Pigeon_Droppings2
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Just don't spend all day kneeling on joists....thats exactly how I trashed by knees...never been the same since....that was 10 years ago.
Get some knee pads...wish someone had told me that!
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Get some knee pads...wish someone had told me that!
Wedg1e
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Did a job for a large compressor company in or around Peterboghorror about a decade ago where I spent days on end kneeling on the factory floor. I had knee pads fitted into my trousers but I should have opted for the Monica Lewinsky brand rather than Arco's own as they came away looking like they lost a fight with a Jack Russell - after the Great White had chewed through the Cordura trousers. I think the textured paint had something to do with it...
Wedg1e
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Appreciate the compliment, thanks
Stuff just comes to me as I'm typing, if I had to sit and think about it I'd get nowhere.A friend of mine is a writer (historical fiction), I've edited some of her stuff and now I find it hard to read novels, even by big-name writers, without scotting pockups and ficking pault
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Appreciate the compliment, thanks
A friend of mine is a writer (historical fiction), I've edited some of her stuff and now I find it hard to read novels, even by big-name writers, without scotting pockups and ficking pault
People just tend to tell me I'm talking sh*te.
dobbslc
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time served electrician here I didn't wear them yesterday but didn't intend doing as much as I did !
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I done my knees in as a sparks, the apprentice was sent into the loft to wire the lights while the sparky pushed the cable up through the celing from below.
I didn't wear them yesterday but didn't intend doing as much as I did !
We don't get apprentices now so I still have to do it!
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Pigeon_Droppings2
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I remember my mate asking for help fixing his computer....when I asked where it was he just pointed to the garden
Thats where my old printer is. Possibly to be joined fairly soon by the PC..I remember my mate asking for help fixing his computer....when I asked where it was he just pointed to the garden
Luggsey
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I have the exact same job to do on our ditching/grading bucket, I doubt it will look that good though!
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In my apprentiship I was working in the radio lab at perdio radio. Drawing office guy comes in one morning with a very old radio he had found in the loft of the house he had just bought. Size of a coffin with valves the size of milk bottles. Boffins checked it out it was good to go.Everyone exited. Connected it up to a stabilized power supply and promptly blew all the valves . the P/S had failed went to window and launched it into space made fantastic noise when it hit the car park 5 stories below.I remember my mate asking for help fixing his computer....when I asked where it was he just pointed to the garden
Today,I drove 73miles to straighten 1 bar on a gate,then whilst there,removed the post,straightened the actuators mounting lug,re welded it,then straightened and re welded the 4 mounting flanges.
The property maintenance company who asked me to do this,have been repeatedly requesting me to do this ,and I had declined 4x as there were electric actuators,which I didn’t want to get involved in,eventually they assured me their 2 men would take care of that element,even offered to come and collect me from my workshop when my van was in the garage last week,so today I did the metalwork parts,however the only repair requested from me was 1 bent bar,3 blows with a hammer! The other bits were not shown on their photos,good job my van is well equipped.
The 2 men they supplied turned out to be 3,who arrived 1 hour late,with no tools,and had driven nearly as far as me,and that was their 2nd visit,you couldn’t make it up,what a way to operate.
Good job I didn’t quote for this,”straighten a bar please”.
The property maintenance company who asked me to do this,have been repeatedly requesting me to do this ,and I had declined 4x as there were electric actuators,which I didn’t want to get involved in,eventually they assured me their 2 men would take care of that element,even offered to come and collect me from my workshop when my van was in the garage last week,so today I did the metalwork parts,however the only repair requested from me was 1 bent bar,3 blows with a hammer! The other bits were not shown on their photos,good job my van is well equipped.
The 2 men they supplied turned out to be 3,who arrived 1 hour late,with no tools,and had driven nearly as far as me,and that was their 2nd visit,you couldn’t make it up,what a way to operate.
Good job I didn’t quote for this,”straighten a bar please”.
Pigeon_Droppings2
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Just 4 lugs holding all that onto the brick or is that just the way it looks in the picture?
That’s all,the gates only 5’ wide,it’s been there 18 years,but I certainly wouldn’t bolt into the mortar joint.
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I assume you billed them.
Will do,thanks for the tip
