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    I often come across these buggers, i know they lay eggs on the ground and protect them, but is there a government restriction on disturbing the nesting site?...i mean to say if some bird luvin greenie saw you run over the chicks/eggs etc, are you in deep **** if complaint is made??
    Quote Originally Posted by Redeye View Post
    plovers make me grumpy, every spring!! if you haven't had the good fortune to come across these darlings, they are also known as spur-wings due to the nasty spurs on their wings which they try and whack you with....like this one this morning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMmCU...ature=youtu.be

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    Default Re: Things that make me grumpy

    $15 in 0.5, 0.10 and 0.20 cents ohhh...

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    Quote Originally Posted by starmow View Post
    $15 in 0.5, 0.10 and 0.20 cents ohhh...
    That is not 'legal tender' for payment.

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    Finding that the cause of the chipper not running too well was about 5 litres of sludgy-water-gunge in the (25l) tank.
    Wondering how it got there.....
    At least tank had a drain plug.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by starmow View Post
    $15 in 0.5, 0.10 and 0.20 cents ohhh...
    My son's school often gets a bag full of coins if I have to pay for an activity or something

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    Quote Originally Posted by seliment View Post
    That is not 'legal tender' for payment.
    yes it is............

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    Quote Originally Posted by bb1 View Post
    My son's school often gets a bag full of coins if I have to pay for an activity or something
    Or paying council parking fines.

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    Quote Originally Posted by seliment View Post
    That is not 'legal tender' for payment.
    http://banknotes.rba.gov.au/legaltender.html

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    this is my week broken rear axle on rover procut

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    Left my radio earmuffs at a clients place a few weeks ago and did about 10 hrs sitting on my bum slashing last Monday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by South East Mowing View Post
    Left my radio earmuffs at a clients place a few weeks ago and did about 10 hrs sitting on my bum slashing last Monday.
    I'd be lost without my radio earmuffs...I'm thinking of getting a second pair as a backup to keep in the truck.
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    Ill say it again and again...
    I HATE BLOODY CLOTHES LINES!
    Everything looks good with a haircut.... ɐuıɥɔ ɯoɹɟ pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ɐ ʎnq ı ǝɯıʇ ʇsɐl ǝɥʇ sʇɐɥʇ

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    Yesterday !!!!!!
    3 calls from people wanting lawns done that day, one by 10.30, was at my best body corpotrate so told them all a big NO
    4 calls from people wanting to sell me free things.
    Than the big one, happily mowing the lawns on my rider with 20 minutes left to go, suddenly ride on mower on an angle, broke the back axle, eventually got it loaded on the trailer, blo?dy hard with only 3 wheels, and took it of to JD for repair.
    Than back and the 20minutes of ride on, ended being well over an hour with the hand mower, as I had to catch it all.

    Now waiting for JD to tell me how much to repair.

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    Digging a hole to put in some plants in the middle of a previously grassed area to hit the bl...dy pvc water pipe

    What made it worse was that it was in an apartment complex with 20 apartments. How do you tell them all what you have done?

    Lucky I had some joiners and glue in the trailer , but glue takes 24 hours to set
    What does everyone else use?

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    I feel your pain. A coupla months ago a client asked me to plant a couple of azaleas in a particular spot. Crack....I hit pvc 10 frikkin cms under the soil. Water gushing out. Swearing. She says "I was gonna tell you about that". I went and got a coupling to repair it and then she decides she doesn't want me to fix it she wants a plumber and implied that it was my expense. I just cracked it. She called a plumber she knows, he fixed it and to my suprise she gave him a massage in leiu of payment. Decided never to go back there again anyway.

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