Don't you hate it when you loose a bit of kit argggggh

[Dannyg8810]

so the other day i was install 2 400v commando sockets and after I'd finished testing my modular interchangeable bit and handle no were to be seen or found out of a set so no I have to get a new one ,

Any one else lost anything recently on the job ?

 

[SparkyChick]

I bought the Makita site radio last Christmas, one of the best purchases I've made

I'm looking round the north Pembrokeshire area, possibly a little further up towards the Brecon Beacons. The plan is to get somewhere with a couple of old outbuildings to convert into holiday lets.

I bought the Bosch one with charger, shame it's a slow charge, not that I've heard much of it today... ear plugs in for grinding and chasing Walls are skimmed in some hard as nails render, absolute mare.

The Beacons, love 'em. Used to work designing/building/maintaining cash handling and ticketing machines in that part of the world.

I'd love to move up that way, but decent property is a bit on the rich side. Unless of course I make a mint as a spark

 

[richy3333]

I reckon there's some sort of tool leprechaun, that mischievously hides your kit, only to return once you've bought the replacement. I had my meter cupboard key on a long piece of wire, which when not being used was hung around my gear stick in my van. Its always lived there. Went to use it the other day, and it was gone!

Searched around for a few days, until finally given up and bought a new one. This time, the old ones not turned up yet, but I bet it will.

In my experience the leprechaun is often called a joiner. Fudger knicker my cutters the other day. Had em years. Sharpened how I want them. What was more annoying is that I had to immediately buy a new pair and then found home with my original ones!

 

[happysteve]

I lost a cheap LED lamp the other week. I found it a few hours after I'd lost it, when I took up some other floorboards nearby. Usually when you lift boards you don't expect to see light... proper confused me for a few seconds...

 

[Dave OCD]

Almost lost a cat under floorboards a few weeks ago,true !

 

[Toneyz]

Almost lost a cat under floorboards a few weeks ago,true !

Classic schoolboy error loosing the customers cat under floorboards !.

 

[Dave OCD]

Yes but this one stayed silent and out of the way, the owner came home later in the evening and heard a noise then undid about 20 2" screws by hand [and she's 72]

 

[Pete999]

Classic schoolboy error loosing the customers cat under floorboards !.

I nailed one between the carpet and the floorboards once, it was only a kitten though.

 

[telectrix]

haha. reminds me.once done a job, only 2 extra sockets on a RFC. bedroom floors up, cable installed, floors back down, carpet refitted, only to see a 6" lump right in the middle of the bedroom shagpile.

"it's only my smokes" i say. "there's only a couple in the packet. sod it, bash it flat"

so, out comes the hammer. carpet now flat and tidy.

just then, lady of the house comes in.

" Tel, you've left your smokes in the kitchen. have you seen my budgie anywhere?".

 

[Pete999]

haha. reminds me.once done a job, only 2 extra sockets on a RFC. bedroom floors up, cable installed, floors back down, carpet refitted, only to see a 6" lump right in the middle of the bedroom shagpile.

"it's only my smokes" i say. "there's only a couple in the packet. sod it, bash it flat"

so, out comes the hammer. carpet now flat and tidy.

just then, lady of the house comes in.

" Tel, you've left your smokes in the kitchen. have you seen my budgie anywhere?".

The old ones are the best

 

[Midwest]

My Mrs run over one of our cats, which I had to dispatch by clubbing its head on the kerbside, which the kids observed me doing when she reversed the car back. We later held a funeral service, where we buried it in the front garden, only for me to exhume a few days later, cos I realised I hadn't buried it deep enough. Got buried in the woods nearby.

Nothing to do with losing tools, but that's the way with these threads at the mo. EU negotiations to vacuum cleaners

 

[Pete999]

My Mrs run over one of our cats, which I had to dispatch by clubbing its head on the kerbside, which the kids observed me doing when she reversed the car back. We later held a funeral service, where we buried it in the front garden, only for me to exhume a few days later, cos I realised I hadn't buried it deep enough. Got buried in the woods nearby.

Nothing to do with losing tools, but that's the way with these threads at the mo. EU negotiations to vacuum cleaners

You could have finished the Kitty off in a nicer way Mate, still dead is dead whichever way you do it I suppose

 

[telectrix]

could have had a catremation

 

[Midwest]

You could have finished the Kitty off in a nicer way Mate, still dead is dead whichever way you do it I suppose

Didn't have my human killer (shovel) to hand at the time.

 

[Pete999]

Didn't have my human killer (shovel) to hand at the time.

It was that far gone, wring it's neck out of site.

 

[Midwest]

It was that far gone, wring it's neck out of site.

Its head was a bit messy at the time, if you get my drift.