Good morning daily

[T1 Terry]

Afternoon everyone. Had good sleep in, still looks overcast and about to rain if I step outside .... why tempt it Getting ready for the start of the insurance people to come and assess the remains tomorrow, gotta start listing all that was lost, never a good feeling, at least with the workshop we still had a house for that fall back comfort feeling .... now .... I guess we could sit in the Prius .......

T1 Terry

[supersparky]

We finished up at the Melbourne Zoo today. The dinosaur exhibition thing is still going. They are so realistic. How do you convince an almost 3yo that dinosaurs aren't real, when they move and make noises just like the real animals in the zoo. Back in my day they never had anything but bones and movies of lizards fighting.

Terry, I've seen a pic of the Kombi that has survived. Did anything else of your motoring collection survive. Jim the Jnr Jeep? The old Brian Mazda? The donor MG maybe?
I'm hoping that the answer might be yes.

[T1 Terry]

We finished up at the Melbourne Zoo today. The dinosaur exhibition thing is still going. They are so realistic. How do you convince an almost 3yo that dinosaurs aren't real, when they move and make noises just like the real animals in the zoo. Back in my day they never had anything but bones and movies of lizards fighting.

Terry, I've seen a pic of the Kombi that has survived. Did anything else of your motoring collection survive. Jim the Jnr Jeep? The old Brian Mazda? The donor MG maybe?
I'm hoping that the answer might be yes.

Where did you see the pic of the kombi since the fire? Jim, the 3500 Mazda, the donor MG4, the Blade, the taxi Prius and big bus are all at the workshop yard. All the tools and equipment I had replaced after the workshop fire, were, unfortunately, it the garage, so nothing but burnt scrap steel left of them ...... the flash mig/tig/stick welder, only ever used the once to rebuild the trolley for it to sit on ..... the 8 compressor head twin motor, tank and hoses etc, the jackhammer for removing the rock, the monster wood chipper, the Honda i3.0 generator, all the hand tools, cable, lugs, switches, solar panels, 5kw 48v inverter, big solar controller for the 250v 10kw solar array ...... uggg.... it just goes on and on ..... no idea how much of it will be covered, I guess time will tell .....

T1 Terry

[supersparky]

I saw a link to a news bulletin. The Kombi was behind one of the fires. I couldn't tell if the Kombi was singed or had some primer on the left rear quarter.
I'm glad that things weren't totally destroyed in the blaze.
Like most of us here on these pages, we can only imagine what you and Marg have been through.

[T1 Terry]

I saw a link to a news bulletin. The Kombi was behind one of the fires. I couldn't tell if the Kombi was singed or had some primer on the left rear quarter.
I'm glad that things weren't totally destroyed in the blaze.
Like most of us here on these pages, we can only imagine what you and Marg have been through.

That rear r/h quarter panel was rust repaired, panel beaten straight and finished to primer/filler stage, only to have someone reverse into it in the workshop yard and leave without a word ..... I know who it was and they don't have two pennies to rub together so ..... no point in chasing it any further.

Been looking at motorhomes, the last one set a very high bench mark, anything to replace it will have to be equal or better ..... a hard task to stay within the $$ the insurance will pay and any candidates are spread across the country ..... everything that looks promising seems to have a slide out, don't want the hassles a slide out adds to reliability, seen a lot either stuck in or stuck out, bodies twisting when the suspension settles because the rigidity is lost when the slide out is deployed ..... and the number of them that are reliant on the slide out to make the transit from driving position to the kitchen or bed, a crawl under things and climb over others ..... not something I would consider practical now I've turned 69 crawling into bed is a task these days, so crawling back out gets delayed as long as possible Thankfully I still have a high capacity bladder

Looked at one that seemed promising ... until it came to the unregistered part and weighed 14.2 tonne .... and only two axles, someone didn't think about weight as they did the fit out

Looked at another one, there is no way the overhang was legal, it was clearly an American import because the main door was on the drivers side and the left hand door was in the bedroom ...... it looked like it was probably engineer passed, registered on a personal import loophole, then extended at the rear to add enough room for a north/south bed so the door on the left didn't open into the bedhead

There are a lot out there who have no idea about how to set out a motorhome interior, so many leave the door at the left front corner, making it less than acceptable for the co pilot/navigator and destroys the ability to swivel the passenger seat to become part of the dinette that could turn back into the third seat for a passenger when travelling .... and after having a separate toilet and shower, there is no going back to the all in one thing ...

T1 Terry

[BernieQ2]

Good morning good people.
That bloody wind that Shirley and Deb talk about is bloody cold even up here in down town Degilbo, Carol told me her phone sed it was going to stop yesterday... nobody told the wind .
Juring a break in thinking, I remember seeing clutch plates and other sundry that fit my new Ute at the swap meet me and next door went too. So I rang neighbour and mentioned sed stuff and as he was a friend of the people selling sed stuff could he ring him to see if he had any bucket seats that would go into my ute... that was a bit long winded ... guess what I got up to yesterday...I now have bucket seats instead of the bench seat that was in it....and at a good price .
That was sunday dune and dusted.
Keep safe and warm everyone.
Phone sez 5.
Bernie.

[Shirley]

Good morning, 11c prediction 17c, thought the westerly had subsided earlier, woke up to a flat lake, we now have a westerly breeze with small ripples running across the water, sure hope it stays that way, the westerly winds have been strong & freezing

School holidays over kids return tomorrow, teachers in NSW always have the first day of term pupil free these days.

Our number 3 g’son is 14 today, they are all growing up to fast, our eldest will be 27 next month, youngest only 9.

[Dot]

We finished up at the Melbourne Zoo today. The dinosaur exhibition thing is still going. They are so realistic. How do you convince an almost 3yo that dinosaurs aren't real, when they move and make noises just like the real animals in the zoo. Back in my day they never had anything but bones and movies of lizards fighting.

Terry, I've seen a pic of the Kombi that has survived. Did anything else of your motoring collection survive. Jim the Jnr Jeep? The old Brian Mazda? The donor MG maybe?
I'm hoping that the answer might be yes.

Where did you see the pic of the kombi since the fire? Jim, the 3500 Mazda, the donor MG4, the Blade, the taxi Prius and big bus are all at the workshop yard. All the tools and equipment I had replaced after the workshop fire, were, unfortunately, it the garage, so nothing but burnt scrap steel left of them ...... the flash mig/tig/stick welder, only ever used the once to rebuild the trolley for it to sit on ..... the 8 compressor head twin motor, tank and hoses etc, the jackhammer for removing the rock, the monster wood chipper, the Honda i3.0 generator, all the hand tools, cable, lugs, switches, solar panels, 5kw 48v inverter, big solar controller for the 250v 10kw solar array ...... uggg.... it just goes on and on ..... no idea how much of it will be covered, I guess time will tell .....

T1 Terry

Last fire at workshop we lost mulcher, ride on mower. This fire tools George lent you. We were unable to claim as they were not on our property.

[T1 Terry]

We finished up at the Melbourne Zoo today. The dinosaur exhibition thing is still going. They are so realistic. How do you convince an almost 3yo that dinosaurs aren't real, when they move and make noises just like the real animals in the zoo. Back in my day they never had anything but bones and movies of lizards fighting.

Terry, I've seen a pic of the Kombi that has survived. Did anything else of your motoring collection survive. Jim the Jnr Jeep? The old Brian Mazda? The donor MG maybe?
I'm hoping that the answer might be yes.

Where did you see the pic of the kombi since the fire? Jim, the 3500 Mazda, the donor MG4, the Blade, the taxi Prius and big bus are all at the workshop yard. All the tools and equipment I had replaced after the workshop fire, were, unfortunately, it the garage, so nothing but burnt scrap steel left of them ...... the flash mig/tig/stick welder, only ever used the once to rebuild the trolley for it to sit on ..... the 8 compressor head twin motor, tank and hoses etc, the jackhammer for removing the rock, the monster wood chipper, the Honda i3.0 generator, all the hand tools, cable, lugs, switches, solar panels, 5kw 48v inverter, big solar controller for the 250v 10kw solar array ...... uggg.... it just goes on and on ..... no idea how much of it will be covered, I guess time will tell .....

T1 Terry

Last fire at workshop we lost mulcher, ride on mower. This fire tools George lent you. We were unable to claim as they were not on our property.

Interesting ... as far as I remember it, someone else delivered the mower to us because it had a damaged bore or broken rings .... disappeared in a cloud of smoke when started .... I seem to remember I was going to try to build a battery powered mower from it, but time never permitted, I never realised you were retaining ownership of the mower ......
The mulcher was in the workshop so George could try swapping the carby and fuel tank from Brian's mulcher to your mulcher .... but it still didn't go .... as far as the tools, if you can tell me what tools were there we can put them into the claim .......

Brian lost a brand new wood lathe, bandsaw, a second hand wood lathe, a bench saw and a heap of tools he had over there that he was using to build work benches for his wood working hobby and all the lathe tools he had just bought to replace all the ones he lost in the workshop fire ..... I doubt he'll put up a post on here about it

T1 Terry

[BernieQ2]

Good morning.
That wind wasn't as bad yesterday.
Phone sez 7 outside at the moment probably close but I'm not going to check
Didn't do alot yesterday, water on all of Carol's plants, and some more cleaning the shed... never ending
Some more fiddling with the ute, I found the keys to the side bin, so now all the ratchet straps and ropes are safety tucked away...
Carol didn't win at bingo.
And last but not least, over the back gave me a dozen eggs
Keep safe.
Bernie.