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What Keeps Me Out of the Workshop

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hermetic:
Bad luck with the digger andrew, hope you get it fixed ok, Last time I saw one doing that it was a newish JCB 3C with an oil slick running all down a driveway. I asked the guy if he had burst a hose, "no such luck" he replied, some thieving toe rags had been on the site over the weekend and stripped off and nicked the Hydraulic pump!
Good Luck with it.
Phil

vtsteam:
I'm sure you'll have it figured out and fixed Andrew,and glad you stopped payment until you're sure of the problem.

Having without realizing the problems, bought the Ford 850 with the blown head gasket and warped head, and two buckets and arms that didn't fit, and suposedly knowing better than that, I definitely know the feeling!

However, now happy I own it now.  :beer:

PekkaNF:
I have reading in awe how punctual yor briclayer is. When I was a kid I saw three building sites that bricklayers come and wen as they pleased....visits were sometimes three weeks appart and sometimes they made other work wait or screw it up somehow. You are in luck.

I hope you'll get that digger sorted out. I knw how it feels when you don't need any extra complications.

OT: can I share a day I had two days ago?

Went work, we are swamped and big bosses have big ideas but in the end of day all that excel and ppt burlup is load of organic waste dumped on us. Anyway there was three projects I had to work with and I went trough few outstanding items, one of them no-one come to think and it could become a show stopper later on, communicated it forward and totaly ruined someones day. Two other were cocups on in a minor manner.

Left the work and started my car, rpm needle sprung to normal iddle and when I started driving dropped to zero, engine was running ok, somewhat sluggish. Odd, I was thinkking. MIL-light come on after few kilometers. Drove home, read error codes and it indicated p0335 crank sensor "A" problem. Hmm.

My wife dropped a knife on the oven glass door. The glass shattered.

It has been raingin three days. I found a tablespoon of water on the bedroom floor. I was happy it was on the middle and not leaked into walls....checked the roof. no holes.

Next day I tried to contact three shops, no help. I'm bit busy and I wanted someone professional to have a look on it. I ended up buying the sensor and changing it mysef. Still womits the same code. Opend and cleaned few connectors and now it running fime.

Arrgh. I know minor stuf, but it felt big at that time.

Pekka

awemawson:
Thanks chaps for your thoughts, and Pekka, that wasn't Friday 13th by any chance ?

Well today with the gables finished I could crack on with the roof. First put in the rockwool insulation, then experienced the joy of fitting the breathable membrane single handed in a light breeze  :bugeye: then battened both faces and started tiling.

That's about half the tiles fitted, and I've crawled home to swallow the whole Ibuprofen packet so hopefully my body can bend again  :bugeye:

Will_D:
Love this thread :beer:

Them bacons are sure going to taste sweet after their cosetted like in a "5-star-sty"

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