Thelma

[nissannewby]

I shall have to pay more attention to what I am moving around. I just know it was naked (striped of its tray and wheels) to enable us to get it on the road, and it was freakin' huge. Scraped the power lines going through Broken Hill, had to be seriously careful cause to bring down the lines means a whole lot of paperwork... etc etc etc

They get a lot bigger as well we had an undercarriage for a Hitachi EX3600 Excavator and just this part alone was 8 metres wide and 140 tonne. Needless to say the trailer had a small bow in it

[healy]

Nice trade you got There mate

[Oversize]

They get a lot bigger as well we had an undercarriage for a Hitachi EX3600 Excavator and just this part alone was 8 metres wide and 140 tonne. Needless to say the trailer had a small bow in it

yep yep. we have had to find room at the bottom of Isla Gorge for our 5 meter tank to pass a 9 meter tray. This pic shows two nine meter dumpys side by side. It was in a yard in Mackay where we delivered tyres for them. The tyres alone are 4 meters high.

[Oversize]

If any Trollers are interested in our travels we have a cough cough splutter, facebook page - Australia Somewhere.

FB actually shut our first page down, we think it was something to do with the business name 'Truckies Escorts'. Hey, I'm a pilot and I don't fly; I'm an escort and I don't mix business and pleasure (I just drink a f^&king lot of piss); and I move naked trucks around. They just shut it down without so much as a 'hows your mother' !!! And I had to answer 20 questions to prove I am me, then I was banned from fb for two weeks. Needless to say, I had so many protests from friends that they couldn't find the page after it was shut down that I had to start it again. So truckies escorts is up again but only as a link to Australia Somewhere. I'd be more than happy to shut the fb page down and move our digital diary to nissanpatrol.com.au if AB and the sponsors agree it is appropriate.

Edit note:
Facebook has completely shut me out. I received a message in a foreign language announcing I had breached the code with my 'VIP Escort Page'.
The faceless morons have shut me down so no more digital diary!!!

[Oversize]

Not winning! The new radiator is a lemon and has to be replaced - under warranty fortunately...

[Oversize]

Not winning! The new radiator is a lemon and has to be replaced - under warranty fortunately...

Done. Getting good at this...

[Oversize]

Camped on the Caloundra foreshore last week (pic shows the view from my bunk), awesome drifting off to the gentle rythm of the waves crashing on the rocks. Breakfast on the park bench, watching the sun rise. Picked up the compactor and took it out to Dalby and home that night.

Lifted Thelma's skirts, looken good and all clean for Neerum. Thelma is always packed so no work to do there. Just bought a bigger fridge for the lemonade though

[Oversize]

Thelma is about to receive a 'catch can'. Thanks to Scotty and Tim for taking a look under her bonnet and confirming the source of the oil behind the intercooler. Doing my research on nissanpatrol.com.au and found lots of info so am thinking I should be able to do this myself.. but I will call a member or three and make a day of it... any takers???

[Bigrig]

Thelma is about to receive a 'catch can'. Thanks to Scotty and Tim for taking a look under her bonnet and confirming the source of the oil behind the intercooler. Doing my research on nissanpatrol.com.au and found lots of info so am thinking I should be able to do this myself.. but I will call a member or three and make a day of it... any takers???

Always happy to help - never actually done one though, so one of the 'members or three' should probably have some experience! lol

I'm in depending when, who else is up for it? Seriously - I'll stuff it it up!! lol

[nissannewby]

Im sure we could easily lend a hand. So when and where is the next workshop day and we can get this sorted. Nice to meet you to by the way by reading what you have written on here I really didnt know what I was in for, gotta love the dinner chat lol. Cheers