ozflea
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The truth hurts fellas gone on get a life and live dangerously ................. after all you only live once right Randymac
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The truth hurts fellas gone on get a life and live dangerously ................. after all you only live once right Randymac
MCW
Somebody's talking crap here & it ain't the tree!
Still no luck on a bar for that 4620 Graham. I "think" it will be the same as a Poulan mount but have had no luck anywhere finding that saw model
Bigdgb
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yes Bob, get a life, its too short to be messing with yellow junk that the yanks call a chainsaw:hmm3grin2orange:
BTW life must be hard going for Mac fans to have to quote yourself :msp_tongue:
ozflea
Good ol' BP Zoom 25-1
Well well a nibble at last .................. but i feel sorry in a way for ya
Bigdgb
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thanks for your concern Bob, I am doing well :msp_thumbup:
but I do hope you get that other eye open sometime and see what you have been missing!:cool2:
anyway back to me 30", cutting this morning with a good semi chisel and after about 6 cuts it was doing curves to no end,
so pulled the bar off and found a bit of slop with the chain between the bar rails, so got out my Silvey bar rail closer and fixed
it up, all good so far.
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solar panels
Who's got solar panels or looked into them? Are they the guff or what? What's your thoughts fella's?
I haven't had a chance to research them but must before the end!
Who's got solar panels or looked into them? Are they the guff or what? What's your thoughts fella's?
I haven't had a chance to research them but must before the end!
MCW
Somebody's talking crap here & it ain't the tree!
A lot of variables mate. Some of the cheaper, more advertised setups are by many accounts a con job.
Solar panel life span is another thing often overlooked and there are a lot of cheap panels doing the rounds. In our area some have been worthwhile and others not. My fiancee works for a company that is involved with a lot of tradies installing these things and they have all said "stay away from the cheap advertised fly by nighters in the paper". One mob just went under in Adelaide owing a heap of coin and leaving unfinished jobs all over the place. There have also been a number of panel failures already on systems less than 3 years old despite a 10 year lifespan claim (although not a GUARANTEED claim!).
My thoughts are that you really need to do your homework. I've done mine and no go for me, I don't use enough power.
I have a number of mates cracking the $1000 a quarter mark - how the hell they do it I'll never know. About $500 is all I can get and I'm no scrooge when it comes to electrical appliances. My cousin in Sydney cracked the $1500 a quarter mark a few months ago - I nearly died.
I have a few mates that have installed them and they all look at the meter and see dollar signs coming back in without assessing their setup costs properly. In 10 years or less when they "might" have to replace their panels they'll probably have a rethink. Time will tell.
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Graham99
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Mate the problem now is the feed in tariff has gone to buggery, and you'll never get payback on your investment. I believe the exported electricity goes through a separate meter, so it is not possible to turn your current meter backwards and directly offset your power bill.
If I was going to do it then I would look at what my idle load is for the house, when the kids are at school, and the adults are at work. It si also the time of day when you get the best sun, so is the best time to generate and make a return.
Fire service dont like them much either, as your house is still live when the mains are disconnected.
If I could get a good return I would do it in a heartbeat. Time to do it was 3 years ago.
Regards
Graham
If I was going to do it then I would look at what my idle load is for the house, when the kids are at school, and the adults are at work. It si also the time of day when you get the best sun, so is the best time to generate and make a return.
Fire service dont like them much either, as your house is still live when the mains are disconnected.
If I could get a good return I would do it in a heartbeat. Time to do it was 3 years ago.
Regards
Graham
Back in 2001 I put up a $8 grand rig with gumnut hand out of $6k so total 14clicks. But I would'a tripled that $ now if I bought shares.
I had that nice fuzzy feeling of doing sumthin but twas not well thought out as I'd better reducing my Pwr consumption rather than making pV power.
Its been a solid worker making about 5kw Hr average per day but thats nuthin as the house sucks down 20kw in summer 25+kw in winter.
Your better investing in low power use gear eg your fridge dryer washer hot water aircon insulation lights etc before looking at PV power production. i.e not working to solve the problem at the wrong end of the dog.
Still I gets about 20+% of my bill in credit back. If I could loose the kids n wife I may be able to live close on what it make but don't wanna do that.
I've been mucked about by the power retailers heaps as well they canna figure out PV credit billing its been all over the shop useless pack of wankers read extract here http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1548602
Anyhoo work out you Kw consumption look into it especialy hot water but avoid the foot n door blokes.
Be aware about RECs Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) information - buy and sell they try to take em off or not tell you so don't give em up unless you know what they are worth.
David (saltas)
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Solar panels
Al
The devil is in the detail
You may or may not remember that I am an electrical engineer, who took time out to do a diploma of horticulture (conservation and land management).
I just recently had a 4.85 kW system installed.
Systems 5kW and above get no gumnut money. Slippery sales types will tell you that the 4.85 kW system I got is larger.
It is a bit like stereos and rms v's PMP to pimply faced young men.
Like matt said lots of fly by nighters out there.
The PV installation game is the new home insulation everyone's doing it and most know nothing about it, they just have not killed any one yet, like the home insulation scheme did.
The system will pay for itself if the system does not fail.
Panels are passive components so they are low risk of failure other than contamination/corrosion.
The inverter is active lots of high speed switching of power. so this will have a lower mean time between failure because it has lots of components. Reliability centred maintenance categorise's electronic failure as random so lots of components with a random life expectancy = lower MTBF.
Location loacation
If you are in Queensland and sign up before the deadline then you get +40cents for each kW you make and pay 27 cents or 13.5 cents or 11 cents depending on what tariffs you are using.
The system will spin your meter backwards until they put a polyphase meter in.
this means you get the same cents per kW you pay as a credit. In my case that means I would be missing out on getting a +40 cents credit and only getting less than 14 cents.
Most of my power is on the two controlled tarriffs all of the Air conditioning (garanteed to be supplied for 22 hrs out of 24) and the H2 relay supplies tariff 33 (garanteed to be supplied for 18 hrs out of 24) for the swimming pool, clothes dryer, or anything I care to hard wire.
Most of my bill is 35% 27c kWh 65% 13.5c kWhr and 42ckWhr for the more than 160kWhr I export each week when cloudy.
+300 days no rail only sunshine were I am.
An edwards Solar hot water system helps the old solarhart was +20 years before it got replaced.
As the system winds down there are too many suppliers and not enough customers so a system that was 15K 8 months ago is 11k today.
If you are going to do it.
Get someone who you can find in 5 years time to do it.
Do your own maths.
Pm me if you want more edumacation.
Matt parcel arrived thanks
Al
The devil is in the detail
You may or may not remember that I am an electrical engineer, who took time out to do a diploma of horticulture (conservation and land management).
I just recently had a 4.85 kW system installed.
Systems 5kW and above get no gumnut money. Slippery sales types will tell you that the 4.85 kW system I got is larger.
It is a bit like stereos and rms v's PMP to pimply faced young men.
Like matt said lots of fly by nighters out there.
The PV installation game is the new home insulation everyone's doing it and most know nothing about it, they just have not killed any one yet, like the home insulation scheme did.
The system will pay for itself if the system does not fail.
Panels are passive components so they are low risk of failure other than contamination/corrosion.
The inverter is active lots of high speed switching of power. so this will have a lower mean time between failure because it has lots of components. Reliability centred maintenance categorise's electronic failure as random so lots of components with a random life expectancy = lower MTBF.
Location loacation
If you are in Queensland and sign up before the deadline then you get +40cents for each kW you make and pay 27 cents or 13.5 cents or 11 cents depending on what tariffs you are using.
The system will spin your meter backwards until they put a polyphase meter in.
this means you get the same cents per kW you pay as a credit. In my case that means I would be missing out on getting a +40 cents credit and only getting less than 14 cents.
Most of my power is on the two controlled tarriffs all of the Air conditioning (garanteed to be supplied for 22 hrs out of 24) and the H2 relay supplies tariff 33 (garanteed to be supplied for 18 hrs out of 24) for the swimming pool, clothes dryer, or anything I care to hard wire.
Most of my bill is 35% 27c kWh 65% 13.5c kWhr and 42ckWhr for the more than 160kWhr I export each week when cloudy.
+300 days no rail only sunshine were I am.
An edwards Solar hot water system helps the old solarhart was +20 years before it got replaced.
As the system winds down there are too many suppliers and not enough customers so a system that was 15K 8 months ago is 11k today.
If you are going to do it.
Get someone who you can find in 5 years time to do it.
Do your own maths.
Pm me if you want more edumacation.
Matt parcel arrived thanks
ozflea
Good ol' BP Zoom 25-1
Bought a new truck yesterday pick it up today good price and a good warranty and road side service of 10 years ..... a seat for me and my dawg and an Aluminium tray
Gotta be better than what i had as i needed a tray not 3 extra seats with no bum's on them
Great Wall Ching a Ding special and a colour co-ordinated Kelpie in black and white.
McBob.
Gotta be better than what i had as i needed a tray not 3 extra seats with no bum's on them
Great Wall Ching a Ding special and a colour co-ordinated Kelpie in black and white.
McBob.
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tdi-rick
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Not getting some email notifications again, like this thread.
Weird.
Bob, does the GW ute come with a set of free mandarin language CD's so you can converse with the ex-Foreign Minister ?
At least it's probably made out of Aussie sourced iron ore and smelted with Aussie coking coal, not that the average Aussie gets much from that either, even though the Crown is supposed to own what's below the ground......
Weird.
Bob, does the GW ute come with a set of free mandarin language CD's so you can converse with the ex-Foreign Minister ?
At least it's probably made out of Aussie sourced iron ore and smelted with Aussie coking coal, not that the average Aussie gets much from that either, even though the Crown is supposed to own what's below the ground......
ozflea
Good ol' BP Zoom 25-1
Not sure yet so i'm home here brushing up on my spoken chinese just in case ................. i asked the salesman yesterday was the radio aussie or chinese but have not tested it
I think ya better run that statement past Gena Rhinehart
I think ya better run that statement past Gena Rhinehart
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tdi-rick
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But when I get a hold of myself is when I'm thinking less clearly and more 'instinctively'......... :monkey:
Hell, I'd take a DCS9010 over a 660 and put up with the crap (for Australia) air filter, especially if I felt the need for an old school saw, but if we're talking modern design, 90-100cc saws, we can only be talking Orange, can't we ?
I'd love to try a port job on a 9010, I'd reckon that old school, long stroke cylinder would respond really, really well with a little waking up.
tdi-rick
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ah yes, Gina 'I know what's best for this country and only have Australia's best interests at heart so I want to import 1750 foreign workers on cheap 457 work visa's' Reinhart.
According to a bloke I know up Newman way, a few mining companies have started using GW's as they can buy three of the Chinese utes for one Hilux, and Toyota haven't been easy to deal with for several years now when it comes to warranty and spares supply apparently.
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But when I get a hold of myself is when I'm thinking less clearly and more 'instinctively'......... :monkey:
Hell, I'd take a DCS9010 over a 660 and put up with the crap (for Australia) air filter, especially if I felt the need for an old school saw, but if we're talking modern design, 90-100cc saws, we can only be talking Orange, can't we ?
I'd love to try a port job on a 9010, I'd reckon that old school, long stroke cylinder would respond really, really well with a little waking up.
Hey now Rick, don't be hatin' ...
ozflea
Good ol' BP Zoom 25-1
According to a bloke I know up Newman way, a few mining companies have started using GW's as they can buy three of the Chinese utes for one Hilux, and Toyota haven't been easy to deal with for several years now when it comes to warranty and spares supply apparently.[/QUOTE]
Thats how Husky got started in Australia
Thats how Husky got started in Australia
husq2100
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solar pannels, German or Japanese made, Inverter, sunny boy is a good brand.....
I got BP panel's with my grid interactive system they been good for 12 years and seen off a few 45 c days hail stones lighting and high winds events.
I been tinkering with wind turbine too, I inherited a small 90 watt Rutland and its staff pole so set it up with 4 deep cycle gel batts a inverta electronic to make it work with a small PV pannel so its a hybrid. Its been a hobbie job meaning I spent about a grand so far but got less than 2 bucks pay back.
The inverta make 240 mains so it will drive my garage door and just run a small fridge for 2 hours. I also got a 12 v outlet on it as well so I been wiring up them LED lights and they be great 12v wire to 3 watt globes means I can DIY it with no tradie electrician bills. So far they are just a black out back up, I seen whole homes lighting run with a few PV panel's truck battery and these LED globes. 10 pcs CREE 9W GU10 LED Warm White Downlights Work Lights Lamp 3x3W Bulb | eBay
I been tinkering with wind turbine too, I inherited a small 90 watt Rutland and its staff pole so set it up with 4 deep cycle gel batts a inverta electronic to make it work with a small PV pannel so its a hybrid. Its been a hobbie job meaning I spent about a grand so far but got less than 2 bucks pay back.
The inverta make 240 mains so it will drive my garage door and just run a small fridge for 2 hours. I also got a 12 v outlet on it as well so I been wiring up them LED lights and they be great 12v wire to 3 watt globes means I can DIY it with no tradie electrician bills. So far they are just a black out back up, I seen whole homes lighting run with a few PV panel's truck battery and these LED globes. 10 pcs CREE 9W GU10 LED Warm White Downlights Work Lights Lamp 3x3W Bulb | eBay
MCW
Somebody's talking crap here & it ain't the tree!
I have a number of clients that have bought their property managers Great Wall utes based on price alone - many of the managers have said they'd have rather received a second hand Hilux/Ranger/BT50/Navara etc etc. All modern common rails seem to have some niggling issue around the place though and although my work Ford Ranger has not missed a beat our Navara had ongoing fuel issues under warranty for about 30,000km until Nissan decided to replace all of the injectors. Clients of mine have had issues with 200 series Cruisers, Hiluxes, Navaras (including the top shelf 170kw V6 diesels), Patrols, etc etc etc.
A guy who ran one of Landmark's defensive driving courses a while back also guides grey nomads across the desert in his spare time. He won't allow anymore Jeeps or Great Wall vehicles on his tours. 3 out of the 3 Great Wall vehicles have failed and needed towing with Jeep diesels not far behind them.
I certainly won't point the finger at anybody buying a Great Wall at that price or with that warranty though.
