What did you do on your Landy today?

**finallyrangie** · 21st October 2016, 04:20 PM

Changed the transfer case ecu and the shift motor in the hope of being able to select low range again, still no luck, I suppose it at least rules something out.

**JDNSW** · 21st October 2016, 08:07 PM

Went into town for a one week checkup after the cataract operation - son driving. Managed it without getting bogged but bagged a roo (suicided by diving under the vehicle while it was travelling at 60k, bit of a bump).

Pulled the dead roo off after the road on the way back. Also, on the way back, found a National Parks vehicle (one of those glorified four wheel motorbike ute things, not sure what they are called) broken down in the middle of the road fifty metres from my front gate.

He got it started again, said it just needed to be left standing for ten minutes, assured me he would be OK.

Not allowed to drive for another week, although my sight is better than it has been for years. Son is returning to Melbourne tomorrow. I'll get my nephew who lives 6km away to take him in to catch his plane - I'll have to drive back through next door's place. Hope there is not too much rain overnight.

John

**cripesamighty** · 21st October 2016, 08:33 PM

Good luck with the cataract operation John. I have had a couple of friends who have had the procedure and they haven't looked back (pun intended). It has made the world of difference.

**Tins** · 28th October 2016, 07:46 PM

Fitted my cheap and cheerful winch. Given that the Warn one that was fitted originally ( there is still the 'W" cutout in the B/Bar ) probably did less than 20 pulls in it's life and then failed, I reckon if I get 10 out of this one I'm ahead of the game.
In the middle of fitting my SC-80 from Traxide. Can't quite decide the best place for it.
Still haven't found where the water is getting in. So, driving around with no floor coverings. Which was fine, until yesterday, when I finally got hearing aids. Yow! Sounds rather like gravel and glass in a concrete mixer now! I console myself with the thought that it has always sounded like that. Good thing, I can take them out.

DiscoMick · 31st October 2016, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Went into town for a one week checkup after the cataract operation - son driving. Managed it without getting bogged but bagged a roo (suicided by diving under the vehicle while it was travelling at 60k, bit of a bump).

Pulled the dead roo off after the road on the way back. Also, on the way back, found a National Parks vehicle (one of those glorified four wheel motorbike ute things, not sure what they are called) broken down in the middle of the road fifty metres from my front gate.

He got it started again, said it just needed to be left standing for ten minutes, assured me he would be OK.

Not allowed to drive for another week, although my sight is better than it has been for years. Son is returning to Melbourne tomorrow. I'll get my nephew who lives 6km away to take him in to catch his plane - I'll have to drive back through next door's place. Hope there is not too much rain overnight.

John

Hope your vision is improving as time passes.

**Dark61** · 31st October 2016, 05:49 PM

Spent 30 minutes with a hacksaw blade trying to cut through one of the bolts on the drivers side sill channel - determined that I should invest in a reciprocating saw.
Cheers,
D

**JDNSW** · 31st October 2016, 10:03 PM

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Hope your vision is improving as time passes.

Thanks for the thought!
Vision is pretty good now - I can read the bottom line on the chart with that eye; But it shows up how bad the other eye is! It will have to be done in a few months. I can drive again, and now only have two lots of eye drops three times a day, no more ointment at night.

John

**shanegtr** · 10th November 2016, 06:51 PM

My D3 got a bit of attention in the last couple of days. Engine oil change, new fuel filter, rotate tyres, installed a new UHF and fixed up my LED trailer light pulse buster (simplifed the wiring by removing a couple of relays that I had setup)

**Tins** · 12th November 2016, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by Dark61

Spent 30 minutes with a hacksaw blade trying to cut through one of the bolts on the drivers side sill channel - determined that I should invest in a reciprocating saw.
Cheers,
D

Since I bought an 18V Milwaukee rattle gun, I've found SO many other tools that use the same battery. The red tool shop mob had a sale on recently. The reciprocating saw I picked up is amazing.

**JDNSW** · 19th November 2016, 09:02 PM

Go back a few days. I have a new next door neighbour to the north. He phoned me up and asked if I could take my tractor and blade up to the boundary and push out part of the boundary fence that needs replacing.

I agreed to have a look and see if it was dry enough. Yesterday I took the tractor up there, about 1.8km from the house. The fence area looked as if it was dry enough, but as it turned out - it wasn't. I got the blade up to the fence, and found myself with the front axle resting on the ground. I started by dragging some logs and a fallen fence post to the location and using the blade on them was able to lift the front wheels up a bit. Then got some bits of bark, and stuffed these under the front wheels. Putting the weight back on them just pushed the bark into the ground, which had assumed the consistency of melting icecream. After an hour and a half of this I decided I was not going to get it out, and set out on foot for home, carrying my 5l water bottle. Temperature was about 35C and sunny, and I was already exhausted. At the top of the second hill I got some phone coverage, so phoned my nephew, who lives 6km sout of me, and asked him to come and pick me up. I walked a bit further, then lay down in the shade until he arrived, and gave me a lift home.

This morning, starting at 0700 while it was still cool, I loaded the 2a with the chainsaw and a high lift jack and headed out, stopping about 100m from the tractor to pick up half a dozen sleeper backs* and a solid iron bark 'post' about 30cm diameter and 1.2m long.

Thus equipped, I was able to get a better lift with the blade, lifting the front wheels clear of the ground. I was able to cut lengths of sleeper back to fit the holes under the wheels, pushing them down with the tractor weight, and repeating with longer bits on top. Also cut some into short lengths to put corduroy under the LH back wheel that was starting to dig in. It then was able to be backed out. This process was complicated by the fact that the tractor battery has had it, so I had to jump start it, which meant moving the 2a onto some ground I was unsure of - but it did not sink.

Parked the tractor on solid ground, and went home, back at the house by 0800.

John

* Sleeper back. Over the period roughly 1960-1990 ironbark sleepers were cut on this place. If you think about it, trees are round, but sleepers are rectangular. The difference is left on site as sleeper backs, same length as sleepers (~2.2m), flat on one side and round on the other, typically about 5-10cm greatest thickness. These are in piles of hundreds, and the ironbark lasts for decades, even in the weather and lying on the ground - white ants only attack the sapwood, and don't even seem too keen on that.

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