'Yerse wooden' read abaht ut' - A sewerage and utilitys are marvellous aren't they? saga!!!! LONG! - Timbo in Oz

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'Yerse wooden' read abaht ut' - A sewerage and utilitys are marvellous aren't they? saga!!!! LONG!

Timbo in Oz

Many moons ago we had problems with our sewage backing-up and had a lot of orange ceramic pipe (on our block) replaced wirth thick wall UPVC, - and an additional riser of - placed on 'the boundary to their responsibilities' - to tell one you that you HAVE a back-up again, still! .... But also helping to determine on which side was the problem, and who was gonna fix it / pay for it! Its big advantage.
Mind you - even then - there were clearly ferocious tree-root problems DOWN-stream as well!..... > which the utility di have the graciousnees to cut out, with the appropriate flexible monster-tool.
[I am here hoping that you Yankees rebs and C'nucks dig that the word tool down here has some additional and in this case apt meanings -
as in - " 'es a bittuva Tool, innee? "
AND Sorta OT. These upright 4-5 inch pipes are known as 'boundary risers'*, a phrase Soxie at least will recognise as rhyming with a very Aussie job name, though I bet a few texicans, montanans and the like will know of the JOB but, by a different phrase, more later.
]
As could be predicted with our new run - it has since always been 'downstream' of the boundary - they have not only had to keep coming back, but last Saturday week they came again on my call and it backed up again last Monday.
Given that it was not clear whose reponsibility it was for the manifestly serious earth entry issue found on Monday midday, I had to get a plumber in privately. Initially*.
After his visit and a further visit by the utility - it is agreed along with much sucking in of lips and saying it looks pretty crook maaaate that the poor old PVC junction has failed at its bottom.
Now prima facie ------whodja reckon has caused that, eh? I don't own a tool that long, not one!!!! ( no-one I know does ;-)! repeated visits!????? .....
So I'm not acknowledging paternity for that lil old fuck up, am I!
and got a bit stroppy when I learned I might have ter wait a few !@%$##& DAYS for a private plumber to bring a digger and even THEN we still might be up for some of it.
While the dilute-shitty water leaks across my frontage and down the rainwater drains past my neigbours homes!
So today they come and dig a huge HOLE, by HAND, remember 'digging in' Bwkie!? as in for real maaaate!. .......
[stages; Shell scrapes, slit trenches to 4ft, to 6ft, overhead cover stages!!!!] AND digging the bloody orificers trenches, and the bloody CP's and all the other bunkers, the RAP and the Ammo bunkers etc etc]
and in doing so ......
wait for it, .......
wait for it, lay down Rover!!!!!
the private Plumber brought in by the utility - cuts through our mains water pipe!
Johnboy comes back from his landscaping work about 430pm nackered and feelthy-sweaty and wanting a shower!

*&^%#@!!!^*((()))))_+_ B'LUSHHHHHHHHH! even me!
the next bit? More?
Yep! the plumber doesn't tell me!!!
Unknown to me he does tell the utility, who I ring and behave in a somewhat TERSE manner. Thye by then have two teams on their way here, one to remove the exposed riser pipe and one to give us a new section in the water main pipe!
So I walks over to the big hole in the ground, and says to the assembled crews "Not good enough for a command post Sergeant, needs to be deeper, and a LOT wider!", and only one oldish bloke got the joke!!! Bummer!!
they are paying for the lot, thank God!!!
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Boundary jobs?
Among the roles on our BIG sheep / cattle / both propertys - some approaching England in area - there's the job of 'boundary rider'!
- responsible for keeping the fences up and dug in (against rabbits), and dealing with ours/theirs strays to either side of the boundary, etc etc.
Long lonely days job, and huge distances ridden, and carries with it another Aussie term - the 'boundary rider's hut' - several of per property. A primitive abode.
Which I use as the notional site for a meeting between two neigbouring sheep-cockies (the refined word being 'grazier') the story being about them meeting under the awning of one such hut -
which keeps out some of the steadily roaring rain, like they haven't seen for a decade, but has been coming down like this for a few dasy now, constant ....
and talking about the likely rate of rise of the flood waters, and which route in the circs (very flat is inland Aussie), to take to the Royal Show with one's prize merino ram/s.
and the cockie with dreams of the finest herd in Western Qld, after considering the issue, says
"Y'know I think I better take the missus, she's stood by me through this, and all the other droughts!"
So if I ever do make it to either West-fest, Ribfest, or whatever, and you have any ex-cheerleaders among the ladies, do warn em not to say 'I/we'll be rooting for YOU, Timbo!', just don't or I might believe em!
;-)
Toodelooh!

Warmest
Timbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio Scrounger
And gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'

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Topic - 'Yerse wooden' read abaht ut' - A sewerage and utilitys are marvellous aren't they? saga!!!! LONG! - Timbo in Oz 23:39:32 02/18/07 (3)

Ya know Timbo, my day wasn't so bad after all. - Bruce Kendall 11:55:25 02/19/07 (0)

Photographs? two, of the HOLE! - Timbo in Oz 00:21:32 02/19/07 (1)

www.photobucket.com (nt) - mhardy6647 09:11:35 02/19/07 (0)

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