the all aussie dribble thread!

[460cixy]

If I could be ****** I could go past the plantation and get the species edit google is easyer. Quercus suber and was planted 1917

 

[ausneil 1]

Your prize is the self satisfaction of correctly identifying the tree.



4lb hammer and home made steel wedges...

2 off them are 200 mm long but too much taper and they fly out when under massive loads, they're about 40mm thick at the wide end. Theyre crap. My other 2 are 8mm to 26mm and 150mm long and they work great...70mm wide too...

ok, I see why they bounce, the steel wedges we use are 12 inches long (new) and 4 inches wide, they need a hammer like 10 pound and up to drive them, but they can lift enormous weight if your fit enough to drive them. that example of a typical old growth log I showed is the finished sawlog so that huge flare on the butt has already been sawn off. I cannot remember how big that one was but at a guess roughly 10 to 12 foot across the stump, we fell a lot of wood like that one before the government stopped old growth logging.

 

[KiwiBro]

Howdy fellas. Any suggestions how to do a good, clean job of setting the bar nose rivets to look like they are a professional job? I have to swap a few but on bars that I'll be selling, so needs to be a good, clean job. Not my usual hack job.

Cheers.

 

[derwoodii]

Not native here and rare.

Quercus suber (Cork Oak) bark theres a few about melbounre got me thinking just where???? but a handful here n there. There heaps in Portugal whole forests tho the spin screw wine cap may have wrecked the cork industry.

 

[derwoodii]

Where did you find this stuff or you just making it up over a few beers?

its an off beat face book site,, "**** brick fences of Melbourne.. SBFM" the chaps been writing a few yarns some ok some just wacky metaphors for the SBFM

 

[Creeker]

An old cork tree on the Golden Beach Rd chippy, (it looked the same 60 years ago, don't ask me how I know), has a fence round it now as everyone
stopped and got a sample. effectively ringbarking it to some degree.

derwoodi mate - the lack of cork to supply the alcohol industry bought about the change over to metal screw caps. Some argued that the minute 'breathing' via the
cork was good for the wine, others that the oxidation was deleterious ..... ? ......who knows.

Screw caps have by and large been accepted these days and are very user friendly. No corkscrew needed, no partially broken corks in the bottle neck, easily resealable
and I'm guessing cheaper. I like 'em !

 

[chippy]

Aparantly cork is on the way back....the wine needs ozygen to breath and age correctly according to those that reckon they know.....and new processes can remove the chemical from the cork that gives the wine it's corked label when it goes bad.

Used to drink quite a bit of the stuff....so my memories not too good at all now.

 

[Jimbo209]

check this out guys ties in with recent discussions
http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/wedges.288241

 

[460cixy]

its an off beat face book site,, "**** brick fences of Melbourne.. SBFM" the chaps been writing a few yarns some ok some just wacky metaphors for the SBFM

I'm rateing it so far

 

[derwoodii]

wot pita i had to pull off a part under the dash of wifeys car ffs it was a houdini effort in twisting and confined space hand operation then source the replacement now await see if i can get it back in,,,,,, uh oh meh i really should taken that picture before i yanked it off as now no idea which way it will sits back in

http://www.amazon.com/Dorman-604-308-Air-Door-Actuator/dp/B009XA8BO0

 

[derwoodii]

big bar envy,,,,,, look it was really cold shower alright

 

[derwoodii]

chrissy tree lights are hung santa twas suited up & the dirty elves did ok tho crane driver crew turned up one day early,,,, um wot you doing here??... its tomoz

 

[Rudolf73]

big bar envy,,,,,, look it was really cold shower alright


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Thats Brads saw by the look of it. Cute haha

 

[chippy]

big bar envy,,,,,, look it was really cold shower alright


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I guess you win the speed chain sharpening championships every time for saws over 60cc

I'm surprised you're not running the 'light' version of that bar.

 

[scallywag]

At the going down of the sun and in the morning...........

 

[460cixy]

wot pita i had to pull off a part under the dash of wifeys car ffs it was a houdini effort in twisting and confined space hand operation then source the replacement now await see if i can get it back in,,,,,, uh oh meh i really should taken that picture before i yanked it off as now no idea which way it will sits back in

http://www.amazon.com/Dorman-604-308-Air-Door-Actuator/dp/B009XA8BO0

The old blend door motor lol fun fun

 

[weedkilla]

Aparantly cork is on the way back....the wine needs ozygen to breath and age correctly according to those that reckon they know.....and new processes can remove the chemical from the cork that gives the wine it's corked label when it goes bad.

Used to drink quite a bit of the stuff....so my memories not too good at all now.

Random wine fact #3472 -

"Cork taint" isn't exclusive to things under cork. While cork is a carrier for the chemical TCA that produces the flavour, both coca cola and Heineken have spent mega bucks removing causes of TCA in their products. So a wine under a screw cap can still be "corked".

 

[2strokenut]

gave the 009L a work out today it was not cutting the best so i dressed the bar cuts dam fine now

 

[KiwiBro]

Did you steal that ute?

 

[2strokenut]

Did you steal that ute?

yip