my son sent me this and thought of you guys

[wrenchman]

We worry about deer

[Skinna]

HAHA...very good wrenchman...!!

I hate to tell you though mate...its not real...i can tell that, because if that car was being driven at the speed any normal bloke would drive it at on a country road & it hit a roo centre on like that, there would be nothing left of the car mate...
Well, maybe the donk, diff & trans, but that'd be about it...!

[wrenchman]

Yes deer tend to take the front end out to

[Grandadbushy]

Lazy Bastard getting a roo to check his oil.

[eddievic]

Lol that is funny mate

[Ziege]

reminds me of a family guy scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnHEFfR ... =DanHalen1

[bigrich]

this reminds me of a fella i knew who hit a kookaburra in his BA XR6 falcon . he got to work and it was stuck in the grill. he went to remove it and it tried to bite him ! more than still alive , after we gave it some room , it extracted itself and flew off !

[trekin]

this reminds me of a fella i knew who hit a kookaburra in his BA XR6 falcon . he got to work and it was stuck in the grill. he went to remove it and it tried to bite him ! more than still alive , after we gave it some room , it extracted itself and flew off !

Hit a flock of sulphur crests at well over the speed limit, in my younger days, with my HQ SS Monaro, the road looked like pillow fight night at an all girls boarding school.

[TassieTiger]

Is that the new Roo Bar ?
Try hitting a seagull, knee on the deck, at.... well above the speed limit on a bike...nearly pulled me off the bike and had a bruise on my chest the size of foot ball...

[Bugman]

Glad it wasn't me. Apart from the odd roo, and wallaby, the scourge up may way is bloody brush turkeys, and I can tell you they can cause some serious damage.

[Skinna]

this reminds me of a fella i knew who hit a kookaburra in his BA XR6 falcon . he got to work and it was stuck in the grill. he went to remove it and it tried to bite him ! more than still alive , after we gave it some room , it extracted itself and flew off !

Hit a flock of sulphur crests at well over the speed limit, in my younger days, with my HQ SS Monaro, the road looked like pillow fight night at an all girls boarding school.

Haha...i can imagine that one Trekkin...the view in the rearview mirror would've been a ripper...!

In fact, come to think of it, ive had that feathery pillow fight effect from a single feral pigeon once.
It was when a 32 grainer i launched at only 80 yds from my Finnish made 204 launcher, suddenly stopped to greet the pigeon. It was kind of like what i imagine this quantum physics stuff looks like where particles of matter appear, disappear & change form all in squilli-seconds.

[trekin]

this reminds me of a fella i knew who hit a kookaburra in his BA XR6 falcon . he got to work and it was stuck in the grill. he went to remove it and it tried to bite him ! more than still alive , after we gave it some room , it extracted itself and flew off !

Hit a flock of sulphur crests at well over the speed limit, in my younger days, with my HQ SS Monaro, the road looked like pillow fight night at an all girls boarding school.

Haha...i can imagine that one Trekkin...the view in the rearview mirror would've been a ripper...!

In fact, come to think of it, ive had that feathery pillow fight effect from a single feral pigeon once.
It was when a 32 grainer i launched at only 80 yds from my Finnish made 204 launcher, suddenly stopped to greet the pigeon. It was kind of like what i imagine this quantum physics stuff looks like where particles of matter appear, disappear & change form all in squilli-seconds.

Yeah mate, sorta like a scene from a 1970s/80s stag/blue movie, naked "birds" and feathers all over the place.

[womble]

The males are back on the roids around my way. They will fight your car even if it’s parked.

[bigrich]

this reminds me of a fella i knew who hit a kookaburra in his BA XR6 falcon . he got to work and it was stuck in the grill. he went to remove it and it tried to bite him ! more than still alive , after we gave it some room , it extracted itself and flew off !

Hit a flock of sulphur crests at well over the speed limit, in my younger days, with my HQ SS Monaro, the road looked like pillow fight night at an all girls boarding school.

[bigrich]

Glad it wasn't me. Apart from the odd roo, and wallaby, the scourge up may way is bloody brush turkeys, and I can tell you they can cause some serious damage.

i got a uncle who lives up at neerum , past warrigal , about 2 hours north of melbourne . he reckons wombats are a ball of muscle and will rip the lower suspension arms out of a vehicle

[Blr243]

Can a wombat weight 25 kg? I never seen one. Can somebody please do some maths and calculate the force of 25 kg at 100 kph. Maybe a mobile wheel alignment specialist should set up in high wombat areas ...he could sell drinks and hot dogs too

[Skinna]

Can a wombat weight 25 kg? I never seen one. Can somebody please do some maths and calculate the force of 25 kg at 100 kph. Maybe a mobile wheel alignment specialist should set up in high wombat areas ...he could sell drinks and hot dogs too

You'd need more than a wheel alignment rig.

They are known to completely remove the bottom front ends of small cars--as in hit the sump & youre left wondering what happened & soon got your thumb out hitch hiking.

[bigrich]

Can a wombat weight 25 kg? I never seen one. Can somebody please do some maths and calculate the force of 25 kg at 100 kph. Maybe a mobile wheel alignment specialist should set up in high wombat areas ...he could sell drinks and hot dogs too

according to wikapedia , the weight of a wombat can vary from 20-35 kg , are very muscular and low too the ground.they don't get flung through the air like a roo on the move . ya go over the top of them . my uncle swears where he is they are BIG . it would also depend on the car . the lower control arm in a early falcon is a folded bit of tin attached to the cross member by one bush , as opposed to a hq holden lower control arm which is a far more solid set up . in the case my uncle refered to it was a neihbours early vc,vh,vk commodore with a strut front end that was seriously bent out of shape and the sump seriously damaged too boot
my uncle also relates the story of another local hitting a sambar with a landcruiser that didn't end well either . i don't drive between dusk and dawn if i can help it in far out areas . i almost hit a loose cow 30 years ago at over 100mph in a hotted up '67 vc valiant with a 318 out near moogerah dam . was pretty spooky realising what the black and white blur was was pretty trashed at the time so me and my mate just shrugged it off the crazy stuff ya do when ya young , mind you, you could get away with it back then

[boingk]

hotted up '67 vc valiant with a 318

I thought you were a good bloke, this confirms it.

[Larry]

Wombat did over 5 grand of damage to my commodore. bottom panels radiator steering arms even front quater panels were bent and pushed back. The bastards that were supposed to have fixed it only did the cosmetics still problems with radiator overflow system the widow washer bottle is stuffed and the front distance sensors pop out and go haywire all the time.
I have also had kangaroo damage of the same scale once from a front center hit and once it smashed into my drivers side door. Try explaining that to the insurance people.

[womble]

I’d rather hit a cow than a wombat
Preferably niether, but cows bounce. Wombats are immovable objects

[bigrich]

I’d rather hit a cow than a wombat
Preferably niether, but cows bounce. Wombats are immovable objects

Yup, that’s what my uncle reckons. He also hates wombats cause the dig under his shed slab and upset the foundation

[trekin]

I’d rather hit a cow than a wombat
Preferably niether, but cows bounce. Wombats are immovable objects

You have obviously never hit, or witnessed anyone hitting, a cow. They do not bounce

[womble]

You have obviously never driven behind a road train through the night

[trekin]

You have obviously never driven behind a road train through the night

Probably more times than you have had hot dinners. Ever been in the passengers seat of a car that has hit a cow? Quarter tonne plus of BBQ steak rolling along the bonnet and crushing the A pillar and roof, is not bouncing in any way, shape or form, and the driver who ended up in a wheelchair will argue, till the cows come home, that they don't either.

[eddievic]

hahaha i see what you did there trekkin.

Sad for the driver and passengers in that situation.

[womble]

Sorry your buddy suffered so badly. I’ve had a lot of hot dinners, so your experience clearly beats mine. Sincerely.
I was insensitive.

[trekin]

hahaha i see what you did there trekkin.

Sad for the driver and passengers in that situation.

He can laugh and joke about it now, 30 odd years later. He's a good mate and was a workcolleague ATT, and I was the passenger. Have witnessed cow hits too many times in the 40 plus years of driving the back roads, hiways and byways of centeral and western QLD. The last one was just before Xmas, last year, when a cow took out a ute right at the 80k sign on the edge of our little village. The driver, a young girl, was pronounced at the scene.

[bigrich]

hahaha i see what you did there trekkin.

Sad for the driver and passengers in that situation.

He can laugh and joke about it now, 30 odd years later. He's a good mate and was a workcolleague ATT, and I was the passenger. Have witnessed cow hits too many times in the 40 plus years of driving the back roads, hiways and byways of centeral and western QLD. The last one was just before Xmas, last year, when a cow took out a ute right at the 80k sign on the edge of our little village. The driver, a young girl, was pronounced at the scene.

were all these animal hits at night time trekkin' ?

[trekin]

hahaha i see what you did there trekkin.

Sad for the driver and passengers in that situation.

He can laugh and joke about it now, 30 odd years later. He's a good mate and was a workcolleague ATT, and I was the passenger. Have witnessed cow hits too many times in the 40 plus years of driving the back roads, hiways and byways of centeral and western QLD. The last one was just before Xmas, last year, when a cow took out a ute right at the 80k sign on the edge of our little village. The driver, a young girl, was pronounced at the scene.

were all these animal hits at night time trekkin' ?

All times of the day and night, but, I'd say most were within the hour after sun up, and last 20 -30 minutes before sun down. The one we hit was at about 1400, we were heading in for afternoon shift at a minesite.