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As is obvious in the video, it's designed for outdoor work.

On the subject of Facebook, they can't have much, if any, real time moderation. I was reading in the news this morning of a case where a man in Indonesia got arrested for selling his 11 month old son on Facebook. The mother was away working and reported the missing child to police when she returned home to find him gone. The father bought two mobile phones and gambled the money from the sale. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-18/selling-babies-remains-a-problem-in-indonesia/104480064

That was a typo, meant to read you've. I just thought I'd get in first before any of yous accuse me of being a bogan.

There's a lot of good stuff on YouTube but YouTube Shorts seems to be a breeding ground for airheads. Alright if you's got ADD I suppose.

Here's a positive bloke that builds tank chairs.

I was mistaken about the old David Brown tractor that's retired in a shed being a 24D. A bit more Googling showed there's a 25 series, not 24 as I misread. The 25D is a diesel and the 25C a petrol/kero engine. Mine is a petrol engine but it has a bench twin seat which appears to make it the earlier Cropmaster. I watched a Youtube video of a couple of Kiwis in the Canterbury region with two Cropmasters. One bloke said he bought one which was a bit of a rick when he bought it, so he bought a second one to rick for parts. When he bought the second one he realised it was too good to rick. He said even though it was only sex months older than his Cropmaster, it had quite a few different parts on it. He took what he could off it to complete his original tractor then sold to the other bloke who brought it back from the did. The video showed both the restored tractors together.

Kamala holding her own against the square headed Fox buffoon:

It's about time. Albo and Co. have done an about face on sending our retiring Abrams tanks to Ukraine. Easy to tell there's an election looming. They're perceived as a weak government and they know they've been below par on Ukraine, so they're probably hoping this will make them look decisive. Call me cynical, but I think our government's support record on Ukraine justifies it. https://breakingdefense.com/2024/10/aussies-arming-ukraine-with-almost-50-abrams-tanks-a-change-in-canberras-plans/

At least I get a bit of good plane spotting here. Since they built the new runway, the changed flight path sometimes takes them straight over the top of my place.

Places like FB are great for small time scammers because there's almost no comeback on them. It's a different story with credit card companies as they get straight on to them. I've only had my card compromised a couple of times and I got a call from the CC company straight away to ask if it was me. They have enough automation to track purchases in real time. If they know you normally reside in Australia and all of a sudden they get a transaction in Europe, it rings alarm bells. The other one that's a red flag is the initial transaction for a dollar or two to see if the card works, then an attempt at a bigger amount. The smart ones go for smaller amounts. The dumb ones try for bigger amounts which can be over your credit limit and that automatically rings an alarm bell.

It's long (about 500 metres) and steep. Over the years a lot of the depth has washed away so I could take ten or twelve truckloads easily if I wanted to get it back to the original levels. I remember when I first bought the block and put a driveway entrance in. I tried getting some road base in but a few feet in from the gate it turned to mush as I worked it. It was the wet season and a spring had broken out just where I'd put the entrance. I had a tractor and rolled in four truckloads of road base just in 15' of driveway before the mush was plugged and firmed up. The next forty metres from there had cap rock underneath so I couldn't side cut into the hill. The only option was to build it up so four truckloads of shot rock boulders from the quarry went into that. I also put in fourteen truckloads of good fill on the rest of the drive that cost me nothing as a friend was digging a dam and wanted to get rid of it. I don't remember how many loads of road base went over the top of it but it was quite a few. Back when I first did the driveway was when I should have concreted it. What would have cost about $25,000 then is probably closer to $200,000 now.

The mutually beneficial situation between me and the house flippers is still working out. I did them a favour today by busting up and removing some waste concrete which will go straight in some holes in my driveway tomorrow when I muster the energy to unload it. Also on the load was a heap of new cyclone rods and some timber. He's ripping up the hotmix driveway in a couple of weeks and said he could get the contractor to dump it at my place. It's about two truckloads so that should fill a few more holes.

I never clicked on the link so I guess if they weren't marketing anything we could put it down as benign spam.

By it's nature, LNG contracts are normally long term. Typical export contracts for gas are in the 20 to 25 year range. If you contract to buy someone's gas for the next twenty years, you would want it at a cheapish price to reflect the contract length. Oil has always been easy to ship and handle so there's a spot market for oil. Because of the required infrastructure for gas handling and storage, there hasn't really been much of a spot market for it until recent times where it's happened on a small scale.

FB don't give two hoots about fraudsters operating on FB Marketplace. A lot of them try for small amounts of $50 or $100 because they know FB don't care, the cops are too busy to bother chasing up small fry like that, and if a bank transfer has been done, the banks don't really care either.

It's been an interesting time the last few days getting a heap of demolition building materials from the house flippers I met. At a rough estimate I've brought home around $1,500 worth of hardwood, bricks, pavers, plywood and steel. Today I picked up some lengths of structural angle steel in 150x90x8 and 100x100x6 sizes. The 150x90mm angle is 3.7 metres long, the others 2 and 2.4 lengths. I was fairly close with my guess of new price for the angle. I had no idea of the price but with the cost of steel these days I guessed around $500 worth. I just priced it and it's worth $556, so not bad for free. All up I've used half a tank of fuel running into town to get the stuff and given the body a bit of a workout. They don't own a regular house and live in the houses they renovate, so they don't have storage for any excess materials between jobs, so it usually gets dumped. It's fairly late in the renovation so I won't get much more from this job. I was talking to the bloke yesterday and he said if I'd met him earlier in the renovation I almost could have built a house from the gear he threw out, about four bin skips worth. There was quite a bit of hardwood thrown away. They do high end stuff, so a lot of the houses are completely gutted to make way for an entirely new floor plan. In older houses, that can mean hardwood internal wall frames thrown out.

Trump held a rally in California on private property where the nearest parking was four to six miles away. They provided twenty buses to bus in thousands of people in from the parking to the rally then left them stranded there when it finished. The rally finished at 7.00pm and thousands were still there in the dark at 10pm with only one bus provided for the return trip.

I'd describe it as an underwhelming government.

It's sometimes hard to figure out what goes on in bird world. My resident raven has been back here on a daily basis for about four months now. He and his wife lived here for years as they had their yearly broods and my place was their sole territory. Then she disappeared, presumably deceased and the great crow war began. The torresian crows regularly did raids in numbers, and were clearly trying to take over the raven's territory preying on his age and new found single status. Mr. Crow the raven started appearing less frequently, sometimes only once in two weeks rather than his daily presence. Meanwhile the gang of torresian crows were coming up and making a racket and generally making pricks of themselves. At one stage Mr. Crow disappeared for about three months and I assumed he'd died. Then one day he came back and you would see him every two or three days. Now he's found himself a new friend and is back here on a daily basis like he always was in the past. It's also very quiet regarding torresian crows. They only come here occasionally now and usually in small numbers and are easily scared off. I'll never know what really goes on but here's my theory. The old raven was fairly vulnerable during the war when the torresians were trying to drive him out. Now that he's got a new mate he's got a bit of lead in the pencil and incentive to re-establish his original territorial boundaries. How he did it I don't know. Maybe he killed the torresian boss. Cut off the head of the organisation and the body shrinks away possibly. As far as breeding with his new mate, only time will tell there. I still think she's a widow he's found and they are just together for company and security. He's still as active as ever but should be getting toward end of life soon. They're not a long living bird.

The only one I do it with is rates via a weekly direct debit arrangement with council. It's great not getting a big bill twice a year. Vehicle registration in Queensland can be paid in 1,3,6, or 12 month periods. I think you pay a little bit more doing the shorter periods.

You see the GM engines a lot in Bangkok in the river taxis. They have a fairly quick response so my guess is they are more nimble docking and maneuvering around the jetty. Fairly good fuel economy as well I seem to remember. Someone might be able to verify that.

It's easy to understand how the two stroke GM's got the nickname of bird scarers. I spent a year working on a trawler that had a 671. That high pitched drone was constant even though it was muffled a bit by being down in the engine room. I used to envy those boats with Cummins and Gardner engines.

Yes, it's a 371 GM. We had ours for 49 years and the only time it stopped was when it did a crankshaft in the late 60's.

In this part of the world the DB tractors don't seem to be so popular with collectors. John Deere, Caterpillar, Lanz Bulldog, IH all seem to be the popular ones. The older Chamberlains like the Super 70 and Super 90 are very sought after.

It's an all round rough bit of gear in that photo. That marston matting leaning up against the wall is just about toast. The nose wheel beside it would be a nice item but they had a go at cutting the tyre off it with a 9" angle grinder. They put a couple of good slices in it before giving up and ditching the whole thing. It looks like the bearing blew out.