Thread: Interesting, Odd or Funny Pics II.

I have one of each. The D2 is more sophisticated ( if such a term can apply to a real LR ), but the D1 is far more "likeable" IMO.

For those of you who know Old Bathurst Rd going up out of Emu Plains, this happened last week:

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Council wants fines for heavy vehicles illegally using this road to increase tenfold

For those who don't know it, look at this Google map. It has several very, very tight corners.

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Considering a concrete truck is probably delivering within the shire, how do the council propose to develop and upgrade the shire? Deliver concrete by drone? There doesn't appear to be a great deal of viable options for vehicles to get to Blaxland.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

There doesn't appear to be a great deal of viable options for vehicles to get to Blaxland.

There is the Great Western Highway.

Originally Posted by p38arover

There is the Great Western Highway.

How much further, percentage wise?

Originally Posted by Tins

Not far from me. The D4 didn’t save him, the bank on the other side of the road did. A mountain ash, even a small one like that, doesn’t give much. They are called widow makers because if a falling branch doesn’t kill you the falling tree will. And they fall often as they have a very small root structure for something so big, they rely on the others to hold them up so they are really weakened by the cut of a road.
Still , yeah, probably better off in the Disco. But without that bank it would have been flat.

15 minutes from me. these are babies, but they would still weigh hundreds of tonnes. With one of the big ones I'm not sure you'd be safe in an M1A1 main battle tank.

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They do get big...

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Originally Posted by Tins

15 minutes from me. these are babies, but they would still weigh hundreds of tonnes. With one of the big ones I'm not sure you'd be safe in an M1A1 main battle tank.

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They do get big...

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Years ago I was driving in convoy on a VicHigh trip a few months after one of the wildfires (2003 I think) and had a mountain ash (not a monster one but big enough) come down between two of our vehicles. Fortunately we weren't travelling fast and were able to stop.
Chainsaws got to work real fast and we got out of the area very quickly.