What have you been up to this week

[BlackBedford]

G'day
I have had a busy week.
Spent 2.5 days on top of a large tower on top of a mountain replacing an antenna array for an FM radio station. Checked it all and started up the Transmitter. After 5 minutes something overheated and shorted out in the array and took out the Transmitter. When I tried to start up the backup Transmitter on a spare small antenna, it had faults and would not start. I had a very steep learning curve on large FM Transmitters in order to get one going.
Then another FM radio station starting having reception problems. I had to go 4wding for nearly an hour, at night, to get to the top of another mountain. The main Transmitter had a lot of errors and was only just working. I switched over to the backup Transmitter and found it was dead as. I switched back to the main Transmitter and it would not start either. I worked through the night to make one good Transmitter and get them back on air. I took all the dead bits back to my workshop and have been repairing them.
Now I am traveling to a big Agricultural show in a Jeep Cherokee towing a 2 ton Caravan full of audio gear to setup an outside broadcast for a Radio Station. The radiator has poped! am I pissed or what?

Regards

 

[Bullstik]

sounds like a bad week...
I've just been working on some custom furniture in recycled pine, it smells like car fumes and after work grab the tools and a beer and do abit of work on the van 

[Jeff]

Ive been working in a petrol station.
It took 40 minutes to fill out forms before I could start.
 I had to wear a fluro vest, gloves, and steel capped boots.
I had to have a cone barrier around the van, wherever I parked it.
I had to stop work while a tanker was on site. (something about fumes)
I had a guy on site all  day just to supervise me.
All this, to lay vinyl on the dunny floor.

[obsession]

still on w/comp at home randomly painting doors when ankle permits ....just wanna cut the f thing off.!!

[Adam S]

Buga Craig... I'm resting at home too - my adventure building my garage for the beddy turned sour... was measuring up 2 nice jarrah uprights to frame one side of a roller door, above and below a cross beam.  Positioned the shorter upper beam to test fit, then fit the bottom beam which was a bit tight - so bent over head to knees and hammered it in a bit to make it squeeze... forgetting completely about the precariously balanced 3 foot long, 4" x 4" jarrah beam Id balance up top - which of course proceeded to fall from a 10' height, edge first on my neck at the top of my spine under the base of my skull!  Very lucky boy I can tell ya!  So over the days following that led to a lot of referred pain as areas in my back and neck compensated for each other - so currently I am resting a 'sprained' back along my c2 to c5 vertebrate 

But hey - the garage looks nice!

[obsession]

BUGGA!

[ben]

i worked on my beddy all week.. and did a few hours paid work today.. thats it.. same next week too.. getting sick of it actually. but blew up my other vechile the other day so its work hard or walk.. o and next week is gas conversion..

ben

[ShaneJ]

Where are you mounting your gas tank Ben?

[BlackBedford]

G'day
Well I am back from 2 days at the Ag Show and what an "adventure".
The $55,000 Jeep Grand Cherokee is nowhere as good as a Bedford.

Late Thursday the Jeep sprung a bad leak in the radiator. It took 4 bars of Stop Leak to seal it. The Radiator Bloke strongly urged me not to take it out of town at all. You should have seen the look on his face when I told him that I had to tow a 2 ton van to Nyngan the next day. I took 2 20litre drums of water just in case.
The Jeep does not have an electric brake controller and the van weighs more than the Jeep, so stopping is done with extreme care and sudden stopping is to be avoided.  I did a sudden stop once; to say it was exciting is an understatement. I travel very slowly around town and do not exceed 70kmh on the open road. It makes for a slow trip.
At about 50km from Nyngan an escort vehicle tried to force me off the road by crossing the road into my path. There was nowhere to safely pull off and I could not safely do an emergency stop. I actually braced for the impact, but by the grace of God he managed to get back on his side of the road. It was VERY close.
I had a slow trip home. Thankfully the Stop Leak held out.

[strez]

hey chris maybe you should sell the jeep and use the money to fix one spare van , save the badges and glue them to the van . work will never know