General Banter

[MB]

Please DoDo increase its value ten fold upon other platforms, such as, but not limited to; Ticfarc, Tocwank etc….


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[Hodge]

Nice to see you about @Hodge.

How you been keeping?

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Battling along mate. Hope you're well.

[mudski]

Well we had an interesting morning. Laying in bed wide awake since 2:30am listening to the rain that’s hammering down and not being able to sleep, coz that’s what I do every night, lol. Anyhoo just after 4:30am I hear a few thuds outside. My bedroom window faces the two neighbouring backyards. One has a tin shed, the other has a chook pen with a tin roof with a small room built on that.
So I think the thuds are just possums doing their annoying thing, then a second later where here this massive bang and our room lights up to near daylight. I look out the window and the chook shed if fully engulfed.
Turns out the chook shed had a solar panel charging a lithium battery.
Firey’s are called and I’m just trying to stop everything else from burning. No way my garden hose was gonna stop this.
Fook they burn hot.



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[PeeBee]

So the next precaution with lithium is no proximity to chickens, in rainy areas or in the dark? Yeah, I think there is something missing with this story? I am going to have to remove the chicken coup from inside my pod now, bugger.

[mudski]

So the next precaution with lithium is no proximity to chickens, in rainy areas or in the dark? Yeah, I think there is something missing with this story? I am going to have to remove the chicken coup from inside my pod now, bugger.

No chickens in the coop. He had a home made solar setup charging lithium batteries for a E bike, I was told by the firey. He, is my neighbors son, who is 50 years old. We don't talk to him much. He doesn't hold a job, lives at home with his quite elderly mum and dad smoking pot all day, and is just waiting for them to die. Bloody sad as the mum and dad are so nice, I get along with them really well. The mum is in hospital and has been there for the last 4 weeks fighting cancer, i doubt she is going to come home, she's not good. This fire, caused by the loser son, is not what the dad really needs in his life right now...

[Plasnart]

Bloody scray! If/when I get an e-something one day it’ll have its own charge point separate from the house for sure.

[Hodge]

Well we had an interesting morning. Laying in bed wide awake since 2:30am listening to the rain that’s hammering down and not being able to sleep, coz that’s what I do every night, lol. Anyhoo just after 4:30am I hear a few thuds outside. My bedroom window faces the two neighbouring backyards. One has a tin shed, the other has a chook pen with a tin roof with a small room built on that.
So I think the thuds are just possums doing their annoying thing, then a second later where here this massive bang and our room lights up to near daylight. I look out the window and the chook shed if fully engulfed.
Turns out the chook shed had a solar panel charging a lithium battery.
Firey’s are called and I’m just trying to stop everything else from burning. No way my garden hose was gonna stop this.
Fook they burn hot.

Bloody scary young Mark. At least a shed and not a home, or someone's life.
If I had a coin for every fire I got called upon lately, by the legends MFB/CFA to drop the power service, due a "E" something fire, I'd be owning a Y62 by now.

[mudnut]

Just bought an old FG 6 cylinder Falcon and drove it home from the big smoke. Seems mechanically ok, but noticed a few more interior and body quirks. In the middle of merging onto the highway the F'n thing deafens me with chimes. It took my concentration away just to tell me I need a rest after 2 hours of driving. What a joke. There were inputs into the controls, at the time. Lucky the traffic was light!