Scrapping S1 & yes, I am peeved-off

**disco2hse** · 18th March 2010, 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by gromit

Unfortunately 'running a business', greed, wanting to make a buck or whatever you want to call it means this practice will continue.

It is not greed. It is need. Just because you run a business does not make you into an industrial fat cat. To make a decent buck is no reason for others to complain about a business person's good fortune. Why should it not continue and if you want to stem the flow then buy them your self.

Originally Posted by gromit

I'd like to take the opportunity to thank those people on the forum who pass on details of 'finds' offer parts to fellow members (often free) and offer on the forum before putting on Ebay.

Absolutely. This is a constructive suggestion. Many of these parts may have sat idle in the wreckers yard for some time and in doing so they cost the wrecker money. You cannot condemn them for wanting to clear old stock to make way for new.

Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton

it is true and this ****es me off so much.i dont mind them doing disco's or later cars but leave our series alone.

They aren't yours until you have paid for them.

Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton

i would really like to start my own company where i just make reproduction stuff for land rovers as well as accessories and trailers.i think it would be fun all i need is a water cutter and a mig welder and there is a chassis

Do it!

But I think you'd need rather more than that

Alan

**p38arover** · 18th March 2010, 01:22 PM

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

At the LR60 celebrations in Cooma he said to a Qld enthusiast that he would deliver a rear PTO to another LR enthusiast in Canberra. This PTO had a broken case but the gears were salvageable. Instead he put the PTO in his container, shipped it back to the UK and sold it.

Now I am without the gearset for my rear PTO because the enthusiast in Canberra needs it more than me.

How can you forget to deliver an assembly like that to a town so close to Cooma and how can you then ship it around the world and claim you forgot.

This person is worse than the scrappies, because I believe that he is a thief.

I'm confused. Did this person offer to bring it south from the Qld enthusiast and deliver it to Canberra for you to collect?

**isuzutoo-eh** · 18th March 2010, 01:24 PM

Its the same with the poms in other areas too, historically significant traction engines, portable engines, stationary engines, steam trains-all have been exported without permission to the detriment of Australia's history. Same thing happens with South Africa, America and parts of Europe. The poms have money and see foreign lands as places to reap. What's new?

Sometimes the larger steam machines have been broken up and packed in with general scrap metal so they get past customs checks.

**Landy Smurf** · 18th March 2010, 01:28 PM

ours= australias
yeah that was just a starting point. i would like to be a teacher and slowly work my way into my own business.

**disco2hse** · 18th March 2010, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by longing4alandy

Its the same with the poms in other areas too, historically significant traction engines, portable engines, stationary engines, steam trains-all have been exported without permission to the detriment of Australia's history. Same thing happens with South Africa, America and parts of Europe. The poms have money and see foreign lands as places to reap. What's new?

Sometimes the larger steam machines have been broken up and packed in with general scrap metal so they get past customs checks.

Dammit you're right!!!

Their flipping museums are full of stolen artefacts, I mean look what happened to the Elgin Marbles, Cleopatra's Needle, and all those stolen artfacts!!!!

There's only one solution. Ban them all. Aaaaarggghhh

**disco2hse** · 18th March 2010, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton

ours= australias
yeah that was just a starting point. i would like to be a teacher and slowly work my way into my own business.

Owned by a citizen of Australia, not the Australian State. Or is there no difference.

Is there collective ownership of other things too? Toasters, chairs,...wives?

**Landy Smurf** · 18th March 2010, 01:39 PM

just saw where you live
the rivalry continues lol

**isuzutoo-eh** · 18th March 2010, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by disco2hse

Owned by a citizen of Australia, not the Australian State. Or is there no difference.

Is there collective ownership of other things too? Toasters, chairs,...wives?

yes, there is a collective ownership of some things. Cultural significance goes beyond private ownership.
A few weeks ago some locomotive name plates were on UK ebay. They were being auctioned by an Australian, and the plates are off Australian locomotives.
The plates fall under 'movable items of Australian cultural significance' and as such cannot be exported without permission from whichever government department deals in such things. Ownership can change hands within Australia but they must not be exported without permission.

A Snowy Mountains Scheme Landy is just another series Landy in the UK, likely good enough only for spares. In Australia the same vehicle has context far beyond that which it has in the UK.

**VladTepes** · 18th March 2010, 02:19 PM

chuck in a 5 axis CNC machiine schmierer

**clean32** · 18th March 2010, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by disco2hse

Owned by a citizen of Australia, not the Australian State. Or is there no difference.

sounds rather commie to me

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