This is becoming a regular thing

 

This week's "never a dull moment" DIY.

 

Madam complained that the irrigation pump lost prime and refused to re-prime. A quick investigation revealed just a stream of bubbles when I tried to prime it. Actual diagnosis had to wait until the river level was down (tide out).

 

I was expecting a failed joint or maybe the pipe had been damaged by the local council clearing debris from the khlong which had become clogged during the recent flooding.

 

What we actually found:-

 

 

Evidently a local fisherman had mis-plaice-d a piece of his equipment.  

 

 

Actually a nice piece of local engineering. Effective and cheap.

 

 

Easy (although rather muddy) fix, cut out the damaged bit and insert a joiner.

 

I think they knew it was your pump and he did it on purpose wanting the farang to work harder ????

 

I have seen those harpoons before they are shot from some kind of spearsgun when fishing for snakehead or stuff. Luckily your great at fixing things and it did not cause you too much grief. Wish i was good in that field, can't have it all.. Nicely done crossy. 

Gotta love those bankside speargun fisherman...

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

Gotta love those bankside speargun fisherman...

 

Yeah, they must be pretty powerful to go straight through a PVC pipe, I definitely wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of one.

 

Madam, in the spirit of the community, has sent the photos to our puyai-baan with the intention of returning said item to its owner.

 

Obviously we wouldn't bill the perp for fixing the pipe.

The one thing that I have taken with me from my time living in a village, then just outside on property and then back to bangkok, is the lack of wildlife and birds found in the trees or on the land in the villages.  You never found anything more than a snake, a lizard, a gingjok, or the fish in the ponds or the crabs in the rice fields.  Always earily quiet and devoid of the singing birds.  Here in Bangkok I wake up to the sounds of birds and watch the squirrels and such run up trees and pick up scraps along with the feral cats.  Not many soi dogs where we live, but hell the village was always full of dogs and always barking, like the roosters crowing and such.

 

Had a similar pump problem in our biggest pond, and when the now former FIL dove down to find out what had happened he found a tire had been thrown in and it had severed the connection of the pipe to the pump in the water.  Family was always fishing out other <deleted> folks threw in as well.