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On the positive side, he's only got to hang in another 2,999 days before he gets a statue.

Almost Jerry. You got the u and the i arse about - Crisafulli.

Not sure if rearranging would help at this stage. They need to start bolting them down for the storm that's going to hit in four months time.

The alarm was a bit of an anticlimax after all the hype on the radio about it. I was getting ready to hold my ears for the event but it just sounded like a budgie chirping in a tree about twenty metres away. And that was with the phone on full volume. With the radio on, you could barely hear the alarm. Taking into account it was only a test, the finished product will probably be a lot more effective. It will need to be a lot louder and longer for a start. The text was in very big print, so easy to read.

This is Barnaby's dog Stella, the one he was barking at on the TV the other day.

I have a few related issues with my trailer. It has cable braking so is restricted to two tonnes GTW which is the maximum I can legally tow with my older model Rodeo. Later models are legal for three tonne so they can pull that GTW if the trailer has electrical braking and the other required specs. My trailer weighs almost 700kg empty giving it a potential payload of 1.3 tonnes. The problem with that is that my little Isuzu 4 cylinder turbo diesel is good for general driving and lighter loads but is struggling to pull that weight even without hills. About 900kg payload (giving 1.6T GTW) is about all that's practical if I keep away from steep hills. Upgrading to a bigger, more powerful truck is not viable with only intermittent towing needs. It would be good if registration and insurance were only charged on actual road use; then it would be viable to own two vehicles, one for towing and hauling loads, the other for normal use.

Saw this one on Pinterest.

That's a wild looking bit of gear. Looks like it's long retired. The tray on it reminds me of the old LJ-80 Suzuki that I deeply regret scrapping. They make a great little farm runabout. Mine was a rust bucket with a dead motor but I had two x spare chassis and a complete spare drive train with it. The good thing about them is the gearbox and transfer case are two separate entities which gives a lot of options to upgrade the engine and gearbox. Back in the day a lot of people put Corolla motors and the Toyota five speed box in the LJ-80's and retained the stand-alone Suzuki transfer box, all it needed was a drive shaft length adjustment. A mate had one of those little Daihatsu 4x4's for a farm runabout. He stripped it down and put scrub bars on it and the floor was converted to mesh, the sets were those old plastic chairs you used to see in pub beer gardens. With the mesh floor and plastic seats, it didn't matter if it was left out in the rain. Their light weight is what makes them handy, they go a lot of places with wide tyres.

Why is the Snowy Hydro project called Snowy Hydro 2.0? Why not just Snowy Hydro 2. The tag 2.0 sounds like a browser version. I'm wondering whether it's to allow for later updated versions like Snowy Hydro 2.1, 2.12 etc.. Maybe in the future they will tell us that support for the old version will cease by a certain date and we need another 20 billion to update to the latest version.

In your face book has added a new login security layer with a captcha to prove you are a human. On the plus side, it's only a string of numbers to type in, but on the down side they have stuff scribbled over them which can make them a bit too hard to read sometimes. It's added one more task to an already lengthy login process. I'm logged in all the time on my phone, but to log in on the desktop I have to: first, click on the facebook link icon, on the login page type in my email address and password, when directed to the captcha type in the numbers, that then directs me to another security layer telling me to verify on another device. I then pick up the phone, tap apps, tap the facebook icon, tap notifications, find the notification asking if it's me trying to log in on another device, scroll to the bottom of that notification and tap 'yes it's me', then tap 'always trust this device'. Then I go back to the desktop screen and have to click on 'trust this device'. And that's it, I'm finally into my FB acount.

Those plastic teeth look like the ones they sell on eBay.

There's always the house part and 2 Ha of it exempt, but there's sometimes situations like working away for a while and renting the house out, or running a business on the property for a period that would bring CGT issue. In general, I never felt comfortable with the idea of having a lot of money outlayed with no receipts or proof of expenditure, for a few different reasons. I thought saving 10% wasn't worth the disadvantages on the other side of the coin.

I've built one owner built house and at the time a lot of contractors offered a cash under the table deal, with the selling point being you save yourself 10% GST. One problem with that is that when you eventually go to sell it, you've outlayed a lot of money and don't have any receipts for future CGT expense write-offs.

It would have been interesting to watch them do it. There's a young Russian bloke on Youtube who would just grind something like that by hand with his angle grinder. He's one of the roughest I've seen. He built a V twin out of scrap in his back yard with only an arc welder and angle grinder. A couple of things he got a mate to turn up on a lathe but most of it was built by hand, except for donor Ural barrels, heads and pistons. The bottom end was all hand made.

This is the camshaft on the Howard 8hp motor. The cams look bent but they have that weird shape to work properly with the 90 degree shaft. The magneto runs off the left side of the camshaft and the external oil pump from the right end.

Both the Howard V twins, the eight h.p. and the 12 h.p. like the one above have unusual shaped cams. Their camshafts run at 90 degrees to the crankshaft rather than parallel like Harley V twins. The magneto is coupled to and runs directly off the end of the camshaft.

This sidecar outfit is a wild bit of gear. It's an older Ural frame, same type as the M-63 frame I picked up recently, but has the current type of leading link Ural front end. The engine is a Howard rotary hoe engine, the Howard Twelve, a 12hp water cooled V twin, mounted sideways. This photo has been bugging me for a while now. I know those faces and the country in the background looks familiar, but I just can't get a handle on it. They did a short video on Youtube with a couple of them doing wheelies in it while one filmed.

With hot rods, there seems to be way more ratrods now days than the traditional glossy customised hotrod of the past. I guess while it's in fashion, it makes building and owning one much easier and cheaper.

I agree with you there Marty. Making up a bike out of old bits has some honour about it, but turning a new or modern type bike into one seems to be a bit like fraud in my way of seeing it.

You see a lot of Goldwing ratbikes on the net. The motors look the part. Of all the Jap bikes, it's about the only one that fits the style. This is an older one:

From Google AI: 'Urinary Health: Ural is Australia's #1 over-the-counter urinary alkaliniser.' Maybe riding a Ural will fix prostate problems. Or make it worse.

Coincidence perhaps, the importers of modern day Urals, Ural Australia, are located at Uralla, NSW.

Twenty seven years old. At least he got the long yard and not the glue factory.

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