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  #2787783 1-Oct-2021 18:58
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A Friday before a weekend, you say?


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  #2787885 1-Oct-2021 19:26
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Behodar:

 

A Friday before a weekend, you say?

 

 

Day of Frigga for the OP.   Frigga nasty things often happen on this day.

 

 


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  #2787891 1-Oct-2021 20:10
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Eva888: Is there a rule in the Universe that states drains will always block after 6.30 pm on a Friday before a weekend?

 

 

 

Mr Murphy has a lot to answer for.





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  #2787911 1-Oct-2021 22:08
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Eva888: Is there a rule in the Universe that states drains will always block after 6.30 pm on a Friday before a weekend?

 

 

Yep, that's 178B, next to 178A which says that email and/or server outages always happen at 5:05pm on Friday just after the IT folks knock off for the week.

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  #2787913 1-Oct-2021 22:13
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That the crossbow that was carefully sighted in earlier this year has now drifted sufficiently that two bolts went nowhere near a possum dead centre in the scope sight, grrr.

 


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  #2787967 2-Oct-2021 09:03
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neb: That the crossbow that was carefully sighted in earlier this year has now drifted sufficiently that two bolts went nowhere near a possum dead centre in the scope sight, grrr.

 

One from Excalibur?





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  #2787969 2-Oct-2021 09:19
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Behodar:

A Friday before a weekend, you say?



Desperate double emphasis was required after no response from multiple calls to plumber, coincidence...I think not.

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  #2788234 2-Oct-2021 13:26
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Tinkerisk:

neb: That the crossbow that was carefully sighted in earlier this year has now drifted sufficiently that two bolts went nowhere near a possum dead centre in the scope sight, grrr.


One from Excalibur?



From somewhere closer to the Middle Kingdom I think.

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  #2788277 2-Oct-2021 14:48
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Eva888: Is there a rule in the Universe that states drains will always block after 6.30 pm on a Friday before a weekend?

 

Or that a major water leak in the backyard required a plumber callout last Sunday. Not even our pipe in the end. Undocumented water pipe to a rear property dropped into sewer trench (for which there is a noted easement) some 50 years ago.


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  #2788334 2-Oct-2021 17:54
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The big sucky truck came and cleared out the drains but found that neighbours roots have pushed the pipes out of alignment so now they need to dig up the lawn to replace the pipe...which is exactly next to the concreted post holding up the top floor deck (laws of Murphy and the Universe again). Therefore an acrow prop and possibly prayers will be required plus an exorbitant sum of money.

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  #2788363 2-Oct-2021 18:38
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neb:
Tinkerisk:

 

One from Excalibur?

 



From somewhere closer to the Middle Kingdom I think.

 

That‘s ok. It would not be ok with the modern hunting crossbows (like those from the mentioned company).

 

 





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  #2788378 2-Oct-2021 18:57
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Tinkerisk:

It would not be ok with the modern hunting crossbows (like those from the mentioned company).

 

 

I didn't really want to spend a small fortune on something to deal with what's basically destructive vermin, I have it not for the hunting but because the several possum traps I've tried are almost completely useless, the only way the Trapinator could ever kill a possum is if you tied it down and bashed it repeatedly with it, they seem to avoid the Goodnature entirely, and I don't want to set a Timms for fear of catching a non-possum in it.

 

 

If I was going to spend that much, I'd get a Cobra Adder RX, which seems like just the thing for possums.

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  #2788403 2-Oct-2021 20:19
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Aren't Trapinator and Timms essentially the same? Over 10 years of setting a Timms baited with apple I've caught 10 possum and 1 hedgehog. None of the neighbouring cats show any interest.

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  #2788411 2-Oct-2021 20:43
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Bung: Aren't Trapinator and Timms essentially the same? Over 10 years of setting a Timms baited with apple I've caught 10 possum and 1 hedgehog. None of the neighbouring cats show any interest.

 

 

No, completely different product. The first thing a friend of mine caught in his Timms was a bird... in theory it'll be fine but I don't want to risk an unintended victim.

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  #2788422 2-Oct-2021 22:32
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I know they're different but both work with a bar that whacks the possum's neck into the tapering keyhole opening.

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