The snow is still hanging around but I doubt we'll see anymore. There wasn't a great deal of it but the wind got up and it drifted. The roads were fairly bad the following morning.
The lads have cracked on this week with the boat shed and mighty fine its looking too. The customer wanted it to look rustic and traditional so we have had timber sawn especially for it.
Having said that, it's took some getting hold of. First week it was meant to have been sawn, oh, sorry, only three-quarters has been done. The following Monday only half has been done..??!
Then its ready to be delivered - when ? "This afternoon or first thing tomorrow" (Friday)
Where is it ? "Nah, can't get to you until at least Wednesday or Thursday next week"....
I tell you what, I'll come and fetch the bastard myself, shall I ?
Why the hell can't people just be straight and tell you what is going on so you can organize around it ?
Well I have to admit that the deal has been done - I have bought a Case. I have had other Case products in the past and got on well with them so lets hope this will be no different. I've bought a Magnum 310, low hours, ex-hire. Managed to do a deal and sold my old Volvo loading shovel in the bargain. It is to be delivered down south where the shovel is and it will spend the next 5 months sat in a barn... I know, I know but I needed to do the deal before April. In truth, it's maybe a bit too big for what I need but it came down to price, power and value plus future potential on other projects.
Hopefully I wont have to see it again until next year and all I will have to do is send the invoices. All being well it should do it's harvest/autumn work and then go on to another little project we have in the wings...
Now all I need to do is find a nice 71 or 72 series Magnum for this neck of the woods to go on the pipe-layer. Having said that, an old 8000 series JD would do.
I was offered a tidy Ford 8730 a week ago but the days of being cooked at the front and back as I sat in a little bubble of tepid air-conditioning are long gone - Been there, done that, got the sweaty, dust covered T-shirt.
I still have my Defender at the moment until the end of the week apparently. You know, I'm going to miss her when she's gone. It's been a good truck really and the best Defender I think I have had (and I have had a few) lets hope the Discovery will be as good or even better (I would like to think it will be better, yes, far better, faster, more comfortable etc)
Hellif I haven't gone through some wood on the old wood-burner of late. I get in and rev it right up and it's fantastic. The other night I thought the top of it must get really hot so I decided to get a can of beans, open them and sit them on top of the wood-burner until they cooked and then I would do some toast and have beans on toast - lovely !
After half an hour I thought F*ck this, shoved the luke warm beans in the micro-wave and did the toast.
What on earth was I thinking ? I'll be putting my washing through a mangle next...
The poor old dawg seems to have got the squits. He keeps going outside, half running, half squatting and then showering the contents of his knotter like an exploding pheasant.
I might try the Mini-Cheddar's method on him to try and dry him up a bit. It certainly works for me and at one stage saw me pass a gretol' tud which was the size and density of a Hesston bale.
What was I saying about snow ? Just had another dollop.
What a pisser.
Simon and Garfunkel invented the rotary washing line.
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