Why does it always take twice as long to do as you thought it would?

[Bob Willson]

Way to go Peter

One blunts while the other sharpens, then turn it around and the other one gets to blunt. That should teach the buggers to look after the tools and not be quite so happy to chisel concrete etc.

[simon c]

But on the other hand:

you put off doing a job for months because it looks tricky and when you finally get around to doing it, you're finished in 30 minutes and wonder why it took you so long to get around to it

[adrian]

I think I'm going to have the same problem when my daughter and son-in-law move back from New York. They went fishing one time and my daughter had to bait his hooks for him. He still thinks a screwdriver is a drink.

[Wongo]

I am shocking when it comes to estimate time.

For 3 days, I had to go to the timber yard and Bunnings. It is about 45 minutes each way plus all the buying and browsing. Knowing very well it would take at least 3 hours for the trip, I took the car and told my wife I would be back in an hour.

And what happened every time when I got home?

A very cranky wife. :mad:



Wongo (a genuine pro programmer)

[silentC]

One reason for me is that I usually make things up as I go along, which means I have to stop and think about what I'm going to do next. That could take days. Then there's searching for a bit of timber that is just so wide and just so long. I can walk around for minutes picking bits up and putting them down because I'm loathe to cut up anything much bigger than what I need. Then there's the long pregnant pauses while I stand back and admire the latest bit of handiwork, or more likely, stare in horror at what I have turned that lovely piece of wood into.

Yes, I can spend days on something that was only going to take half an hour.

silentC - Hack programmer to the stars.

[E. maculata]

or more likely, stare in horror at what I have turned that lovely piece of wood into.
Yes, I can spend days on something that was only going to take half an hour.

LMAO- try making a semi-matching pair of bedsides out of birdseye Blackbutt, finished one Wife luvs it. Mine,..... well the tablesaw dust collection was a bit off, so I've fixed it (this included squaring the whole saw carriage, making a extractor pickup, machining the ends down for perfect mating to the fence & regretfully chipping one whole tooth of the trunion mechanisms ) and then decided to have a serious look at the router bits and ended up playing with some spiral endmills in the router table .
End result other bedside is still waiting for glue and assembly, but I'm sure the #6 & #7 need sharpening & then theres' those chisels that are dull, need to gullet that 60 tooth and............................................


Yours in Apathy..........

[Caliban]

Sigh.
Bruce and Darren have said it all very eloquently but Richard has been spying on me. I'm scared. I'll just go back to thinking about the next hundred and thirteen jobs I can half finish then admire or hide.

[Sturdee]

In keeping with the theme of the tread, it took you twice as long to reply than the rest of us.

I think you win Jim.


Peter.

[havenoideaatall]

Just the way something is always in the last place you look.

Naturally. You don't keep looking for something after you found it.