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
