Did a bit up at the workshop yard. The bloke doing the demolition bought as s/h excavator with a grab attachment, we must be financing that

The pin wouldn't fit through the bush on the "picker" arm so I stupidly bought a drum wheel flapper disc sander and started to worry the bush away to try and get the pin to fit .... after a few hrs at it, I could see I was getting some where, I could also see I was doing all the work while he stood in the shade ...... got the wobbly boots real bad and decided I'd best stop, so instead of taking over, he decided he'd had enough for the day .......
I'd planned to get the truck running and move it out the way .... instead I ended up back home and in bed for a few hrs recovering .....
Today, the plan is to get the battery in the Prius. Turns out the genuine Toyota battery doesn't come complete ready to drop in, no vent pipes, no extension base and cover for the battery computer, nor the computer, pre charge resistor or pre charge control, no contactors .... but at least it had the computer wiring harness and a new main fuse holder ... but not fitted .....

so much for the multiple reassurances from the Toyota spares manager that it would come complete ... should have opened the box while I was there .......
T1 Terry