been a bit busy

[Brian]

Got that grader going again Brian?Graeme.Yep, put 50 plus hours in last week, covered in dirt......im over the grading thing but we still have another 3 days...at least to get the main stuff done. Busted glass on one door and done the windscreen so its been expensive glass wise. :"( :"(

[birdy]

Doors, glass???Bloodyell, wot sorta grader you got?

[Brian]

Doors, glass???Bloodyell, wot sorta grader you got?Yeah well..... :-[ some people get a bit soft as they get younger

[birdy]

Dont know how much dirt you get grading Dirt?? Nun, i gota 360x20 aircon.

[Brian]

Dont know how much dirt you get grading Dirt?? Nun, i gota 360x20 aircon.Diferent dirt down here Birdy and we have prickles remember

[birdy]

Dust, prickles???No idea wot your talkn bout.

[birdy]

Burn"n agin. :So much for saven feed Bones, buggerall left of me 1100sq miles now. >Sparky cloud went over last nite, and qess wut, it lit up only a coupla Ks from mally, yeh, where we stoped the first one. :Didnt even know it was there till i was comen back from BC this arvy. Just moved all the weaners out to NM yesterday, now i gota find feed sumwhere else coz wen i got close it was sootn down the road. Thought id better swing the gate in the corner at the trap yard, but wen we got there it was already alite and we had to leg it outa there with 40" flames up our ass, but thanc crist there wasnt any weaners there.Both weaner paddocks gon, most of the bullock padd, and now the other half of acacia, half of brumby n the rest of brahma south of the huckitta, so far.Cant wate to see wot [ isnt] left tmorrow.

[dog]

Feel sorry for you all in there , it ain"t easy for you .

[gbw]

Cant wate to see wot [ isnt] left tmorrow.You blokes have got to get the media and politicians out there. They stopped your market so you have too much stock, and now this disaster.Down south there is no mention

[birdy]

Start yellingDont do any such thing.The last thing i need is a mob of idiots thinkn they can help, getn in me way n telln me wot to do.Besides, it goes with the teritory. Live ina desert, expect it to be usualy dry.Wen you get record rains ina desert, expect fires.Wen the fires have cleaned house, expect a flood of ferel camels.IOW, roll with natures punchs. Itll hurt much less that way.BTW, went for a looky this mor"n to find we actualy had 5 fires started by lightning. Still never saw a cooked weaner or even a burned fence, justa lota black.A few scuds went through last nite n all was dark by midnite but strong southers blew in at day lite and fired it up agin. Cant see jacsh1t for smoke n dust now. The one that restarted south of ere sooted past the house bout an hour ago and is on its way to me neibours.

[birdy]

Wot the f*** did i do rong Bones??This f***n fire wont go out. [its now spread from BD to brumby to quartz hill to the geo"s camp to acacia.]And just to add to the never endn f*** drama, came home past gidgee this arvy to find the 25" f*** wheel wraped round the head.Seems an over powered zepher lined it up from 40 miles out and made a direct hit.Trees only 100 yards either side didnt even loose a leaf.Oh, and jooya isnt helpn either.Anyone wana by a goanner farm, its getn cheaper by the day.

[Tsemler]

Here"s a handy link for ya Birdy... you"ve probably already seen it or heard about it before no doubt.http://sentinel.ga.gov.au/acres/sentinel/index.shtml Its a satellite service that finds hotspots, nothing beats going for a fly and havin a look tho.

[Brian]

Wot the f*** did i do rong Bones??This f***n fire wont go out. [its now spread from BD to brumby to quartz hill to the geo"s camp to acacia.]And just to add to the never endn f*** drama, came home past gidgee this arvy to find the 25" f*** wheel wraped round the head.Seems an over powered zepher lined it up from 40 miles out and made a direct hit.Trees only 100 yards either side didnt even loose a leaf.Oh, and jooya isnt helpn either.Anyone wana by a goanner farm, its getn cheaper by the day.Its no fun at times and this is one of those times, they say adversity builds character but I sometimes wonder just how much character you actually need. Talking to friends in the SW of Queensland were saying they have had more fires as well and it seems that the amount of unburnt country is getting less every time one of those thunderstorms go over. We had up to 136 points at a few spots here Wednesday night, 465 points here at the house which will be very handy as it will green up the speargrass butts and lessen the fire risk. Might have even knocked down some of the spinafex tops [shoulder high]Lots are going through some of the most testing times you can imagine, marriages, livelhoods etc etc. The devil is having a field day!!

[birdy]

Iv just wasted anatha day of my miserable life coz things are made more complicated n they need to be. >Wen our inverta blew up from the cloud spark, i ordered from ol mate a replacement one.I hada 5 KVA 48V inverta/charger, and all i wanted to do was replace wot i had. " cant do it, they dont make dinosours any more" was his smartass comment.Well, if i cant get one off you, ill get one off sumone else coz i know it can be dun, just by cancelling all the auto crap thats init, and just hava inverta/charger.Well bugger me, he DOSE have one, and in stock too. Out comes this box witha inverta and alota other unnessasary crap. I wired it all up n bingo, we"er bac in bussness. Just so happens we"v had 3 days of cloud so i needed to use the charger side of the box. Fired up the geny n,..........., nuthn!Spat the dummy,.............,still nuthn. > >Gess wut, its stady arvy n noone in stralya answers the f*** fone ona weekend.After alota humbugn, he finaly answeres the fone today n says i gota plug in the laptop!?!? "speek inglish you idiot"!!!"I ordered an inverta charger, not a mars rocket launcher, you were sposed to make it into an inverter charger."Turns out, Lizs spancn new laptop wouldnt/couldnt talk to the inverta, and he [ and his techy in could hear in the bacground] couldnt figure why not :.Told him jokenly that i should bill him for all this unneeded fone wasten time, he said thats orrite, he"d bill me $250 ph for answern it, so i reminded him i hadnt paid for the inverta yet.He wasnt impressed and that was it. [ after sales service??? WTF is that???]I tryed an old dinosour lapy [ Lizs origional one] and bingo, it talks to this new pice of s***.Now we is onto it i thought as i reconfigured the setns with the old lapy [ and thinkn im a proper pooter spert now]. All set, fired up the geny agin,........... F**** NUTHN AGIN WTF??????After alot of happen"ns i cant find words to discribe, i foud out that there were 2 terminals that were sposed to be bridged, so i bridged um n gess wut,......... it works, better n a new one.No thanks to the f***n sperts that were sposed to set it up this way before they sent it out. Id be a happy people person if people didnt insist on pushn my unhappy button :.

[bones]

Ohhhh ya big girl, chin up, could be as happy as me right now, drive cow taxis"s for a living, man you think you got no time think, i recon i sorted out half the worlds problems the last couple of trips.550hp cruise control on 98 flat as the puter will let it, stop to write in the book then off again, not too bad last night, 1100km, left 3.30 yesterday, climbed into bed at 5 this morning, and 500km of dirt in that, big tyres good for corrigates