow tree just the other side of the fence.
The metal mounting bracket was held in place with rawlplugs (in a half-brick cemented into a corner cut-out of the thermalite block, since thermalites aren't strong enough for such treatment) and the halfbrick has cracked across the hole and will need to be broken out and replaced. And my final steamup of the season is TODAY. Well, thanks very much.
I'll try to bodge something up to get me through the day, and if all else fails we'll just use the short circuit, but it shouldn't be necessary. I am seriously annoyed.

[Narrow Minded]

I am seriously annoyed.

and understandably so!

It still boils down to the same old problem I think; no discipline = no respect (especially for other peoples property)

Hope that you get on OK today and that you get a satisfactory repair done long term. Now, where's that advert that I saw for electric fence, barbed wire, machine gun towers and claymore mines?

[ACLR]

thats a shame mate I hope you get it sorted

[Dr. Bond of the DVLR]

One of the base boards for the DVLR is frequently turned over completely by the evil cats who use it as a jumping and landing pad. No such problems will I have with the new railway. I hate it when railway property is destroyed by carelessness and lack of respect. Same things happen with the real trains. Hope you get it fixed.

[taliesin001]

I can certainly understand how your feeling, hope you get it sorted soon.

[MuzTrem]

Prime suspects are the contractors my neighbour used to drastically shorten his willow tree just the other side of the fence.

My parents hired an electrician to do some work in our garage a few months back. He broke the chimney off my station, which was stored in there, and broke the L&B water column that I'd had so much trouble assembling first time round!

Not a serious as what's happened to you, of course, but it's the principle of the thing. No apology. Didn't even mention it. And if he'd just taken a little more care...

[TommyDodd]

Well, I was able to bend the track back into shape (hooray for railbenders made from molegrips) and fortunately the bridge is solid enough to sit in place held only by fishplates, so we got through the evening fine. Still have to do a permanent repair, though.

[Narrow Minded]

That's great news

Any chance you could post the details if the railbender (pretty please)?