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1929 Ford model A truck in the USA modified to pull a 5th wheel setup.

On Saturday we stopped at Tara on our way back from Moomba South Australia at the Woolshed Bakery and purchased a pie and a custard tart and ice coffee, the total of this purchase came to $12.60 and they informed me because I was using my eftos card they would charge me .50 cents for the transaction was thi...

Yep, looks like I will experience my first Cyclone, bugga. It looks like it will pass through Townsville within next 24 hours as a Cat 1 so not over concerned as we get pretty bad gale force winds and very heavy rain back home in Gippsland Vic. The weather gods opened the sky about 3.00pm today and out the s...

I like my job because I get all school holidays off and it supliments my travels. Im am going away for a week to Killarney Beach Camp Vic.I got a suprise the other day though,I thought Killarney was closer to Warnambool but in fact its only a few kms from Port Fairy.I got the details from the Camp6 book and w...

Just recently someone known to me had an Ipad stolen, luckily they had a small engraving done on the item. They duly reported item, serial number, description etc to the police and made a written report. Later that day they were looking through a public sale site (GT) and saw a photo of the item listed t...

Gday... Bill12's pic of rain radar prompted me to have a gander .... it sure is gettin' damned wet up there Cheers - John

Hi all can anybody give us any kind of report re: the twin tubs,, do they really do the job.Thinking about keeping one in the rear of our territory. and setting it up when needed....

Gday... 1570 - Guy Fawkes, conspirator in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, is born. 1888 - Alfred Nobel reads his own obituary, which inspires him to leave the legacy of the Nobel Prizes. Alfred Bernhard Nobel, born in Stockholm in 21 October 1833, was a Swedish chemist, engi...

If anyone is heading up this way I would think long and hard about staying in Rocky or Mackay. lots of water on the road around Clairview and some strong gusts of wind. truckie was saying on radio at one stage he was down to 70k. take care and stay safe

Hi all finally motorhome is home from being in storage - going to get its hot water system, solar and awning soon. M question is does anyone know where we ca get a reasonably priced swivel seat in the sunshine coast - I priced one in Brisbane today from Seats R Us for $2000.00. I just want a seat not a gold p...

Staying at the lovely Gum Bend Lake and heard about the Bolo Farm Chapel so went for a drive today. Amazing. The manager told me how to go north for 10km to get on the seal to get back to camp without going down the 25km of dirt road the way I came in from Tullibigeal end. Info Centre in town has direction also...

For those that didn't read my "Original" thread about the Prado not starting now and then it appeared at first to be the inhibitor switch as when I moved the transmission selector back and forth it started but then it was ok for a week then had the problem again for two weeks then ok for a week. I...

My wife and I are looking at a Coromal Princeton van a couple of years old but we have heard that Windsor Caravans are made by Coromal. If this is the case which would be the better buy as the Windsor van seem a little cheeper in comparison. Also wondering what the catch is with transfer fees on vans in N S W as...

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Gday... For those who don't have this site http://131940.qld.gov.au/Home.aspx Cheers - John

Are both in a bad way, damage everywhere so please take it easy on these roads, some sections in many places are in really bad condition. I can't pick out sections, just take it easy as there is a lot of damage on these roads.

We bought a new 2kg gas bottle to replace our out of date one that we use for our small camping appliances. We tried to get it filled at the BCF store at Tuggeranong where we bought it but they no longer provide this service. So I spent half a day traipsing around the usual places like Bunnings, Fyshwick B...

To all of the solar gurus out there .... Was perusing some online solar stores and came across a site that gave an example, for very long wire runs, of connecting four (nominal) 12v solar panels in series to feed 48v into a MPPT controller to eliminate power losses and voltage drop. The controller would...