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Title: Fire at Kook UK..
Post by: imran75 on August 01, 2014, 08:09:31 AM
Emailed Kook to see if they'd do a weight reduction for me and got the following email response. Sounds awful and a really horrible thing to happen to them. I hope this doesn't set them back too much:

Morning Imran

 
Unfortunately we are unable to offer such service at this time. We recently had a fire in our workshop and lost the whole unit along with our tools. Thankfully we are starting to get back up and running but with very minimal equipment at this time. The equipment needed to remove weight from the bat unfortunately we don’t have. So at this moment in time I cannot offer any service.

 
Sorry for the inconvenience 
Title: Re: Fire at Kook UK..
Post by: cam66 on August 01, 2014, 08:12:57 AM
wow, that would be so annoying for them
Title: Re: Fire at Kook UK..
Post by: TangoWhiskey on August 01, 2014, 08:13:59 AM
I wonder how many bats they lost...
Title: Re: Fire at Kook UK..
Post by: imran75 on August 01, 2014, 08:19:02 AM
i know...and am I right in thinking that they make their high end bats in the UK? or is that me getting confused?
Title: Re: Fire at Kook UK..
Post by: tim2000s on August 01, 2014, 08:45:17 AM
I imagine that the blaze was spectacular, but it is a sad loss of all that willow!
Title: Re: Fire at Kook UK..
Post by: Giraffe208 on August 01, 2014, 08:53:34 AM
I imagine Jake will be able to inform us how far away the workshop is to the main storage of bats etc as it may just have been isolated to the workshop and potentially not burnt all the bats?
Title: Re: Fire at Kook UK..
Post by: Vitas Cricket on August 01, 2014, 10:25:38 AM
i know...and am I right in thinking that they make their high end bats in the UK? or is that me getting confused?

All bats are imported.

The fire happened ages ago, early Summer. It did not spread to the area where bats/softs/bags etc are all stored.

I've never been through the big mystical double doors where they make some of the rubber based balls (incrediballs etc) and i assume where they do refurbs, so i don't know the layout of that area or the extent of the damage.

Everyone is OK to my knowledge.
Title: Re: Fire at Kook UK..
Post by: shax12 on August 25, 2014, 05:01:18 PM
I sent a Kookaburra Kahuna players bat for refurbishment and the fire happened few days after that and my bat was apparently ruined or destroyed due to the fire. So they offered and sent me a brand new Kookaburra Kahuna players bat.