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Its a good rally down there - brings alot of people to the area. I learnt to drive on most of those roads, our farm is 50 mins from Owaka, used to be gravel the whole way, the roads can be dodgy in the winter. Slid off the road in my VR4 after a big hail storm not far from that icey intersection, got some major understeer and no amount of right foot could square me up. Fortunately only scratched a couple of panels.
Looks like the neighbour slid off the hill. At least the fence stopped him.
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Must be bloody wet. Normally those side by sides are pretty good....Quote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
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It is bloody wet. I haven't seen the farms this wet before.The hills are seaping and the flats are holding water.All drains a flowing.
May drain under tanker tracks not flowinghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...5ab2f1d363.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
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I'm not sure Mr meter man sure looks soft to mehttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...7101a27da7.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...e91614b668.jpg
Nothing the jd couldn't fix
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He must of been on the bombers to drive through there.:P
He was certainly a few sandwiches short of a picnic Dundee.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
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Irishman's walkway drive shocker cancels ferry sailings | Stuff.co.nz
That bobcat driver must have a good stock of guiness
200 metres short of the driveway to be precise damn gpsQuote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
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They say it happens a bit, why not install some bollards at the top?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bryan
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Sign on back of Prestige Portaloo truck reads
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[QUOTE=Dundee;501497]Looks like the neighbour slid off the hill.
At least the fence stopped him.
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wonder if the skid marks in his daks were as long as those on the hill?:o:wtfsmilie::psychotic:
Their Irish! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dougie
Anyone else read that entire article in an Irish accent??
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Oops they look like metal pipe and that's guna sink!
Wheel anchor here and go for a dive eh :thumbsup:
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How to bury a digger in the Waikato
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Bugger. That would leave you with a sinking feelingQuote:
Originally Posted by sako75
And an empty walletQuote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
One of the boys I worked with in Uruguay sent me this, milk tanker picked up a stone....
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Be a weeks worth off paperwork to sort that out here, that's after all the drug and alcohol tests.
Haha big f**king hammer to sort it out over there, our farm was way down a dirt road that would turn impassable for our 4wd Ford ranger after rain, so you can imagine the fun the milk tanker had getting in there, one of the guys had to drive about 40mins in the tractor every morning to where the road met the gravel and tow the tanker all the way to the farm then back out again!
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That old Merc looks like it would be right at home in a museum.
They were the last of the good merc's. Hammer, screwdriver and crescent, abit of wire and a couple of bolts was all ya needed in ya toolbox.
But would you prefer the power, economy and comfort of a more modern unit over one of these to drive?Quote:
Originally Posted by oraki
Yes I do!!! Just got a new one this year 2016 540 Volvo. No real comparison between the 2.
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But if I was buying a truck for the farm, the Merc would be right up there
Yip, a no brainer for the farm. Simple and reliable.
The old merc was what came and got our milk 90% of the time, I think they put it on that run as they knew she could take the bumps and bruises and keep coming back for more, some of the newer trucks would have been wrecked the first time they attempted to do that run, they also used to come out with an old V8 two stroke International, shit that thing sounded awesome!
Don't they just....might be the number of cylinders & firing order :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
I used to drive an old Bedford with a 2stroke jimmy in it.
I stalled it in the middle of a large intersection once trying a too taller gear to get moving, and the fucken thing started up in reverse order! White smoke pouring out of the air cleaner, and noise! I fair shit ay. Turned it off, counted to five, and restarted, luckily the fucken thing fired in the right motor direction and off I went with nerves a bit shattered as I really thought I'd broken it. Big lesson that was for me.
I used to love sitting in the passenger seat of dads commer when moving the fiatallas or D6, wowfully underpowered but that 3 cylinder 6 pistoned one crankshafted supercharged 2stroke could SCREAM and did constantly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiwi Greg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT8xhOjYGDE
And heres one being driven extremely sedately unladen by the sounds of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0sLp7wvq60
with the D6 on the lowbed it was crawler gear to get round the esses that used to be halfway up this side of spooners :D
I have rebuilt a few of the old commer knocker engines Vietnamcam
And the right angle intake on the supercharger was perfect for mounting on the side of Holden straight 6 engines
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One of our crew did this a while back. Went in just after he'd done it. Was only a piece of stone sticking out the side of the bank. Trouble was it was attached to the 'mother rock' that was made of better stuff than abit of alloy
You'd rather that than a steel rim bouncing the truck over on its arse though.Quote:
Originally Posted by oraki
Last week in the Northern Territory, out the back of Bumfuck & beyond, chopper made two trips back to camp ferrying the stranded. Needs a whole new front end.
The Donkey's had the last laugh.
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