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We've got stihl gear at work that sits for month and months with partial tanks of fuel in them with no ill effect. Chainsaws, augers, concrete saws and all of them are still going fine. The concrete saw is a bit sensitive to being tipped over (floods the carb and soaks the air filter) but that's also about 20 years old now
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May 3, 2017 04:57
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Well I just got in writing that if I've got annual leave I should take it before end of financial year because we're completely over budget and there's going to be no funding until next year so I might as well be on holidays instead of sweeping out the shed. Even the state lands manager suggested we all take 6 weeks leave...
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May 10, 2017 06:50
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:6 weeks? Holy poo poo. We're allowed to hold onto our leave year to year, but we're meant to have below 150hrs accrued at all times, which is down from what we used to do which was 250hrs in accrual. At one stage before our house was built I was banking up as much leave as possible to take 7-8 weeks leave to finish the house off when we got hand over, but because settlement got pushed out i was always sitting with about 7 weeks accrued up waiting. Then I got my leave paid in, as well as three extra weeks that had not been paid in for working weekends for three years, on top of the 7 weeks sitting there. 14 weeks accrued up. 532hrs. My manager had a shitfit and i had 6 weeks off for a holiday, then took 8 weeks off for the house, then had another few holidays until i got it back down to 150hrs. Tho we're all thinking at work that its 100% not our fault that our management hosed the books up so badly, so why should we be forced to take our personal leave because they cant afford to have us actually do any work other than mindless busy work. I'll happily take time off if they dont want us kicking around at work, but only if its absent on duty leave with full pay. Otherwise they can pay me to come in and sit in the lunchroom.
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May 10, 2017 09:02
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InitialDave posted:You can partially or totally shut down and significantly reduce other overheads. Pretty much this. If we're at home and not at work we're not driving around burning diesel, not using power tools using 2 stroke fuel, they dont have to try and think of work for us to do that doesnt require buying stuff to fix poo poo. Its less stressful on a budget thats already $10K overspent and climbing to not have anyone around. Our wages are already accounted for- they get taken out of our sections budget and put aside at the start of the financial year- We get autopay so regardless of what we do for a time sheet or even if we put a time sheet in we get paid our base rate and then they modify the next fortnights pay according to your time sheets (Or several fortnights later if you only get near a computer after a month or so to do the timesheet)
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May 10, 2017 12:32
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CommieGIR posted:I'll keep that in mind, and that is a worry of mine: I want to avoid agressive steroids at least, as I'm already on them for asthma With my partner and her Ulcerative Colitis its stress thats the big trigger for her, so she took the massive plunge of a radical career change (went from environmental sciences in construction to teaching of all things!) and it caused 99% of her symptoms to settle down unless shes having a rough time at school (like getting thrown in the deep end by getting a term contract two days before the term starts because the last teacher just walked out and took all their resources with them) which causes them to flare back up again. Diet really didnt help her much, but it had a MASSIVE impact on her brother who has UC AND Crones. He cut out all gluten, basically went to veg+meat only and its made him go from not being able to leave the house to nearly having a normal life.
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May 16, 2017 21:48
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Flynn is drat near textbook treason (Aiding a comforting enemies, which ISIS certainly is). No wonder he was desperate for immunity. I think the entire dump is on fire now
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May 18, 2017 11:39
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I'm eventually going to drop a 1080 into my rig when I have some spare money but that's mostly cos I refuse to run my dell 27" at below its native 2560x1440 resolution.
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May 24, 2017 12:25
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gimpsuitjones posted:600 odd km from home, noticed a bit of play in my RF wheel bearing. Gonna just ignore it til I get home Ive run wheel bearings so loose you could physically wobble the wheel while stationary and also run them so tight they turned the races blue for thousands of kms no worries. When the taper roller bearings in your wheels are nearly an inch thick across their face you can get away with a lot of abuse 
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May 25, 2017 09:41
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I'd love a set of those, but i dont think it would have the travel to lift the landcruiser or the other 4wd's i service up off the ground by the time the suspension reached full droop and i would be TERRIFIED to get under a 3.2+ tonne 4wd held up by one those. Its sketchy enough on a 3.5T hoist cos they REALLY shouldn't noticeably labour when the load comes on.
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May 27, 2017 04:37
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We've been a metric nation since 1988 here in Australia and you still get hosed over by hardware shops stocking American Fuckery bolts and nuts. At least we only have BSP threads on our plumbing fittings.
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May 28, 2017 05:31
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Then theres the perpetual slapfight between ISO metric and JIS metric. Same thread diameter, same thread pitch, different loving head size. A JIS M8 is a 8mm thread diameter with a 12mm head. An ISO is an 8mm thread diameter with a loving 13mm head on it! Just to make you have to crawl back out from under the car to get a second socket halfway through removing a bashplate.
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May 28, 2017 06:13
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:JIS cross head screws can suck a dick Robertson drive for lyfe!
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May 28, 2017 06:46
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Enourmo posted:Welcome, friend. Join the brotherhood of "gently caress THIS poo poo" former mechanics. Everyone keeps asking me why Im not a professional mechanic with how good I am at fixing mechanical poo poo and it boils down to the fact that if i did this every day, i'd hate it. Never make your hobby your profession unless your 100% comfortable with resenting your hobby for the rest of your life.
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