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38 minutes ago, red750 said:

Dangerous stuff. That bloke going for a dive into the dam reminds me of the danger of cutting timber that has been pushed and raked into a heap with a dozer. The heap ends up with a lot of pre-stressed sprung loaded trunks and limbs. They can go off like a mouse trap when cut and the tension suddenly releases.

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I'm wondering if the Australian State governments are working with the Israelis to add the drug dealers from Australia who are living in Lebanon and who cannot be extradited to Australia to the list of unfortunate innocent collateral damage as the Israelis target the terrorists they want to get.

 

Secondly, I wonder how much of the drug money raised in Australia flows into the coffers of those terrorist groups.

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 Australia's next BIG thing...

 

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Australia's newest 'big thing' was unveiled over the weekend, the brand-new 'Big Tractor' rolling into the Midwest WA town of Carnamah. 🚜👨‍🌾🌾
The 11.5-metre piece of farming equipment marks a new entry into Australia's unofficial list of iconically-large objects - the roadside tourist statues that put our regional towns on the map!

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It's a Chamberlain 40K. The first Chamberlain tractor produced was the model 40K which had 40 horsepower (30 kW) twin-cylinder, horizontally opposed engines. They weighed about four tonnes and were considered to be ideal for the needs of Australian farmers.

 

I wondered if the statue was to commemorate the  place of manufacture of that brand of tractor, but they were made in Welshpool, a suburb of Perth. Carnamah is about 280 kms from Welshpool.

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The etymology of the word 'caravan' as it applies to an unpowered, solid-walled vehicle towed by an animal or a powered vehicle which can house people who move from place to place shows how a word can develop various meanings over time.

 

The word 'caravan' is Persian. It comes from the the word 'karwan' which means a group of people travelling together for safety through a dangerous place. The image that word can produce is of a group of Arabs and their loaded camels travelling in single file across a desert. This meaning is akin to that of 'convoy' which comes from from Vulgar Latin conviare, literally "go together on the road".

 

On the mud-laden roads of Britain from about 1640, a wagon called a 'stage wagon' or 'long wagon' was used to transport both goods and people between towns. These wagons were colloquially called 'caravans'. Although early English travellers using caravans did not sleep in them and did not travel in convoy, it was the fact that both people and their goods were carried in a single, covered vehicle for security that led to the wider use of the term 'caravan' in Britain.

 

When the advent of the railways led to the decline of public, horse-drawn caravan services between towns, redundant caravans were converted to mobile accommodation for people whose way of making a living involved moving from town to town. When the first purpose-built, horse-drawn recreational vehicles appeared in England in the 1880s, they retained the name 'caravan' because they contained the living and accommodation needs of the owner. 

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The newer caravan's are ' much Much' wider in their living rooms , probably 14 ft wide when both 'extendarooms'  are moved outwards. 

My (old triple axle van was 9 ft wide ,without extenders. 

39 ft length.  Then the annexe  30ft X 12 ft ,two rooms.

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Pas. : it looks like a motorhome/ bus / aircraft. 

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