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    Default Working too hard

    I've been working too hard the past few months and it's starting to catch up on me. My elbows and other bits ache each night.

    So I thought I'd slow down for a while

    Then the Honda pump engine down the creek wouldn't start.
    Apparently the low oil level switch is pecular on these so did a full oil change and off it goes again.

    The bore has gone dry or it's pump needs overhauling.
    Bugga, need a crane to lift out 100 feet of casing and I'll hafta take the roof off the shed. Just to make that more interesting some bright spark pop rivetted the roof on with real big rivets.

    And the rideon mower is only cutting with the centre blades.
    I's a prawn of a job to fix properly and likely needs some welding too.

    So much for some quiet time.
    Regards, Bob Thomas

    www.wombatsawmill.com

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    Ya poor ol bugger.
    Ive had the opposite, Ive sat at home for lack of bricklaying for the last month or so, well not really as the shop has had a good cleaning session.

    Al

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    I can't stand being idle Al.

    Maybe I should make a walking stick, but it sounds like you need to make a footstool
    Regards, Bob Thomas

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    Quote Originally Posted by echnidna View Post
    I can't stand being idle Al.
    Me either, but theres not much I can do about it, the goverment wanted to slow down the building game, and they did. :mad:

    Thank god there an election coming up.

    Al

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    But you gotta retail outlet Al so start making and selling bookcases etc.
    Or run traing courses (or videos) on making a brick barbecue etc
    Regards, Bob Thomas

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    Quote Originally Posted by echnidna View Post
    But you gotta retail outlet Al so start making and selling bookcases etc.
    No one wants to pay a decent price for anything, what with all this parc coming in from China.

    Al

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    Al,
    heaps of work around here, even more in Innisfail (bore the brunt of the cyclone) just give me a yell if you want to lay 20kg besser blocks instead of those wussy little clay bricks.

    Mick
    "If you need a machine today and don't buy it,

    tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."

    - Henry Ford 1938

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    Quote Originally Posted by journeyman Mick View Post
    Al,
    heaps of work around here, even more in Innisfail (bore the brunt of the cyclone) just give me a yell if you want to lay 20kg besser blocks instead of those wussy little clay bricks.

    Mick
    And when you've finished with those wussy Besser blocks you can come give me a hand with the our 1/4 tonne blocks...at least I'd have one person working for me that new how to look after me mixer.
    Squizzy

    "It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" {screamed by maths teacher in Year 8}

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    Quote Originally Posted by ozwinner View Post
    Ive had the opposite, Ive sat at home for lack of bricklaying for the last month or so, well not really as the shop has had a good cleaning session.
    No joy from the bloke who made ya miss the BBQ?

    Things are grim on the workfront here too, for the same damned reason. Makes it hard to buy bits'n'pieces for the shed when the treasury's on life-support.

    (Someone ought to line the #@$%in' pollies up against the wall! :mad: )
    I may be weird, but I'm saving up to become eccentric.

    - Andy Mc

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!! View Post
    No joy from the bloke who made ya miss the BBQ?
    He was just an auctioneer, and he is arrangeing for a clearing sale for us in early Feb.

    Al

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    So take a workin' holiday North or West.
    only trouble is they're both too hot
    Regards, Bob Thomas

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    Default Squizzy

    He's not dead yet.

    Where have you been Squizzy?
    Cliff.
    If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers View Post
    He's not dead yet.

    Where have you been Squizzy?
    Yeah what he said....:eek:

    I cant beleive I replied and missed the Squize..
    Good to see you is alive....
    Al

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers View Post
    He's not dead yet.

    Where have you been Squizzy?
    I'ze bin in jail actually ...well self inflicted work related pergatory more like it. Busy busy, bought another excavator and another truck..work work work...I owe I owe

    I cant beleive I replied and missed the Squize..
    Good to see you is alive....
    See Al...thats on account of not working...the mind starts to fade..next minute you'll be running tupperware parties and attending scrapbooking classes
    Squizzy

    "It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" {screamed by maths teacher in Year 8}

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    I just noticed..I've got one black dot..what happened to me big green caterpillar??...is there something I should read or maybe just leave it be?...can we still pick on the monkey???
    Squizzy

    "It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" {screamed by maths teacher in Year 8}

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