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TGB

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  1. When you get the chance, check the bar rails for signs of pinching. Maybe the old chain has drive links, that have worn thin and now easily glide along the bar. Whereas the new chain's drive links are thicker and are being squished by the worn rails. Just a thought.
  2. Fitting a few panes of glass after vandalism, I measured and subtracted 1/8" off a length & a width for expansion. Popped along to the glaziers, a round trip of 24mls. Gave him the measurements. He asked if I wanted it that size and I confirmed the numbers. He asked if I'd subtracted the 1/8" and I said yes. He cut the panes, 4 or 5 and off I went. I'd prepared the frames and applied the bedding putty but when I offered up the first piece. I found he'd cut all of them 1/4" too small. Back I went to complain and have the new pane redone at his expense. He seemed surprised to see me return. I went over the measurements again! And what did he say, "When I asked you before whether you'd taken into account expansion and reduced the size. I naturally assumed you were lying to me, because everyone does. And subtracted an 1/8" plus a bit all round for your error. Everybody has a tape but no one knows how to use it." I assured him I did and gave him the figures for the third time. Explained that he could have the first panes back and that I wasn't going to pay for the replacements, plus I wanted him to stump up for the extra putty I would now need. He agreed to cut the panes at no extra cost and gave me a tin of putty. But I still had to pay for the extra fuel. I watched as he measured the glass and had to stop him as he nearly cut the first pane 1/4" too small. I then had to check the next four before he cut them. The panes were duly fitted and I had putty left over. An interesting way to spend a morning. But due to his error, it was a more a case of measure once and cut twice, with a bit more measuring in between; 48mls on the road and it threw my schedule out for the rest of the day.
  3. TGB

    Ego

    There are some people in every walk of life, for whom power and the will to exert their personal beliefs over the ideas/experience of others, is paramount to their existence. Without expressing themselves at every opportunity, be it needed or not, be it wanted or not, is a life not worth living. It might be irritating, even damned annoying. They might not even know they're doing it, it's just their way; and you won't change them. One just has to live with it.
  4. Take the new chain off and check that all the links move freely.
  5. I presume that's the info off the bar. What did it say on the chain's box?
  6. Pretty impressive!
  7. He said it - stone him, stone him.
  8. TGB

    6 Nations.

    Hi hum. Next time maybe...
  9. Liked being a forklift & multi-drop truck driver. Should never have given it up for a terrible 7-days-a-week job that paid worst. Just to please my then girlfriend. And should have carried on soloing at E3+; carried on both kayaking & canoeing whitewater; definitely have shot Colwith Force in the kayak I bought especially for it; asked her to marry me and gone to work in trees sooner. All while I still had the muscle tone and lack of excess bulk. Oh. And I should have gone with the Bultaco Sherpa and not the Montesa Cota crap, that was the first batch of white Cotas.
  10. Jump pack.
  11. TGB

    Very lucky!!

    He's tried BASE jumping and decided to was too tame, as was rodeo. So he's taken up novelty tree cutting.
  12. You could also try: http://www.oldrailwaylinegc.co.uk at Three Cocks.
  13. Thurs was fine, Fri it snowed, Sat fine and drizzle today.
  14. Might take a while. But hope you make a full recovery and be back in work in the future.
  15. Nice.
  16. Trouble is, there's too many more of them. One less is just a drop in a very big ocean.
  17. Why am I not surprised.
  18. What are you intending to keep in or keep out?
  19. He was/is one of my favourite authors, insightful and outright funny. They all get my vote but the books featuring Rincewind / Vimes / Carrot / Death / Lord Vetinari / Cohen the Barbarian are my favourites of favourites. First DW novel I read was 'Mort'. As I read it, I laughed as much as when I'd read 'The Throwback' by Tom Sharpe. Different realities but just at funny. I gather there's another book due out next year, he was co-authoring with Stephen Baxter. It's sad to think there won't be any new adventures told of the DW. But as others have said, he has left us with an excellent library, filled with DW lore, other realities and ongoing laughter.
  20. PW Botha - ok I admit he's dead. If the BBC are going to hire someone with similar outspoken views, as grizzled JC. (JC is 54, I've always thought he was a lot older than that.)
  21. Imagination and madness in equal measure.
  22. I notice the petition to save him is up to 25,000. I wonder how many have signed the petition to sink him in the Marianas Trench. Though that would be pollution on a somewhat grand scale.
  23. I was just wondering and now I know. Both you and Chris Sheppard have answered my question.
  24. Out of interest, a question to the OP; do you personally know the cutter who felled and left them in their present position? And can you ask them why they left the tree so?
  25. His problem, your saw, your fuel, your time. Do it for the wood if you want but don't pay him for it. Or... do it for the money, with disposal of the wood included in price.

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