What did you do today?

[Die Judicii]

The route I was intending to take today (before changing it to check out the new sheep carcass) is much easier but does entail a 2500m hike around the perimeter track to get to the entry point. I'll try that one soon. I might be able to get back tomorrow to drag that carcass over the crest of the hill, then I can sit out in the paddock for a few hours and see if any foxes show up. There were a pair of wedgetail eagles circling overhead all arvo but they didn't seem interested at all in the smorgasbord lying in the paddock for them.

All up another nice day in the bush, but I'm feeling it tonight, especially in the legs

Did you spare a thought for the massive scent trail that you yourself were leaving behind you ???

[bladeracer]

The route I was intending to take today (before changing it to check out the new sheep carcass) is much easier but does entail a 2500m hike around the perimeter track to get to the entry point. I'll try that one soon. I might be able to get back tomorrow to drag that carcass over the crest of the hill, then I can sit out in the paddock for a few hours and see if any foxes show up. There were a pair of wedgetail eagles circling overhead all arvo but they didn't seem interested at all in the smorgasbord lying in the paddock for them.

All up another nice day in the bush, but I'm feeling it tonight, especially in the legs

Did you spare a thought for the massive scent trail that you yourself were leaving behind you ???

I can't smell so my scent is always on my mind, I consider it some sort of magical force that makes everything run away so I probably value it far too high
But I've had foxes come to other animals not long after I've skinned them, foxes don't seem particularly bothered by my scent. The eagles were up before I went out. I went out into a strong head wind, but by the time I came back the wind had dropped to virtually nothing. I wasn't expecting to see foxes on the carcass, but I wasn't going to rule it out as I've been tricked before doing that.

[wanneroo]

Blade, the guys I work with swear by the US Army issued poncho liner. It's a quilted liner that weighs 2 pounds and can be attached to a US Army poncho to make an improvised rain resistant sleeping bag. They call the poncho liner a "Woobie". They say get the USGI ones not the cheap chicom knockoffs.

I'm using the US Army poncho (brilliant bit of kit) but wasn't aware there was a liner, I'll order one ASAP! I have it strapped to the back of my rig so I can reach back with my left hand and pull it out of its straps at first sign of rain and toss it over myself without stopping. When it dries out it's compact enough that I can stuff it into a pocket or down my shirt until I stop, then I re-roll it and strap it back in place.
Thanks Wanneroo

BTW - does your user name stem from the Perth suburb or from somewhere else? Wanneroo is where the main race circuit in WA is.

Yep, you gotta get a Woobie to go with that poncho. That might solve your problem where you need something light but yet can keep you warm and keep some water off of you combined with the poncho.

Yes I took the name from the racetrack.

[bigpete]

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Managed to rip the centre out of a wheel today turning in a headland,with a full tank no less !

[bladeracer]

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Managed to rip the centre out of a wheel today turning in a headland,with a full tank no less !

Wow, that's impressive!

[Oldbloke]

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Managed to rip the centre out of a wheel today turning in a headland,with a full tank no less !

Mmmm, sounds like fun.

Dug up and potted some rhubarb for a mate.
Planted some tomatoes.
Fitted an additional anderson plug to the utes auxiliary battery box.
Got organised to bottle my home brew on Sunday.
Booked the Mrs in for a new stainless hip in February.
Hit a raw nerve.

[Blr243]

Too much gunk and vegetation got stuck under my quad on my ladt trip away so i drove it up on a high ramp , chanhed the oil and blew all the rubbish out of all the nooks and crannies .. unfortunately i had to remove a fsir bit of alum skid plate arnmour for access. Oh the joy of mud set containing a stack of dry galvanised burr

[animalpest]

Went and saw my new grandchild. #3

[Die Judicii]

Oh the joy of mud set containing a stack of dry galvanised burr

Lovely stuff that galv burr,,,,,,,,,,, all you need to add to the mix is some Devils Claws, Tiger Cactus, and Bathhurst Burr.

[Blr243]

Blade. I just saw amongst this that you cant smell and you imagine it as some sort of magicsl force I know some canlose their sense of smell a d at least they can remember whatit used to be like. But it got m thinkin. If someone is born without either sight or smell or hearing ho do we go about explaining it to them the thing that they atemissing. ? Because if you never had something how on Earth could so eome try to understand wht it is ? Intriguing

[Lazarus]

Blade. I just saw amongst this that you cant smell and you imagine it as some sort of magicsl force I know some canlose their sense of smell a d at least they can remember whatit used to be like. But it got m thinkin. If someone is born without either sight or smell or hearing ho do we go about explaining it to them the thing that they atemissing. ? Because if you never had something how on Earth could so eome try to understand wht it is ? Intriguing

How do you discribe a colour to the blind?

[bladeracer]

Blade. I just saw amongst this that you cant smell and you imagine it as some sort of magical force I know some can lose their sense of smell a d at least they can remember what it used to be like. But it got me thinkin. If someone is born without either sight or smell or hearing ho do we go about explaining it to them the thing that they are missing. ? Because if you never had something how on Earth could someone try to understand what it is ? Intriguing

I lost it aged seven when I was flown to Alice Springs for an emergency tonsil and adenoid ectomy. I have no memory of smell at all, and don't recall missing it even as a kid. It's like electricity, I sort of understand how it works, but I really can't make any sense of it

When Rose and I are out in the paddocks she can smell when a fox has been in the area, that would be handy I'm sure. I've met a few people that can't smell, a kid I went to high school with, and one of Rose's brothers are two that have never been able to smell. People I've spoken with that had covid also claim to lose their sense of smell but I think they eventually recovered it. I don't know how covid does that though so I'm not sure if the olfactory nerve is totally non-functional or just "shielded" perhaps, like a head cold.

Most people try to explain it to me using taste, but "taste" is partly smell as well. I know what chocolate tastes like, to me, but I'm sure it tastes quite different to you if you are also using your olfactory nerves to smell it. I guess I taste things like you might if you had a severe head cold?

But yes, I really don't understand it, or miss it. I couldn't smell a gas leak, or a fire of course, but I also can't smell a decomposing carcass when it needs dealing with I asked my mate when he smelled that sheep whether my being near it would leave the smell on me when I went into the bush and he thought it very likely would - I wouldn't know. I didn't touch it but I was bending over it for a couple minutes examining the damage for fox indicators - the flies were deafening. The right rear leg was missing from the hip ball joint but otherwise the animal was intact. It's possible one of the eagles may have torn it off but I would think a fox is more likely. All her mates were standing around eating grass totally unbothered by it at all.

[Lazarus]

Cleared about 1/2 acre of waiste high bastard phalarus with my brush-cutter, then, trimmed some trees with the same attachment.
Gotta love the Stihl blade, cuts anything.

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The branch is about 20mm thick.


And, smoke a bit of meat for a full-on carnivor scoff session.

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[Blr243]

Well blade is sounds like you aremanaging quite well without it. I guess if i were to loose one ofmy semses I would probably prefer it to be smell and second taste. Touch sight and hearing is too essential.. i did have a strange girlfriend a while back who had no sense of smell . It was great because when i first met heri could just silent fart whenever and shehad no idea . Otherwisei would of had to temporarily walk awayand return and makr up spme reason why i had to wander off. The sortsof things we do when we first meet ! She said the sense of smell loss was from a car accident but i dont really know what to believe because she was often shovelling cokeup her snout. I haveno idea if thet damages your sense of smell

[Blr243]

And all coke and jokes aside , today i was bending and welding and modifying my roof racks andnew quadbike bull bar. All went very well. I know a fantastic welder. He visits and help me out whenever i need him

[bladeracer]

Disassembled the Yeomans Plow today and stacked it all on a pallet so Rose can advertise it for sale. She reckons we won't need it again, I reckon she'll be wanting it again about four weeks after it sells

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[Lazarus]

Disassembled the Yeomans Plow today and stacked it all on a pallet so Rose can advertise it for sale. She reckons we won't need it again, I reckon she'll be wanting it again about four weeks after it sells

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That's the way of the world, eh Blade?
I'm a bit of a hoarder.
Guaranteed the very day I bin something I think I'll never need, I find the exact use for it.

[Oldbloke]

Disassembled the Yeomans Plow today and stacked it all on a pallet so Rose can advertise it for sale. She reckons we won't need it again, I reckon she'll be wanting it again about four weeks after it sells

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That's the way of the world, eh Blade?
I'm a bit of a hoarder.
Guaranteed the very day I bin something I think I'll never need, I find the exact use for it.

Yes, I know the feeling. For me is usually about 30 days after.

[bigpete]

Went to visit my grandma today. Since she lost grandpa last year she's on a downhill slide so it may be the last time i see her unfortunately. Promised to bring her a rabbit should have thought ahead and grabbed one today out of the freezer.
Been thinking a lot on buying a Hikmicro Aspen NV scope. Will need to sell a lot of stuff to buy it though. Would be pretty handy and my pard nv007 would compliment it well

[bladeracer]

Disassembled the Yeomans Plow today and stacked it all on a pallet so Rose can advertise it for sale. She reckons we won't need it again, I reckon she'll be wanting it again about four weeks after it sells

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That's the way of the world, eh Blade?
I'm a bit of a hoarder.
Guaranteed the very day I bin something I think I'll never need, I find the exact use for it.

Every damn time
Her brother and I were looking for the old springs I took off the trailer to make some mulcher blades last week, turns out Rose took them in a scrap metal load the week before

We have a gadget that Rose's dad's niece's father-in-law (Tom Clark) made maybe sixty years ago. It's a set of forks to mount on the front of a tractor, though I don't really understand how they're supposed to work. I think maybe he also had a rig that ran a chain or cable over the roof to lift it with the three-point perhaps. It's two long arms that run out each side of the engine with the forks setup pivoting on the end. You lock the forks in a level position with a latch, lift whatever you want to lift, and move it. But it also has a cable attachment that lets you trip the latch, dropping the forks, perhaps he had a bucket to go on it for moving soil as well. We have no use for it and it's a bloody awkward heavy lump to move around so it has to go. A neighbour down the road has a large collection of old machinery (including some from here when Bob died), he may want it to mount on some old tractor perhaps. Otherwise it's going to scrap. It's pretty solid, 75mm wide and 25mm thick steel so I can cut a bunch of small 75mm square gongs out of the arms for the .22LR. I might also be able to weld some lengths together to make gongs 150mm, 225mm, 300mm, 375mm and 450mm square for long-range targets. I think out past about 500m 25mm mild shouldn't be totally destroyed by most rifle bullets?

[Blr243]

Spent more timeunder my quadbike checking modifications and re secucireing things. And more on bull bar skid plates radiator protection etc. complete e with mandatory s**t falling in my eyes

[bladeracer]

Went to visit my grandma today. Since she lost grandpa last year she's on a downhill slide so it may be the last time i see her unfortunately. Promised to bring her a rabbit should have thought ahead and grabbed one today out of the freezer.
Been thinking a lot on buying a Hikmicro Aspen NV scope. Will need to sell a lot of stuff to buy it though. Would be pretty handy and my pard nv007 would compliment it well

Rose's mum had a stroke last Saturday, not too serious luckily. Her only real complaint is that she can't pronounce her name properly when answering the phone now. She still managed to mow all the lawns this week without any trouble. Rose has reduced the area over the last few years down to about 650m2 now, not bad for 87 years-old I reckon. We replaced the ancient petrol mower (that was always having starting issues, kept dropping bits off, and had a wooden wheel that Bob made decades ago) with a battery one last year. Now she can mow for an hour then has to stop for a cup of tea while the batteries charge
She's only 85 in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoxym2Gj4Lk
Today she went to Phillip Island for lunch, two hours each way on a bus with a bunch of friends - we can't slow her down.
She'd love a rabbit feed as well but there are barely any around here nowadays.

[Oldbloke]

Hope you grandma comes good BP

https://youtu.be/CWYQXv4r5W4

[bigpete]

Hope you grandma comes good BP

https://youtu.be/CWYQXv4r5W4

She's nearly 90 mate.

[Die Judicii]

That's the way of the world, eh Blade?
I'm a bit of a hoarder.
Guaranteed the very day I bin something I think I'll never need, I find the exact use for it.

Ahhh Haaaaa Haaaaaa,,,,,,,
A word from the now wise,,,,, and "Hindsight is a wonderful thing"

Before moving to Qld (? 12 year ago) I had a clearing sale,,,,,, and there's been hardly a day goes by since that I don't say to myself,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Sh!t,,,,, I had one of those but,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Die Judicii]

She'd love a rabbit feed as well but there are barely any around here nowadays.

Isn't it the other way round ,,,according to Rex Hunt ??????
"Thank ya Mother/Grandmother for the Rabbit"

But seriously Blade,,,,,, what about a nice young Hare ?
More meat on them than a rabbit.

[bladeracer]

Isn't it the other way round ,,,according to Rex Hunt ??????
"Thank ya Mother/Grandmother for the Rabbit"

But seriously Blade,,,,,, what about a nice young Hare ?
More meat on them than a rabbit.

I have heard of Rex Hunt but don't know anything about him, wasn't he into fishing?
Yes, there are a couple of small rabbits been showing up in the orchards here at the house that Rose wants me to knock off. Haven't seen them this week though so calici might have already taken those. There are hares on another block so I could take one of those, not sure she's ever tried hare though.

[Oldbloke]

Hope you grandma comes good BP

https://youtu.be/CWYQXv4r5W4

She's nearly 90 mate.

My mother died at 89. Dad just pined for her for and tossed it in 16 months later a couple of months short of 93. I was with him playing his favourite music at the time.
MIL (I call her the robot, 2 knee replacements and shoulder repaired) still looks after herself in a unit. 93. Although definitely slowing now still catches a taxi to go shopping once a week.

Go visit you grandma again in a couple of days mate. Don't have regrets.

[bigpete]

Isn't it the other way round ,,,according to Rex Hunt ??????
"Thank ya Mother/Grandmother for the Rabbit"

But seriously Blade,,,,,, what about a nice young Hare ?
More meat on them than a rabbit.

I have heard of Rex Hunt but don't know anything about him, wasn't he into fishing?
Yes, there are a couple of small rabbits been showing up in the orchards here at the house that Rose wants me to knock off. Haven't seen them this week though so calici might have already taken those. There are hares on another block so I could take one of those, not sure she's ever tried hare though.

Rex Hunt was basically a loud mouthed twat who was into footy and fishing

[bladeracer]

Rex Hunt was basically a loud mouthed twat who was into footy and fishing

That explains it, I've never been into fishing or footy