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    Default Just a whinge

    I had a big day planned, lots of research and some design work for my "get out of this job and work for myself" plan...
    But....
    My back is aching and making me feel nasty, and I can't be stuffed.

    Anyone else having "an unexpected day"?
    Cheers,
    Clinton

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    Not today, but plenty in the past. Plan some time in the shed and something seems to come up, have given up planning it too much and just take it when I can get in there.
    Brett

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    Yes, count me in. I've had a 'huge' week, and had planned to go to a tool auction today but guess what, I slept in - doh! Ah well, at least I got the sharpening done!

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    I had planned to study today but didnt get much done, too tired from the week...

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    Yep, and it has to be today!!

    Michael and I both suffering from needing to think more than do, and too many late nights talking....small progress, but a lot of fun anyway.

    cheers,

    P

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    Thumbs down One of "Those" days

    Got up at 0445, mucked around on the idiot box, looking at various sites, including this one. Checked out a garage sale close by, no good, checked out the surf, flat. Talked to MBGitW for a while, then went and brought Sam Allen's Making Workbenches and ordered his Woodjoiner's Handbook and Joinery Basics, then had a major sinus attack. Got home and had my "Non-drowsy" medicine and ten minutes later, snoring like a chainsaw. I woke up two hrs later and had a "hangover" for the rest of the day. I really wanted to check on my supply of 4x4 Tallowwood I intend to use for the frame of the new workbench - did not happen!:mad:

    Tommorrow will be better, MBGitW and I are going to Beaches at Thirroul to see Psycho Zydeco with some friends for lunch and a few cleansing Ales!
    Pat
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    Kids are all primed & practiced for BMX racing, little Blokes' been training for 2 weeks every arvo, got a call this morning "track's too wet, club day's cancelled"sat around for 10 mins, SWMBO said "wanna start moving your stuff outa the old place now, so thats what we did, I ask you how much gear and odds'n sods do I really need?. Gunna take a truck down next weekend, might get the rest in .

    BL&*%Y moving, why did I think it was easy.
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    l've had a week of it myself following about two yrs of it unfortunately . Someone mention surf - what's that ! l think l've turned into a slave for this big mess of a property we hocked ourselves to the hilt to buy . Forget why ! Anyway this whole weeks been spent on trying to restore two monster concrete tanks and the dozens of underground pipes running bloody everywhere from them , to them, over them and around them . ldea being total peace and a never ending supply of nice clean water and no maintenance ever again . Not getting far but l have worked my &&&& off , then l find something in here on concrete tanks and it seems they basically just go on cracking away for all eternity anyway .
    Maybe a bulldozer last Monday morning would have been the go.
    Ahwell here's to a successfull next week for all , l'm going to bed .
    Cheers.
    Jack

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    Jack, maybe time for a liner?
    Cheers,
    Clinton

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    Hey Clinton .
    Do you or anyone else know anything about liners - prices and all that ? . Could be an idea if all else fails !
    Jack

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    Don't know much about the prices. do know that they work and have a 20 year life. Might pay to do some google searching, and to contact the companies that make the larger tanks.
    The concrete tanks keep cracking, and while you can get an injectable treatment that sets in the crack, its not one that fixes things forever.
    there is a Vic mob that do liners for everything... from tanks to dams, turkey nests and channels.
    I think you get what you pay for, some are almost holeproof (thick and 'self repairing'), others are not much more than black plastic ala builders plastic.
    I'll see what i can dig up.

    How much land you got, and where are you?
    Cheers,
    Clinton

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    My day went to plan, went to the Dome, got stuck into the mid-strength, watched the Tiges go down came home glued up a small top, now going to hit the sack as ive got a big day in the workshop tomorrow

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    http://www.hff.org.au/newsletter/New...05%20SMALL.pdf
    See page 9

    http://www.fabricsolutions.com.au/tank_liners.htm
    Qld based, but might have a Vic retailer.


    Lignum, don't be swanning in here telling me "its all good", you have to whinge. ... AND you reminded me that some git was watching pay tv rubbish and used the "first in, best dressed" policy to not change to the footy! :mad: I mean the footy is back on after a drought. And I missed the "Couldabeens" on ABC Grandstand....
    Cheers,
    Clinton

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    Quote Originally Posted by Clinton1
    Lignum, don't be swanning in here telling me "its all good", you have to whinge. ... AND you reminded me that some git was watching pay tv rubbish and used the "first in, best dressed" policy to not change to the footy! :mad: I mean the footy is back on after a drought. And I missed the "Couldabeens" on ABC Grandstand....
    Clint, after every game i go to this year ill send you the ticket stub just to cheer you up

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    Hey Clinton thanks .
    l dunno , this friend looked at them a few weeks ago and says yeah we can fix them up . lt hasn't costed much in money but l was still up on a 5 mtr shed roof at 11 pm last night trying to get pipes fixed to catch a storm that was ment to come over this morning because we really need some water. We've grinded and patched and filled and scrubbed all week then l'm looking at them this arvo and see all these cracks on the outside we've missed so l don't hold much hope . Caught that storm though and they aren't leaking yet so you never know .
    l've only got 7 acs ' laughable to that 92,000 you mentioned but it's an x dairy farm and my seven ac's had the whole caboodle left on it . Abit of a mess so we're trying to just turn the whole place back into a lifestyle retreat type thing , plan anyway . l think l'm winning !
    Cheers mate

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