Our "New to Us" Winnie

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Re: Our "New to Us" Winnie

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T1 Terry wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:01 pm
jon_d wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 11:51 am Driving with the steps out deserves everything that happened and more.

If you can't miss a tree, imagine if it was a kid on a bike or something. Start lifting your game Terry.
A kid on a bike wouldn't have been solid enough to push the steps back in Jon :roll:
Get serious, like I'd pass that close to a kid on a bike even with the steps folded in .... I sure hope you don't :shock:

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Terry, you did manage to drive that close to a tree, so, chances are.

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supersparky wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 11:54 am Terry, are you planning to put the dome up in the old workshop site or at the house site. We have used those domes as site sheds at construction jobs for years. I reckon they are great. From what little I know, you will never get permission to park a container in a residential premises, but should have no issue in an industrial area. You may get a different answer if it is classed rural area though. Is the old workshop concrete floor still there?

Dot, that blue stuff is called Ad Blue. It is for late model diesels to do a particulate filter burn. It is not for your model engine.
Do NOT put it in your fuel tank. It is not a fuel additive.
The containers and dome are for the slab at the workshop yard, glad I talked Margaret out of letting them tear that up, where would we have parked the Winnie and the fleet of vehicles :lol:

I'm estimating it will be longer than 2 yrs before the house and workshop would be built and I want the roof painted and the solar up there on the Winnie long before that.

We have an "easement" behind the block the house will be built and that was intended for access to the back of the block. It ends at our block and all the blocks back up the road leading to the access point, have stuff built on their easement .... so it couldn't be used anyway ..... so the easement seems to be a grey area in a country zoned property that council chooses to ignore rather than having to deal with all the infringements that likely happen throughout the whole Murrayland shire.
I was thinking that it might be a good place to put the containers after they are moved from the workshop yard .... As far as the council, the only one the really arch up about, is containers in the '56 flood zone, for fear they could wash down the river and do serious damage to the ferries etc ..... and the state govt would hold them responsible .... the latter being the major concern I think .... The house block and workshop block are a long way above that possibility .... the council building would wash away long before the water reached that height ......

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Re: Our "New to Us" Winnie

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Newcastle George wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:08 pm
T1 Terry wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:01 pm
jon_d wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 11:51 am Driving with the steps out deserves everything that happened and more.

If you can't miss a tree, imagine if it was a kid on a bike or something. Start lifting your game Terry.
A kid on a bike wouldn't have been solid enough to push the steps back in Jon :roll:
Get serious, like I'd pass that close to a kid on a bike even with the steps folded in .... I sure hope you don't :shock:

T1 Terry
Terry, you did manage to drive that close to a tree, so, chances are.

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Not drive George, swerve to avoid a head on collision ..... the first damage involving a tree was at maybe .5km/h as I was trying to squeeze between two trees .... I'm sure I would have waited for the kid on the bike to get out of the way before I attempted to dive between the kid on one side and a tree on the other, as far as the second incident, I would never have attempted to overtake a bike while in the same lane .....
Seriously, you both drive bigger rigs, I have driven them a lot during my life, including passenger busses through extremely busy cities, like in and out of Paramatta station at peak hr getting passengers from the train back to Wentworthville, including climbing the first big hill up the Great western Hwy out of Paramatta, long before any major highways were built ..... and I carted wide loads up the Cumberland Hwy, 2 lanes each way, during peak hr, because the crazy road regulations said that was the only time I was allowed on that very narrow road .... personally, I think it was a shiny bummed regulation nutter and got the whole times it was legal and times it was not legal confused, but it remained that way until the M7 was build, yet you still had to navigate Pennant Hills road in peak hr with a wide load, up until the built the tunnel ......

If I managed to do that without injuring anyone, what makes either of you think I couldn't avoid injuring someone now :roll:

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Re: Our "New to Us" Winnie

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T1 Terry wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:01 pm
jon_d wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 11:51 am Driving with the steps out deserves everything that happened and more.

If you can't miss a tree, imagine if it was a kid on a bike or something. Start lifting your game Terry.
A kid on a bike wouldn't have been solid enough to push the steps back in Jon :roll:
Get serious, like I'd pass that close to a kid on a bike even with the steps folded in .... I sure hope you don't :shock:

T1 Terry

No Terry. The other vehicle kept you in your lane.

If there was a cyclist there, they'd have no chance.

A glance from flat side is very different from a knife cut from extended steps.

You've already said the winnie is takes up a full lane.....
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jon_d wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:51 pm
T1 Terry wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:01 pm
jon_d wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 11:51 am Driving with the steps out deserves everything that happened and more.

If you can't miss a tree, imagine if it was a kid on a bike or something. Start lifting your game Terry.
A kid on a bike wouldn't have been solid enough to push the steps back in Jon :roll:
Get serious, like I'd pass that close to a kid on a bike even with the steps folded in .... I sure hope you don't :shock:

T1 Terry

No Terry. The other vehicle kept you in your lane.

If there was a cyclist there, they'd have no chance.

A glance from flat side is very different from a knife cut from extended steps.

You've already said the winnie is takes up a full lane.....
Think about what you just posted Jon, would you try to pass a cyclist with a vehicle approaching from the other direction?
I know I wouldn't, because I couldn't give him the clearance to avoid the wind rush blowing him either off the side of the road, or into the path of the rear wheels ... even a glancing blow from the flat sides or the arms of the awning could be serious or fatal for a bike rider, the handlebars stick out the furthest, would it just send them off the side of the road ..... or up end the bike completely putting them under the wheels .... would you even consider which would happen? Or avoid it happening at all?

The answer hinges on where you should be driving a big rig at all .... didn't you have that question in your licence test?

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Terry,

The whole point is, you knowingly drove with the steps out.
Justify it as much as you want, but the bottom line is, you did.

Luckily, you only hit a tree. Maybe the Gods were being kind to you that day.
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jon_d wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 1:52 pm Terry,

The whole point is, you knowingly drove with the steps out.
Justify it as much as you want, but the bottom line is, you did.

Luckily, you only hit a tree. Maybe the Gods were being kind to you that day.
You are correct, I did it without a wide load sign signifying the load extended beyond the normal dimensions of the vehicle. The whole point is, I knew the steps were out, so I drove with that in mind, having driven wide loads a lot in the past, I knew the precautions .... should I have had a head on with the 4 X 4 that was half on the wrong side of the road, rather than hitting the tree with the step .... I decided the step was the better thing to sacrifice, maybe you would have made a different choice, who knows unless you are faced with the same choices ......

Are you suggesting I should go back and check on the tree or something? Or are you just having one of those days where you want to nit pick at anything you can find?

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Our council doesn't seem to worry about containers
Bloke behind me has 4 across the road has two..
Probably half the residents have one or more

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Go easy on our Terry; he is getting old and forgetful
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Re: Our "New to Us" Winnie

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BernieQ2 wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 3:49 pm Our council doesn't seem to worry about containers
Bloke behind me has 4 across the road has two..
Probably half the residents have one or more

Bernie
That seems to be one of the main differences between rural and suburban councils Bernie. Rural don't seem to bother about a lot of things, suburban just want to fine you if it's there for more than a day or two.
I can't legally park my Winnebago on the roadside outside my house for more than one hour. Luckily for me, I've got good neighbours . I park on the grass or our second driveway if I'm not going anywhere for a week or so.
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