What won't you do??

[35mastr]

Anything over 20 feet off the ground and laying concrete. I leave that stuff for the super hero's.

Have broken my right arm 2 times from roof falls. Still lucky to be alive after both.

 

[CycloneISU]

I pay someone to mow my lawn I have to many other projects on my list of things to do. Plus for what ever reason I hate doing it, and will gladly pay someone 25 a week just to not have too. Other wise I at lest try to do my mechanical work and house repairs and most anything else.

 

[Steevo]

I paid a professional to replace the pump in my septic system. I am not fond of playing with things that have been submerged in effluent.

 

[Nuckin Futs]

I am willing to try anything at least once. I have a 11yr old son and we will tackle anything from a remod on the house to fixing his 4-wheeler. We have both learned a ton of things and if we can't figure it out we do the research and find the answers. Not only do we learn things together it is a great bonding for the both of us...

 

[havi]

Do this

to this ever again

 

[metal1313]

most of what i wont do, is becuase like so many others i dont have the skill or the right tools and i know it. that last part is really important. i dont work on the family dd's beucase there is a time crunch and i just dont like them all that much.

and wall paper, i hate wall paper. i'll do pretty much anything once i've thought about it and know it can be done well, and in the time allowed.

 

[airbassador]

I've also come to the realization that I hate doing drywall.

 

[river1]

one of the HAMB's more faomous post

You know that feeling 'cause you tinker with cars you think you can fix anything? Well sometimes you better not try, here's why:
I live in an old house from the twenties with originally just one toilet, outside, where you take a **** right into the sceptic tank, somewhere down the line whoever lived here got sick of his *** freezing to the toilet seat in winter and they installed a bathroom on the second floor. Unfortunately they cut a few corners and instead of running a big pipe up to the second floor to dispose of turds they installed a 'brouilleur": one of those big blenders behind the toilet bowl so they can run the chopped turds down the little sink-drain pipes. Dunno if you have those things over there, they're kinda comparable to those blenders you Americans have in your kitchen sinks. Anyway, our "brouilleur" has been acting up for months, it just kept on going, normally it shuts itself off 30 seconds after you flushed, first it became a minute, then it just wouldn't shut off at all. So what we do is take a ****, flush, wait 30 seconds then pull the plug. Been going on like that for weeks, so today I finally get my courage together to do the dreaded job of checking out the ****-caked brouilleur box. It's a white blastic box that sits right behind the toilet bowl and out the top comes a small pipe that dissapears into the wall. It only took a couple of minutes to unhook it, and without getting too much **** on my hands. I take the lid of to be greeted by the most horendous sight ever, tubes and mechanisms with a nice old layer of **** in all shades of brown over 'em. Take the thing downstairs and outside and pour it's contents over the fence (no neighbours) then take it into the garage and put it in the sink. I can't see anything, first of all 'cause I can only look at it why holding my breath (me, a smoker, 10 seconds), secondly 'cause you can't see anything other then **** in the shape of machinery. Logic tells me the mechanism probably shuts off and on with the level of water/piss/sheit in the box. So I decide to plug it in and run water from the tap in it to see what happens. It fills up, and up, and up when all of a sudden the thing starts mixing, and, remember the pipe coming OUT THE TOP, and THE LID BEING OFF????? There was a fountain of **** coming out of that thing all the way to the ceiling!!!! Of course most of it caught me on it's way back down, it was horrendous, I was shitman, the white T-shirt didn't help either, in my hair, ****, everywhere... The missus is still laughing, and I've just spent two hours in bath, changing the water 3 times.....

that's one i don't want to ever have to do

later jim

 

[Joe69]

I've done carpentry work, roofing, plumbing, HVAC, some electrical, landscaping, cabinet building, etc etc. I have done bodywork, and painted cars. I'm a heavy equipment mechanic by trade, so turning wrenches is a no brainer. So far the only things I've found that i won't tackle myself are carpet and linoleum, I tried once and ended up hiring them done. As far as concrete and asphalt, I work for a paving contractor, so getting expert help with that is pretty easy. My neighbors say that I can do anything.

Joe

 

[Joe69]

Quote:
You know that feeling 'cause you tinker with cars you think you can fix anything? Well sometimes you better not try, here's why:
I live in an old house from the twenties with originally just one toilet, outside, where you take a **** right into the sceptic tank, somewhere down the line whoever lived here got sick of his *** freezing to the toilet seat in winter and they installed a bathroom on the second floor. Unfortunately they cut a few corners and instead of running a big pipe up to the second floor to dispose of turds they installed a 'brouilleur": one of those big blenders behind the toilet bowl so they can run the chopped turds down the little sink-drain pipes. Dunno if you have those things over there, they're kinda comparable to those blenders you Americans have in your kitchen sinks. Anyway, our "brouilleur" has been acting up for months, it just kept on going, normally it shuts itself off 30 seconds after you flushed, first it became a minute, then it just wouldn't shut off at all. So what we do is take a ****, flush, wait 30 seconds then pull the plug. Been going on like that for weeks, so today I finally get my courage together to do the dreaded job of checking out the ****-caked brouilleur box. It's a white blastic box that sits right behind the toilet bowl and out the top comes a small pipe that dissapears into the wall. It only took a couple of minutes to unhook it, and without getting too much **** on my hands. I take the lid of to be greeted by the most horendous sight ever, tubes and mechanisms with a nice old layer of **** in all shades of brown over 'em. Take the thing downstairs and outside and pour it's contents over the fence (no neighbours) then take it into the garage and put it in the sink. I can't see anything, first of all 'cause I can only look at it why holding my breath (me, a smoker, 10 seconds), secondly 'cause you can't see anything other then **** in the shape of machinery. Logic tells me the mechanism probably shuts off and on with the level of water/piss/sheit in the box. So I decide to plug it in and run water from the tap in it to see what happens. It fills up, and up, and up when all of a sudden the thing starts mixing, and, remember the pipe coming OUT THE TOP, and THE LID BEING OFF????? There was a fountain of **** coming out of that thing all the way to the ceiling!!!! Of course most of it caught me on it's way back down, it was horrendous, I was shitman, the white T-shirt didn't help either, in my hair, ****, everywhere... The missus is still laughing, and I've just spent two hours in bath, changing the water 3 times.....


That's an instant mental image that I won't soon forget! That's hilarious.

Joe

 

[Keep]

lmao...thats great!

Only thing I won't do is mess with the ABS brakes. I hate the damn things.

Everything else I will try at least once. Usually I figure out pretty quick if I can or cannot do it.

 

[Matti]

its really not a matter of what I wont do but rather what I cannot do well

bob

So true!

I shouldn't be doing bodywork but I am. I also agree with the not cleaning the gutters on the second story but I do. No problem with drywall, electrical, insulation or almost any aspect of auto restoration. I tend to leave repairs to the DD to the pros. I just bought a MIG machine but won't do critical structural welds. I won't cut down trees or do some of the yard bull work now such as installing our new patio. Most of these decisions come down to me acknowledging that I don't have the tools or knowledge to do it right. In addition, I won't do it if I don't have the time and the cost for screwing up is too high.

 

[babzog]

I've also come to the realization that I hate doing drywall.

That... is horrific! Tell me they're not **** stars.