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[cobblers]

Aye, skips aren't that awfully priced all things considered. I did the "9 million tip runs" job when we did loads of work on our old house, the tip was only 2 miles away. My best count was 18 trips in one morning getting rid of hardcore.

I'd have bloody loved to get a skip, but it was a terraced street so we'd have ended up with the skip halfway down the street and the bloody thing would have been filled up by the neanderthal neighbours by the next morning.

[JJ0063]

I could in theory do it by trips to the tip but it’s the type of shit I need to move that makes a skip easier.

For example when we moved in, we made a compost bin out of 7 wooden pallets, I need to dismantle it and get rid of the pallets plus the contents of garden waste/soil out of it. That would be a nightmare by car. 
 

Then there’s 3 sheds of random stuff I need to sort, plus the house. The idea of having a skip I can just lob stuff in makes things way more convenient. 
 

I don’t know how long you get a skip for though, I’ll have to ring and ask. Ideally I’d want it a few weeks so I can sort on evenings and weekends but I guess it’s more like 7-10 days. 
 

Once we get an exchange date, I’ll try and book a skip for a couple of weeks before then. 

[cobblers]

They're not usually in a rush for the skip back, a few weeks is no bother

[Noel Tidybeard]

41 minutes ago, cobblers said:

They're not usually in a rush for the skip back, a few weeks is no bother

indeed getting them to go away can be a lenghthy process

[cobblers]

Just now, Noel Tidybeard said:

indeed getting them to go away can be a lenghthy process

Yup! Mate of mine hired a skip, filled it with stuff and the company just stopped answering the phone and all the doors were locked at their premises. 3 months later companies house showed they'd gone bust, so he rang another skip hire company, told them the story and they happily came and collected the skip FOC. They'd collected dozens in the same situation and were happy for a free skip.

another 2 months after that, one of the original directors of the skip hire place came belting on my mates front door angrily asking "what have you done with my fucking skip?"

 

[JJ0063]

59 minutes ago, cobblers said:

They're not usually in a rush for the skip back, a few weeks is no bother

Just checked and the one I enquired with said up to 10 days, if I can get it delivered at the end of a week and get 2 weekends with it that should be doable 

[reb]

I start my new job today.

I'll let y'all know how it goes.

That is all.

[paulplom]

Good luck Reb.

[paulplom]

My stepson starts his new job today. He's been back from his masters in aerospace engineering about six weeks and I was sick of him hanging around the house and not contributing. The graduate jobs don't come out till next summer apparently.

I was at my mates yard pricing up a wood burner and radiators for a bar that he built on site. I asked him if he had owt going stepson went for an interview with him on Saturday morning. He's put him on the ground works team.

http://www.hffce.co.uk/

[New POD]

Graduate jobs?  You need to be applying 6 months before you graduate. I'd suggest that if he wants to get ahead in Engineering, he tries to get any role in any manufacturing company.  There are  loads of temp shop floor level jobs available at the moment. 

[reb]

18 minutes ago, New POD said:

You need to be applying 6 months before you graduate.

lol

[New POD]

Just now, reb said:

lol

Obviously I still live in 1989, when there was the "milk round" which got me offers at Britsh Aerospace, Lucas, Austin Rover and another I can't remember the name of.  

All required getting a Desmond. Lucas staring salary was £200 a year more than BAe. And £1800 a year more than Austin. 

[paulplom]

He wanted proper hard graft for gains. He's a bit of a fitness freak. Did 65 miles on his pushbike yesterday.

[New POD]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

He wanted proper hard graft for gains. He's a bit of a fitness freak. Did 65 miles on his pushbike yesterday.

https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-63227490.amp

Perhaps he could work in a ship yard.  Don't know what the split between agency and premie will be, but it will be decent money. (Mind you the security clearance takes a few weeks) 

[DVee8]

3 hours ago, paulplom said:

He wanted proper hard graft for gains. He's a bit of a fitness freak. Did 65 miles on his pushbike yesterday.

If hes a fitness freak  the company I work for are always looking for staff, he'll probably get to lift 5-8 tons of car panels a day

[Split_Pin]

Hexham achieved,  lovely place! 

Spending the day here and then off into the wilds of Kielder....

[paulplom]

3 hours ago, DVee8 said:

If hes a fitness freak  the company I work for are always looking for staff, he'll probably get to lift 5-8 tons of car panels a day

Where is it? He hasn't passed his test yet. Is it near a metro?

[paulplom]

5 hours ago, New POD said:

https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-63227490.amp

Perhaps he could work in a ship yard.  Don't know what the split between agency and premie will be, but it will be decent money. (Mind you the security clearance takes a few weeks) 

But that would mean experiencing Barrow.

It's not something I'd personally want to do again.

They still eat their young there.

[reb]

I spotted a lovely Ibiza at work today.

[wesacosa]

my replacement dealer replica plates were coming off the car, so tried to replace the sticky velcro but its pulled a bit of the reflective backing off.  Absolutely gutted 

I seem to be going through one of those phase where everything I do on the fleet goes horribly wrong 

[BorniteIdentity]

55 minutes ago, reb said:

I spotted a lovely Ibiza at work today.

 

[DVee8]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

Where is it? He hasn't passed his test yet. Is it near a metro?

Unipres next to Nissan, Nissan's biggest supplier. No metro stations close.

[Split_Pin]

Kielder Sky Den, some road over!

[stuboy]

Picked up the HT leads for the mondeo and wired in some new halo rings for the foglights..

[reb]

New job is alright.

Got to finish at 4!

[stuboy]

1 hour ago, reb said:

New job is alright.

Got to finish at 4!

what time u start?

[richardmorris]

No pics from work, as there was a sign for once saying no photos. But as I left work this afternoon some presumably very rich person was looking over a mclaren f1 to buy ( a silver one L40 MCL or similar). Their rolls Royce phantom was basically abandoned blocking several parking spaces and their black suited and tied “security” was in a Range Rover. Someone else had a pagani and there was also a Japanese thing with an enormous wing in the same party. Very flash and attention seeking lot- when Nick mason turns up to take delivery he’s on his own! 

[reb]

1 hour ago, stuboy said:

what time u start?

9, got there at half 8 though because there's a garage across the road and I wanted to see if they could investigate the overheating issue I've been having with the 850.

[wuvvum]

Had another rather unproductive weekend despite taking Friday and Monday off work.  Spent far too much time again pissing around with the Maxus, making no real progress - I actually managed to crack off the lock nut on the track rod end, but I still couldn't get the TRE itself to unscrew - the spanner was just slipping on the flats machined into the inner track rod, but I tried bolting the TRE back into position and unwinding the inner track rod with Stilsons and that didn't work either.  So I gave up and I've booked it in to the garage on Wednesday for the TRE and ball joint to be fitted and then a retest.  Hopefully the rest of the repairs that I (and welding mate) have done will be up to scratch, and hopefully the garage doesn't have to spend too many hours changing the bits.,,  Having finally admitted defeat on the suspension parts, I then fitted a reversing camera.  It doesn't work.

I rewired the headlights on the Mazda to make them slightly less bodgy - I fitted a fuse and put a relay in the circuit so that the headlights will only switch on when the sidelights are on, and I also fitted a main beam warning light.  Then I backed the car up onto the ramps to loosen the back box mounting bolts in anticipation of the imminent arrival of the shiny new silencer.  While I was under there I had a poke at a bit of rust, which turned into a hole in the floorpan.  I then picked at a dodgy looking bit on the lip of the sill, which came off in my hand, and further poking revealed that the join between the floorpan and the inner sill on the driver's side is basically made of underseal for a good couple of feet.  So that's going to be another weldfest needed, and has dashed my plans to put it in for an MOT before the winter.  Assuming the V5C gets here before the MOT runs out (which it should do), I'm going to tax it for another year then park it on the road outside the house over the winter, and reconvene in the spring.  I'm not going to scrap it if I can help it - it's too rare for that and anyway I still enjoy driving it.

This afternoon I got the Spacy fired up and went for one last cheeky spin round the block before it goes away for the winter.  It got rather spluttery for a while and at one point I thought it'd cut out, but it kept going and got me home without the embarrassment of having to get off and push.  Next year I'm going to make more of an effort to get it back on the road - I've been mainly concentrating on the Mobylette this year and the Spacy has been sidelined.  Although I suppose the most sensible thing to do would be to wait until the year after when it'll be MOT exempt...

[mitsisigma01]

9 hours ago, paulplom said:

But that would mean experiencing Barrow

They would kidnap him , new stock for the gene pool for future generations