I am ticked..!!!!

[oldpilgrim]

 

[chuck172]

I do believe that the moon suns and stars align sometimes and you best just stay in bed.
One morning I was trying to start a log splitter, priming the carb, it burst in flames singed my hair and eyebrows.
Was pissed off, hauled the log splitter to get fixed (I never pay to get work done like that)
Came home, cast a line in my pond, settled down with a beer, my daughter starts screaming =Dad come quick.
My ford 8n tractor rolled into my wife's car taking out her front fender.
Now I'm really pissed, went down to the pond to get my pole and call it a day-It was gone! Caught a big catfish I guess and he pulled the pole and reel into the drink.
All this happened in a matter of a few hours.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Did you find her contact lens?

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:laughing: I think so. That was over 40 years ago. :laughing: That old house was a hoot. One Saturday Winter morning we had just woken up and were lying in bed when we heard a loud bang, and the sound of water running. I got up and looked the place over, went outside and the outside faucet was sticking out of the wall about a foot. I grabbed it and it came out from under the house with about 3 feet of pipe. The thing had broken/frozen off and completely severed. Another call to the plumber and $$$$$$.

 

[newbury]

I've noticed more problems when under the gun or having an audience...

Often the best results are when you can just roll up your sleeves and take your time.

Deal with a lot of turn of the century plumbing... 1910 and newer... sometimes you just have to go where the job leads.

Sawzall and a set of plumbing taps and dies up to 2" really helps plus an assortment of rubber couplings!

Being able to take my time is essential. When I used to have to rush a job the mistakes could easily multiply on jobs I was doing for the first or second time.

It also greatly helps to have the RESOURCE of TBN to pop on and ask things like "XXX just happened, do I fix it or call a professional?", and of course YouTube videos to be able to watch the moves to splice a wire, weld a seam, etc.

Add to that the prevalence of Amazon and really quick shipping it's possible to get a wide variety of supplies that really make a job easier. For my skimcoating job I had started with a 12" taping knife, then I read about the "Magic Trowel Drywall Smoother" bought a 22" with Prime delivery and that made the job a LOT easier.

I watched youtube and saw better ways to mix the mud to the right consistency.

In my workshops in Mississippi I deal with a lot of "good ol'boy" construction. I've a light switch in a bedroom that turns on a fan 60' and 2 rooms away, water plumbing put together with gas pipe tubing, lot's of lights powered by extension cords with the ground plug clipped off. Most of the "man entry" doors are recycled from narrow RV doors.

 

[ultrarunner]

TBN and the NET are great resources...

Nothing like watching a video to get an idea of what lays ahead.

Dealer wanted $550 each to replace two window regulators...

I did both with total out of pocket of $75 and a Saturday morning... saved at least $1000 plus the inconvenience of having to drop off and pickup the car.

I find I'm at my most productive in Washington... no cell service or Internet... just peace and tranquility...

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Last week I lost my fob for my keyless truck. Two days before that, I lost my atm card somewhere in New Mexico. This week I lost a promotional debit card with a hundred bucks on it. Thank goodness, my you know whats I keep in a bag attached to me...

 

[KubotainNH]

Some days nothing goes right, best to just stop. Sometimes it's a whole project that is jinxed but I hear it builds character...

 

[groundcover]

I cut it twice and it's still too short !

Sometimes your best tool is a telephone !

 

[dragoneggs]

I thought I made a mistake (sp?) once... but I was wrong! :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Yeah and I used to have one flaw... I was conceited... I fixed that and now I'm perfect.

 

[2ndhalf]

I was trained by my dad to get irate about anything that went wrong on a project and we had a lot of them as a kid living in a very run down house my dad fixed up. As an adult I did the same, trained my boys to make a big deal out of everything. Now as an older adult, my son moved back in a year and a half ago and I have decided that he is going to help me with projects and I'm NOT going to get upset. Just laugh off mistakes and issues as they come up. I was a maintenance/electrician for 4 years in a coffee plant so I have a few things to teach him. I have been pretty successful with not getting mad and just laughing at my mistakes and we have done a lot of projects in an older home we just moved to. We have had a few blow ups but by the end of day we are laughing again. I'm really glad he moved back in for a while, I feel like I have a second change to teach him some things without being an @$$. He is shipping off to the Air Force on 4/19.

Learn to laugh at your issues... life is too short to do otherwise guys!