failed projects
Oh man, where do I start? pretty much everything I touch these days is doomed to failure.

Take the latest..... I can drive an excavator - I can do it pretty well, certainly well enough to be in demand for doing odd jobs whenever people need holes dug. However, this involves hiring a machine, which costs a lot. My great plan was to buy my own digger - it would be a usefull thing to have around the farm, and I could make loads of money working for other folks on weekends.
So, at the start of summer we had a stash money set aside to put towards re-roofing the house as the roof leaks like buggery in heavy rain. I dipped into this and bought a 5 ton excavator. According to my calclations, I would have paid it off within 3 months and would be well into profit before the onset of winter, boosting the roof funds.
In reality, the engine died during my first job with it. Unable to afford the frankly frightening repair costs, I spent several weeks fannying about with a welder, some bits of steel and a diesel engine from a crashed car, trying to transplant a completely different engine into the digger. This proved to be a mini project failure wthin the overall digger project, as I could never get over a few niggles with the installation.
Now winter is here, the digger sits at the end of the yard in a slowly expanding pool of leaking hydraulic oil, completely unuseable and the house roof has not been repaired. The daily routine of emptying the buckets in each room that catch the drips is a nice reminder of the complete waste of time and money this fucking digger was.
(dave likes cheese, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 18:26, Reply)