What jobs do you hate?

[gojira]

Plumbing. I hate doing plumbing. I'm horrible at gardening but my wife is wonderful at it, so that works out. I mow the lawn, which she hates to do, so it all works out!

I'm pretty good with electrical (I'm bending some conduit right now for a new run in the garage) and carpentry. I'm getting better with the backhoe (I just got my Massey recently and am relearning old skills/building muscle memory). I still can repair vehicles pretty well, though all the electronic controls are a pain (and I have degrees in electrical engineering and computer science!)

 

[MossRoad]

I have no problem dragging out a ladder and using it for new construction work, I think it's part of the challenge. But if I have to drag a ladder out for repairs, cleaning, painting, pest control, etc... on existing construction, it almost always means that job is going to be a total drag. You'll know when I hit the lottery when you see a boom lift in my garage with my name painted on the side.

The other thing I hate but laugh about is digging a ditch. No matter how successful I have been in life, or how old I get, or how much equipment I own, I still find myself down in a ditch with a shovel at least a few times a year.

That reminds me it's the time of year when I need to dig out the septic tank covers and call "the guy" to pump the tanks and drywell. :laughing:

 

[gojira]

That reminds me it's the time of year when I need to dig out the septic tank covers and call "the guy" to pump the tanks and drywell. :laughing:

Thanks for reminding me - I have to do that too.

 

[California]

That reminds me it's the time of year when I need to dig out the septic tank covers and call "the guy" to pump the tanks and drywell. :laughing:

Bah. Me too.

This is year six, and six year intervals is what I wrote inside the door of a kitchen cupboard.

 

[mapper]

That reminds me it's the time of year when I need to dig out the septic tank covers and call "the guy" to pump the tanks and drywell. :laughing:

Solved that problem by building a cinder block wall around the perimeter of the tank and putting a deck on top of it for my wife to put potted plants on. Pumping time rolls around, I lift the deck off with the FEL, and its ready.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

That reminds me it's the time of year when I need to dig out the septic tank covers and call "the guy" to pump the tanks and drywell. :laughing:

I solved that by only doing it when needed. So far 22 yrs without needing it.

 

[MossRoad]

We have 2 very small tanks, vertical clay tiles with cement lids that fit inside the lips, maybe 2.5' across and 4-5' deep, then a 1200 gallon drywell (lid is at surface on that), out to a leach field from the drywell, as the drywell walls plugged many years ago. No way to extend the lids on those two septics the 3' up to the surface, and I wouldn't want an open air space above them as we get some very deep freezes here. -22 last winter. It would freeze them solid. We get them pumped every other year. I do it in odd years, as it's an odd task. Helps me remember.

 

[Fuddy1952]

Forty years here and never had ours pumped until last year. Then found out it really didn't need pumping, the problem was the septic pipe going down to tank "had done egged" as the drain guy said.
He saw I had a pump...he suggested I just pump it over into the woods. Trees will grow like crazy. (Not to worry... I'll never do it). At some point if it gives trouble I'll put in new PVC. This is rolled up tarpaper they used years ago.

 

[Diggin It]

I hate jobs that don't stay done and need to be repeated.

We have about 300 feet of 7 ft arborvitae hedge that needs to be trimmed once a year. It is exhausting, working mostly with your arms over your head.

Mine isn't quite that long, but it's Privet Hedge that grows faster, so I have to do it more often. Even with various tools and hedge trimmer extension poles, it's still rough work on old arms.

Well try working in it sometime! If you like the heat, I have a job for you running wires in an Attic in July. Hope you like fiberglass insulation (as well) with your heat!

Last time I did that, it was overnight. We started at about 11PM and worked a few hours. Only took a week or so, about six cables to each office.

 

[Diggin It]

How many times have I run wires, drilling the house full of holes, often many before I get it right, ripping off trim, and then getting it all back together perfectly, before the people come home.

Or cracking a ceiling. Worked alarms for a while in the 80s. Guy (not me) got hung up on something in the attic of a rather expensive house. While trying to get unhooked, he rolled or stepped off the rafter somehow and put a nice long crack in a drywall ceiling.

Or falling through a ceiling. Guy working phone systems (me) stepped wrong and fell backwards through a false ceiling onto the concrete floor 8 feet below. Got up, looked at the office people staring at me with their jaws open, brushed myself off and walked away. I have absolutely NO idea how I didn't get hurt. Not even a bruise or stiff muscle the next day.

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Ditches ... always stuff in the hole to clean out.

Septic ... I was going to do that this year, but other things like a leaky roof took the funds. Hopefully next year which will be year 21 since it was done last.