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Hard times and dry land
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CM1995
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Central America has large freshwater prawns similar to that are delicious with a few cold barley beverages
They are similar to the crawfish we have here but do not have pinchers, just long front legs and much larger. Which reminds me it's crawfish season!:yup
kshansen
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Did I read that right you are saying Scrub is older than horses? Maybe he used dinosaurs to pull the scoops!
old-iron-habit
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Scrub is that old? Maybe he can answer my question. I have always wondered what color dirt was when it was still clean. LOL
Mike L
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Did you try taking some home and washing it?
Queenslander
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Scrub seems to have dropped off the radar, mid thread, about a fortnight ago.
I'am sure he's OK, I seem to recall him having issues with connectivity in the past.
I'am sure he's OK, I seem to recall him having issues with connectivity in the past.
And his internet was spotty as well... :tong
Queenslander
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LOL, I'am not sure that connectivity was even a word ten years ago.
Yair it was, but it was spoken in bars about lasses with nice a**es :tong
Scrub Puller
Senior Member
Yair . . . .
Gotcha fellers, back again, computer issues, connectivity issues, and, some how, I chewed up all my data allocation . . . we'll
see if its sorted this time.
Cheers.
Gotcha fellers, back again, computer issues, connectivity issues, and, some how, I chewed up all my data allocation . . . we'll
see if its sorted this time.
Cheers.
Queenslander
Senior Member
Good to see you back Scrub, the internet version of "connectivity" seems to be an issue for most of us living in regional areas.
Have you looked into the satellite NBN they are about to roll out?
Installations were supposed to start this month but I reckon there will be huge demand.
I was over in your neck of the woods last weekend, for a wedding at 1770.
A beautiful part of the world, the country looks a picture at the moment.
Cheers, Greg
Have you looked into the satellite NBN they are about to roll out?
Installations were supposed to start this month but I reckon there will be huge demand.
I was over in your neck of the woods last weekend, for a wedding at 1770.
A beautiful part of the world, the country looks a picture at the moment.
Cheers, Greg
Scrub Puller
Senior Member
Yair . . .
Gotcha Queenslander.It's good to be back too. If I didn't have the manuscript I'm working on to keep me occupied I would have gone stir crazy.
For all the bull$hite on the internet it's a great resource if you can sort the seed from the chaff . . . this site in particular. I'm always trying to get some of my old retired friends on here but not much luck I'm sorry to say.
Haven't looked into the NBN . . . in truth this Optus Wireless hasn't been too bad. There were compatibility issues when we had a forced upgrade to Windows 10 which meant we had to go to a different modem which came with Wi-Fi which somehow went through our allocation of data . . . it gets expensive if you go over.
A good grass season around here alright. It is patchy though for run off and there are dams around that didn't fill.
To change the subject . . . that picture in my #54 post, nothing remarkable these days with drones and all but I wonder how it was taken? That's open downs country and unlikely to have tall trees to get that overhead shot.
I thought the two parallelish lines on the far side of the drain were a set of vehicle wheel tracks through burnt country but maybe they are telegraph lines and it was taken from a pole? . . . dunno, it's got me beat.
Cheers.
Gotcha Queenslander.It's good to be back too. If I didn't have the manuscript I'm working on to keep me occupied I would have gone stir crazy.
For all the bull$hite on the internet it's a great resource if you can sort the seed from the chaff . . . this site in particular. I'm always trying to get some of my old retired friends on here but not much luck I'm sorry to say.
Haven't looked into the NBN . . . in truth this Optus Wireless hasn't been too bad. There were compatibility issues when we had a forced upgrade to Windows 10 which meant we had to go to a different modem which came with Wi-Fi which somehow went through our allocation of data . . . it gets expensive if you go over.
A good grass season around here alright. It is patchy though for run off and there are dams around that didn't fill.
To change the subject . . . that picture in my #54 post, nothing remarkable these days with drones and all but I wonder how it was taken? That's open downs country and unlikely to have tall trees to get that overhead shot.
I thought the two parallelish lines on the far side of the drain were a set of vehicle wheel tracks through burnt country but maybe they are telegraph lines and it was taken from a pole? . . . dunno, it's got me beat.
Cheers.
jughead
Senior Member
i remember my dad using a mule and a scoop behind it to move dirt compared to now it seemed to take forever.
Queenslander
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Windmill perhaps, when delving do you go with or against the flow?
I have an old Comet catalogue that lists big diameter pumps to lift large flows with short heads into bore drains.
We are arsy enough to pick up some Telstra mobile reception, with the help of a directional aerial, despite our remote location.
Recently, we've had huge chunks of data disappearing into the nether regions as well.
The NBN satellite service, or Skymuster, promises to deliver at least three times the data at much the same price we are paying now.
I have an old Comet catalogue that lists big diameter pumps to lift large flows with short heads into bore drains.
We are arsy enough to pick up some Telstra mobile reception, with the help of a directional aerial, despite our remote location.
Recently, we've had huge chunks of data disappearing into the nether regions as well.
The NBN satellite service, or Skymuster, promises to deliver at least three times the data at much the same price we are paying now.
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Scrub Puller
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Yair . . .
Yes Queenslander it will be interesting to see how this satellite NBN pans out,
I thought about a mill too but there seems no logical reason for one to be there. . . interesting about the pumps. I have never heard of lifting into bore drains. In some places there has been some interesting engineering to design cuttings to take a drain through hilly country.
Running as they do for miles across the contour heavy rains could be a disaster as the drain would pick up all the cross country flow. I used to dread storm season as it often resulted in days of heavy muddy shovel work repairing blowouts.
They were delved in either direction depending on where the delver ended up and generally the station or the bore-drain Cooperative owned the delver.
If anyone is interested there is a picture on this site . . . http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=30436 . . . of (I think) eighteen bullocks pulling a crude delver fashioned from round timber and ballasted with bags of dirt or rocks . . . the site works well on my computer and allows good zoom and manipulation of the image.
I am going on about drains but I can't stress enough the significance of the recourse to the early development of the arid regions . . . millions of acres of once waterless country was opened up with the miracle of flowing water it was quite remarkable.
Cheers.
Yes Queenslander it will be interesting to see how this satellite NBN pans out,
I thought about a mill too but there seems no logical reason for one to be there. . . interesting about the pumps. I have never heard of lifting into bore drains. In some places there has been some interesting engineering to design cuttings to take a drain through hilly country.
Running as they do for miles across the contour heavy rains could be a disaster as the drain would pick up all the cross country flow. I used to dread storm season as it often resulted in days of heavy muddy shovel work repairing blowouts.
They were delved in either direction depending on where the delver ended up and generally the station or the bore-drain Cooperative owned the delver.
If anyone is interested there is a picture on this site . . . http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=30436 . . . of (I think) eighteen bullocks pulling a crude delver fashioned from round timber and ballasted with bags of dirt or rocks . . . the site works well on my computer and allows good zoom and manipulation of the image.
I am going on about drains but I can't stress enough the significance of the recourse to the early development of the arid regions . . . millions of acres of once waterless country was opened up with the miracle of flowing water it was quite remarkable.
Cheers.
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Queenslander
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Could be that the bore is a non flower and they are using the mill to lift water into the drain.
If the water doesn't quite make it to the surface, it would be possible to place a mill beside the bore, drop a suction line down and use a big syphon pump.
Best performance on the Comet pumping table I have, is a 24ft mill with an 18inch pump, lifting 183000 imp.gallons daily over a 22ft head.
Bigger mills show reduced output with larger heads.
I'am not sure if such a humungous pump was ever made, but it does sound very optimistic.
If the water doesn't quite make it to the surface, it would be possible to place a mill beside the bore, drop a suction line down and use a big syphon pump.
Best performance on the Comet pumping table I have, is a 24ft mill with an 18inch pump, lifting 183000 imp.gallons daily over a 22ft head.
Bigger mills show reduced output with larger heads.
I'am not sure if such a humungous pump was ever made, but it does sound very optimistic.
Aussie Leroy
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I cannot see any Linfox or Toll trucks in the picture
Queenslander
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That's for sure.... mostly just those "unsafe" owner operators that some are trying to put out of business at the moment.