Kiwi Phil
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- Jun 23, 2003
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I have been having a major problem with one of my crops for the past 10 weeks - disease. We couldn't work out what was wrong.<br />My wife came in and said there was water running in to the big tank (25,000Litre).<br />After investigation I found it was getting dam water in it. It should only have town water in it. The dam water is rotten. <br />Won't go in to the details except to say one of my gate valves malfunctioned. <br />The tank is full of rotten smelly water. So I drain it. Then I find there is about 1" of black sludge on the bottom. The outlet hole is 4" up the wall. Make a narrow ladder 8' long. Drop it in the tank and climb down. Made a funnel contraption so I can bucket the water out. It is 80 degrees outside and at least 110 inside. The wife kept an eye on me by climbing up the outside ladder and peeking in.<br />I showed her the joke last week about the chap tying his misses up then going out to watch footy on TV. The wife says " arn't you lucky you never tied me up and went and watched the footy on TV" swinging the hatch gently back and forth.<br /><br />After 3 plus hours I was finished and absolutely knackered. I actually had difficulty climbing the ladder and when I got my head out, I stayed like that for a while just to cool down, then when I could get out, I just sat on the top of the tank for a good 10 minutes just to get the body temp down. It was a tough job.<br />I knew my body temp was rising, I could feel it.<br /><br />At 4 am this morning at the market, I told my mad mate Chris. <br />He replied, 'That's nothing. I bought a 223 rifle off the neighbour. My wife wouldn't let me use it. She went away to her mothers for 3 days, so out came the rifle. I looked around the yard to see what I could shoot at, and there was the rooster. I'd been trying to catch him for years, and wring his neck. Anyway i shot him, and went down to pick up the bits when I heard water running. Went around the shed and there was water pouring out of the house tank. Bullet had gone through the shed and in to the tank. Raced up to the house and got a patch. Stripped down and jumped in the tank. Ducked dived down and after a while got the patch to fit. Then when I came to get out, I could just get my fingers over the lip of the hole, and couldn't get up enough strength to pull my self up. Dog paddled around for a long time and tried again and again. The neighbours are miles away, and had visions of drowning. After a long time and many atempts finally mananged to pull myself up through the hole, but so exhausted, spent a long time with arms and chest out and hips and legs dangling inside. <br />He reckons he is never doing that again.<br />So there you go. Nothing more stupid than 2 mad okkers. <br />Cheers<br />Phillip