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Just pure coincidence but there's an Australian singer/songwriter based in the U.S. with the same surname called Eddie Benjamin who has a very similar squeaky little girl voice.

I wonder where that nickname came from. I've heard it quite a bit over the years so it must be fairly widespread. Funnily enough, I've never heard Professor Roly Sussex mention it on the radio.

Also, I can see the way the sections work, either singularly or together, they would be handy for a few other jobs as well. I've been trying to figure out ways of lifting rocks without getting another hernia and this might have potential. The way the front section lifts reminds me of a cam action.

That's the next project - to see if I can get the old IH TD8 going. I don't know if it will ever be a goer again but it's worth looking at. I just have to sort the investigation into a logical sequence so I know where I stand with it before spending too much money on it.

It will be all uphill going. I'll just keep my fingers crossed it doesn't disconnect and end up in the neighbours place.

That blood is thick. No aspirin there by the look of it. Thick blood for a thick head.

I had a look this afternoon and I should be able to scrape up the steel for it. The main thing I have to chase up is wheels, axles and hubs. I've got a pintle hitch hook I'll be taking off a Landcruiser wreck before I sell it, but I don't have the towing ring part of it.

I guess there would be a bit of trial and error there. It's easy to have visions of a mousetrap-like closing action catching fingers. Some have extendable levers with a smaller diameter pipe or box section inside another with drilled holes and a locking pin for adjustment. I'd say that would be for carting longer or shorter logs. I'd like to try something like a rope lanyard on the end of the lever to keep out of the way.

They need to take a closer look at their gear. I've never had a cant hook that can't hook.

I'm starting to plan a new project, namely building what I call a log jinker. The goal is a mini version of the timber jinkers you see on the road when semi's are hauling logs. It's in two sections - the rear section which works like a standard log arch, and the front dolly section which would hook on behind the ute. There's quite a few variations around the basic designs but I like the winchless type in this video. The first part of the video shows a bloke hooking up a log with the front section only and skull-dragging the rear of the log on the ground. The later part of the video shows the rear arch being employed to carry the log fully suspended off the ground. The biggest challenge will be how to build it at minimal cost as I had a big clean up three years ago and foolishly tossed out most of the steel I had. I also have to source wheels and hubs as I only have a couple of old 13" wheels that came off a trailer and no hubs. Three years ago I also threw out wheels and running gear off a Nissan Patrol, a heap of Landcruiser wheels and two sets of running gear and wheels from a Suzuki LJ80 Stockman as well as hubs and axles off a couple of trailers. I wish I still had them but if I keep my nose to the ground I might find someone throwing stuff like that out. The reason for it is that I have a few logs on the ground around my place and would like to retrieve them and try out the eBay chainsaw slabbing jig that I've never used. There's a bit of brush box, forest red gum, ironbark, bloodwood and some unidentified big tree that fell across my small dam. I think it's some type of tall growing acacia; the timber is hard and dark red and should polish up nice. If the rig works it should be handy in the long term for different jobs.

I've seen Americans writing cant hook as can't hook.

Bouncebacks from lower velocity rounds hitting steel are bad also and they get up enough velocity to do damage. Small slivers are often razor sharp (and hot) and larger pieces have some fairly sharp, ugly shapes to them. Not as dangerous as getting hit by a ricochet though.

As far as his question "how did the blood get smeared?". Secret service officer holding a cloth on his face (see first photo above). Take that cloth away and it's exactly where the smear or smudge was.

I don't.

The dude is dreaming. None of the people who got hit were anywhere near close enough to him to splatter blood on Trump. As far as his question as to how the blood got streaked, that's a simple one and has been mentioned on this forum before. There's a lot of blood in your ears (that's why mosquitos always go for them) and it doesn't take much of a nick to bleed a lot. Trump was face down on the deck with blood running from his ear down his cheek. Someone should explain gravity to that bloke in the video.

I probably don't have enough first hand experience to know too much about the management side of things; most of what I've heard is hearsay from people. One story I heard was of a station handed over to an Aboriginal corporation whereby they mustered all the stock, sold it off, spent the money and ended up with no breeding stock. True or not I don't know. When I first worked in the Kimberleys in the early 80's we were doing a large prospect on Billiluna and Sturt Creek. We were camped on Billiluna and it was Aboriginal owned then. I remember my boss telling me that when the Wilsons had it before that it had one of the best Hereford herds in the Kimberleys. It was fairly run down when we were there under Aboriginal ownership and the cattle were a mixed up lot and certainly nothing to write home about. They had a white manager as far as I can remember. They were still semi traditional; the men used to go and play with the cattle during the day while the women went out in the spinifex hunting snakes and lizards. It's a small world. We ended up doing another job in the Flinders Range area a couple of years later and got to meet the Wilsons who then owned Frome Downs. Bill Wilson opened up the Tanami track as a stock route in the early 60's being the first to drove cattle across there. Times have changed - the new NT government is promising to seal the track on the Territory side.

If you look at people of Anglo-Saxon descent here in Australia, if you go back long enough our ancestors were warriors who would hunt and wear animal skins and light fires with flint stones. Now most are stuffed if a Wooliies and Coles aren't close by. The same thing that happened to us is happening to the Aboriginals. The only real difference is over what time frame it happens. It took our society and culture a long time to change. The Aboriginals haven't had the same amount of time, only from 1788 to now.

His insanity knows no bounds.

He's pushing his Trump Digital Trading Cards again. If you but 15 or more (at $99 USD each) you receive a small piece of the suit Trump wore in the debate with Biden.

It's hard to get the head around the cost of things these days. Admittedly I've been out of the loop on some prices for a while and have really noticed it as I'm starting back doing some things I haven't done for a few years, namely building renovation and a bit of fabrication. Some building materials haven't increased much but most have. The price of timber products is scary. Another one is the price of steel. As said I'm a few years out of touch on prices but the price of steel in general now is incredible. Gone are the days of taking it for granted. Every job now needs a bit of careful planning and research to keep it affordable. I look at every scrap of steel now as gold. Back in 2021 I was cleaning my block up to sell and gave away a heap of good steel as I didn't want to spend the time trying to sell it and couldn't take it with me. Circumstances changed and I'm still here but almost completely steelless. I figured out that at today's prices, what I gave away was worth thousands to replace. I had a lot of steel that had accumulated over the years, either bought or obtained for free. If I had a small job to do, there was always the right bit of steel lying around somewhere. It's a bit of a shock to the system to have to go to town and pay crazy prices when all you need is a small amount for a little job. On the bright side, the place looks a lot tidier these days. The metal scrap bloke took away five truck and trailer loads if you include old water tanks and vehicles.

There's quite a few youtube videos of her questioning people in senate comittees, including supreme court nominees. She's sharp and knows her stuff. She interrogates like a top notch QC (or KC as they are now). The only time she'd have any problems debating Trump is if it was in Fox studios, and poorly moderated with a public audience of MAGA nuts cheering the buffoon on.

It's an expensive offence, over $1,200 here and four points. Eight points during holiday double demerit periods or a second offence within 12 months.

I'm not very familiar with the history of coastal tribes, but from what I know of the outer areas I would use the term 'managed' the land rather than our concept of farming it. For instance, something like burning has multiple benefits and reasons dependent on the type of country. Burning off can manage fire hazard by staggering the burning of adjoining areas. It also provides a lot of tucker by driving reptiles and animals to a certain area where they can be easily hunted. Another side of it is seed regeneration, but that's a long way from cultivating soil and planting seed and watering crops. I think it's a bit of a stretch to look at fish traps as aquaculture. The way I see it, it's fish hunting, not fish farming. If the Aboriginals trapped fish and kept them in fixed stone enclosures while they fed them and grew them, then I'd call it fish farming. As far as that Pascoe bloke goes, I'd put more faith in the peer reviewed work of anthropologists and archaeologists. While I might not agree with every single thing they teach, at least it's well researched and peer reviewed. Theories and guesswork alone don't make science. There has to be some believable corroboration involved. I think a lot of his media fans give him oxygen because he's saying something they want to believe.

It's goodbye to winter. The last few days of winter are all forecast to be in the low 30's here. Oodnadatta on the weekend got to 39; 16 degrees above average.

That's one thing I always found amusing about the place. Nowhere Else is exactly that. I almost bought a place at Paradise once but didn't. I could have spent the rest of my life living in Paradise. I like Penguin and the big penguin statue.