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it came upon a wednesday clear that barbs and i sallied fifth or sixth to go and get some firewood the track onto the block being slippery let alone getting near the wood i and it was my fault alone i bear this manfully or at least without whinging too much decided we d use gundalina the magnificent mercedes tractor to trundle fifth into our jungly parts and carry out the wood i offered to let barbs drive as we went gundalina trundalina ed around to pick up the chainsaw earmuffs safety glasses gloves and whotnot associated with chainsawing everything from a spare chain to various tools and wedges she retreated from this offer but 200 yards of my driving was quite enough she decided to try after all and found great glee in driving the mighty roaring beastie now gundalina has no brakes she has a handbrake which works quite well and of course a hydraulic bucket which is a very good brake she also has an accelerator that you have alter throttle with a lever you can put your foot down but it doesn t deccelarate you have to make it do so still if you re calm and sensible and use her gears and the terrain she s a foine foine wee beastie to kill her engine you have to throttle right down she doesn t die if you turn the key off barbs successfully came to a stop and i put gundalina into one of her worm crawl gears and pushed cautiously a track humpty bump through to the fallen trees i wanted cut up i put on the various accoutrements of safety and was soon wielding the chainsaw manfully or at least doing a plausible imitation and had a reasonable pile of logs barbs piled them into gundalina s small tray and then announced that she d take the load down if i would turn the tractor around this was of course easier said than done but i did a magnificent 48 point turn in the confined quarters of a medium sized dance floor not a great turning circle remember this playing do not run into any large trees back or forth barbs drove away and i resumed my cutting with the earmuffs designed to blank noise at over a certain level it s so you don t hear the screaming keep in mind gundalina is in first in gear at one of the crawler speeds a moderate walking speed for a bloke in a zimmer frame with a ball and chain so not precisely a speed of great danger in which you have no time do anything i got on with cutting in the earmuff induced silence i look up to see gundalina has returned roaring at full throttle well was or so i am informed i am in blissful silence why didn t i know about these earmuffs when i had young kids with broken volume controls barbara is shrieking but i am unaware of this remember this is worm gear not a place where anything happens fast unless of course you take it out of gear then she ll roll faster or stop if it is flat did i mention this spot wasn t flat how very remiss of me anyway being one of those perceptive sort of fellows as well as delicate modest and with bo rather like the scent of a rose which by any other name would smell i look up at the machine thundering down on me and gather by the waving of hands that not all is well put the chainsaw down always a good idea and remove ear muffs to witness amid the thunder of the diesel and plaintive yells of dave dave lady gundelina going up in the world on her bucket barbs having for some reason decided that taking gundalina out of gear on a downhill to stop was a good idea the good idea fairy was active that day had had her accelerate as a heavy machine on a gentle downhill will panic had ensued and she had been unable to switch gundalina off which would have made no difference as gundy was not in gear forgetting she had to reduce the throttle by hand she d turned uphill and would have stopped in about 5 10 yards in actual fact had suddenly remembered i had said to put the bucket down as a brake only she went the wrong way realized her error but grabbed the tip not the up and down lever so facing the bucket straight down she then realized what was wrong and used the other lever ending up on gundalina standing on her bucket front wheels in the air but stopped by this time i m on the stair and can remind her how to pull the throttle back and stall the tractor she then informed me that she was never going to play with my toys again and she d been yelling at me for ages heh it s only the depth that changes but alas poor gundalina she lay or rather purched on her bucket stricken in the field stricken in among the scrub anyway she had roared her last defiant to the end ahem gundalina wouldn t start anyway made that ominous click that goes with a flat battery or a short i in payment for my sins and for wearing earmuffs had to carry a heavy tractor battery first port of call troubleshooting to the ute fortunately as fortune favors the stupid anyway that was the problem she is gunda gunda ing again it doesn t look like the alternator is charging the battery this is fixable not sure about barbs nerves posted by unknown at 3 36 pm 8 comments friday july 7 2017 doorways opening okay that month flew by slack me partly sapped by flu and frustration with the lack of progress anyway some progress has been made many more trips out to the block cutting clearing showing the architect the site this is her assistant helping bringing home loads of firewood and then doing the incredibly difficult reaching lots of decisions where do you put the solar panels where should the veggie garden go where will the orchard be where will the cool room and butchering area be where s the pig sty how do you get water to xyz and so on relatively limited construction has happened but quite a lot of destruction i ve been getting some of the huge amount of recycled wood i need for the list projects de nailed yep i m in denail i dug my first two holes and am actually quite positve about it they re about a meter down to clay more than i expected and more than i hoped great for planting piles and poles i got my owner builder course done and passed and have done and passed my white card oh s exam i m going to have to re evaluate whether when the revolution come one sends the lawyers or oh s or the politicians that passed this load of rubbish to visit madame guillotine first it s largely a lowest common denominator one size fits all rent extraction scheme worth about 20 cents if you were feeling generous but 260 dollars is what it costs and you really have no choice that s your cheapest option i ve been slowly working on my door at the community shed it s made of red ironbark salvaged from old fence poles that s the upper half the lower half is about 1 4 longer convenient height for elbows lot of work in it it s going to be more than 100 posts laminated the wood is among the heaviest in the world more than a metric ton seasoned per cube fire resistant and will do 25 years underground as a fence post so it should see me out i d like my coffin made of it which will see my pall bearers either drive front end loaders or join me considering this is the original posts it s an exercise in making a very heavy silk purse out of a sow s ear i left the outside as it came so it will very rustic indeed on one side i did manage one trip to sea this month 1 and caught near nothing it was pretty cold and bleak but we got a great rainbow i ve been attempting to drain my body via the nose which has been a little unpleasant on the body and brain but a bit offputting to others and to me going out to do the necessary gardening and work on the block to say nothing of shooting wallaby for the dog cats and ourselves see priority ranking which involves a fair amount of walking in the dark and cold to say nothing of processing it we ve had vicious frosts down to minus 4 with even the puddles freezing over fortunately one did wander into my veg in the dusk last night just as i went out to get some spring onions for our evening repast and so i didn t have to lie down on frozen ground or puddles and could turn it into more food i m just glad of the freezers they are going down a bit and we probably only have about 5 months meat and fish in them my plans on an early easy night went down the drain with an ambo call so i got to sleep at 2 am i don t mind doing ambos calls but it has left me tired so good night an eagle over the block posted by unknown at 8 17 pm 6 comments thursday june 1 2017 trailer times it s been an interesting and busy week the trailer has worked hard the blue slug pulling moans that she has worked harder still there s a little fairness in that i drove her up jamie s horrendous hill to fetch an old garden shed that will become our generator shed up there we had the interesting times of pulling the shaft out of the hydraulic ram a task that took another tractor to put an o ring in it s funny how huge powerful machine rely so much on teeny weeny bit of rubber i mean you just have to look at the disasters born out of rubber failing anyway all achieved with a lot of brute force and ignorance hey it s what i m good at stick to what you re good at and then it leaked more oil so rinse and repeat with a bigger o ring anyway with great care i trundled the wee hoosie back down the hill and then to the farm where i got very brave driving to where i thought it should live 2 wheel drive blue slug and a trailer as i am writing this you can gather i am not still stuck up there i d no sooner got back before barbs called to say could i bring the trailer one of the builders had kindly offered us some old internal doors he was replacing had to be done right now so we fetched and loaded all those took them out to the old house we will be moving onto the farm the next day i went to my friend peter s place with the trailer to pick up some fence palings for the battery box well in a manner of speaking the fence palings are still attached to fence and we loaded that in in sections i ve been reducing it to palings and 2x4 with added scorpions for flavor far too much of my non writing life revolves around vehicles which i have a magnificent hate hate relationship with especially barb s red rocket which has been an unremitting lemon with horrible brakes and terrible thirst to say nothing of her many other fine characteristics like the corroded fuel line power steering leak various burst water hoses corroded fittings stuffed electronic bits and many other minor fixes hopefully this passtime will improve as we just replaced it with a diahatsu pyzar for an into work car it is 18 years old but new to us it used to belong to a dear friend who died just a few days short of her 90th so one owner a little old lady who drove it to church on sunday actually is accurate poor little car a hard life awaits it as you can see it has no roo bar which is near fatal around here so i wrestled the one off the red rocket it may be worth more than the rocket was it had mag wheels i plan to keep for boat trailer wheels otherwise i won t miss it i spent a good few hours cutting some heavy steel plate and drilling holes in it for brackets for the roo bar for the pyzar i need lessons on how to re sharpen drill bits the brown ute has been having hiccups that s what it feels like anyway it farts and stutters and jumps around and nearly dies stop shake the fuel filter and hey presto all is well sometime for 50 yards sometimes for twenty km i replaced fuel filters and it went away and then started again so i tried again and again cheap filters i ordered in bulk fortunately cheaper for 5 than 1 alas i am onto the last one i figured it might be rust in the tank the brown ute stood undriven for about 2 years so i spent time draining the tank filtering the petrol filling the tank draining the tank filtering the petrol draining the tank etc and getting this really manly petrol bouquet my darling wife said you stink no appreciation of the cologne there wasn t much that came out of the tank so i dunno haven t tried driving it yet anyway tomorrow i must take the trailer with a few poles and some scrap timber for the tractor s temporary resting shed to the block and start at least clearing the spot next is a lot of hole digging framework for the solar panels and the foundations fro the little shed and putting in four poles for the tractor port i have a hand auger but it s still quite a job i ll bring back a load of firewood and then on saturday fetch a cupboard with it the blue slug i hope survives it now has this front tow hitch which i love i still suck at reversing a trailer so with so much trailer use a serious blessing posted by unknown at 9 32 pm no comments friday may 19 2017 one to six pull or something like that that s an old boatswain call from whaling days not just my inability to count it seems to have been a week of carrying first loading these then offloading these then carrying them and then packing them up it s kinda like digging holes and filling them in well except with slightly more point that was my monday tuesday i did a relatively minor load of collecting some scrap hardwood then on wednesday we bought 50 square meters of macrocarpa planks and took them out to the old house our store and shed to be on the farm next door this was done with a big heavy borrowed trailer i kept expecting the blue slug to expire like puff the tragic wagon i m not too sure what i ll do with the timber it is a little soft would make pretty internal doors window frames and the like i worked a little more on my front door the job seems endless partly because there are only a few hours to do it i m using the tools at the community shed the wood is curious it sinks like a stone that leaves it as almost certainly ironbark probably grey which makes it australia s second hardest wood ranked no 11 on the janka scale at 16 300 newtons white oak for comparison is rated at 6 000 n that s good because i plan to make a countertop of it and i have a lot of heavy cast iron pots and pans there is an excellent reason for me cooking a skillet related injury with frying pans is terminal it s also one of the few timbers not to need fire proofing in bushfire prone areas in case of flooding do not attempt to float away on the door i m also scavenging old timber for a battery box for the solar system i have enough bits left for carport for jamie s tractor we have thanks to john tulloch got the hydraulic ram apart and hopefully have a new o ring soon then rubs hands gleefully digga digga a shortcut to england well some track flattening flattening the site for the generator shed clearing the orchard site etc olives are now bottled it s a month now before they can be tested so no use visiting before mid june posted by unknown at 9 29 pm 4 comments saturday may 13 2017 doorways olives and electricity it s been a busy week writing and doing other self sufficiency type tasks as well as making some fairly large steps toward the new home and some that take a lot of patience always my strongest suite but you know you can have it two of the following good fast or cheap not three and as 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