kevstar said:
I had to deal with a chap today which we call bull%$£ Brian 🤣 If youve done somit he's done better. :rolleyes: Got bigger bla bla
Anyways he's dealing with this ship & on paperwork he owns it but we know its cause if somit happens to it he's the fall guy. lol

Told all the lads when I wasnt there that he'd scrapped 200 ships funny cause I scrapped two with him 5 years ago &
they were the first ones he'd done. Came down & tried to tell me how we can move forward to get a 30T winch off.
Ok its got a about a mile of 1" cable on the drum, I should strip all the hydraulics off it & strip the gearbox off it so it
would turn so we could get the cable off. I let him waffle on n on n on & just agreed with him. When he buggered off
the lads turned round & said he talks so much poo its unreal. 🤣🤣

I told the lads dont do what he said get me a burning torch.....I burnt through the brake which is like a big horse shoe going
round the drum activated on/off via a hydraulic ram & since the diddys cut all the wires/pipes no chance of getting it to work.
I cut the horseshoe into 3 bits & we levered it off then I cut the drive chains going to the gearbox & pumps...............

and like magic it spun round 🤣🤣

Theres always one isnt there...
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I do love your stories.
You could get paid to do after dinner entertainment!!
Must be fun doing your job, well sometimes!! 🤣 🤣
 
Stanleysteamer said:
I do love your stories.
You could get paid to do after dinner entertainment!!
Must be fun doing your job, well sometimes!! 🤣 🤣
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Part 2 of the winch wire.............

To make it easier to turn I cut the massive weights off the drum..
Got some wire off then up round a pole where the wheelhouse was....got a bull dog cable clamp done a loop then attached it to the manitou pulled so far then it slipped so got another one & used the ugaduga on them & tried again the started to pull it down the pier its about 300m got a quarter way down then one of the workers drove up n abandoned his motor on the pier ffs
the cable is mega tight & all I could think of was Ghost ship when the cable snaps. :oops::oops: Me trying to shout get it moved
then some half drunk dude appears from nowhere walking past the machine down to the ship wots going on here :eek::eek:
Me shouting whistling on the radio & phone loud speaker to stop the manitou. :mad::mad::mad:

I gave him a mouthful & told him to *sixth letter off the alphabet* off I was very angry.. if that cable came off omg
New plan now in place to just cut it with the sthil saw as its taking too long. Tried burning through it but it has copper
in the middle O goody 🤣🤣

My throat hurts...not surprized tbh lol
 
Adapted a set of forks for me mighty Fergie out of an old set of forks off an old front loader.
Got a job to do for ‘neighbour’ - can you shift a pallet of paint into the garage

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Turns out there was 300 litres on the pallet 😳
Took four buckets off and the front wheels were just skimming the ground 🤪

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A set of 19” front wheel weights will need to be found
 
Have a great day and weekend my friends , Hope all is well

Nothing like having the scare of ur life , in this weather I normally leave my kitchen door open all the time

Nodded off on the sofa and was woken up around 6am thurs with something jumping on my legs , thought what the hell , found it was a black tabby cat that came in out of the rain and looking for food as it was meowing like mad so gave it one of my tins of tuna along with a bowl of milk , my god I thought it was going to lick the glaze off the bowl it was that hungry 🤣

it spent the day snoozing upstairs so left it to rest and get dry then it left when it started to get dark again, assume it had just got lost and will find its way home , didn’t have a collar either
 

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gstuart said:
Have a great day and weekend my friends , Hope all is well

Nothing like having the scare of ur life , in this weather I normally leave my kitchen door open all the time

Nodded off on the sofa and was woken up around 6am thurs with something jumping on my legs , thought what the hell , found it was a black tabby cat that came in out of the rain and looking for food as it was meowing like mad so gave it one of my tins of tuna along with a bowl of milk , my god I thought it was going to lick the glaze off the bowl it was that hungry 🤣

it spent the day snoozing upstairs so left it to rest and get dry then it left when it started to get dark again, assume it had just got lost and will find its way home , didn’t have a collar either
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Think you may be the owner soon 😂 beautiful cat
 
Morning All. :D
The fibbing device in the bathroom tells me I have at last managed to get to just under 14 Stone. :)
I saw my Osteopath yesterday and she straightened out all of the kinks put in by the worktop cutting and kitchen re-jigging the day before. Then of course I drove to the tip and unloaded all said old worktops out of the Rangie and put all the kinks back in.:)
Achy as an achy-thing this morning. :(
Onwards & upwards, have a great day! :D
 
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