Why is everyone attacking my 7?
Posted: 26 Jan 2008 15:20
We don't have any water restrictions around here, basically because
we don't have any water, unless we catch, store, & pump it ourselves.
I have a couple of tanks, [5,000 gallons] on the shed, so when the
shed guttering rusted through it was important to fix it, quick like.
Six by 6 meter lengths of box guttering cost only $240, but they
wanted $150 to deliver it. Bludgers.
Across the road lives a bloke who owns 3 motor bikes, 2 of them
classics, & has a huge, very black beard. I'm sure young mothers
cross the street when they see him comming. But, no, he's not a
Hells Angle hood, he's Ian, the local plumber. I asked hin to get
the guttering for me, with his next stock order.
7 O'clock sunday morning, a couple of weeks later I heard a noise up
at the shed. Fortunately I took a dog up with me, rather than a
shotgun, because it was Ian, & he already had the old guttering off
one side of the shed. Ian's a bit rough, but boy is he quick. In an
hour & a half we had 34 meters of guttering up, & plumbed.
He would only take $220, as he said he made heaps on the materials.
Great bloke, great job, until I opened the shed, & found a very
large truck rear view mirror, on the floor, infront of the 7. It had
come off its hook on the wall, with all the banging around, bounced
off a fertiliser spreader, & the front panel of the 7, on its way to
the floor. No dent, but I had a 2.5" long 1/4" wide strip of paint
missing. Damn.
I'm not too happy with my touch up job, & I think I'll have to pull
the Triumph transfer off, & paint the whole panel.
So, yesterday, I was only driving 20Km up the road to get a flapper
valve, for one of the water pumps, when I got caught behind one of
our local sand miner's trucks. A 10 ton tipper, with an 8 ton dog
trailer, & was he ever in a hurry. He was realy pushing, for such
a big combination.
When the trailer wheels drifted out into the dirt a couple of times,
I dropped well back. Boy, did I get that wrong. He suddenly found
half of Mount Everest, on the side of the road, & picked it up, &
threw it at me.
Have you been there? This bl@@dy great rock has your number all over
it. You watch it go up, up, up, & then down, down, down, straight
into your windscreen. You could speed up, slow down, or hit the
brakes, but instead you sit there like a twit, & drive into the
thing.
At first it was only a large chip, with a 1.5" star around it. It
could have been fixed with the resin treatment. The bloke was coming
to do it this morning, but when I pulled the car out of the shed,
one crack had run 6 inches. So scratch a repair job.
It is saturday, but none the 5 windscreen places that I could get
hold of have a 7 windscreen in Queensland. Its a hoilday on monday,
so I'll have to wait till tuesday to get onto my Triumph bloke who
will probably know where to find one.
Hasbeen
we don't have any water, unless we catch, store, & pump it ourselves.
I have a couple of tanks, [5,000 gallons] on the shed, so when the
shed guttering rusted through it was important to fix it, quick like.
Six by 6 meter lengths of box guttering cost only $240, but they
wanted $150 to deliver it. Bludgers.
Across the road lives a bloke who owns 3 motor bikes, 2 of them
classics, & has a huge, very black beard. I'm sure young mothers
cross the street when they see him comming. But, no, he's not a
Hells Angle hood, he's Ian, the local plumber. I asked hin to get
the guttering for me, with his next stock order.
7 O'clock sunday morning, a couple of weeks later I heard a noise up
at the shed. Fortunately I took a dog up with me, rather than a
shotgun, because it was Ian, & he already had the old guttering off
one side of the shed. Ian's a bit rough, but boy is he quick. In an
hour & a half we had 34 meters of guttering up, & plumbed.
He would only take $220, as he said he made heaps on the materials.
Great bloke, great job, until I opened the shed, & found a very
large truck rear view mirror, on the floor, infront of the 7. It had
come off its hook on the wall, with all the banging around, bounced
off a fertiliser spreader, & the front panel of the 7, on its way to
the floor. No dent, but I had a 2.5" long 1/4" wide strip of paint
missing. Damn.
I'm not too happy with my touch up job, & I think I'll have to pull
the Triumph transfer off, & paint the whole panel.
So, yesterday, I was only driving 20Km up the road to get a flapper
valve, for one of the water pumps, when I got caught behind one of
our local sand miner's trucks. A 10 ton tipper, with an 8 ton dog
trailer, & was he ever in a hurry. He was realy pushing, for such
a big combination.
When the trailer wheels drifted out into the dirt a couple of times,
I dropped well back. Boy, did I get that wrong. He suddenly found
half of Mount Everest, on the side of the road, & picked it up, &
threw it at me.
Have you been there? This bl@@dy great rock has your number all over
it. You watch it go up, up, up, & then down, down, down, straight
into your windscreen. You could speed up, slow down, or hit the
brakes, but instead you sit there like a twit, & drive into the
thing.
At first it was only a large chip, with a 1.5" star around it. It
could have been fixed with the resin treatment. The bloke was coming
to do it this morning, but when I pulled the car out of the shed,
one crack had run 6 inches. So scratch a repair job.
It is saturday, but none the 5 windscreen places that I could get
hold of have a 7 windscreen in Queensland. Its a hoilday on monday,
so I'll have to wait till tuesday to get onto my Triumph bloke who
will probably know where to find one.
Hasbeen
