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Luckily I’m now expensive/dislikable/shit at my job (perhaps all) so I have very little work on, almost never on consecutive days. I’ve had it in the busier past though where I’ve been out on the road without the skidder and then someone's come through with a skidder job they were dallying about before I’d left. I sometimes disappointed them, other times drove back to base (usually five hours each way) to get it. Similarly, have been sat in the van at the end of one job, waiting for a deposit to come though so I can go there for the next day rather than home. Not the end of the world and nearly always worked out but annoying periods of my time wasted by people who could have just done something now rather than after dinner.
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One of the funniest things I’ve seen is my mate standing in his garden with a Browning Auto 5 and two boxes of fags, hoping to blast a mole. Literally hours.
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The uncertainty is the biggest annoyance for me. I’ve had people ask at 08:00 if I can do the next day, I get back to them at 08:01 saying yes and then they don’t confirm (by paying) until 16:00. If they’d paid at 08:05, I could have made the journey at my leisure, seen a friend on the way, made a nice trip of it. Instead, I’ve waited all day and then tear arsed down at night in a bad mood. Got fed up with that so now take a firmer line. Still happy to do short notice at long distance but it’s a matter of pay within an hour or the offer’s dead. I’m also considering changing from a van to a horsedrawn carriage so people will need to book more in advance anyway.
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What are you driving these days, @Big J?
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That guy’s the new Tank Murdock!
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Have you thought about getting a small van?
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A bargain for sale in Southampton earlier. £4.5k for machine, grab, drill and bucket. I paid nearly double that a few years ago. I have occasionally felt the shame of overpaying but it’s been so bloody useful that I don’t care that much. Until the next time I feel sore that is.
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High enough to be informal, low enough to be classy. You can’t pay to move it. Not until I get set up to take yen.
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I have in the past livestreamed myself on facebook, cooking. Once, memorably, a bit pissed up, made a fish pie with some herring from the early nineties. I also air the Bathcast, which is me in the bath, talking about whatever. More fans of that than you’d think.
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Now there’s a solution! A better solution would have been doing it when you mentioned it a couple of years ago of course but I’ve only ever done the odd hole with it. Will give you a call.
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Done. No way to carry on though. Plus my welding is gash.
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I’d use galvanised gate hardware with zerofuchs rendered.
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Not enough tomato but quietly impressed the meat-and-two-veg caterees. Have made pasta but only beginner shape (roll and cut for linguine/tagliatelle type thing). If I was going to do shapes for maximum sauce area, I’d use a bit of threaded rod to roll them out. Food grade stainless obviously, unless it’s expensive, or even slightly inconvenient.
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peds, you beauty. This still delivers.
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It’s pissing down now in fairness. When I have no more holes to drill.
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The ground here has been outrageous. Baked clay with occasional flint and tree root. I rattled a timber screw into topsoil the other day and had to rattle it back out. Couldn’t move it with fingers.
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Was thinking of bucket teeth but edge is neater. Good old doobin. Mark. Remind us of your appraisal of your own machine (in)sensitivity.
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Mecho and Sailor getting on well enough to ride in the boot together. Tensions escalate if a corner is taken too fast and they get thrown into each other. Can’t work out whose territory it is more. Israeli kind of problem.
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This week I have been mainly drilling holes. Anyone know where I can get replacement teeth for the auger (better photo to follow)? Cornwall no help. Selection of local dealers just said good luck mate.
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Study Finds Last Year's Hatebreed, Slipknot, and Gojira Tours Were Terrible for the Environment | MetalSucks WWW.METALSUCKS.NET Turns out touring is bad for the planet. Though according to this, a lesser offender. Who knows. Lies, damned lies and statistics.
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Meanwhile Rammstein are still making wars look eco friendly.
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Foreign bastards. Probably don’t even speak English.
