bodge job

If you look up bodge job on the many interweb dictionaries, they'll define it as to mend clumsily or to make a mess of. But bodging a job is a necessary skill if you are small holder like us at the beggshill bothy. Last weekend I broke my ride on mower. Without access to a proper tractor, my ride on mower is the next best thing. So breaking it was a disaster. I'd hit a tree stump and snapped off the bolt that holds the cutting blades on. I guess I could have spent hundreds on buying a new cutting deck, but I didn't want to do that. I figured that I could bodge it. After consulting with a few knowledgeable folk, I managed to get the broken bolt out, swap out the blades and re-attach them using the remains of the broken bolt. It was not a elegant fix, but it works and that's all that matters. And its saved me a couple of hundred quid.
Bodge job it might be, but it'll do the job. In the winter I'll do a better fix, but at the moment the grass is growing and I have a working mower to combat it.

pete