mike newman

...a mobile wardrobe...... Mike

...right on the money there, Louie !! ...when , as a callow youth, I started my time at the Caterpillar dealership, all sorts of small crawlers were coming in for various ailments...albeit mostly track repairs...as the Cat W/S had a full track repair setup with submerged arc welding and, of course, track press... Where I lived was quite a lot of easy rolling hill country and very productive land...Apples / Pears were everywhere, and as such there were a slew of small track machines, usually bladeless...which of course, prolonged their life....and it was obvious how some horticultural Farmers looked after the machines ....and others seemed to neglect the very basics...... I well recall a TD6 coming in with Final Drive issues.......As we were removing the sprockets for rebuilding ....one could see all the studs holding the housing onto the main cast frame, were all lose....!! unusual issue..but it happens....so that old Cockie had to spend a lot of money because no one noticed the oil leaking out around the housing... ...Yes, Louie....it is all about the operators... At least the steering clutches on the TD's were so easy to access...compared to the small Caterpillars.... Mike

...just what is that all about, Lorenzo...??? ...is @Finney working there ???,,,,I reckon there is a place for a specialist welder there.... ....Not me, for sure ....(My marine certifications have expired...) Mike

...always good to locate lost tools.....especially tools of "Knipex'' quality.... You will never lose some crap Chinese shifter spanner....as are 'provided' in the Excavator that I currently am the Captain of.... but two years ago..prior to the Chinese shifters, I had my own 12 inch American Crescent on board...this for shutting off the remote valves etc...and I managed to lose it...I spent hours walking back and forth looking for it..(I was windrowing forestry slash...)..never did find it........ ...and your ''magnetic beer holder '' DT Fan....is this for Magnetic Beer ...or have I missed something here...?? Mike

...that is one expensive David Brown.......Even in New Zealand...the Land of the long white shroud. ........I mean Cloud......where we get fleeced at every turn...that piece of ordinance would fetch barely a fifth of that sort of money..... Mike

...that's not a gun ..is it runner ?? I think it is...there is no aquatic life hanging ,lifeless from it....so it must be a GUN !!! ...about bloody time , Runner... Mike

...how did you make out, Seth ??.. Mike

......last frosts down under...guess ol' Jack is heading North ..... Mike

reminds me , Lorenzo......must pick up a new smoke blanket when Ma takes the trap into town.......We don't have one of them motor cycles,...... Mike

..people mover with strings attached.....?? Arkansas ...??? Mike

Sadly , Jeff you are , shall we say ''bang on '' re the fodder for said firearm......... A lot of comments on this ''fun'' topic, talk of Kentucky....as a place to live......The old Cook and I stayed near , or south of Lexington...this when sourcing certain equipment for the Caribbean job I was involved with.... We were there or thereabouts for several days..went to that 1300 odd acres equestrian place ....Great place to spend a day there, but what really impressed us was the ''picture postcard '' farmland ....around that area...Damn , it was beautiful...!!! I remember the old bloke from Elizabeth Town ,,, ( whose name escapes me ...sigh..) was saying there is a huge development for making batteries for those coal powered cars that are all the rage.....and it has consumed hundreds of acres of beautiful farmland.... Bloody criminal when all the infrastructure for ICE vehicles is already in place , around the world..... Kentucky is a little over 104 thousand square kilometers as I recall (??)...and to turn farmland into making bloody battery's for Chinese made coal burners.... should be a hanging offense..... Welcome to the new reality ...for the peasants ..... Mike

...Would you consider a very tidy 32 Rim Fire Marlin.....????with which to keep the IRS predators at bay ... This for your shootin ' window....... All bark and no bite..... Mike (family rates , also .... )

......beef price down , down under ...lamb price way down......compliance cost from the marxist govt way up....but of course with the total population less than the city of Denver Co....we will save the planet....Petrol running at three dollars a litre.....(four litres = US Gallon ...) Let the good times roll... Election in four weeks...Bring it on !! Mike

...a little off topic Lance, but I still vividly recall November 22nd 1963 .......We still had tobacco to plant that day...and I wondered why Dad was late , at the sheds etc I never did bother with 'daily news ' back in those , for me , halcyon days...thus that morning at that point was unaware of President JFK 's shocking demise...but Dad, who because of his role with the RAF, worked closely with the Americans at the US Naval Base in Trincomalee, Ceylon ....was absolutely stunned , that an American President could be taken out like that.... The world was set back that day...for sure....and had he realised what lay behind the demise of JFK....he again would , like thousands of others been shocked beyond belief..... Mike Mike

Yes, mader..you can add these rivers here into that list !! I have made all sorts of contraptions to hold the big spike steady....as it does the 'pre hole '' crunching down past the rocks. The post driver is a regular , Kiwi made, full hydraulic etc .....and we have made a big heavy ring device which is fixed to the 'foot '' of the driver and holds the spike on a good line.... The spike is about four feet long and four inch's in diameter....thus it encounters all sorts on the way down.... Mike