Celebrating Positives (offset of the Gripes Thread)

[onetrack]

That looks like a giant Wrassecal in the first photo! 🙂

 

[nomadpete]

I always said Marty is a brave man....

 

"The large number of Orca sightings last month have proven that Tasmania’s East Coast is one of the hotspots to see Orcas in Australia."

 

And he even went swimming disguised as a seal! Wow!

 

(Quote from Pennycotts cruises)

 

 

Edited April 5 by nomadpete

[Jerry_Atrick]

Be careful posting that stuff, @Marty_d, son likes diving and snorkelling and he has already suggested us move there.

[Marty_d]

It's great... if he doesn't mind cold water.

Even at the peak of summer water temperature is only around 17 degrees.

[facthunter]

I'd like my own Yellow submarine. Nev

[onetrack]

"Swimming with the fishes" has too many connotations of bad things happening to you. I like to stay in shallow water, and I prefer my water much warmer, thank you!

 

Besides, I have an abiding fear of sighting a massive dorsal fin that's attached to a Great White, any time I get near ocean water that's over chest deep.

[rgmwa]

2 hours ago, onetrack said:

Besides, I have an abiding fear of sighting a massive dorsal fin that's attached to a Great White, any time I get near ocean water that's over chest deep.

I once read that most shark attacks occur in waist deep water, because that's where most of the people are. 

[facthunter]

A woman was taken in Sydney Harbour in about a foot of water. I used to dive for Abelone amongst the things near Port Stephens.  Nev

[Marty_d]

2 hours ago, facthunter said:

A woman was taken in Sydney Harbour in about a foot of water. I used to dive for Abelone amongst the things near Port Stephens.  Nev

I hope you mean a metre.  Can't imagine any shark large enough to take a human beaching themselves in 305mm of water.

[onetrack]

Ken Crew was killed by a 4M white pointer shark at North Cottesloe beach in early November, 2000. He was in waist-deep water when the shark swam in, and took his leg off.

 

Esperance is a particularly bad place for big man-eaters, it holds the record for the highest number of shark victims in W.A., with four of the last seven W.A. shark victims being taken at Esperance.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/nov/09/features11.g23

[Jerry_Atrick]

My son loves diving and is coming back to Aus with us,. I have explained ot him that he needs to make sure he doesnt turn into shark ship.

Edited April 6 by Jerry_Atrick

[facthunter]

The shark followed the person. It was in all the papers at the time.  nev

[nomadpete]

59 minutes ago, facthunter said:

The shark followed the person. It was in all the papers at the time.  nev

That's only celebrating a positive thing for the shark.

I think the thread is supposed to be celebrating positives for peoples.

[onetrack]

I don't have a huge amount of positives to report right now. I went up to my block in the Wheatbelt on Friday to do some constructive work, and it rained nearly all day! I was pretty disappointed as I got only about 20% done out of what I'd planned. I'm trying to construct more shelter for all my items, and I'm in the process of re-assembling a large garden shed for additional storage.

 

A positive is I only paid $50 for the garden shed, and it has been built with a proper frame made from 25mm SHS tubing and 75x38 roof beams. It took me 5 hrs to dismantle it, but I think it's taken me around 5 weeks to reassemble it! Part of the problems has been multiple heatwaves, then I had to reconstruct the frame as the original builder stuffed it up with missing supports in some places and doubled up supports in other places. I also made it worse by electing to extend the frame from front to back by 20cm. It has ended up 3M x 3.4M and it's 2.14M high at the back and 2.24M high at the front (skillion roof).

 

Working in the open is also a problem, and I'll be glad when I get some decent shelter built. The garden shed will be completed this week, and I'll be able to transfer lots of parts and other items that are currently under tarps, into it.

Then I've also got a 6M x 6M roof, that I'm slinging between two 20 foot sea containers, in the early construction stages. That will then give me some covered "workshop" area to operate.

 

But the good news is, my "main" shed is under way - a 12M x 8M x 4M gable-roof, concrete floor shed, which I have probably 50% constructed - and my building engineer has just finished the plans for it, which the council requires, and he has given me all the paperwork to submit to them as well.

 

The only downside is he's charged me $3000 (plus GST) for drawing up the plans, which came in on the high side of his original cost estimate.

 

Edited April 7 by onetrack

[nomadpete]

In spite of the rain that all sounds positive to me.just wish I could summons up that sort of energy!

[spacesailor]

onetrack

You do realise the more sheds , the greater  the collection .

nomadpete

an idiot  dived into the Parramatta River ( were the ferry turns around ). 

and limped out at the other side with the ' cheek of his arse bitten off ' .

it's positive.   It was a shark .

spacesailor

[onetrack]

Spacey, I've already got a massive collection, I just need the sheds to put it all in!! 😄

 

[facthunter]

 When I dispersed my stuff due to threatening fires, I decided to clean up everything in MY shed before bringing the stuff back. IF you are not careful I'll write all about it. One thing I've found is that it's a lot bigger than I thought it was.. Nev

[old man emu]

I just realised that because last Summer was so hot and dry, it stopped the flies from breeding. I hardly saw one the whole time, and I have horses in paddocks close by. As well, there were no mosquitoes.

[pmccarthy]

I would never claim it was bigger than I thought it was.

[rgmwa]

3 hours ago, facthunter said:

 IF you are not careful I'll write all about it.

I’ve always wondered what your shed looks like. 

[facthunter]

Full of Character and challenges.   Never tidy   I had a resident Lizard but the revamp has upset him..  The compressor is now running flawlessly. All the hoses are too stiff,. TLC needed in heaps. Tins of Paint gone Hard.  Exposed wood needs attention Big doors have dropped on their Hinges. . Climbing the Ladder is now out.. Found an Unused Tilley Lamp. Brand new POPE lawnmower engine.  Gallon Tin of Castor OIL.Nev

[old man emu]

2 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Brand new POPE lawnmower engine.

Funny you should mention Pope lawnmowers. As I kid I can remember Dad mowing our front lawn with a push mower, with the sweat pouring off him.

(Not my Dad)

 

Then one day the Pope mower arrived, with its 2-Stroke engine. I think that by that time I was big enough to be able to push it around, so Dad was relieved of one job. The Pope did not have a grass catcher, so the cuttings still had to be raked up. Those mowers with 2-stroke engines were a pain. They were always difficult to start due to oiled-up plugs, which was probably due to poorly tuned carby, but what home owner knew how to tune them. Eventually the 2-strokes were banned and we went over to 4-strokes which were easier to start, most of the time.

 

Now the battery-powered mower is on the job. The advice I have heard from a professional lawn mower bloke is that the battery-powered mower is best suited to the lawn fanatic who is prepared to mow a lawn weekly. My sister has just bought one so she can mow close around the house. She reckons it's great because it is so light, but the BIL has a big 48 inch petrol-powered monster for mowing the much larger areas beyond the house. 

[facthunter]

My wife's Zero turn Toro is 24 Hp. I have to say I want to check it to get her off it.. .  Nev

[spacesailor]

I had a ' ride-on ' lawnmower,  three speed gears 36hpX28 " cut .

Taught a lot of Grandies to drive on it ,  & did the neighbours lawns as well .

No-one fights for the lawnmower now  , it' a push slasher type.

That old mower is now a bladeless racing mower .

spacesailor