the all aussie dribble thread!

[MCW]

good things come to end some time matt, we never could rely on state forests for our only supply, ... we should of been planting a hell of a lot more private plantations in the last 50 years, and using them in rotation while selective logging the state for high value logs instead of woodchip for china .... things would of been booming now lots of pine, cedar and what ever desired, with state supply of big value hardwoods still plentiful

I agree mate but the greens in Tassie are basically saying that instead of logging or farming they need to convert that income into "eco tourism". It's not about coming to an end, they don't want any sustainable logging or forestry at all.
Remember that a lot of these wankers are also against any form of land use for profit at all. If it's not the argument that it is encroaching on furry little critters, it's because of chemical useage etc etc. I'm not the world's biggest fan of old growth logging but these wankers have absolutely no bounds. If you'd have been to Tassie and seen some of these filthy, stinking protesters attempting to block development that would have created hundreds of badly needed jobs with little environmental impact you'd know what I mean. They were actually roping up into trees and tying canopies together so that the fallers could never be certain where the tree was going to fall. This was only to make an access track too, not clearfelling.
One thing that cracked me up while I was in Tassie is that they were calling certain areas of forest "old growth" when they had actually been completely clearfelled in the 50's. Basically every single tree left had emerged since then so maximum only maybe 50-60 years old.
In fact they probably think your farm should be turned into a nature reserve
There is no middle ground with these guys which is where I sit.
Greenies, can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em.

 

[WidowMaker1]

Greenies, can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em.

the tree hugger is everywhere, even the tight arse bee keeper will rope himself to tree ...there been blockading since the 60's in Tassie, there even more radical with 2 heads. lol, but there Australia wide mate, nearly every town is on the eco-tourism band wagon these days,

yeah go down tassie a lot mate when i can, got friends up this way that own the caravan park & few houses in queenstown, head down that way bowhunting in the un-tammed south western corner, there is some massive trees down that way, its like durassic park waiting for a dinosour to pop up.

 

[MCW]

got friends up this way that own the caravan park & few houses in queenstown, head down that way bowhunting in the un-tammed south western corner, there is some massive trees down that way, its like durassic park waiting for a dinosour to pop up.

The SW corner is full on back blocks for sure. Do your friends at Queenstown have any teeth? That's Hillbillyville if I ever saw it

 

[2strokenut]

only thing greenies are good for is ####ing up peoples lives

 

[WidowMaker1]

The SW corner is full on back blocks for sure. Do your friends at Queenstown have any teeth? That's Hillbillyville if I ever saw it

bottles & bottles of pulled teeth soaked in spirits, all from travelling tourists before remains are disposed

 

[MCW]

bottles & bottles of pulled teeth soaked in spirits, all from travelling tourists before remains are disposed

Good movie that one! They also had as many old mining holes as Queenstown.

 

[tdi-rick]

seriously now, 40mm in a 1 & 1/2 hour storm at work yesturday evening, it had the works, even the eye came right over us and it was just light rain for 5 minutes then it hit harder than the first waive.
bloody washed out the road and everything else that wasn't concrete.


hope you all have had a good day today.

Coming home last night from up the coast and switched on the phone when back in range at Armidale.

Silly me turned on the BOM radar.... (just have to love smart phones )

Big black splodge in the middle of that huge storm right on our little valley :msp_scared:

When we finally got here 2.5hours later the road was green through Emirates, branches and trees down everywhere, paddocks flooded and the hail was still sitting on the ground.
Our place 2.5km away was spared, msp_smile and we'd had over 60mm of rain which is nice as we were well and truly back in drought.

Saw Serge on Monday, and mate, the wheels survived the trip fine, I boxed them up before we left Newrybar
I wanted to bash on Don's door this morning to get the new tyres mounted up make the 'fender more sexy

Rudi, I hear you re the beach.
I never get tired of the views on the coast

 

[sun64]

Widowmaker 1, I grew up in Tassie, left when I was 23. It is a pretty state but untill you live in a place, then you know what it is truley like.
Unfortunately Tassie is a bit backwards , I go home to see the family but the state is in a financial mess.
Hell a lot of Southern Australia is also the same way.
Politicians bending over for the minority squeeky wheel vote

I have had soo many friends rave on about their QLD holiday but it is far different when you go there to live, then find the Gold Coast ( tinsel town ) is just like most other places once the gloss wears off.
One of the problems in Tassie when , appart from the Gordon below Franklin protests was , when I was younger , we had a white guy by the name of Nigel Mansel who was always carring on about the aborigionals. He was as white as me and I was told used to have his hair frizzed to make him look more the part.
There are no full bloods left.
A friend of our family married a black aborigional woman from QLD, she joind in protesting but was never from the state.
Matt is completelt right, most of the sh*t stirrers are from mainland Australia.

Remember a few years back with all the refugees shoved up near Marilinga somewhere, if I am correct , all the drop ins protesting , not to mention Roxby Down recently.
All blow ins from elsewhere that dont have an inkling of what the local economy needs / has or wants !
I believe some are paid professional protesters.
Dont get me wrong, if the LOCAL people are against a porject then that is their issue, not blow ins from all over the world.
Anyway gotta go back out to earn a dollar to help pay for our poor boat people who are arriving every day.
Cheers Wayne

 

[tdi-rick]

I don't think there was much blackfella in Mansell, I don't have too much, and I at least look the part
My nickname at school was 'Boong'

(No, I'm not the bloke with the white beard and funny hat )

 

[MCW]

HI RICK!

How they hanging and did you have a good Christmas? I've been missing you here :too_sad:

 

[MCW]

we had a white guy by the name of Nigel Mansel who was always carring on about the aborigionals. He was as white as me and I was told used to have his hair frizzed to make him look more the part.

It always makes me laugh when somebody is maybe genetically 10% black yet they'll still always choose the "dark side". More profitable in the long term I suppose.
I mean even 50/50 is questionable to me as far as rights go.

 

[derwoodii]

Coming home last night from up the coast and switched on the phone when back in range at Armidale.

Silly me turned on the BOM radar.... (just have to love smart phones )

Big black splodge in the middle of that huge storm right on our little valley :msp_scared:

When we finally got here 2.5hours later the road was green through Emirates, branches and trees down everywhere, paddocks flooded and the hail was still sitting on the ground.
Our place 2.5km away was spared, msp_smile and we'd had over 60mm of rain which is nice as we were well and truly back in drought.

Saw Serge on Monday, and mate, the wheels survived the trip fine, I boxed them up before we left Newrybar
I wanted to bash on Don's door this morning to get the new tyres mounted up make the 'fender more sexy

Rudi, I hear you re the beach.
I never get tired of the views on the coast

gezz saw them storms on BOM thought of any under them seems you got lucky no harm,, good one

 

[WidowMaker1]

Widowmaker 1, I grew up in Tassie, left when I was 23. It is a pretty state but untill you live in a place, then you know what it is truley like.
Unfortunately Tassie is a bit backwards

mate i just ignore the pollys BS by keeping to myself, keep the head down and plough threw life making what i can how i can on my own terms. farm life is like living on a Island, outside influence doesn't concern us, if they get in our face they'll back off with a double barrel in there face. we keep it basic & tell'em nothing. we stay under the Taxable income, and much of our own needs gets taken care of from our own farm supply and living wisely .... as for Tassie, id be living there for the weather & landscape, when you consider a run of 28 degrees C days a heat wave that sounds bloody nice to me :msp_smile:

 

[derwoodii]

phhhoar I'm nackkered a weak pissy little girly I must be,, a drain trench nay more than 25 feet long 12 inches down has beaten me all day still got 10 foot to go :bang:
I had issue with the pick up off roof,, sure some rooting around 1st but now the easy stuff has me puffed and sweating its only low 20ies and nice bresse but I'm kaput after 15 i's need 30 off.... To much rum custard trifflie on chrissy day eh :msp_sneaky:

 

[derwoodii]

phhhoar I'm nackkered a weak pissy little girly I must be,, a drain trench nay more than 25 feet long 12 inches down has beaten me all day still got 10 foot to go :bang:
I had issue with the pick up off roof,, sure some rooting around 1st but now the easy stuff has me puffed and sweating its only low 20ies and nice bresse but I'm kaput after 15 i's need 30 off.... To much rum custard trifflie on chrissy day eh :msp_sneaky:

bah well the last 10 foot twas easy the ground softened up but on the way:bang: me finds another septic sewer line that's going to stuff me water fall levels... gimmi strength n xray vision to finish this......

 

[MCW]

bah well the last 10 foot twas easy the ground softened up but on the way:bang: me finds another septic sewer line that's going to stuff me water fall levels... gimmi strength n xray vision to finish this......

NEVER EVER dig holes to fix something as you'll always find more things to fix than you'd ever dreamed of...

 

[RandyMac]

'sup peterheads?
Yep been at the bottle.

 

[MCW]

'sup peterheads?
Yep been at the bottle.

Hi Randy.
Did you spend Christmas in Thailand with the kids?

 

[RandyMac]

Hi Randy.
Did you spend Christmas in Thailand with the kids?

Not this year, been sitting here with Annie working at finding the bottom of a quart of fine brown liquor.

How is your Christmas?

 

[MCW]

Not this year, been sitting here with Annie working at finding the bottom of a quart of fine brown liquor.

How is your Christmas?

Good stuff old son. I'm still busy digesting about 5kg of ham and a few bottles of cider.
Christmas here was nice with family coming around and the weather was good to boot.
Even managed to sneak off to the shed and get some chainsaw work done