Good morning daily

[BernieQ2]

Good morning.
Still dark here as well Dave .
I should have told Dot about my next project...
There was a bit more on the bantam Terry... but your four wheels give scope... could be electric
That elephant that got off Debs chain went by our place, I thought Carol's ornamental windmill was about to leave the room...
Probably a bit more welding today...I haven't as yet been told otherwise...yet...
Keep safe.
Bernie.

[T1 Terry]

Good morning everyone. It's still dark here in downtown Mulwala, and we are still parked out on the road. I spent half of yesty trying to drain the backyard. It kinda resembles a swamp after the rain that the area has had. Maybe, if it doesn't rain today, it might be dry enough to get in.
Didn't get up to much else.
Have a great day everybody. Safe travels, and try to stay warm and dry.

Perhaps an X dug corner to corner, gravel, ag drainage pipe and more gravel and sump at the fence line on each end of the X ........ and float pumps ..... but where do you pump the water to get it away from the property?
good luck, not just getting the motorhome in there, but getting it back out before the summer dry season arrives

Having sunk more than one vehicle in what looked reasonably firm, including Big Bus, twice, once through concrete that turned out to be eaten away on the underside, just getting it out of a back yard ...... and I had dug drainage and filled it with kitty litter and gravel and it sloped towards the back fence ....

T1 Terry

[supersparky]

Back in the day, if you dropped the tractor through the black ground into the spew and it was resting on the belly plate, then you left it there and walked back to the house.
And then , come February you could go dig it out again.
I'm hoping that's not the case here.

[T1 Terry]

Back in the day, if you dropped the tractor through the black ground into the spew and it was resting on the belly plate, then you left it there and walked back to the house.
And then , come February you could go dig it out again.
I'm hoping that's not the case here.

As a 12 yr old, I got my first real stint as a mechanic and then a tractor driver dragging a harvester I'd rebuilt/repaired. It rained and we all headed back to the house yard, getting bogged one at a time in the black soil surface of the road, each stopped before we dug a hole .... a tad tricky for me, I didn't have enough mass to push the clutch down, so just reefed it out of gear. Hook another tractor to it, someone else driving the tractor I was on this time, and bogged two, tractors .... finally, a string of tractors, all linked together, stuck in the mud .... and then walked back to the house yard .... I think we might have been picked up by someone on the way back, it was Christmas in Emerald Hill Gunnedah region, so meg hot .... Next day, drove them all out and back to work

Lesson learnt, If it has rained on black mud, even walking is going to be difficult, forget about driving anywhere

T1 Terry

[BernieQ2]

I never went to Emerald Hills... but spent many years fishing Keepit dam.
Before and since meeting Carol.
Bernie

[Greynomad]

When I arrived in Moree to start work, aged 18, the very first thing I was told was, “When it rains, don’t even THINK about driving off the bitumen. The whole area is black soil, which turns to glue when it rains.”
I took that advice very seriously. One of my fellow workers reckoned he’d be OK coz he drove a 4WD.
He was wrong.
Took a bulldozer to free him after the farmer’s tractor just dug holes in the mud and also had to be rescued.
Cost him several slabs. One for each vehicle to the dozer driver, and one to the farmer.
After that episode, everyone at the station called him “Muddy”.

[supersparky]

Back in the day, if you dropped the tractor through the black ground into the spew and it was resting on the belly plate, then you left it there and walked back to the house.
And then , come February you could go dig it out again.
I'm hoping that's not the case here.

As a 12 yr old, I got my first real stint as a mechanic and then a tractor driver dragging a harvester I'd rebuilt/repaired. It rained and we all headed back to the house yard, getting bogged one at a time in the black soil surface of the road, each stopped before we dug a hole .... a tad tricky for me, I didn't have enough mass to push the clutch down, so just reefed it out of gear. Hook another tractor to it, someone else driving the tractor I was on this time, and bogged two, tractors .... finally, a string of tractors, all linked together, stuck in the mud .... and then walked back to the house yard .... I think we might have been picked up by someone on the way back, it was Christmas in Emerald Hill Gunnedah region, so meg hot .... Next day, drove them all out and back to work

Lesson learnt, If it has rained on black mud, even walking is going to be difficult, forget about driving anywhere

T1 Terry

Dumb, dumber, dumbest and dumbest +1.

[T1 Terry]

I never went to Emerald Hills... but spent many years fishing Keepit dam.
Before and since meeting Carol.
Bernie

Back in '66, it was a massive wheat farm owned by my uncle/aunt and immediate family, intended to get the farming bug satisfied and generate a good nest egg for the kids .... it certainly did that

I'd say it has been split up since, a US company bought it to try dry cotton farming .... I'm assuming that was a flop because no one does it

T1 Terry

[BernieQ2]

Good morning.
Djdja get the Winnie down the be back Dave?.
I finished all the welding on the bench, just need some metal for the top and maybe some form board for the shelf... plus I'll have to buy wheels when next in the big smoke....
I bought two motion lights last week... one won't work so I sent an email to the seller... bingo... money being refunded... that was quick.
Nothing planned for today yet.
Picture of the bench .
Keep safe.
Bernie.
Did you get shaken out of bed this morning Keith

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[jon_d]

Morning all,

sunny day here. Not so much in NSW. More rain Nigel reckons.