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Start Ya Bastard saves Batteries at altitude and frosty Mornings. Used at the right rate it's a soft start. I thought they Made their OWN motor I've seen one with 20K hours on it. That's too much for Most Crankshafts. Tractor Parts CAN be Quite Cheap. The gearbox will tell you how much work it Has done. How much corrosion in the cooling system?. Nev

I just bought another tractor to add to my collection of restoration projects. A Chamberlain C6100, complete with a Gason cab and front end loader - and all for $1100. I'm positive it will make my retirement even busier. Oh, it does have a buggered engine, the venerable old Perkins 6-354, so that's not such a positive thing. The previous idiot owner/s left it out in the weather for years, and rainwater rotted out the muffler, and water ran through it into the engine, and it's locked up. However, at $1100, one has to expect a few downsides. Another downside appears to be the number of empty Aerostart cans I found on the floor when I was cleaning out the 40 or 50 years of accumulated dirt, general trash, rags, dog bones, etc. I guess this is an indicator that the engine wasn't in too good a shape, prior to it being abandoned. Poor old girl, these were great tractors, but some people should never be allowed to own machinery.

When I got my bike licence, the local copper came up to my workshop yard, asked me to do a few figure-eights on my 250cc Honda CM250, and after watching me for about 30 seconds, he said, "Come up to the station, and I'll write out your endorsement"! That was 1982, and I got a totally unlimited motorcycle licence from that! So I rode bikes up to 1100cc with that licence all through the 1980's, then I gave up bike riding when I met SWMBO in 1990, because she hated them, and had been previously told by some psychic, that someone close to her would be badly injured in a motorbike crash. However, the psychic was wrong - at least for the last 40 years. Then, sometime in the late 90's or early 2000's, the local licencing authority split bike licences into under 250cc and over 250cc (with a need for intensive testing for a bigger cc licence), and my licence was downgraded! - despite the fact I rode bigger bikes for years! Some bureaucrat obviously decided I was still a learner, and I'd have to sit the big bike course and testing!! I haven't bothered to, I'm well past my "motorbike stage" of life. They are bloody dangerous things, and the greatest risk is from car and truck drivers who treat you like a second-class road user. And animals on the loose are a real threat to you on a bike. I hit a 'roo at about 80 kays on the Honda, but I managed to stay upright, while I cartwheeled the 'roo!

It depends on where you align

I remember the day I got My Licence. The Policeman said" ride up to the corner and come back".. I said Aren't you coming with Me?. He replied "Not Likely. You would NOT GET Me on one of those DEATH Machines". I've ridden, worked on restored & owned a lot of bikes since then. You DO have to watch what you are doing when you're on them. Nev

He's as subtle as the Worst MAFIA BOSS. A Vengeful Lying Bully with a very disturbed Mind. A Big RISK to the entire World and becoming More so. Nev

That is the most important thing. I guess you will be hoping that this bodes well for your longevity and mental acuity. I can think of nothing worse than your body outliving your brain. I tell my wife that when my brain goes, she "put me to bed with a shovel" (do me in). The trouble is when I lose my keys, she does look at me strangely. Anyway, the positive: we are back from our little trip to the Grampians. We walked a substantial number of KMs. saw some awesome sights and met some lovely people and generally had a most excellent trip. Now it is back to my arduous life of retirement.

I guess this was way too subtle for you blokes. The positive I celebrated was that my Mother reached the age of 100 years and is still mentally acute. I have been so lucky to have had the past three years since I came up here to reunite with her after sparse contact for forty or so years. She received greetings from everyone in government from King Charles to the local Shire mayor.

The Trump family's net worth has nearly doubled since the 2024 election, reaching an estimated $10 billion as of September 2025, with the patriarch Donald Trump's fortune increasing by $3 billion in a single year, largely driven by cryptocurrency ventures. This surge is attributed to a flurry of business deals, including the launch of meme coins, real estate projects, and partnerships with foreign firms, particularly in the Middle East.

BREAKING: Donald Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be executed in a jaw-dropping Truth Social meltdown as his presidency circles the drain. This man must be removed from office immediately! "The President of the United States of America just called for the death of Democratic lawmakers. This man is sick in the head," California Governor Gavin Newsom wrote on X, attaching a screenshot of a post from Trump. The post in question reads "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!" and followed a string of reposts from Trump of deranged remarks from MAGA social media users. One of the posts that Trump shared read "HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD !!" The demands for execution were in response to an article in the right-wing Washington Examiner entitled: "Democratic veterans in Congress urge service members to refuse unspecified unlawful orders." The piece reported that six Democratic veterans in Congress have released a video calling on U.S. military members to disobey unlawful orders. In it, Senator Elissa Slotkin, Senator Mark Kelly, and Representatives Jason Crow, Maggie Goodlander, Chris Deluzio, and Chrissy Houlahan stated that "threats to our Constitution" are coming "from right here at home." There is absolutely nothing seditious about the video and in fact U.S. service members are expected and required to disobey illegal orders. They swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, not to blindly serve the president. With Trump deploying increasingly fascist masked enforces domestically while gearing up for war in Venezuela, it's crucial that our military members stand strong for the rule of law. In another post, Trump wrote: "This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP??? President DJT." Again, there is nothing illegal about reminding the military to uphold the law. The only possible reason that Trump would get upset about this is that he intends to or already has delivered illegal orders to our troops. Republicans love to whine about "left-wing violence" but remain silent when their cult leader literally calls for the killing of his political enemies. Trump is a cornered animal, battered by the Epstein scandal and his own accelerating cognitive decline. He's a danger to himself, to us, and to the entire world. It's time for Congress to step in and remove him from office.

I wonder what is the total wealth of the Trump family.

Didn't cost a cent. I'm a pensioner - all bulk billed.

Just for the (older) nerds..... Fortran joke: God is real, unless declared integer. Cobol joke: A single missed period can be of great significance.

Thanks for explaining, Peter. Just when I think the USofA cannot sink any lower...... They do

Good to see you are settling down... Welcome back Jerry.

Waste of money. All that effort for nothing. (Only joking. Great resilt of course)

You must be Billie Joe McAllister.

Dat 4 of ownership - the bike tood under covers all day even though it was sunny and hit 5.5 degrees! Although, my son's jacket and gloves arrived today. He paid hommage to the roo that gave up its life for my son's safety... And he is booked in on Tuesday for the CBT (learners permit).

I had one of each a couple of weeks ago. The results were good, because the cardiologist said "I don't need to see you for another 18 months." I'll have a pacemaker check in 12 months. The sound of the heart in the echo cardiogram. Chock taw, Chock taw, Chock taw.

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Well Octave, I think your posts are positive so they are not out of place here. Thanks for the input.

Isn't the idea that the value of money drops over time.. So, according to Google AI $100,000 AUD in the year 2000 is worth almost $208,000 today: Assuming no cost of maintenance/works over time nor other allowable deducations, if you don't discount for inflation and simply deduct sale price (let's say $500,000) from the purchase price you will get $400,000 gain you have to pay tax on. However, you are comparing a different dollar today than in the year 2000, where the value of the dollar less than 1/2 of what it was back then. To work out the value of your capital gain as opposed to the amount of the capital gain, you would either have to convert your original purchase price to today's value (almost $208K) oir convert the sale price of $500,000 to the value in year 2000 (c. $240k). If course doing it the latter way will mean you have to convert the difference back to today's dollars to calculate the income in today's numbers to allocate the correct tax; the former method converts to tody's values. If you don't convert the to today's value, you are overstating the value of the capital gain by almost $108,000. The raw difference (in this case $400K) does equal value (in this case, c. $292k). The only way to work out today's value of yesterday's dollar is to apply the inflation rate (or if there is some other price index more reliable indicator of purchasing power/value, than that should be used). The it comes down to the objective. Taxation policies are used to impact behaviour and therefore are not always applied fairly. For example, if you want to take hot air out of the house price market, taxing on values so more tax is being paid is one way to do it. If you want to simply tax fairly, so it is more about revenue generation than market correction, deducting inflation seems fairer as it is on value. But, of course, if like the UK, the country is broke and it needs to maximise revenue, taking out inflation should be dropped.. It will be a progressive tax as the more you make on a captial gain, the more proportionately you will pay. Personal income tax is a problem in this area (I know this is not a capital gain). As the purchasing power of money drops over time, the taxation thresholds at which different rates of tax kick in should be increased to cover the reduction in purchasing power. Famously, as in the UK, they have delayed this well beyind the current thresholds. This means you start paying tax, or paying higher rates of tax on lower values of money. This hurts the lower income earners more, because as the value of money decreases, wages tend to increase pushing say non=payers into paying tax on the same value, not amount of money. [Edit] I think a better option would be to eliminate the capital gains tax relief on property: Funny how this won't happen - just check the assets held my many senior politicians in the country - they have proven very unlikely to vote to eliminate that little deal.

Stress tests, both ECG and Echo, are pretty important for me. They are quite safe, with only 1 in 10000 having a cardiac event (not necessarily a heart attack) If you are going to have an event, it's definitely the place to have it. During my stress echo, there was a cardiac nurse who hooked me up to the ECG and took my blood pressure during the treadmill part. There was also an echocardiographer doing the echo and a cardiologist monitoring the ECG all throughout the test. After the treadmill, they rush you to the table where they do an echo to see what your heart is doing under stress. It is better to find this out with a stress echo in a medical environment than during a stressful drive in city traffic. In my case, my heart was looked at 164bpm, and whilst it is far from normal, there is nothing dangerously abnormal at this stage. During my bush walks, which some of you seem to believe are dangerous, I seldom get above 100BPM. Bush walking is extremely good for bone density. Loss of bone density can be a major factor in fractures from falls, etc. Likewise, older folks tend to lose muscle mass. Anyway, I am not sure how this became the "health report" Perhaps this is not the right forum for this kind of post. I was elated by the whole expedition, and I thought people might be interested.