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    Quote Originally Posted by scarry View Post
    Or charging their EV's?

    Reminds me of the Wedge Tailed Eagle we had as a pet when we were kids,it escaped late one afternoon,flew over the power lines,with a 3M lenght of light chain dangling from its leather jessies(spelling).
    It blacked out the suburb,we still have bits of the melted chain.
    Easy to catch once it was dark,as they can't see at night,it landed on the roof of a house down the road.

    This happened in the inner city suburb of Camp Hill

    That's all very fine for you but did you consider the bird's welfare?

    I concur it was easy to catch as it would have glowed in the dark, but how many Grass fires did it start?


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    Quote Originally Posted by 4bee View Post
    That's all very fine for you but did you consider the bird's welfare?

    I concur it was easy to catch as it would have glowed in the dark, but how many Grass fires did it start?


    At last, Sea Anchors for Iggles. No not the Test ones. Ged it?
    Just imagine the fright the bird got

    From memory, we heard a noise,then the power went out.Took a while to work out what had happened

    I remember the Old Man picking up the pieces of chain on the ground,with a pair of pliers as they still pretty hot,and telling us not to say anything to anyone,particularly the electrical authority, SEA(this was before SEQEB ) guys who were wandering around trying to work out WTF had actually happened.

    Anyway,a few months later we moved to Daisy Hill,which was out in the sticks and a fringe suburb in the day.
    We built a huge cage for her.We had her for over 20yrs,sadly,she ended getting an incurable degenerative disease.

    A great pet,when on the running line she would chase after a thrown cork cricket ball and bring it back.

    I will have to dig out a pic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by scarry View Post
    Just imagine the fright the bird got

    From memory, we heard a noise,then the power went out.Took a while to work out what had happened

    I remember the Old Man picking up the pieces of chain on the ground,with a pair of pliers as they still pretty hot,and telling us not to say anything to anyone,particularly the electrical authority, SEA(this was before SEQEB ) guys who were wandering around trying to work out WTF had actually happened.

    Anyway,a few months later we moved to Daisy Hill,which was out in the sticks and a fringe suburb in the day.
    We built a huge cage for her.We had her for over 20yrs,sadly,she ended getting an incurable degenerative disease.

    A great pet,when on the running line she would chase after a thrown cork cricket ball and bring it back.

    I will have to dig out a pic.
    Reminds me a bit, but OT. When I was a little kid & accompanied the old man on his trips delivering fuel in 44s, we stopped off at pub named "Eagle on the Hill"
    which had a wire mesh cage against the rear wall which contained an Eagle of some description but it was a big bugger. Well, me being a little **** didn't help.


    No idea what happened to it in later years when the SE Freeway was built & it became bypassed. Pub closed although it was a popular week end Dining joint & I haven't been that road for years being right off the beaten track although not that far from Chez Bee but last reports the building was still there but I doubt Friend Iggle was, it being, long gone.
    The building of the two Heysen Tunnels (2) through that range would have really been curtains for it.

    Must have a shufti one day soon.

    Funny the things you recall until a reminder is seen. Thanks, I must have been about 7 or 8 at that time & really enjoyed those trips out, loaded with Drums of Golden Fleece Petrol. (HC Sleigh) Mount Gambier in the SE was seen as was Marribel (sp) in the north of SA & all points in between that I can recall

    Ah Happy Days.

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    There were also two in a cage at a servo at the Esk turnoff west of Ipswich for years.
    From memory,very dark Wedgies so older birds.

    Yes its real weird what you sometimes remember.I have been away quite a lot with my next brother down,and we would talk,he would remember things i have totally forgotton,and visa versa.

    Good example,we took the old S1 to Fraser,a few months ago,and we were debating tyre pressures.I said Dad always ran 20PSI in the sand.Really, he said,cant remember that.We ran them at 20,went fine.
    About two months later,sure enough,in the old mans diary,there it was,"tyre pressures Fraser Island 20 PSi,"Goodyear" something,High miler or something.
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    Quote Originally Posted by scarry View Post
    There were also two in a cage at a servo at the Esk turnoff west of Ipswich for years.
    From memory,very dark Wedgies so older birds.

    Yes its real weird what you sometimes remember.I have been away quite a lot with my next brother down,and we would talk,he would remember things i have totally forgotton,and visa versa.

    Good example,we took the old S1 to Fraser,a few months ago,and we were debating tyre pressures.I said Dad always ran 20PSI in the sand.Really, he said,cant remember that.We ran them at 20,went fine.
    About two months later,sure enough,in the old mans diary,there it was,"tyre pressures Fraser Island 20 PSi,"Goodyear" something,High miler or something.

    Does Traction Hi- Miler ring a bell?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4bee View Post
    Does Traction Hi- Miler ring a bell?
    Yes i think Goodyear Hi Miler,could possibly ring a bell in some old grey matter that doesnt work as well as it used to.
    Traction was not mentioned.
    I think they were a road based tyre,worked well in sand.
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    Interesting Covid Stat

    The original AULRO Covid thread had over 13,000 posts, in just on eighteen months and had to be terminated, due to its size.

    Its replacement, "Covid MK ii", has not even reached 3,000 posts, in thirteen months!
    What's going on?
    'sit bonum tempora volvunt'


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    Quote Originally Posted by Saitch View Post
    The original AULRO Covid thread had over 13,000 posts, in just on eighteen months and had to be terminated, due to its size.

    Its replacement, "Covid MK ii", has not even reached 3,000 posts, in thirteen months!
    What's going on?

    We have decided it is not worth ruining our lives just to prevent people dying!

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    Who knew the town of Eucla had its own unique 45-minute time zone. I didn't. Seems very random.

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    Quote Originally Posted by scarry View Post
    Yes i think Goodyear Hi Miler,could possibly ring a bell in some old grey matter that doesnt work as well as it used to.
    Traction was not mentioned.

    I think they were a road based tyre,worked well in sand.

    It would appear to be one & the same tyre.


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