Rain, rain, rain - Is it me?

[steve r]

Started work on a drive upto our stables 2 weekends ago,
have taken out the old drive and disposed of the hardcore through Dans crusher.
The digger decided to blow a pipe while blocking the entrance to someones access and it rained.
Managed to dig out the topsoil yesterday and transport it into our field and it rained.
Today the rain has washed away my waterproof paint lines and the horses have managed to kick my level pins over.
Anyway going to don my wellies and have another go, at least I should be able to see any high spots.

[seanandruby]

had to do a rainwater connection in a manhole2 x 150 and 1x225 pipe had to bung them off for the night to connect all three and bench. that was Thursday , the plan was to go in early Friday and De_bung em. due to unforeseen circumstances i have had to leave them, so cant release them until tomorrow...tsunami here we go. wish me luck Ti's a far far, blah, blah, blah.

[flowjoe]

Sean

As the water rises in the chamber up to your eyebrows remember.

Dont let go of the bung!

Deep breaths :O

[IanMelb]

I've been trying to lay my second course of blocks today. So far everytime I go out, I get about 5 minutes into the setting up (dragging the cement out of the shed, laying out the tools, etc) and it starts to chuck it down again.

I've knocked up a couple of guages (trying so hard to sound like I know what I'm talking about) and have had to bin half of one. Still they were only small ones, so not too much wasted. However, not too much progress either - only about 6 or 7 blocks down

[seanandruby]

itll be drawcord tied to bung and pull flowjoe. ive made that error before with foul and as the old adage goes ....fill your boots. Ian we pray for rain on mondays so we can swerve a shift, rain on sundays and your knocking up compo? GET INDOORS AND SINK A FEW M8. :p lol

[Suggers]

and it rained.

My heart sinks.

The digger decided to blow a pipe while blocking the entrance to someones access, and it rained.

Ray Bradbury - The Day It Rained Forever. :laugh:

[flowjoe]

What a bloody wash out today was!

Great for our business but you still have to work in it.

Hope the rain is warmer tomorrow

[steve r]

[IMG]http://img515.imageshack.us/img515....iveway1
[IMG]http://img515.imageshack.us/img515....iveway2
Soaking wet and peed off but managed to finish digging out at about 6.30 on Sunday.
Stone should be here in the morning ready for the weekend.
(Hope my pics work)

[IanMelb]

(Hope my pics work)

*Edited wrt Tony's post below ...*

[Tony McC]

There's a problem: Steve's piccies are stored on a dynamic site (uses php for the coding). I had to exclude dynamic site content because it was being used for many of the worst "behind the bike shed" pictures posted by the immature one-handed surfers.

I'll transfer the images to my server and upload them for you, Steve.

[Tony McC]

[IanMelb]

There's a problem: Steve's piccies are stored on a dynamic site (uses php for the coding). I had to exclude dynamic site content because it was being used for many of the worst "behind the bike shed" pictures posted by the immature one-handed surfers.

Ah, that's interesting to note.

I'll have a look at the image shack http/php produced page and see if there's a way of getting the picture's direct address...

[IanMelb]

Yep, good news, although it might be a bit fiddly.

If you load up the imageshack page and then right click (in Internet Explorer) on the photo and select properties you can get a URL that points directly to the photo. You can then pop this adress in between the [IMG] tags.

[steve r]

Thanks Tony & Ian.
Didn't know there was a problem with the pics, they were working ok on my and our company computer.
Perhaps I should use another hosting site. Anyone suggest one?

[IanMelb]

There's nowt wrong with the photos, it's just that the forum software is configured to not allow image pages that are generated 'on the fly'