Stihlmans Wood,Tree cutting ramblings...........

[MCW]

One of those rounds was 2mm shorter than the next one Andrew. Get your sh*t together old son...

 

[sun64]

One of those rounds was 2mm shorter than the next one Andrew. Get your sh*t together old son...

Well what would you expect using SOOOOOOO many chainsaws. You are oing to get different tolerences:msp_tongue:

 

[Stihlman441]

They tell me the sun gets to people up your way mate,have ya been wearin a hat.:msp_tongue:

 

[sun64]

They tell me the sun gets to people up your way mate,have ya been wearin a hat.:msp_tongue:

Nice try mate but you need to get up at 4.30 am to catch me out. Way early with your cat naps.
This place sometimes gives me the S###s but compared to working in Bass Straight at rthe moment, I feel sorry for you. Sh##t weather !
No wonder all our rellies are coming up this way EVERY year !!!
And we dont have to cut up the forrest for fire wood LOL
You all will understand eventually that everything is heading North, massive investment , not to mention chinese wanting to buy agricultural land etc.
This is where opputunatey is mate, you just need to put on a hat and have another coldie
Just check out investment mags if you dont believe me.
cheers big ears

 

[MCW]

Nice try mate but you need to get up at 4.30 am to catch me out. Way early with your cat naps.
This place sometimes gives me the S###s but compared to working in Bass Straight at rthe moment, I feel sorry for you. Sh##t weather !
No wonder all our rellies are coming up this way EVERY year !!!
And we dont have to cut up the forrest for fire wood LOL
You all will understand eventually that everything is heading North, massive investment , not to mention chinese wanting to buy agricultural land etc.
This is where opputunatey is mate, you just need to put on a hat and have another coldie
Just check out investment mags if you dont believe me.
cheers big ears

The Chinese are buying agricultural land everywhere unfortunately.
A lot of the old farts with arthritis in our area head up your way every winter so their joints don't ache
The best thing I've found in the tropics is that my skin doesn't end up quite so dry and I just glow and look bootiful.
Give me 45°C in Summer and -5°C in winter over 98% humidity anyday. Crutch rot gets real itchy...

 

[sun64]

The Chinese are buying agricultural land everywhere unfortunately.
A lot of the old farts with arthritis in our area head up your way every winter so their joints don't ache
The best thing I've found in the tropics is that my skin doesn't end up quite so dry and I just glow and look bootiful.
Give me 45°C in Summer and -5°C in winter over 98% humidity anyday. Crutch rot gets real itchy...

I am not quite an old fart yet but getting there LOL
Yeah, I agree with you on the humidity, that is why I said this place S##Ts me sometimes but you get used to it.
Funny but I have lived here since March 87 and only had crutch rot when I first came up here, plus 1 x tropical ear.
Never since, sometimes a mild rash but nothing at all really. I guess you adapt to the climate.
I have NEVER had a cold or the flu since I moved up North.
Our rellies have farms in Vic and South Aust and complain about the cold every year. I guess when you get older , all those football days and youth doing crazy crap catch up with you.

There must be something to the weather, cause sooo many Victorians holiday / MOVE to Queensland. I guess you could check out the ABS cencus figures. I remember reading about the numbers in interstate migration in one of my magazines. The numbers were high, telling you where the hot spots would be in the next 10 to 20 years.

I went to another property seminar last year, the guy sold his buisiness but still had 70 houses. He sold up in Melbourne and moved to Darwin for health reasons.
He told us that nearly all the big investment projects are in Northern Australia. He said draw a straight line from Karratha, WA accross to the east of Australia and that is where jobs are. People will move to where work is.
He was spot on with the cost of living going back to the early seventys to today and with the rental returns in Karratha at $2500.00 per week as to household income.
Look ar Darwin, in 08 when everyone down south was in doom and gloom with the recession, property prices were dropping, Darwin prices increased.
It had all the southern property experts retracting their opinions on Aust property pricing.

Jobs, interstate migration put pressure on existing housing stock which put up prices. People leaving an area, demand drops and so do prices.

Sorry for hijacking your thread Andrew, but give you a few tips where to purchase your next investment property.

 

[Bigdgb]

Today's task split and stack this lot of Stringbark.

so what did you do after morningtea?

 

[MCW]

so what did you do after morningtea?

I'm guessing he went out and cut another load the same size He says he's an engineer at Ford but I doubt he'd find the time...

 

[Rudolf73]

I'm guessing he went out and cut another load the same size He says he's an engineer at Ford but I doubt he'd find the time...

Talking about Ford... the Ford guys don't want to sell me a new ranger before November

 

[Stihlman441]

Yep hard to get Rangers and hard to get what ya wont,im looking at one as well but.
I wont a 3.2L XL Super Cab Chassis but cant get diff lock and auto ? $39000 ish pluss tray (tipper would be good).
XLT 3.2L have to get tub and then take it off and put steel tray and differant tow bar ? and about $8000 more.
:msp_confused:

 

[tdi-rick]

I'd love to drop the 3.2 into the Landy.

Andrew, are you using the MT82 Getrag behind the 3.2 too ?

 

[Stihlman441]

I dont know that much about the donk,its a 3.2L 5 cylinder turbo same as in BT50.

 

[tdi-rick]

I dont know that much about the donk,its a 3.2L 5 cylinder turbo same as in BT50.

and they use the same engine in one of the Transit van's in Europe too.

One hell of an engine IMO, Ford Europe have done good with it.

 

[Rudolf73]

and they use the same engine in one of the Transit van's in Europe too.

One hell of an engine IMO, Ford Europe have done good with it.

I wonder how it would go with a bit of a tune up...

 

[tdi-rick]

I wonder how it would go with a bit of a tune up...

Fast

It'd chew clutches, gearbox's, diff's and axles fast, too.

 

[MCW]

Talking about Ford... the Ford guys don't want to sell me a new ranger before November

Yeah we're starting to see the poverty pack 2.2L versions filter into Landmark's fleet and my workmate got a new one arrive a few weeks back. Bloody nice bus. Hasn't got as much snot as my older 3.0L Ranger and doesn't tow with as much authority. They've done a good job with filling the cab that full of plastic stuff that it's smaller than it looks. Drives really nice though (very quiet and a 6 speed manual) and so far it's averaged 9.9L/100km which is pretty handy for a big bus. What amazes me is the ones we are getting come with hill descent and traction control
I'll get my new one in a few months. The 3.2L is a weapon though and a number of my clients are starting to get the more upmarket models with no complaints at all. A very tractable and driveable motor in the 3.2L whereas the 2.2L is nice but lacks low down punch, just like my 2.5L Navara. The specs look good on paper as far as peak figures go but they never show the torque curves on these smaller capacity, larger turbo motors.

 

[tdi-rick]

The 2.2 is a pretty good engine, it's what is fitted to the Defender these days with the six speed MT82 Getrag behind it.

Most of us on the Oz Landy board were pretty disparaging of the little engine but I know of a few blokes that have gone from good TD5's to this engine and the new Ford engine is quicker.

Why the Pom's didn't just drop the 3.2 straight in though

 

[Rudolf73]

The 2.2 is a pretty good engine, it's what is fitted to the Defender these days with the six speed MT82 Getrag behind it.

Most of us on the Oz Landy board were pretty disparaging of the little engine but I know of a few blokes that have gone from good TD5's to this engine and the new Ford engine is quicker.

Why the Pom's didn't just drop the 3.2 straight in though

Yeah they are slow like that. The Territory is another example... it should have come out with the diesel at the start, not now after it has everyone thinking its a fuel guzzler.

 

[MCW]

The 2.2 is a pretty good engine, it's what is fitted to the Defender these days with the six speed MT82 Getrag behind it.

Most of us on the Oz Landy board were pretty disparaging of the little engine but I know of a few blokes that have gone from good TD5's to this engine and the new Ford engine is quicker.

Why the Pom's didn't just drop the 3.2 straight in though

Yeah the smaller engines are funny Rick. They go hard when you're right up them and our Navara gets going bloody well. What they do lack is that tractability down low. For example our Navara in 4WD High in sand will just plain stall under 1800rpm. MY 3.0L Ranger will idle through sand in 4WD High. However you chuck a load on these smaller engines and you do see where the extra capacity comes in handy unless you're WOT where the small engines do OK - the clutches and drivetrain suffer towing under WOT though.

Yeah they are slow like that. The Territory is another example... it should have come out with the diesel at the start, not now after it has everyone thinking its a fuel guzzler.

I agree mate. Things are starting to speed up with Australian built vehicles but they should have had more upmarket diesels in them ages ago. Our fuel quality "may" have been an issue though in days gone by if I remember correctly but the manufacturers are pretty slow off the mark. Except for that Andrew Box fella at Ford, he's ace
In saying that though my cousin in Sydney had a 12 month old Volkswagon Passat diesel where all the injectors shat themselves at 20,000km under warranty. Except they wouldn't cover the $6,000 repair bill under warranty due to "bad fuel". He's never filled up out of Sydney. It's the new age way for dealers and manufacturers to get out of warranty work - the first thing our Nissan dealer hit us with when our Navara shat itself at 60,000km was it may have been bad fuel or water in the diesel so "it won't be covered under warranty". Turned out to be BS but thats the first excuse they come up with. I bet a lot of people have been conned with this bad fuel crap from dealers.
Holden needs to get a modern diesel out in their Commodore ASAP. Nobody I know is getting anywhere CLOSE to their advertised fuel consumption figures with this new 3.6L V6 SIDI engine. In fact the 6.0L V8's have been getting better economy under normal driving. 95% of Commodore drivers wouldn't care if they had a few less killerwasps either.

 

[Stihlman441]

Hay keep me out of this and what do meen ace what ?.:msp_confused:
Ace bloke
Ace bull sh_t artist
Ace wood cutter
Ace ........................ i have ran out of ace things.:confused2: