Thread: What did you do on your Landy today?

Originally Posted by Xtreme

Glad to hear that you're OK John and have recovered all your machinery.

But I'm wondering where your neighbour was during all the activity?

My neighbour does not live there (only settled on the 11th!), and I did not know whether there was anyone at the house. While the house is a little closer than mine to the location (and all down hill), there is no mobile coverage either at the house or anywhere on the way, and the phone there is disconnected. He works in town and is currently living with his parents in Wongarbon. He is usually out on weekends.

The location was at the NE end of the track where you got the sleeper backs.

John

A big day John.
On a the subject of "sleeper backs", we used to call these "flitches" in the red gum world. Like at your place, they were stacked in rows hundreds of meters long. Made for excellent firewood, and easy to cut into manageable lengths, straight down the guts with a long flare chainsaw, to handle then with the sawbench.

Thanks for that yarn John, entertaining and informative at once. Good to here your eyes will be OK.
I have an Ironbark sleeper in my back yard presumably from the old railway nearby. It's charred between the spike holes, so it must have been in use in the days of steam. I's a bugger to move, and i don't have a fire place.

Surely there would be a market for those sleeper backs as decorative rails or retainer walls in the big city where ppl buy that sorta stuff??

Ill take 15% royalties for the idea 😆😆😆

Cheers Rod

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today....tryed to get the series one to start easily,and then {if} get it into some sort of tune after valve and rocker job on the head so as i can take it for a run with some certanty of a return home.
looked at fixing the fuel cooler leak and stared at the new bilsteins for the rear of the 110 td5 while hopeing the springs arive tomorrow.

I bought 4xd1 wheels for the s3 so i can put some tubeless tyres on it. They had good tyres on them but they are a bit too low a profile for my liking. Might be ok if i had 3.54 diffs.

Cheers Rod

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Today I used my 2a to go to the village and meet Bad Bertie from this forum who has bought my Citroen DSpecial. Due no doubt to the fact that he was using the wrong tow vehicle for the trailer (his 90 does not have a tow hitch!) he managed to get bogged in dry sand while following me and then when I got out of sight in front while he was bogged and working out how to engage four wheel drive, he got briefly lost, or at least ended up on the wrong side of a fence.

Had to lead him back out and then home again - so I did the trip three times, five gates to open and close each trip! (Although he closed them when following me, except for a couple that are a bit tricky.)

John

Today i fitted some "blue bag" tailgate chain covers to my s3. Looks better now.

Cheers Rod

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