mike newman

"...when men where men......and woman ate their young.." Mike

Oh yeah....I would just love to get that sheep ...you don't need a ''talk wench'' that way........... Mike ...and speaking of old tools...(.hand tools.)..lucked in with a complete, pristine set of Sherwin Klove sockets in the original pristine box...for extremely modest price... ..something that will never be used as I have a bunch of US stuff including SK ,gathered up over the years...but......

Yeah....we certainly have a specific tree species , that will have that ''furrowed '' trunk look.....and had a lot of F1800 IH trucks...which that pictured one could well be.....and also a penchant for overloading..!!! I used to, as a very young bloke, help out at the local saw mill.....'tailing out'' , off the breast bench.. I well remember an F1800 coming in overloaded , and as he turned up the slope just beyond the mill....getting into position to unload off the old derrick crane ''creation '' that was used....the truck sat up on its back legs ..and created considerable issues re the off loading to the breaking down carriage etc.. It wasn't an "native timber ''' log ,as pictured above, but a huge Monterey Pine log... I guess that was over 65 yrs ago....!!!! Mike

........''if tomorrow never comes.....'' Mike

happy BD Matt !!! ..trust you will continue to have great adventures with your old Red iron !! Mike

..the ''finger wave'' is still routine , down under....in our area anyway...along with PSA etc ...actually, I am off tomorrow for prostate check....so always polish the ol' freckle before heading into the Dr.... ...last time this happened....a very attractive South African(female ) Dr did the ''finger wave"'.....so as one is hunched up in the required position for this indignity, and with a woman crouched over one ...with her finger ...etc etc...she said .. ""Michael...you are very tense.."" Normally...I usually have plenty to say...but couldn't think of an immediate response...so she went on to say...''if you want another opinion, I can stick another finger up there..."" That time ..although momentarily stunned...(again.!!!).. I managed to croak out that I trusted her initial judgement and one finger was quite enough, thankyou.... Ah ..the joys of getting old.... Mike .....and a great outcome, Bill...I well remember you entreating ''us out there'' to get the prostate checked....and I heeded that good advice...

..reminds me of the NZ Labour (Socialist ) party.... ....to reach the inner sanctum of that illustrious organisation.....one has to show he /she can chew gum and break wind simultaneously.......... ...and to quote friend @dewets from South Africa,....those morons are allowed to breed....sigh Mike

...good little treatise there, Matt ...down under ,there are NO subsidies of any sort ,for the Farming Community.... ...there is a general election coming up in November ...and the Socialist Party who absolutely decimated our economy when in power three years gone.....have some 'new policies' to woo the great unwashed with... Guess what.. Yes !!! ...a ''land tax'' to go with every other bloody tax, farming landowners pay.....point 0.5%...which dosen't sound much but even on our little excrement heap that adds up to bunch of dollars...and with Diesel at double the US price per litre....(one quarter of the US gallon...)....things will be tight... Naturally....all the useless basturds for whom work is a tiresome burden..are greatly in favour of the new tax....and down under, no doubt like every where else.....the ''useless basturds '' probably out number all the real workers... Mike

Correct !!

yes...and when she visited New Zealand, back in the 80's....one sports stadium was filled to capacity...around forty thousand folk piled in to hear her .... ...to my total disgust...the South Island on that morning provided the peasants with atrocious weather...thus no small feeder aircraft were flying....so that fleeting opportunity to see ...and listen too, an absolute American icon , was lost............, There are, however , millions of folk who will always remember her contribution to this troubled world.. Mike

''The Deportee""...is my favourite Dolly song.... ..no one , but no one could put the pathos, the emotional sadness into that Woody Guthrie song like Dolly Parton.... ..A great American .... Comparisons are odious, but comparing Dolly Parton to the current homo-mania Taylor Swift is like comparing a Mack truck to a wheel barrow.... ..(as always ...just my opinion...) Mike

Alan.....do the nests break cleaner , with your method ?? Mike

....what exactly were you fishing for in your in your shorts ???? ...I ask the question....we learn so much from the accumulated wisdom on this site.... Mike

..interesting..... ....we had a 2000 model Chevrolet Blazer (RHD)..with its V 6 engine....a vehicle that I thought was very nice.....well appointed and apart from the feul pump device embedded in the fuel tank..easy to service... We live up a dead end valley...gateway to a major National Park.....It is 11 miles to our place , (gravel road )..from the tar top and there is about a half mile stretch 100 odd feet above a gorge...called the ''mantel piece ''...... Coming home one sunny afternoon, the ol'Cook caught some sort of ''sunstrike''...it was late and in the summer...and over she went into the gorge....the tyre marks clearly showed the Blazer attempted to 'sidle' along for a car length almost, then rolled several times into the river ,below.... Blazer ended up on its side,amongst the rocks in about two feet of water....the groceries had headed out to sea, via the broken windows...but the old Cook only had a small bruise on an ankle ...she had lost her glasses..on the trip down....and being a country farm girl....albeit in her mid sixties ,had hauled herself up the side of the gorge and onto the road... The local bloke who has run his salvage business for forty odd years was amazed at the Blazer, how it had held together....and the driver was fine...He said any Japanese vehicle from his experience ...would have been virtually unrecognisable . We have the Blazer sitting in our ''Rotten Row''.....(.but can't show a picture....) American vehicles are very much prized ,down under.....so there is a proliferation of rice burners in NZ..from the old and respected Asian Car Companies....... Mike

Right on there ....!!!...seeing this down under, 'new'' hunters (??) roaming around with exotic ,expensive calibers expecting to roll a deer ,chamois etc....at stupidly long ranges......where in our high country, anything beyond 100 yards or so, can be 'lost ' due to the wildly undulating terrain that characterises our hills....hidden gullies ,bluffs ,rock fissures ,small trees etc where a animal may lay, de ceased...and unseen... Where I work in our summer, so many blokes come down and tell me that the biggest set of antlers ..or chamois horns that they have ever seen..is down but not found....I tell them to come back in a fortnight.....maybe, just maybe if that animal took a bullet , it can be smelt..unless one is in wild pig country...(its been eaten by then ..!!) One seriously expensive and popular firearm caliber in NZ is the 6.5mm 'Creedmoor "....deemed to be the b and all of thundersticks......I guess in reality it is about the same as the venerable 264 Winchester...a caliber I have used early in my hunting ........ I always ask the 'Creedmoor '' owner, if he /she knows about the origin of the 'Creedmoor '' name.......Always get the blank stare.... Mike