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And a bit sad.
Our first born has moved out.
After finishing year 12 last year, he started a PE teaching traineeship at the beginning of this year. A few months in and he discovered that he loves all things sport, but not as a career. A number of factors later and he's now living with my sister in law and her family on the other side of town doing a glazier apprenticeship.
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Had a busy month at work. Busy year really... I check my sales today and had done just under half a mil and still have a couple more days so I will crack the 500thou. Highest month ever there. Nice bit of “commish” headin’ my way in next weeks pay! We’ve had record month after record month ever since Covid. Not sure how as we have lost a few clients as well due to no work for them, but we are killing it right now.
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Got beats by a Merc with a v8 Bi turbo
Happy cause I got along side it n didn't give ground
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The old man rang me today, offering me their A-Van. Stoked on the offer, will be taking them up on it, now just gotta get it transported here. Cannot wait to use it!!!!
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Finally got myself off the Craic :-(
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Sleep tight Vegemite’s :-)
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Careful Mark, that milk is close to its expiry date.Quote:
Originally Posted by MB
Well as a few know another love of mine is Jack Daniels, just a little bit. Well I had a fella I know who happen to have a crap load of original JD barrels lying around make me a barrel bench and two stools all made from the barrels. Absolutely love these and love to just sit in my room in silence and sip on a nice whiskey.
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Looks amazing .Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
Can't wait to sit down with ya for a shot.
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That's grouse mate. Perfect for your whiskey room.
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Those are some really nicely crafted bar stools. That set looks great [emoji108]
Magnificent Mr Mark [emoji106][emoji106]
Under-House Panic-Less Protection Cellar...LOVE IT [emoji41][emoji106]
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Had surgery today to remove a 7mm kidney stone. What makes me happy about that???? I did not have to pass it!!!
Flip side see angry thread!!!
Looks brilliant mate.[emoji108]Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
I see that there's 2 stools [emoji848] I can can sit in silence too.
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Only wet a line three time since all this COVID started.
Will finish my tank repairs today and have packed my mobile platform swag and box of artificial bugs.
To the mountains after the "passing by" of the weekend (quiet times and may not see anyone).
Going to make a fire pit out of the washing machine drum.
My next project.
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Hope you are well John. Stay safe mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bidja
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@mudski cruising ok mostly Mark. Been keeping low like most. Not so bad living out of town plenty to do. No cases in our shire, surprising considering Hume hwy passes thru and a bit of a haul for you folk down sth_hang in there.
Missed your 63% reduction gear (read thru last night), thinking will get some_went for good price mate.
My NSW somewhat colour lookalike number plates finally turned up today in anticipation of work borders reopening once Melbourne can finally get its shit together :-)
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Smallest possible ‘vic’ on the market should hopefully confuse high speed highway abuse out there again :-)
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Welcome anytime John.Quote:
Originally Posted by jay see
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Your dreaming cob! Number plate recognition will foil your border crossing abilities mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by MB
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Sitting in the Macca's carpark waiting for my youngest to finish his 1st shift.
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Emaily checked Happy Dappy Days!
“Macquarie Finance Legends” have given us the Pre-Covid performance benefit of the doubt for a new ISUZU little tri tipper desperately needed to keep on slowly trucking alive at work [emoji106]
https://www.isuzu.com.au/applications/tippers/
Patterson Cheney has now got all of our future business blown replacements/upgrades[emoji106][emoji106]
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Nothing to do with sneaking over mate, contracts awaiting legitimate crossing:-)Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
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Any free food?Quote:
Originally Posted by jay see
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Can’t go wrong with an Isuzu mate. Best built out of the Asian variants in my opinion. Been selling Truck bits for 27 years now. They’ve always come out in front of all the others.Quote:
Originally Posted by MB
Look at the Dmax for example. Been around for 12 years now?! Still run the same motor. Do any other brand still run the same motor after that long. Proven mate.
Good choice.
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Cheers Mr Mark!
Have quietly watched Rossco & Nicole start replacing their entire work fleet (trucks & utes) and many other DMax work users like Maxhead giving top reviews too[emoji106][emoji106]
We financed a couple of flashy brand new Navaras only a couple of years ago and do wish we had of chosen ISUZU’s then too :-(
‘Keep It Simple Safe’ base models for work idiots I now says too :-)
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Isuzu all the way. Over the years our whole EWP, Crane, Tippers have been re-bodied and re-trucked to Isuzu. A lot of these trucks are on the road being battered 24/7, by a lot of people who simply don't care about them since its not theirs. So they more or less drive them like they stole them. And the trucks simply keep on keeping on!
Cheers Hodgestar, cementing/relieving my fear of yet another loan or maintenance headache forthcoming [emoji106]
They are everywhere on the roads these days utilised by bigger fleet mobs like your top teams too [emoji106][emoji106]
I personally dislike autos in trucks around our mountainous neck of the woods but we did choose this new one auto as blokes keep farkin engine mounts on old Hino & Daihatsu manuals dropping clutches and shuttering the life out of the poor loaded up buggers :-(
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I hear Isuzu and think of the little old Gemini. Tough little motors even back then.[emoji123]
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Yeah been nothing but reliable the old Isuzus, seriously never had a problem with any if them don't think. May not have snazzy features of the competition but personally don't want too many bells and whistles in a work vehicle. What's the auto box you went with is it auto or automated manual. Our little tipper is automated manual, wish we went manual but still good when driven tiptronic (which do all 100% of the time lol) pretty much a manual with auto clutch lol. .
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We’ve currently hired a temporary ‘Budget Rental’ auto/manual and my personal tests seem to be able to spank it around gears manually if needed down hills if that’s what you mean Rossco :-) ?
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Not yet, but I'm sure there will be.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
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Anyone know anything about Hiace Vans?
Made the decision to buy one and do up as a camper. Don't know whether to go for the 3litre turbo diesel or the 2.7 litre petrol. Read that the 2.7 with an auto guzzles fuel.
I'm guessing the 3 litre is the same as they put in the Hiluxes?
Open to all suggestions. Also looking at Ford Transits, but don't know much about them.
We had a few hundred hiace vans as delivery vehicles at work. They were great, not overly comfy to drive but lasted forever and never had any issues.
They are all being replaced with Transits now which are much more comfortable to drive with more features but we are having endless troubles with them. A few engines have blown, turboes gone, panels popping off and huge electrical issues.
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Thanks Winnie. How old would those Hiace's have been? 2000, 1998, 2010?? Just trying to work out the model And petrol or diesel?Quote:
Originally Posted by Winnie
Yeah same with our Rangers which same motors I think. No motor problems but heaps of electrical problems with many of them, Ford were frick'n THE worst to deal with, never looked back after seeing the last one of them go. .
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I think they started buying them in the early 2000s and only just gone away recently but will be going back. They do exchange them at about 200,000kms but very rarely have issues in that time.Quote:
Originally Posted by 10G
As Rossco said, Ford were absolutely awful to deal with as well.
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Our eldest daughter, Miss Ebbs has come a long way in recent years...
Always a fighter
And yesterday passed her physical training and is now a seasonal firefighter with the DPAW or also known as Forestry
Pritty proud I must say and one tough little chic although sometimes a little mentally frail she knows how to handle it know
Cheers
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We had a '95 Spacia 5 speed manual for a bit over 15 years and put a few hundred thousand ks on the clock. After the head gasket was replaced, the thing drank oil but kept on chugging along.Quote:
Originally Posted by 10G
They are a bit hard to work on but not technologically advanced.
The Spacias already had carpet and some even had dual aircon. We looked at getting a 4wd version as a camper, but they were as scarce as rocking horse excrement.
It was totally stuffed when we finally sold it.
I never did find a workshop manual for it so trouble shooting was a bit hard.
Fleet of around 25 hiace vans were replaced last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by 10G
They were the 3L d4d common rail motors. Same as the 3L Hilux. Variants. These things were our callout and faults vehicles and were on the road just about 24/7 for 6 years. They were flogged , used and abused, countless missed services and still going great with virtually no mechanical breakdowns. Just under 300k when they sold them off.
Can be uncomfortable as the seats are right above the wheel. You're literally sitting on the suspension spring.
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