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Title: My Tim The Toolman Moment last weekend
Post by: Bunyip on December 20, 2017, 12:09:49 PM
How hard could it be?

Hire a dingo to dig out a pathway to the front door (on the side of the house and hard to find apparently). Whilst I am at it I will scrape the top off the dirt behind the house to allow for some crushed something to go down as grass will never grow there.

First of all a dingo bucket vs the corner of the house comes out in the dingo bucket's favour, no biggie a bit of mortar will fix that, the bricks were kind enough to break off in one piece.

So time to be more careful with the Dingo, carefully manoeuvring down the side of the house because LB would not forgive a second bunch of bricks being removed. Next minute my leg was getting very wet. Turns out dingo bucket vs tap on the side of the house works out int he dingo bucket's favour as well!

Who'd have thunk it.

Calling a plumber out on a Sunday, he turns up and says "Just another Bunnings Weekend"

No pics as I was too busy running to turn the water off and cussing at myself.
Title: Re: My Tim The Toolman Moment last weekend
Post by: xcvator on December 20, 2017, 12:19:51 PM
Geeze mate, pay my air fare and I'll come finish it for you  :angel: ;D :angel: ;D   (http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/happy/rolling-on-the-floor-laughing-smiley-emoticon.gif) (http://www.sherv.net/)
Title: Re: My Tim The Toolman Moment last weekend
Post by: Bunyip on December 20, 2017, 12:53:14 PM
I thought of you as soon as I did it  ;D
Title: Re: My Tim The Toolman Moment last weekend
Post by: Alan Loy on December 20, 2017, 07:43:18 PM


Calling a plumber out on a Sunday, he turns up and says "Just another Bunnings Weekend"


I love this quote, clearly not his first encounter

The problem with DIY is that most of the time you're doing things for the 1st time.  Still fun though!!
Title: Re: My Tim The Toolman Moment last weekend
Post by: Rumpig on December 20, 2017, 08:03:33 PM
How hard could it be?

Hire a dingo to dig out a pathway to the front door (on the side of the house and hard to find apparently). Whilst I am at it I will scrape the top off the dirt behind the house to allow for some crushed something to go down as grass will never grow there.

First of all a dingo bucket vs the corner of the house comes out in the dingo bucket's favour, no biggie a bit of mortar will fix that, the bricks were kind enough to break off in one piece.

So time to be more careful with the Dingo, carefully manoeuvring down the side of the house because LB would not forgive a second bunch of bricks being removed. Next minute my leg was getting very wet. Turns out dingo bucket vs tap on the side of the house works out int he dingo bucket's favour as well!

Who'd have thunk it.

Calling a plumber out on a Sunday, he turns up and says "Just another Bunnings Weekend"

No pics as I was too busy running to turn the water off and cussing at myself.
sounds on a par with about half the full time machine operators out there I reckon
Title: Re: My Tim The Toolman Moment last weekend
Post by: JusyApples on December 21, 2017, 07:50:26 AM
My neighbour hired a dingo a few weeks ago, it had rained the night before. We had about 15t of turf underlay to move to the backyard. First trip down the side of the house the dingo slid on the clay and the bucket smashed into his brand new driveway. We had to snatch it out of the clay.

We ended up just using it to fill the wheel barrows instead
Title: Re: My Tim The Toolman Moment last weekend
Post by: Pottsy on December 21, 2017, 02:09:23 PM
Don't feel bad Bunyip, plenty of professional operators nick pipes, touch walls etc, they just limit it to one per job!
 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: My Tim The Toolman Moment last weekend
Post by: Bunyip on December 22, 2017, 08:47:01 AM
Don't feel bad Bunyip, plenty of professional operators nick pipes, touch walls etc, they just limit it to one per job!
 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Nobody has ever accused me of doing things by halves :)