the all aussie dribble thread!

[rogue661]

Did bloody well to get out of that slop waist deep!!

Not wrong normally a dozer job to get it out when it's that bogged, he said he used the grapple to help push it forward along with what lumberjackau said..
Oh yeah postrip I think you put the wrong link up? I want to see the hot saw ..

 

[pioneer saws]

wonder who,s saw that is

Kevin's a member on this site.
Those 654 Solo's are a slow revving saw, reliable but slow, he certainly brought it to life with a mild port and muff mod.

 

[peter92]

Kevin's a member on this site.
Those 654 Solo's are a slow revving saw, reliable but slow, he certainly brought it to life with a mild port and muff mod.

looks good on the vid, good on him

 

[bennn*e]

Any one on here pickup three dolmars today off eBay? If you've got his new number I wouldn't mind it. He owes me money...

 

[David (saltas)]

yer right placement of trees vs over head wires should be with great fore thought & yer right one span lv urban underground upwards of $50K + and yes more often i'd just sox trees as care less for amenity and landscape vs cost of engineer solutions... but rare few like this one get my dander up as good tree value vs small pocket power supply makes debatable..Here Lv - Abc = 10K & job easy if planned well 3 customers off for 4 hours

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i'm currently working on avoiding a very similar conflict next few years & met DB distribution business rep last week onsite.. To ABC " aerial bundle cable" the span of Lv $10k to ABC the Hv " which they don't like" $50K to underground the lot lv - hv $100k even tho it already goes UG at pole..
so thanks for the feed back as i'm using this example to avoid my own soon predictable problem and your helping me frame up what i'm putting together ATM of price options and will need to show prove my reasons vs cost to the bean counters

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Keep up the good fight.

Your awareness of costs is spot on.

The issue will be local government is responsible for tree. Sox tree cheap or pay utility company a hand full of cash.
Budget usually wins.

They don't like the bundled hv conductors with bundled lv as it changes the fault current calculations and the protection settings need to be altered from plain vanilla to special and they then have to manage a one of install for ever instead of the line crews doing what they always do.

I have given cheap simple cost effective solutions to utility companies and they are always rejected because they use parts that are not on a linesman truck at 3 am. They will choose a 150k (construction cost) engineering solution that can be repaired with standard parts of a linesman truck 24/7/365 over a $800 solution that is from every electrical wholesaler available from 7 am to 5pm Monday to Friday and 7am to 12 on Saturday

Example is the trucks only carry two sizes of earth cable 35mm2 ( size of a Bic pen) and 120mm2 (thick as your thumb) and they only have fuses no circuit breakers this really limits your ability to design.
What you end up doing is telling them is the cost an the parts needed for their standard design.



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[chippy]

A picture below of the good stuff to burn, some kind of black wattle (the 3 large rounds).......I haven't got anything with the bark still on it unfortunately.

Then below that a picture of the crap stuff to burn, still wattle I think but could be something else....they both look similar but burn very differently
and the crap stuff below (3 rounds again)



Anyone know what the go is.....both are common in Wellington Shire, Vic.

 

[460cixy]

Phwoar!!!! [emoji15][emoji91]

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=121747431591&globalID=EBAY-AU

Solo 654 chainsaw hot saw

Finally some competition for my rok

 

[460cixy]

I asked if it was some sort of a joke


"Hi no it is not a joke this saw was built to look like a std saw so you could have some fun with your mate. I built the saw so it could run all day with out blowing up the next solo 654 will be running carny of a solo 667 saw with a lot of port work don't to it , it flys in the wood. Cheers Kevin"

- mrbangerone

Sounds legit

 

[Stihlman441]

A picture below of the good stuff to burn, some kind of black wattle (the 3 large rounds).......I haven't got anything with the bark still on it unfortunately.

Then below that a picture of the crap stuff to burn, still wattle I think but could be something else....they both look similar but burn very differently
View attachment 445678 and the crap stuff below (3 rounds again)

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Anyone know what the go is.....both are common in Wellington Shire, Vic.

Around here they call that black wattle normally full of grub holes

 

[chippy]

Around here they call that black wattle normally full of grub holes

The two pictures I've put up shows similar timber but the one on top is great to burn the one on the bottom forget about it....Cyprus would burn better...

The one on the bottom is also easy to cut and leaves a furry cut behind where the one on top is harder to cut and when dry chews through chains like nothing else...chains will spark with full oil.

 

[460cixy]

Our wattle here comes two ways rotten or hard as the hobs of Hades and burns just as hot

 

[chippy]

Our wattle here comes two ways rotten or hard as the hobs of Hades and burns just as hot

Perhaps it's the same just the bottom pic is showing rot, could be the furry stuff is rot I'm thinking or different timber

 

[460cixy]

If its rotten here normally the outside is still hard as **** but the I side can be fury and soft and will break up in the hand the bark on the bottom ones is the same as ours but normally just falls off

 

[chippy]

If its rotten here normally the outside is still hard as **** but the I side can be fury and soft and will break up in the hand the bark on the bottom ones is the same as ours but normally just falls off

The bark on the bottom pic is fully intact...the section missing I peeled off for the pic.

The bark that was on those top ones was metallic and curled...in solid strips the bark in the bottom pics is much more crumbly

 

[460cixy]

Dunno lots of wattle variety s when there still alive the ones that seem to piss out sap are boss and the sap is good for you too but there always closer to the coast none here where I am

 

[MCW]

I knocked over a wattle at the local golf club a few years back. Real big bastard that was shading the 18th green with around a 30" trunk. Heavy as all hell and absolutely beautiful grain. I gave it to a woodturner I know and the best species ID we could come up with was Desert Wattle from one of his many books he had. He has made a few things from it and he loves it. Turns up really well.

 

[460cixy]

They get full of grubs and don't get big here

 

[chippy]

As you can see both varieties in the pics have the grub holes...the top one is the one that pisses the sap out of the trunk....but the button one is still sappy but not as much....I'm thinking two different species of wattle.....the top one I have a dozen large logs put aside and am going to make a few things with them....Beautiful timber for sure

 

[ausneil 1]

A picture below of the good stuff to burn, some kind of black wattle (the 3 large rounds).......I haven't got anything with the bark still on it unfortunately.

Then below that a picture of the crap stuff to burn, still wattle I think but could be something else....they both look similar but burn very differently
View attachment 445678 and the crap stuff below (3 rounds again)

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Anyone know what the go is.....both are common in Wellington Shire, Vic.

Bottom pic looks like Sally wattle, commom stuff on the eastern sea board, comes out with a yellow flower in spring.
If its clean enough, ie no grubs or rot it is worth good money as feature boards for lining in houses.

 

[derwoodii]

and the crap stuff below (3 rounds again)

does it stink a bit legumniy like then maybe its Acacia mearnsii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_mearnsii