Wouldn't it break your spirit?
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Be a couple of cheap trucks & busses in that lot?
Flooded & broken hearted!!
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wanderer
Re: Flooded & broken hearted!!
Even if they're insured the income loss for down time would break some small operators.admin wrote:Wouldn't it break your spirit?
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Be a couple of cheap trucks & busses in that lot?
I only had one prime mover and a couple of trailers and it was hard when a breakdown came.
al.
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Re: Flooded & broken hearted!!
Being fresh water mostly, if the mechanicals were stripped down quickly enough you'd be surprised what could be salvaged.
Knowing insurance companies they'll just sit for 10 months & then be sold for scrap value at auction.
Knowing insurance companies they'll just sit for 10 months & then be sold for scrap value at auction.
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wanderer
Re: Flooded & broken hearted!!
admin wrote:Being fresh water mostly, if the mechanicals were stripped down quickly enough you'd be surprised what could be salvaged.
Knowing insurance companies they'll just sit for 10 months & then be sold for scrap value at auction.
At least with water they can salvage some parts, unfortunately not with fire.
5 out of a fleet of 7 plus 4 trailers were destroyed due to a faulty battery in the 4th from the right, (the one with no bullbar)
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Re: Flooded & broken hearted!!
worst thing about the floods though is the mud that goes into everything. and sticks up a storm after when the sun comes out.
love anne-marie xx
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hino am100 - big red bus
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Re: Flooded & broken hearted!!
At age 22, and pig ignorant, I drowned my VW when storms caught up with us when we were living in Townsville. We were driving back from Cairns and through a swollen river when the car in front stalled. The water rushed into the back of my VW and stalled the motor. Luckily there was a deserted timber mill nearby and a Service Station.
We set up camp on the timber mill shelves, drying nappies as required, whilst I bought flushing oil to put through the engine. I started by taking out the spark plugs after putting clean oil in and repeated that process until I was satisfied it would be OK.
The VW lasted until we traded it in some years later.
I now wonder at my adventure and how well ignorance served me back then.
We set up camp on the timber mill shelves, drying nappies as required, whilst I bought flushing oil to put through the engine. I started by taking out the spark plugs after putting clean oil in and repeated that process until I was satisfied it would be OK.
The VW lasted until we traded it in some years later.
I now wonder at my adventure and how well ignorance served me back then.
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