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10-07-2022, 05:12 PM | #4651 | ||
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I was at a car show a few years back and they had a few working prime movers and 1 supertruck. So it was at wsid and they ran them on the stip. I dont remember ¼ mile times, but the bloke on the PA was stupified that all the working trucks only trapped 106kmh. The supertruck clocked 150 or 160. Speed limiter¿
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10-07-2022, 05:22 PM | #4652 | |||
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10-07-2022, 05:28 PM | #4653 | ||
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As a bit of a tangent, i may and probably am wrong. As a kid i remember supertrucks on sbs. Didn't they then or do they still use water sprayers on the front brakes?
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10-07-2022, 05:31 PM | #4654 | ||
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Don't recall seeing them, to much water p*ssing out of the radiators when they come back in to notice.
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10-07-2022, 05:42 PM | #4655 | ||
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At the show i was at where they had the truck drags. Those guys threw down. Well sort of. Tandem axles in the burnout box. Im sure the drivers gave zero care towards the comical axle tramp sitting in their air ride seats in an air ride cab. So those working trucks weren't company trucks, owner driver things. So nice paint and all that. If there was say a company truck from scotts of mount Gambier, that thing would have trapped over 106....
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10-07-2022, 07:25 PM | #4656 | ||
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If you like your Kenworth's then a visit to Alice Springs Kenworth Museum in conjunction with National Road Transport Hall of Fame is the go.
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10-07-2022, 08:01 PM | #4657 | ||
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Bees, so far not in the Varroa Mite “red zone”, all hives checked yesterday and in good health.
Plus, government regs on hive destruction in the red zone have changed and the boxes can now be sanitised/sterilised - no longer must be burnt. This is a big deal emotionally to the career beekeepers, not just in finances and time; it symbolises hope for a future reinvigoration of the business. |
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18-07-2022, 09:07 AM | #4658 | ||
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Noticed the other day that the birds are becoming more active in the mornings, especially the magpies and lorikeets.
I know we've still got a way to go, but it shows that winter is slowly losing its grip on the southern hemisphere. Bring it on!
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18-07-2022, 10:11 AM | #4659 | |||
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What made me feel good......Wandering through a forest this morning seeing the long leaf native Wattle already out while the Cootamundra variety is starting to bud.
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18-07-2022, 01:24 PM | #4660 | |||
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18-07-2022, 01:42 PM | #4661 | |||
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Was caught once riding from Eurobin back to Wang during the attack season, just one after the other easily 30 40 in total. None of this sneaky out of the sun Japanese dive bombing either. You would see one ahead and it would just suddenly purk up and fly straight at you head on. Never seen that until we moved to NE Victoria. Stopping and offering them food doesn't work, they will just pick it up, fly off and then its back at you. We have had some funny encountered with birds of all kinds. Partner was attacked by a little Butcher bird in Broke NSW, I had a beautiful Sea Eagle drop a half eaten bream on me riding on Ash Island, Newcastle. Ultimately, They are just trying to protect their young like any mother would. When Pelicans start attacking I will give up mountain biking.
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18-07-2022, 02:14 PM | #4662 | |||
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18-07-2022, 02:40 PM | #4663 | ||
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Went to bunnings, i dislike bunnings, but i googled the interwebs and knew what shelf in what isle the thing i was after was at. So blinkers on, what i was was on the top rack. Im not short, but im not 4m tall.
Heres where customer service kicks in. Now you have to guage a customer, work out any sensitivities. I greet the bloke at the desk in the tool shop (no not my house) with the standard issue howyagoingmate. Response was the standard yeahgoodmate. So back to regular english i asked for assistance as what i was after was on the top rack. This bloke guaged my sense of humour quite well. He was shorter then me. His response was how the **** can he reach it if i cant?. He wasnt being rude, he was making a funny. But he goes yeah he'll sort it out. Normally that means call another staff member, he did that, but the other staff in the tool shop had a combined age of prehistoric, so he got dorris to cover the till and dragged over the platform ladder and sorted it out. So i reckon thats good customer engagement and customer service. |
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18-07-2022, 03:46 PM | #4664 | ||
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You mean like Woy Woy.
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18-07-2022, 04:06 PM | #4665 | ||
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Just when down to the next town via a old dirt state forest road, coming back along the old Hume, I get almost back and buzzzzzzzzzzzz, lower water alarm screaming at me, temp gauge looks fine no water or steam trail out the back.
Instantly thought of the 2 other times this has happened in both other trucks after some rough dirt. Mazda/Ford/Perkins diesels have the warning sender unit on top of the thermo housing where the push on wire plug will something pop off on rough roads. Not such a serious problem but sometimes pulling over to finding reasonably level ground, securing everything loose inside the cab before tilting can be a pain. Good thing was within a couple of mins of being on the side of the road with the cab up 2 locals stopped by to offer assistance.
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18-07-2022, 04:37 PM | #4666 | |||
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22-07-2022, 11:35 AM | #4668 | |||
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22-07-2022, 04:31 PM | #4669 | ||
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First sign even before the nest building is the adults chasing away not just other birds but their own previous season young-uns.
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22-07-2022, 05:08 PM | #4670 | ||
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Opening my eyes and knowing I'm breathing. I'll be happy if I do it again tomorrow.
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23-07-2022, 10:47 AM | #4671 | ||
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Lappppssss in Dipswitch tonight
It's been 33 yr's and the last time i had a Clevo XC ute !! Some people may remember it... i posted up doing a burnout in front of a school on a sunday which was also outside of my front yard but anyway, we have all grown up since those shennanigans eh ? Maybe this invitation is a sign to buy another Ford ? Time will tell ... |
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24-07-2022, 09:46 PM | #4672 | ||
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Finally mounted the ladder rack on the rear of my ute tray. Been three years in the wanting, and after I found the model-correct bare rack last October in Canberra, nine months in execution.
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25-07-2022, 10:28 AM | #4673 | ||
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Went for a walk yesterday arvo in the great weather (we maxed out at a tad over 17°, which is balmy for here this time of year) and noticed that a few of the wattle trees have started to bloom.
Yet another sign that winter is losing its dastardly hold on us...... Down side is that my hay fever is not far away from kicking into gear
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25-07-2022, 09:46 PM | #4674 | |||
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…Feeling good about my “Headlight buffing countdown”. It’s a good evening job for any weather. Wet sand from P600 to Ultra Fine via P800/1200, then Farécla G3, re-wash then Radiant Wax No.12. Two down, four more to go in the short term, then another four. Each is taking 90-120 minutes including all-over washing (off the car). AU have come up better than Territory, so far. Another win for the cockroach. |
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26-07-2022, 02:40 PM | #4675 | ||
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Suns out and it isnt cold ?
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26-07-2022, 06:03 PM | #4676 | ||
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26-07-2022, 06:08 PM | #4677 | ||
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Two or three weeks ago I was walking. I saw a 5c coin in the gutter so I bent down and picked it up and then I saw a $2 coin. There was a fire truck, with crew, parked on the other side of the road for some reason (residential street) but I am long past worrying much if someone sees me picking up rubbish (not rubbish in this case.) On the way back I had a bit of a look in the same spot in case there were more coins there but no such luck.
Today. Same street. The street-sweeping (gutter-sweeping) truck had been along there and I found $2.15 in what must have been the same spot. The truck must have picked up dirt and leaves. (These gutter-sweeping trucks must cost a fortune to run but someone walking along with gloves and a little trolley would be so much more effective, cost-wise and rubbish-wise, than these stupid trucks.) |
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26-07-2022, 10:26 PM | #4678 | ||
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Arrived in Broome, met up with my daughter, some big hugs, 4 and half hour drive to Geikie Gorge, what a spot. Cooked up some spag bol on the open fire, drinking cider watching the wallabies scamper about.
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29-07-2022, 04:17 PM | #4679 | ||
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I dont normally cook for myself. Put me in a kitchen and im not good at it. Anyhow, chuck a bbq infront of me, somehow its different.
So i decided to cook a roast. Crappy woolies beef roast marinated in garlic and onion. I say crappy, but i like them. Plates out, flame tamers out, bbq hood down warmed up to 180°. So rotisserie stick through the meat, 1 hour per kilo at 180°. Brilliant. So i like my meat meduim maybe towards the medium rare side, an hour per kg at 180 rotating on the bbq does that pretty well. |
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29-07-2022, 09:10 PM | #4680 | ||
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I came today home and all my ageing timber fences have been replaced with colorbond! These blokes don't **** around and they cleaned everything up nicely.
It was not easy for my place because I technically border four different properties and in a body corp. I will give that feedback to them. Free shout out to Beyond Boundaries Fencing for the ACT folks |
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