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Yep and Scotch is made out of clean water from the cleanest Lochs in Scotland so I am told.

That might not be a bad thing.

Thats because you blokes watch the wrong sort of footy.

When we went to the Euro4 2008 and Euro5 2010 (and the American equivelent) emmission standards many heavy vehicle manufacturers tried many different methods to meet those standards. Most acheived Euro4 but could not improve on it. The biggest cost to most the those who met the standard was hugely reduced engine life. Ie 1.5 million klms between rebuilds down to as low as half a million. Many involved very complex and expensive systems with very short lives. The Europeans very quickly hit on the adblue system. Whilst still expensive it acheived very good results even up to Euro6 standard with minimal to no reduction in life of engines. The exhaust systems are still prohibitivly expensive, up to $20,000 for a muffler, but we are getting a million plus klms out of them. Adblue is an aqueos urea the is injected into the exhaust stream where it vapourises into ammonia and then utilising magic (well not really but it could be) and the milion dollar exhaust system it cleans the particles out of the exhaust. It does use up some adblue , I go through about 100 litres per 3000 litres of deisel, so 1 adblue tank per 2 refuels. Almost allservice stations that sell diesel now also sell adblue. All of the big players in road transport are now going to adblue.

The Road Transport museum and hall of fame are a wonderful tribute to an industry built on Blood, Sweat and Gears. The Hall of Fame itself pays tribute to some wonderful pioneers in road transport as does the museum to the equipment itself. A credit to all of the volunteers that have made it possible. Two other places that are a must see to all lovers of road transport are the memorial walls at Tarcutta and Gatton. http://www.lightsonthehill.com.au/memorial/ http://www.tarcuttamemorial.com/ I have to many friends and mentors listed on both. And of course the tribute by the master.

Just keep posting them Joe. I will look at them all day.

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Very good LOL.

I feel your pain Bruce, but why are we allowed to pay backpackers less than the minimum wage. Therein lies one of the fundamental failures in our wages system.

We in Australia have the highest wages of any of the industrialised western countries. That is in large part thanks to Unions. As a result we have priced ourselves out of manufacturing and a myriad of other jobs. The wages bubble like the housing bubble will burst but until then we can thank the unions for destroying our manufacturing industry through pandering to the greed of its bosses. I am all for good sustainable wages. Unions on the other hand are all for increased wages at any cost. Well sorry folks but it is about time to pay the fiddler and that is not going to improve anytime soon.

The point is FT I do know that with certainty.

Never

I have a photo taken in the late 80's in England. It is a brass sign in a stone bridge in southern England. The sign states :- "Persons caught damaging or defacing this bridge will be transported to the colonies". It was dated in the late 18th century. It tickled my fancy and after 12 months in England at that stage I was so tempted to stand on the bridge and start swinging a sledge hammer just for the free trip home. I shall try to find it and scan it.

Google Pendulum effect, then look at 5th wheelers, hence my photo of a prime mover.

Hanging around till pension day so they can buy the fuel to move on to the next park.

The perfect tow vehicle. Will tow anything all day. 660HP. Runs on Diesel. Very comfortable. High seating position gives good vision. Extra large bunk would be easily removable to fit seating for the rug rats. Ticks all the boxes in the OP. Oh and you can moonlight with it through the week. Don't thank me. You are welcome. [ATTACH]47729._xfImport[/ATTACH]

We lost one on my daughters 17th birthday. He was 17.5 years old, she had never known life without him. Nothing beats a cold nose stuck into a sad face to kick the blues.

I gave you an informative Bex, because your post tells me more about you then all of your posts that I have read to date.

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I am still happy with my XP.

It's Footy season over here

Yes but if he had put the three cylinder Rotax Seadoo motor in it he could have solved a myriad of problems before he started. Yes he thought outside the square but he never got outside the circle. Still and all a bloody good effort and I would love a 30 minute session on it.

Surprised he didn't just put a Rotax in it.

And they cannot book you for doing more than the previous limit between the 60 k ahead sign and the actual 60 sign. The advisory signs are black the speed signs are coloured. My point about signage is we simply have to much and it creates distractions. I rode around Mt Panorama in March. It was the first time I had ever been there. I was in absolutely no doubt about the fact I was in a 60 kph zone from the minute that I entered the front gate. You should not need a speed sign every 50 metres the speed limit is what ever the last sign you passed was until there is a different one. As for the revenue collection argument I do agree that some of the places the coppers sit are to keep up quotas but the fact remains if you do not speed then you can't add to government coffers. But then of course the government needs a certain amount of dollars so if everyone stopped speeding tomorrow, then either taxes would need to go up or they would need to make something else ill-eagle just to keep the income up to the level needed to maintain the handouts. But then that would be a whole new discussion.