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    Melbourne drivers........seriously people. Indicating right, turning left, rushing to get past you then when they do they brake and go less than the speed you were just doing wtf??? The ones that speed one minute then brake the next speed, brake, speed, brake.....time to take the train to work my thinks (( :

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    Many years ago when I was in the motor trade we loved those sort of drivers as we could sell them new Disc pads and sometimes Discs every 20,000klms. Stupid people, you could not tell them. I have a Colorado ute that had 54,000klms on it when I bought it we have travelled around a lot of Oz and I still have not put new Disc pads in the front, I did replace the rear brake shoes at 80,000klms as they where a little worn, we now have 126,000 klms on the clock and I might have to look at buying some new disc pads at 140,000klms.

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    What happened to edit option, someone stolen mine.

    I was trying to add, thats why we lived outside of large cities as we could not handle all the rush rush and idiot drivers. LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidS View Post
    Many years ago when I was in the motor trade we loved those sort of drivers as we could sell them new Disc pads and sometimes Discs every 20,000klms. Stupid people, you could not tell them. I have a Colorado ute that had 54,000klms on it when I bought it we have travelled around a lot of Oz and I still have not put new Disc pads in the front, I did replace the rear brake shoes at 80,000klms as they where a little worn, we now have 126,000 klms on the clock and I might have to look at buying some new disc pads at 140,000klms.
    My 07 BT50 has just hit 165000.
    Still got about 40% on pads and 70% on shoes
    Got a bit annoyed when I had to put tyres on it at 120000 😋

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    Why oh why does everything have to breakdown in the same month. Let's start with repairs to two blowers, one new gearbox in a Honda 216, one busted gear head on a Honda brushy and a busted piston on another Honda brushy requiring a new engine and to top it off we now have hail damage to the ute and minor damage to the roof of the house after yesterday's monster hail storm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by grasshopping View Post
    Why oh why does everything have to breakdown in the same month. Let's start with repairs to two blowers, one new gearbox in a Honda 216, one busted gear head on a Honda brushy and a busted piston on another Honda brushy requiring a new engine and to top it off we now have hail damage to the ute and minor damage to the roof of the house after yesterday's monster hail storm.
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    All right don't bloody laugh cause this was a bloody disaster all happened last Friday arvo. I bought a paslode nail gun cause I have to do some work at home , now last Friday after mowing all day I finished up at my mums, thought I would try the gun out and nail a few pickets on the fence, ran out of nails , so put some more in the wrong bloody way, fired the gun 4 times so that jammed 4 nails right. I worked out what I had done , so went home to fix my little stuff up.

    Pulled the gun apart and with a bit of effort finally got the nails out , then as I was putting the allen head screws back in one snapped off in the hole , bloody hell how do I get that out??? So finished putting it together and thought I would fire it to make sure it was working good idea right. Well maybe not, I was working on the tray of the ute doing this as it makes a good bench, being tired and over it I didn't get a piece of wood, as there were no nails in it I thought I would just fire it on the tray, bang holy crap blew a hole straight through my brand new tray, I thought there must of been a nail in the thing and was worried I had also shot a hole in the trundle draw. But no there were no nails in it just the spikes on the foot of the gun drove the hole, Fan bloody tastic that was it went inside and had a beer...


    Gotta get the tray welded up, and get the broken screw out of the gun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NLALM View Post
    All right don't bloody laugh cause this was a bloody disaster all happened last Friday arvo. I bought a paslode nail gun cause I have to do some work at home , now last Friday after mowing all day I finished up at my mums, thought I would try the gun out and nail a few pickets on the fence, ran out of nails , so put some more in the wrong bloody way, fired the gun 4 times so that jammed 4 nails right. I worked out what I had done , so went home to fix my little stuff up.

    Pulled the gun apart and with a bit of effort finally got the nails out , then as I was putting the allen head screws back in one snapped off in the hole , bloody hell how do I get that out??? So finished putting it together and thought I would fire it to make sure it was working good idea right. Well maybe not, I was working on the tray of the ute doing this as it makes a good bench, being tired and over it I didn't get a piece of wood, as there were no nails in it I thought I would just fire it on the tray, bang holy crap blew a hole straight through my brand new tray, I thought there must of been a nail in the thing and was worried I had also shot a hole in the trundle draw. But no there were no nails in it just the spikes on the foot of the gun drove the hole, Fan bloody tastic that was it went inside and had a beer...


    Gotta get the tray welded up, and get the broken screw out of the gun.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NLALM View Post
    All right don't bloody laugh cause this was a bloody disaster all happened last Friday arvo. I bought a paslode nail gun cause I have to do some work at home , now last Friday after mowing all day I finished up at my mums, thought I would try the gun out and nail a few pickets on the fence, ran out of nails , so put some more in the wrong bloody way, fired the gun 4 times so that jammed 4 nails right. I worked out what I had done , so went home to fix my little stuff up.

    Pulled the gun apart and with a bit of effort finally got the nails out , then as I was putting the allen head screws back in one snapped off in the hole , bloody hell how do I get that out??? So finished putting it together and thought I would fire it to make sure it was working good idea right. Well maybe not, I was working on the tray of the ute doing this as it makes a good bench, being tired and over it I didn't get a piece of wood, as there were no nails in it I thought I would just fire it on the tray, bang holy crap blew a hole straight through my brand new tray, I thought there must of been a nail in the thing and was worried I had also shot a hole in the trundle draw. But no there were no nails in it just the spikes on the foot of the gun drove the hole, Fan bloody tastic that was it went inside and had a beer...


    Gotta get the tray welded up, and get the broken screw out of the gun.
    Bugger. Looks like your a bit of a gun then. lol
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    I'm not laughing....honestly




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    I mentioned the drivers a while ago........wow what about the traffic congestion. What an increase in the last 2 years. All those apartments being built (upping the population in already full suburbs) are starting to put pressure on an already stretched road network. Get your work close to home boys and girls, its only going to get worse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scooby Steve View Post
    I mentioned the drivers a while ago........wow what about the traffic congestion. What an increase in the last 2 years. All those apartments being built (upping the population in already full suburbs) are starting to put pressure on an already stretched road network. Get your work close to home boys and girls, its only going to get worse.
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    it's true steve, unfortunately a lot of aussies are just as greedy & don't seem to care about their kids/grandkids future.....blindly believe what the radio shock jocks/Murdoch are feeding them




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    Unfortunately all this progress as they call it will ruin Melbourne. Traffic will just gridlock as the road network wasn't built with this much traffic in mind. Car parking spots in my area are getting very hard to find. Chinese developers taking over the joint.

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    Dunno, apart from the road works out our way, there must be 200 new homes a week on postage stamp blocks, less time more money :-)
    I spend most of my money on beer and horses, I just waste the rest....


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