what grinds your gears

[DrWazzock]

Tried with cat going in front but he panicked when the hoover went on so had the let him out before he lacerated my face. Nothing for it but to crawl in and hope for the best. Mouse stayed in the gap at end of conveyor while I greased the bearings and hoovered out. Could see his back end and tail and tried to suck him out with hoover but no joy. Left him some bait and a mouse trap at tunnel entrance. He will crack eventually.

 

[melted welly]

Using coronavirus/lockdown as excuse for slackness and laziness.

We’ve had over 3 months t get used to it so pull the fecking fingers out and let’s get on, where there’s a will there’s a way.

Mooching about, eating shitloads of biscuits pretending mundane tasks are stressful massively high pressure situations requiring deep thought and planning ain’t gonna make things any easier.

Turn off the BBC shite-your-pants sensational news stories and turn off the Wombles on Facebook.

Oh and no one cares if you’ve had to cut your own dogs hair, it shouldn’t even be a thing, sort out the fecking priorities in life.

This country needs a kick in the arse.

 

[Courier]

“Self-charging hybrid”

Now there is an oxymoron if ever there was one - All the power comes from fossil fuels but used marginally more efficiently.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Customer has been sending me snotty emails the last month expecting me to pay for materials that were never quoted for and also expecting me to lay said materials for nothing .
Never in ten years have I ever had this greif from anybody

Perhaps this the time to send a big email with the F and O letters in big font. Remove said customer from your list......and move on. Easy.
SS

 

[Lincs Lass]

Perhaps this the time to send a big email with the F and O letters in big font. Remove said customer from your list......and move on. Easy.
SS

Dont have to ,,I got an email from him stating ,,Matter closed , after I gave him a full breakdown of everything he had payed for,, Ide told him he could have all the invoices for the materials and hours worked and asked him how he expected to get another £600 worth of materials and labour out of the work already done ,,he was just trying it on and hoping I was daft enough to fall for it .
Picked the wrong person to try a stunt like that

 

[dudders]

The mouse who lives at the far end of the conveyor tunnel under the bins.
I want to get to the end of the tunnel to hoover it out and grease the conveyor end bearings. It’s a tight squeeze that tapers tighter the further you go till I completely I crawl along with the conveyor between my arms and legs straddling it, with my face down on the top of the conveyor. Can’t lift my head much for the tunnel roof above. It’s a horrible claustrophobic job at the best of times but cornering a mouse and ending up bitten or with it in my boiler suit doesn’t appeal. Sent the cat down and he tried his best but the mouse just hides in the tiny gap between the conveyor end and the end of the tunnel from what I could see with the torch.
Maybe time to enquire about central storage. Nearly had enough of 200 year old grain stores with 1950’s upgrade. It’s a battle to keep them right.
oh well get the duct tape round my welly tops, and find the welding gloves.

 

[ashmore]

Feckin grease..... In all the years I've spent maintaining machinery, I've never once found any relief in the painful job of greasing. Can't find the grease nipple, because its on the wrong side of the shaft, or hidden behind/inside a guard or in the depths of a complicated skin removing machine. Then of course you can't get the bas##rd grease gun end on the nipple. I've tried fancy "clip on" ends, but they don't fit every situation. And when you get them on, invariably with one hand, if there old, they immediately fall of before you've put any grease in. Assuming you conquered this little problems, you still have to hold a slippery grease covered grease gun, usually with one hand, because you're holding the end on the nipple. Then of course the bloody thing will be empty.
Sort all this out, and pump away hoping for that nice little squelch noise telling you there's enough in the bearing etc. But you don't....you just get a massive blob of grease that ends up on your overalls.
Greasing the motor on my drier today I couldn't get the end (newish one) to stay on. When I managed to grease it I couldn't get the bloody thing off, and eventually pulled the press in nipple out. [emoji51]

 

[Courier]

Now Oxfordshire County Council Conservatives have tabled a motion to cancel the 2021 elections across District and County - fearful that the Brexit and CV19 crisis will envelop and destroy their chances.

They propose to force through Unitary authority and lock in their rural power under FPTP.

 

[Pan mixer]

Feckin grease..... In all the years I've spent maintaining machinery, I've never once found any relief in the painful job of greasing. Can't find the grease nipple, because its on the wrong side of the shaft, or hidden behind/inside a guard or in the depths of a complicated skin removing machine. Then of course you can't get the bas##rd grease gun end on the nipple. I've tried fancy "clip on" ends, but they don't fit every situation. And when you get them on, invariably with one hand, if there old, they immediately fall of before you've put any grease in. Assuming you conquered this little problems, you still have to hold a slippery grease covered grease gun, usually with one hand, because you're holding the end on the nipple. Then of course the bloody thing will be empty.
Sort all this out, and pump away hoping for that nice little squelch noise telling you there's enough in the bearing etc. But you don't....you just get a massive blob of grease that ends up on your overalls.
Greasing the motor on my drier today I couldn't get the end (newish one) to stay on. When I managed to grease it I couldn't get the bloody thing off, and eventually pulled the press in nipple out. [emoji51] View attachment 893616

We all share your pain. I have bought a milwauki grease gun which has made the job slightly better, one hand on the gun and it has a headlight to see the ones that hide in the dark.

 

[Wombat]

Gloves, I have relatively small hands and every pair of fecking gloves I buy are designed for gorillas with 6 inch long fingers.

Got to the point I never wear them and just have a big tub of swarfega and take loosing a nail as an occupational hazard.

 

[The Small Bale Company]

Gloves, I have relatively small hands and every pair of fecking gloves I buy are designed for gorillas with 6 inch long fingers.

Got to the point I never wear them and just have a big tub of swarfega and take loosing a nail as an occupational hazard.

Get a bigger set of hands

 

[Pilatus]

Black face masks, for goodness sake Covid-19 has caused havoc amongst mankind. Don’t make it worse by wearing BLACK faces masks!!!! It is so say summer bright and sunny , so if you need to wear a mask wear a Patterned or brightly coloured not Morbid Black!!!!!

 

[bovrill]

Gloves, I have relatively small hands and every pair of fecking gloves I buy are designed for gorillas with 6 inch long fingers.

Got to the point I never wear them and just have a big tub of swarfega and take loosing a nail as an occupational hazard.

My hands are like a bunch of fat sausages, and the biggest gloves I can usually find only half pull on, and I end up wearing them like those kids who wear their trousers halfway down their bums, resulting in a similar situation to you: an inch of loose material flapping about at the end of my fingers.

Lidl had some size 13 work gloves in once, but they were horrible things, even though they fitted properly!

 

[Celt83]

My hands are like a bunch of fat sausages, and the biggest gloves I can usually find only half pull on, and I end up wearing them like those kids who wear their trousers halfway down their bums, but with a similar result to you: an inch of loose material flapping about at the end of my fingers.

Lidl had some size 13 work gloves in once, but they were horrible things, even though they fitted properly!

I was about to post I've got hands like shovels and how come the "xl" gloves fit my size 8 dress wearing wife!

Something is definitely wrong with the world!

 

[Sals dad]

Gloves, I have relatively small hands and every pair of fecking gloves I buy are designed for gorillas with 6 inch long fingers.

Got to the point I never wear them and just have a big tub of swarfega and take loosing a nail as an occupational hazard.

I have taken to using barrier cream , it takes a while to get into the habit of using it but makes cleaning hands loads easier , I still forget occasionally and then realise how good it is

 

[melted welly]

I was about to post I've got hands like shovels and how come the "xl" gloves fit my size 8 dress wearing wife!

Something is definitely wrong with the world!

designed by weedy city types for weedy city types.

I recently bought myself some clothes online from the 21st century. It seems for my shape of body, you’ve either to suffer tops that are too tight across the shoulders, or if shoulders are ok, there’s an acre of loose material around the middle.

one of the tops I got fits fine, but I can’t roll the sleeves up coz the cuffs won’t stretch over my fore arms, getting it off is a bit of a palaver too, and I’m no Geoff Capes.

and if anyone’s thinking “Why not just send them back then?”.........Because I’m a man, and going thru the hell on earth of clothes shopping once is bad enough, so I‘ll just suffer my ill fitting clothes thank you very much.

 

[bumkin]

i can identify with thegreas gun thing and the gloves as far as clothes go its bloody impossible to get stuff that fits a working man first problem is apparently i have a broad back if i buy a coat to fit there is a mile of material on the front flapping about then the sleeves are tight not to mention the arm holes as far as trousers go usually they are tight across the ass or loos around the waist i have found that orvis do good trousers that are roomy and higher around the waist thus avoiding builders cleavage but they are costly and dont get me started on boiler suits

 

[Paddington]

Ordering clothes online where the sizes are given as S,M,L, XL etc but no actual measurements are given. You then have to trawl through their feedback to find that Dave who has a 42 inch chest thinks that XL was OK, but another time he would buy an XXL.

 

[bumkin]

Ordering clothes online where the sizes are given as S,M,L, XL etc but no actual measurements are given. You then have to trawl through their feedback to find that Dave who has a 42 inch chest thinks that XL was OK, but another time he would buy an XXL.

so what would a 52 inch chest be?

 

[Gerbert]

“Self-charging hybrid”

Now there is an oxymoron if ever there was one - All the power comes from fossil fuels but used marginally more efficiently.

"Range extenders" in an electric. It's a generator you lazy copy-paste-whatever-the-manufacturer-wants twit.