Geez! I hate that! - Page 26

poppa smurf · 06-01-2014, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by The Yeti

Can you raise the stove? Perhaps a 30 - 50mm pad underneath it? (just trying to save you work

Thought about that but it has a heavy stainless kick plate that would then be 30mm off the floor, it sits nicely now.

cost so much and so much work that I will do it properly.

dmat2391 · 06-01-2014, 04:42 PM

hey poppa I get this issue all the time. First I'm guessing you've already tried to lift the legs by spinning the bottom section of the legs clockwise. If that failed I've propped up the Oven then got my stainless manufacture to make a false kick plate to place over the front of the legs so you get a stainless finish for the full front. looks the goods.

Hope that helps

poppa smurf · 06-01-2014, 05:18 PM

yep tried winding the legs right in but I'm still too high, I just went to our local kitchen manufacturer and bought new shorter legs.

of course once she who would possess all things expensive found out the cupboards could be dropped to 850 mm there was no talking her out of it, "They would have been too high anyway!".

Given i am sticking to the original standard height then they would have been no different to what we had before, but there is no arguing with her.......I simply obey.

However it may be for the best, she is roughly 5' 3" and may have found the bench top a bit high.

I don't like the idea of the stove sitting on top of timber or something that may give way over time, the oven door is very heavy, the stove is 900 wide, I do a lot of cooking with my grandkids, nothing fancy, just cakes, scones, pasties, pie's that sort of thing.

My littlies love to open the door to have a peek and sometimes it gets opened a little bit faster than it should, I would hate to see it slide forward and come off the blocks.

there have been instances of one little bloke sitting on the open door of the oven, good job the thing weighs a ton. (well bloody heavy anyway)

Crazy Dazz · 07-01-2014, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by poppa smurf

bloody imported overseas free standing stoves.......850mm high what the hell is going on there, all my carcases are the standard 900 high.

puts the top of the stove almost 30mm below the bench top, no good.

madam simply had to have the most expensive stove known to mankind.

now I gotta empty all the cabinets and change all the feet to get the lower setting.

Oh **** yeah.
I'd always assumed that "600mm" ovens were a STANDARD size for a reason. Apparently not. Whipped out the old 600mm oven (guts was exactly 600mm wide with generous trim alround) plonk in the new German moneypit, and the whole flaming thing, including the surrounds, is only 595cm. Now I have to run ******* beads down each side.

Also, I bought a "pair" exactly as displayed (Oven and M/wave.) Only its not a ******* pair is it. The micro won't even sit on the flaming oven, I have to build a seperate shelf for it to sit on.
No wonder they lost two world wars.

poppa smurf · 07-01-2014, 09:46 AM

if there is one thing I have learned from this kitchen is never to assume, nothing is what it seems.

but anyway sheer ignorance and a good hammer will prevail over most builds.

why do fools park so damn close behind at a hardware store, his front bumper was hard on my tow ball?????????

why do they think I am there?, just a quick trip down to pick up some 100mm reveal and a bit of architrave, 3 mtr lengths fit nicely in the boot and up through the tunnel,makes it hard when some peanut parks right up my clacker and I can't get straight on to the boot.

I parked right out to buggery away from everyone else so I could get a free run at the boot, heaps of carparks anywhere you look, but no, had to park right up my clacker.

never mind, his bonnet made a good rest for my timber while I dragged it in to the boot, few nice scratches on his vehicle to "remind" him to leave a little room next time.

**MercurySilver** · 07-01-2014, 10:44 AM

LOL

you really have to wonder who taught some people how to park huh

Marco?Polo! · 07-01-2014, 12:22 PM

Short sink taps.

People who don't check their animals for fleas, thus giving my dog fleas.

People who don't neatly arrange their cupboards, which in turn makes it impossible to add/remove things without either throwing it on top or have to do a mini-rework yourself. Neatness makes space!

**MercurySilver** · 07-01-2014, 01:25 PM

gumtree ad

Free fire wood please collect

no pics
no description
no amount specified
do i have access, can i get a trailer in? will i need a trailer?

i mean seriously, take a couple of pics

same as the wrecking ads
'wrecking ef fairmont'
and it has a front on shot, one photo, and no description

**** you, i aint ringing if you cant be bothered to at least put a decent pic up and a half decent description

**GasoLane** · 07-01-2014, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by MercurySilver

gumtree ad

Free fire wood please collect

no pics
no description
no amount specified
do i have access, can i get a trailer in? will i need a trailer?

i mean seriously, take a couple of pics

Probably means that a tree has fallen over on their property and they want you to cut it and take it away

The Yeti · 07-01-2014, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MercurySilver

gumtree ad

Free fire wood please collect

no pics
no description
no amount specified
do i have access, can i get a trailer in? will i need a trailer?

i mean seriously, take a couple of pics

same as the wrecking ads
'wrecking ef fairmont'
and it has a front on shot, one photo, and no description

**** you, I ain't ringing if you can't be bothered to at least put a decent pic up and a half decent description

Mate I'm hearing you, as I have a wood fire I'm out for all the free fire wood I can get, but the amount of times I have turned up in places and it's either not suitable (chip board, treated pine etc.) or inaccessible is ridiculous, I learnt early on to ask questions before I say I'm coming and if they have told me porkies (has happened) I simply thank them for dicking me around and walk away, some of these people advertising free fire wood are simply trying to save them selves a trip to the tip and they try to get you to take their rubbish.

I got on to a good one the other day, there was a block being cleared for a new house, and they were dropping a few good size trees, and it was just going through the chippa, I stopped had a chat and for a carton got my self a nice supply that should do a winter or two in a few years when its seasoned off all cut in to 8' lenght's and delivered to my place in the back of their tipper.

I'll spend a weekend cutting it up in to more managable size chinks and let it age before splitting it

When the truck arrived the guy accross the road came over to see the contractors about doing the same at his place, so I may get some more in a few months

**MercurySilver** · 07-01-2014, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by GasOLane

Probably means that a tree has fallen over on their property and they want you to cut it and take it away

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/hove/...ect/1034845422

LOL
at least they put up a photo

The Yeti · 07-01-2014, 02:09 PM

LOL I have bigger branches fall out of the sky on a daily basis I wouldn't be making a trip for it

**MercurySilver** · 07-01-2014, 02:10 PM

nice work yeti
we too are alwasy on the hunt for free fore wood and nows the time to get it

got some last saturday
had to drive and hr and a bit to get it, but we were half way down that way anyway seeign the misses mum, and managed to pick all the long decent sized bits out of the pile they left right next to the end of the driveway and get a whole ute full
got home whipped out the chainsaw and cut it up, a good weeks worth at least for about 10 bucks lpg in the ute
im on everyday looking for freebies lol
just teed up 4 ner corrogated roof sheets in gun metal grey 3 meters long for free, pick up friday morn
now to make a timber frame up and voila a free veggie bed!

jpblue1000 · 07-01-2014, 07:48 PM

drifting!

poppa smurf · 13-01-2014, 01:05 PM

asked for some meranti single bull architrave to be delivered, when it turned up it would not have looked out of place on the nose of a gypsy moth, I could have drilled postholes with it.

other pieces, I swear, if I threw them they would have knocked the flying doctor down and come back and hit me in the back of the head.

I told him to take it back and bring me straight stuff, he reckoned sorry mate you take it as it comes, I told him if I am buying at first class timber rates then I expect first class timber????

that stuff was useless and their problem........waste of time.

if they had taken the trouble to stack it correctly this would not happen, why the hell should I pay top dollar for their ineptness.

**MercurySilver** · 13-01-2014, 01:09 PM

geez i hate four/five odd days of 40+ degree heat
just a tad too hot

Yellow_Festiva · 13-01-2014, 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MercurySilver

gumtree ad

Free fire wood please collect

no pics
no description
no amount specified
do i have access, can i get a trailer in? will i need a trailer?

i mean seriously, take a couple of pics

same as the wrecking ads
'wrecking ef fairmont'
and it has a front on shot, one photo, and no description

**** you, i aint ringing if you cant be bothered to at least put a decent pic up and a half decent description

Been looking at some random eBay stuff and the rubbish some think is a valid description is shocking...

Like this one. A whole page of terms and conditions then the old 'picture forms part of the description' line... picture is useless...

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...obalID=EBAY-AU

Hope the link worked....

What a joke... plenty more like that too.

**DFB FGXR6** · 13-01-2014, 06:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MercurySilver

geez i hate four/five odd days of 40+ degree heat
just a tad too hot

I was just about to post the same. Working outdoors in the heat is the pits!

jpblue1000 · 13-01-2014, 06:17 PM

Over 6 months and 26 pages of 'geez! I hate that! and I still cant lick my elbow.

And Im practicing too, makes it hard to type.

JP

poppa smurf · 13-01-2014, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by jpblue1000

Over 6 months and 26 pages of 'geez! I hate that! and I still cant lick my elbow.

And Im practicing too, makes it hard to type.

JP

if only I had one less vertebrae I wouldn't be looking to lick my elbow I can tell you that!.......just one bone too many......Geez! I hate that.

**Charliewool** · 13-01-2014, 09:45 PM

Methinks that's a rib poppa?
Didn't Marilyn Manson have a couple removed for that?

poppa smurf · 13-01-2014, 09:51 PM

ah! a rib is it!, .........knew it was somewhere around there.

Yellow_Festiva · 13-01-2014, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Charliewool

Methinks that's a rib poppa?
Didn't Marilyn Manson have a couple removed for that?

Lol....

blueoval · 13-01-2014, 10:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charliewool

Methinks that's a rib poppa?
Didn't Marilyn Manson have a couple removed for that?

He did, but for reasons not G rated. From what I heard.

Uncle Niceguy · 14-01-2014, 08:56 AM

a past long ago left for dead coming and biting me in the *** bloody insomnia is killing me!!!! (insomnia i thought had left me for good last time clearly not the damned case, haven't slept since friday!!!!

) seriously ****ed and my temperament as a result aint too flash at the moment.

**GasoLane** · 14-01-2014, 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

Been looking at some random eBay stuff and the rubbish some think is a valid description is shocking...

Like this one. A whole page of terms and conditions then the old 'picture forms part of the description' line... picture is useless...

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...obalID=EBAY-AU

Hope the link worked....

What a joke... plenty more like that too.

After looking at that, and the rest of the items he has for sale, he would have to fall into the "tell 'im he's Dreamin" category

Yellow_Festiva · 14-01-2014, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by GasOLane

After looking at that, and the rest of the items he has for sale, he would have to fall into the "tell 'im he's Dreamin" category

Tell him he's dreaming.... well the above clown certainly deserves to be in that group of sellers but then it begs the question... what category does this one belong in?

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...d=121251555000

No... your eyes are not playing tricks on you...

TK-421 · 14-01-2014, 08:05 PM

Second hand wheel adds on just about every site that says in very good/excellent condition....then with usual gutter rash??????

Ebay. just before christmas i purchased an item that had pick up available or $25 postage. i decided to pay $10 in petrol to go get it, but when i contacted the seller to get his address he said i could only pick up after i deposited the $25 postage into his account. He had already agreed for pick up so I contacted ebay they are able to read our communications and told me to leave him negative feedback and would take no action against me.

Madaya · 14-01-2014, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr.NiceGuy

a past long ago left for dead coming and biting me in the *** bloody insomnia is killing me!!!! (insomnia i thought had left me for good last time clearly not the damned case, haven't slept since friday!!!!

) seriously ****ed and my temperament as a result aint too flash at the moment.

Mate, have you seen your doctor? Nothing worse than lack of sleep.

my_gxl · 15-01-2014, 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Madaya

Mate, have you seen your doctor? Nothing worse than lack of sleep.

Stilnox all the way