Well if you lived in sunny Queensland you wouldn't need it. Just a thought.Quote:
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Well if you lived in sunny Queensland you wouldn't need it. Just a thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by AB
All manual, it’s good exercise but trying to split yellow box absolutely kills ya lolQuote:
Originally Posted by mudski
That shit is so hard to split, 10 times harder than red gum.
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Yeah I don't mind swinging the X27 for a couple of hours, but my back surely says no these days. I'd love to get my hands a hyd splitter to mount tot the drawbar of my trailer.Quote:
Originally Posted by AB
You just can’t go cheap with our Aussie timber when getting a splitter though.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
20T mate, we’re not yanks with pine :)
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I've only used one once, but for $120 or there abouts why not hire one. Your back will love you for it.http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...2023/03/28.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by mudski
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The "Red Roo" is John Deere Green, LOL.
Yeah losely looking for a second hand 20 or 30T.Quote:
Originally Posted by AB
I want to mount the splitter to the drawbar of my trailer as I cut and split the timber on site. Too much wasted trailer space cutting the rounds and loading them in and splitting when I get home. Sometimes the rounds are just too fargin' heavy to lift onto the trailer as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by jay see
Will you find a splitter with that much tonnage to fit in a drawbar..Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
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Sitting in the Beachport. CP ready to hit the pub in 1 hour.
My new oscilloscope has arrived. Its a Uni-T 2052CL. I sourced it locally and intend power it with my new pure sine wave inverter to use it anywhere. The scope has got more features than I can poke a stick at. It has a 63 page destruction manual. I'm 15 pages in and have already forgot what the first features were. :)
Geezus mate, what are you working on these days to need one of them. I haven’t used one in 15 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudnut
The only guys that use them here is defence boys working on top secret shit.
Handy bit of gear to at all times
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Still fiddling with tachos and speedometers, sig gens and such. But I've forgotten most of what I was taught, so trying to get back in the swing of things. I got sick of the crap Allosun handheld scopemeter as it was like using a pitchfork to eat spaghetti. The price isn't too bad now, as it is all cheap digital screens and stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maxhead
That's hard core Craig. I got an old Techtronix CRO in the shed, it's a real antique. Fired it up the other month, it's just about had it.
The bloke at Icon (Jaycar), also still uses an old CRO too. I saw an awful lot of them on Ebay and elsewhere when I was researching units.
As for scopemeters, check out the prices for reconditioned Fluke meters. Bloody ridiculous.
The best features I found on this new scope is the Auto button and a reset default. If you stuff up one of the many settings or need to move on quickly to signals with vastly different parameters it only takes a second to get going.
The Old Trol is mobile again, with many thanks to @PeeBee.
Well, wonders never cease. Mrs mudsane drove me to Nelson for a bit of a rubber neck. We took the long way home via some tracks in the Lower Glenelg National Park.
She actually got us a little bogged. I had to lock in the hubs and coach her how to get out.
Haha, I wish I could convince my wife to actually drive mine.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudnut
I'll take what I can get. I am still unable to drive, so Mrs mudsane has resigned herself to being my chauffeur. On the plus side for her, is the wildlife we saw: wallabies, roos, echidnas, lizards and a multitude of birds.Quote:
Originally Posted by jack
Using my stubby and my GU oudoors for the first time! Nothing fancy, just dirt roads and some shallow river crossings but what a nice Saturday!
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Looks like the perfect afternoon.Quote:
Originally Posted by BrazilianY60
Great pic.
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Does it say something like this Braz? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by BrazilianY60
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Thanks mate!
So I’ve had to take a few days off from work due to back issues. Not being able to do much I registered myself to give blood for the first time. So I done that today and have booked in for next month to do a plasma transfer.
It’s one of those things I kept on saying I’ll do but never did. Now I have. [emoji2]
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Good for you Mark, I am a regular, have been for many years ( just hit 65 donations). I have found out though that I need to swap arms for the donation as I typically go the left arm because right handed and I can then ignore the instructions about doing any heavy work with the affected arm! Anyway, was working on the truck and grunting away on the end of a spanner with arm at full extension and right where the typical needle sites are, bloody hell did it hurt. So the hard earned advice I can give you is to swap the donor arm for each subsequent donation.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
Fk yea nice one.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
I'm up to 10 donations now. I can't give plasma but an O- so it's in high demand.
Wait untill you get the follow up msg of where it's helped.. its a great feeling
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I don’t even know my blood type. Never bothered to ask before. I guess they’ll tell me on my next visit. My reason for giving plasma is at the clinic they had a board up with what’s in the most need. For blood there was only one blood type listed. For plasma, every blood type.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigRAWesty
It was a good feeling to be honest walking out of there today, I should have been doing this 30 years ago… better late than never I guess.
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A couple things I've found (sciatica, motorbike and snowboard crashes, general youthful exuberance) I've done everything from chiropractic to chinese/thai/sports/physio massage to accupunctureQuote:
Originally Posted by mudski
Best value for money, these: https://fireactiv.com/ compression/heat belts.
Inversion table and daily tai-chi/stretches.
I also switched from a sprung mattress to a foam one, and some people do better sleeping in a chair.
Mostly just have to find what aggravates it and cut that out. Driving, and carting sheet materials (plywood, plasterboard etc) are bad for me.
Absolute pain in the ass, and quite debilitating so I hope you find something that helps!
Unfortunately my back issues will never go away, I cannot remember the last time I had zero pain in my back, the level of pain just varies from day to day, and sometimes it just gets too much and I’m forced to take heavy meds to calm things down. I was born with spinal bifida, only in two vertebrae thankfully, so this and a few crushed disc’s ain’t fun sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by mihit
All good though, just annoying more than anything as while I sit here and type I know I have a heap of things that need to be done around the house and I can’t because of the issues.
I have an inversion table, doesn’t help me much though.
Exercise is the key, I know I need to get back into that as this helps the most more than the drugs.
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Have you ever tried a float chamber?Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
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This made huge difference for me. One would think that the more comfortable sprung mattress would be better but it happens the other way around, as it is soft and your back muscles have to compensate for stabilizing your spine, so you wake up with your back muscles "tired from "working all night". A heavy density foam one don't allow much movement so once you get comfortable you back muscles can let go and rest.Quote:
Originally Posted by mihit
I have an acute scoliosis and I can vouch for the exercise comment. I am doing specific exercises to build up spine supporting muscles over the last 3 years and it makes a hell lot of difference. Being this a condition I have since my teenage years and having attempted every sort of treatment and/or reconditioning I can tell you the very best I have had to date is swimming. You build up chest and lumbar muscles with relative easy while not risking any impact to your spine, as underwater impacts are dampened. I only have changed swimming for gym guided exercises due to not having access to a gym with a pool where I am now.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
Yeah I have, albeit quite a few moons ago. My parents used to run a business operating them.Quote:
Originally Posted by rusty_nail
Bumped into this legend at dawn service this morning. Good to catch up old mate!Attachment 86740
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It was a big turn out at Yarra Glen today for the street march.Quote:
Originally Posted by rusty_nail
Check out this bad boy.
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That’s awesomeQuote:
Originally Posted by AB
Thanks for letting me know where to attend mate, much appreciatedQuote:
Originally Posted by rusty_nail
At one side, a legend of automotive history.
At the other, a Mustang.
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Sleeper Buses/Twucks:
https://youtu.be/7dDyRhuUHJg
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Oh, that sound... I hope mine gets like that.
Any news about the fresh TD MB?
Kinda the right night for it. http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum.../2023/05/3.jpg
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Loving it thanks BZ Mate, final bits & bobs arrived mid last month just in time for a Tasmania adventure.Quote:
Originally Posted by BrazilianY60
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Scored 156 rwkw with 650Nm which is more than enough for my needs.
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Getting its first 1,000 km oil dump today :-)
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