In the spirit of relaxation, i agreed to go and help our new tenant move his shed on to site. A simple little job. Said shed being a truck body which had allegedly come off a transit sized vehicle so moving it would not be much of an issue - yeah right.
So anyway we packed a trailer with goodies and useful bits of Green Goddess kit and away we went. I recognised the "shed" immediately as a back body off a telecom line engineers vehicle about 20 years back.
The vehicle under it was normally a proper Bedford of some description and the bodies weigh several tons.
Ho hum.
The minor fly in the ointment being the need to lift this damn thing just under a metre off the floor so we could get the guy who was turning up with a car trailer (later) to reverse the trailer underneath.
This project was to be achieved using a trolley jack, a selection of blocks of wood, some bricks and a set of trestles that i was not at all sure were designed to hold 500 kilos each.
A health and safety prosecuting inspectors wet dream of a situation.
To add interest the owner of the house had several children who seemed to be risk blind, but it was OK as the owner thought this looked so entertaining that they came outside with a couple of chairs to see who got crushed first!!
For good measure my jeans which had given a tiny bit yesterday when I was chain sawing had slipped into proper rip mode and my derriere was increasingly exposed to the world.
Anyway, eventually the thing was way up in the air and we had just to wait for the guy with the big trailer to show which was when the heavens opened. Yes, I was by now really happy.
Naturally he was late and at this stage I really did not need the student on the phone asking why there was no water. There was water everywhere but none coming out of the tap
Eventually, the trailer guy turned up the shed got loaded.
Then it was home and, yup we are a water free zone.
Leaving the others to unload the shed I got stuck into the water situation which is looking like we have a pump based problem, something for the morning.
Gosh somedays you really are the fly and others the windscreen
So anyway we packed a trailer with goodies and useful bits of Green Goddess kit and away we went. I recognised the "shed" immediately as a back body off a telecom line engineers vehicle about 20 years back.
The vehicle under it was normally a proper Bedford of some description and the bodies weigh several tons.
Ho hum.
The minor fly in the ointment being the need to lift this damn thing just under a metre off the floor so we could get the guy who was turning up with a car trailer (later) to reverse the trailer underneath.
This project was to be achieved using a trolley jack, a selection of blocks of wood, some bricks and a set of trestles that i was not at all sure were designed to hold 500 kilos each.
A health and safety prosecuting inspectors wet dream of a situation.
To add interest the owner of the house had several children who seemed to be risk blind, but it was OK as the owner thought this looked so entertaining that they came outside with a couple of chairs to see who got crushed first!!
For good measure my jeans which had given a tiny bit yesterday when I was chain sawing had slipped into proper rip mode and my derriere was increasingly exposed to the world.
Anyway, eventually the thing was way up in the air and we had just to wait for the guy with the big trailer to show which was when the heavens opened. Yes, I was by now really happy.
Naturally he was late and at this stage I really did not need the student on the phone asking why there was no water. There was water everywhere but none coming out of the tap
Eventually, the trailer guy turned up the shed got loaded.
Then it was home and, yup we are a water free zone.
Leaving the others to unload the shed I got stuck into the water situation which is looking like we have a pump based problem, something for the morning.
Gosh somedays you really are the fly and others the windscreen
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how do these things manage to time themselves to happen?!!
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