That will be sore for weeksTwas the other day, but...
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"I don't need to use the gaultets - it's only going to be 30 seconds welding.... okay a minute, nope 5 minutes, or maybe a few minutes more....okay maybe I should have put the gauntlets on to start with"
The what I f^cked up today thread...
- Thread starter Danllan
- Start date
I did a last minute welding job a few years ago just before my holiday. I was only wearing shorts and a cotton short sleeved shirt and had an interesting tan line for the beach. Left arm, especially on the inside was red and peeling with the right the normal farmer's tan. My legs were nicely tanned but it was my front that was the strangest, the line of extra fabric that is where you button up the shirt left a white stripe and a white patch on my left tit where the shirt pocket was. I got a fair bit of ribbing on that trip!
Breakthru
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- Location
- Scottish Borders
Do't know about weld burns but Lemon juice takes the sting out of sunburn then followed as above by aftersun cream
barleybasher
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Drilling out a sheared bolt and then the drill followed through to a subframe (there was next to no clearance behind the bolt). oops. not structural, some JB weld and paint later no one is the wiser. Its my vehicle so at least I won't get the guilts.
"So explain to me in words of not too many syllables exactly why you chose to attempt to track across a peat bog when there is in fact a perfectly good road around the edge"
"I've been that way loads of times without a problem, it saves time and its easier on the machine"
"So how much time did you save today?"
- Location
- Yorkshire
dudders
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- Location
- East Sussex
A fox got one of the hens last week, but I caught up with him before he'd eaten any more than the head. So I set my normal trap that's worked well over the years: hen carcase outside bedroom window under a floodlight, tied to a length of baler twine that goes into my bed and tied to the bedpost. Last night he came back. I woke to the tugging on the twine, got up, picked up the 12-bore and just as I'm lining him up, the twine came off the bedhead. Foxy starts off across the lawn with hen and 20 yards of twine attached. I made a grab for the twine and just caught the end of it. So I'm dancing naked in front of the window with a loaded shotgun in one hand, twine in the other, with a fox pulling like a train on the end. And this in complete silence, coz I can't risk scaring him off. Managed to put the gun on the bed and haul him in gradually, but by cripes did he pull, like reeling in a shark. Finally I could hook the twine up, got the gun back and did the job cleanly.
And me an ex-sailor, I do know how to tie a knot - but I get half-way through and think 'that'll hold'...
And me an ex-sailor, I do know how to tie a knot - but I get half-way through and think 'that'll hold'...
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Lazy Sod
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- Location
- Warminster Wiltshire
I thought that you were going to say that you tied the string to your big toe.
so what did your missus reckon to the 12 bore going off in her ear so to speak?
dudders
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- Location
- East Sussex
Didn't wake up - sleeps the other side of the house. I don't live there, as it's rented out. Mine's an old living van, which I can move to anywhere I like. But I borrow a room for this job.
I wouldn't have a big toe if I tied the string there - reckon one of those guys could pull an Alsatian across the yard!
simmy_bull
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- Location
- North Yorkshire
Av Gorritt
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- Location
- NE Ches / SE Lancs
After shave balm works too . Mild-ish sunburn as well .
- Location
- The North
just ran over my new car creeper with the tractor front wheel, its its got 5 wheels instead of 6...
TheTallGuy
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire
I've done that a couple of times!
Danllan
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- Location
- Sir Gar / Carms
dudders
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- Location
- East Sussex
Makes me laugh now, thinking what it must have looked like... But at the time, I was desperate not to lose him. I'd missed a chance the night before, when I scared him away by flicking off the safety catch. So last night the safety was off already, which is a bit dodgy, I know, and makes the silent struggle even more hairy.
I should point out that the beast wasn't trapped - he was just very determined not to let go of that bird. There's another one hanging around, so I reckon the dead hen is good for a couple more nights. Beginning to pong a bit now.
- Location
- N.Lincs
I was off the tractor checking a bale when my phone rang. Put the moisture meter on here......
.......while I got my phone out.
Call ended, jumped in the tractor and when i'd done another round.........FECK......
I saw this...............
......smashed to smithereens
Had it for years
Call ended, jumped in the tractor and when i'd done another round.........FECK......
I saw this...............
......smashed to smithereens
Had it for years
RushesToo
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- Location
- Fingringhoe
@Lodekka one for you I think.I was off the tractor checking a bale when my phone rang. Put the moisture meter on here......
View attachment 896241.......while I got my phone out.
Call ended, jumped in the tractor and when i'd done another round.........FECK......
I saw this...............
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......smashed to smithereens
Had it for years
edited to say - not repair.
- Location
- Luton, Bedfordshire
Sorry but I only service and repair Marconi Moisture Meters, only the best IMHO.
Regards
nigel