Dog house

Post: # 69415Post **IanMelb** Sun Oct 16, 2011 1:15 pm

Hi guys, not popped in for a while (busy at work and trying to be a little more sociable at home and not be on the puter all night) but thought I'd share something with you.

Attempting to take down a b'staad leylandii in the garden - it's in a slightly awkward spot so we're having to do it bit by bit.

Anyway, the usual chainsaw is just a bit to unwieldy (and slightly dangerous) to work in the area we've got so I found a B&D Alligator lopper on Ebay (wonderful bit of kit - really, surprisingly good), but I digress. So, I've tied a long bit of rope around one of the boughs, given the other end to the Mrs to hang on to and keep the tension on so I can work on the cut without worrying about where the thing is going to fall.

So, up the ladder, cutting away and I hear it creak - great, it's about to go - look to the Mrs - she's in a land of her own, rope slack, not even looking! PULLLL!!! I cry as the bough starts to swing towards me. She looks up and applies a bit of tension. PULLLLLLLLL!!!! She puts a tiny bit more effort in to it and the thing just whizzes past me and ends up in the old bamboo.

I then spend the next few minutes explaining to her why it would have been better if she'd been paying a little more attention and wondering whether she realised the point of a tension line was to keep the tension on beforehand rather than to raise tension afterwards!

She then has her say - turns out I was wrong and she hates working with me. Remainder of tree-felling postponed - it may be risky cutting boughs when she's around but it'd be lunacy to attempt it single-handed!

Go figure ...

Edited By IanMelb on 1318767402

Post: # 69417Post **seanandruby** Sun Oct 16, 2011 2:37 pm

Has the missus got you heavily insured ??? :laugh:
No one likes working with their partner Ian, so don't take it to heart, at least you know now.....you lucky b******

henpecked · Post: # 69420Post **henpecked** Sun Oct 16, 2011 5:26 pm

Are you married to my wife any any chance? :laugh: :laugh:

rab1 · Post: # 69421Post **rab1** Sun Oct 16, 2011 5:35 pm

consider yourself lucky Ian, my mrs would have got fed up and disappeared long before i got up the ladder.

ambient · Post: # 69425Post **ambient** Sun Oct 16, 2011 6:40 pm

exactly same happened to me but branch took two fence panels out and ruined next doors lawn and it was all my fault not hers

dig dug dan · Post: # 69431Post **dig dug dan** Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:02 pm

women! they never listen

Mikey_C · Post: # 69435Post **Mikey_C** Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:26 pm

woman, can't live with them, can't live with them!!

flowjoe · Post: # 69437Post **flowjoe** Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:42 pm

Are you absolutely sure you told her to pull the rope, not push

Post: # 69444Post **seanandruby** Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:40 am

When your working with your wife, anything that can go wrong , will go wrong and then you see that smug grin and the look in her eyes that say: i told you so

Example; i was repairing a bit of flooring, not hard, straight forward. The wife went shopping so i thought i'd do it quick whilst she was out. I've been doing this stuff all my life but ( you guessed it ) it went tits up. Short story long, i went into a blind panic trying to scrape it back up before she got back, you'd think i had killed someone and was trying to hide the body. Anyway i managed to fill a small recessed bit that needed doing. just has the door opened. '' that it, is that all that big bag done?'' ''Yes darling.'' Yesterday we went to the tip and my wife asked: ''What is in that bag it is so heavy? ( the levelling compound ) ''Oh,'' i said, that'll be the dead body :;): :laugh: :p. It's..... usually '' shall i get someone in to do it

Look on the bright side Ian, at least you have that mahoosive shed you can get lost in. all the best m8.

henpecked · Post: # 69445Post **henpecked** Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:50 am

Mikey_C wrote:woman, can't live with them, can't live with them!!

Cant live with them ,cant shoot em

Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:42 am

i pulled up at mum and dads the other day and dad was up a ladder with the big stihl and mum was in the 3cx backing it up with a wire rope onto the tree, country mum

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Stumpyclifford · Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:00 am

First wife died, second one wont :laugh:

Mon Oct 17, 2011 2:01 pm

henpecked wrote:
Mikey_C wrote:woman, can't live with them, can't live with them!!

Cant live with them ,cant shoot em

...legally..... hahahha

London Stone Paving · Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:13 pm

You asked your wife to keep the tension but dont forget its a womans perogative to change her mind

Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:45 pm

London Stone Paving wrote:You asked your wife to keep the tension but dont forget its a womans perogative to change her mind

maybe she miss understood tension, and thought you wanted her to keep the aggro up hehe