Thread: What did you do on your Defender today ? (well, this week anyway)

Originally Posted by JDNSW

You don't necessarily need wind for those eucalypts to shed branches.

Agreed. I've experienced healthy looking branches falling due to a temperature change on a perfectly still day.

Originally Posted by Xtreme

Agreed. I've experienced healthy looking branches falling due to a temperature change on a perfectly still day.

Yes it was a windless day but obviously been very dry for a long time (3 plus years) and we had some very very strong winds when the southerly buster came through of New Year’s Eve.

Oh Bugger, sorry to hear that. We have a huge mother across the road from us. It was over 90' tall when we cut our 75' one down 25 years ago. It is 1/2 and 1/2 on my neighbours land and on council land and they wont let him remove it. This time every year it sheds a bucket load of bark and small branches and makes a mess over the whole street. During the last big storm it dropped a few big branches but luckily they fell directly between the houses. If it came down it would take out any one of 5 homes around it, including my truck. I dread the day it does.

Originally Posted by ezyrama

Oh Bugger, sorry to hear that. We have a huge mother across the road from us. It was over 90' tall when we cut our 75' one down 25 years ago. It is 1/2 and 1/2 on my neighbours land and on council land and they wont let him remove it. This time every year it sheds a bucket load of bark and small branches and makes a mess over the whole street. During the last big storm it dropped a few big branches but luckily they fell directly between the houses. If it came down it would take out any one of 5 homes around it, including my truck. I dread the day it does.

It is a full time job this time of year picking up truck loads of shedded bark and piling it up to burn. Am sure I could sell it to schools for art projects and the like...

Our house is about 8 meters from the northern boundary and there are plenty of very large trees just across the fence line that would completely flatten our house and main shed. I think we have been very lucky so far. I upped my insurance a few weeks ago in light of the Gospers Mountain fire being within 10km so hopefully we will be adequately covered if they fall!

Originally Posted by JDNSW

You don't necessarily need wind for those eucalypts to shed branches.

100% correct. When we lived in WA we used to head down to the S/W corner near a place called Callcup (fairly well known sand dune system down there which is a good test of a 4x4 - suffice to say my Puma made it up bog standard on A/T's at 12psi - YouTube). We'd head into the bush along some old forestry trails and park up next to the Warren River for a week or so each Christmas. We could be sitting around on a still day (usually quite warm to hot) and every now and then you would hear an almighty crash off in the bush where a gum had dropped a branch.

Sobering stuff.

Replaced o rings in fuel cooler on my td5. Leak free for the first time, feels good man.

Hello to all, have been missing for a while, actually too long
Finally repossessed my Defenders after 6 years finally will get them finished this year, l know its been a long time but thats what happens when you believe is so called Experts not happy

Love long weekends...... with decidely shot ball joints on both track rod and drag link it was time to replace them and the thin walled std rods. Decided on the Gyn Lewis kit to replace the goose neck on the drag link and replace the drop arm with the disco one.

A new OME stabilzer completed the job. Just to refit the APT guard now although really not sure what its protecting these new rods are solid.

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