Another interesting film SDU . What power would the Mack have been? No sleeper where would he sleep?
@ramone Iām guessing Maxidyne, 237 hp, but tourque equal to a335 Cummins. Spardo can tell you better than me, how well those Maxidynes could pull, unless he had a P motor in his Mack.
On a swag on the ground. At one point you can see him climbing up the front of one (probably the first) of the bins and chucking the swag under the tarp.
In days of old, before my time, some blokes would tie a single bed frame under the trailer, to roll their bedding onto,thereby sleeping in relative comfort, off the groung. Flash as a rat with a gold tooth.
Iāll bet Spardo didnāt, nor would he have wanted to. It would have been bad enough changing wheels.
Iāve lived here for more than half my life: when I was younger I could deal with heat and humidity, but these days I say sod that for a game of soldiers. I moved inland to the NSW tablelands where even now you get distinct seasons. Hot and dry I can deal with: 30C+ and humid (east coast of Australia from Batemanās Bay north) I canāt do any more.
Mind you, I am a little odd. On cool mornings before the sun gets up even the locals in the depot are donning long trousers and (useless corporate) sweatshirts while Iām still in a t-shirt and shorts. Some in the depot suspect Iām running antifreeze in my arteries.
So laid on the floor at night , no chance of a little freindly nip from some the local wildlife. Jeese youāre a different breed. I was watching the video you posted yesterday with the bloke trying to start the V8 Detroit.He was walking through long grass in his shorts care free. I was expecting a visitor to pop up when he opened the cab door.I think iāve watched too many Hollywood films. The rattlesnake flying out of the mail box when the guy opened it to collect his mail is one thatās stuck with me for years 
When I lived in Cairns, average winter temperatures 18ā° overnight and 26ā° during the day, we could pick the tourist, they were the ones without jumpers. 
I was going to ask you about that youāve just reminded me.On the Opal and Gold Hunter programmes i noticed that some of the miners were wearing jumpers obviously to combat the heat.I would be fried alive being a redhead jeese
Yeah, we donāt get uptight about the wildlife. The snakes prefer flight to fight, make a bit of noise and they might see you, but you wonāt see them. Most people who get bitten bu snakes are trying to catch them or otherwise cornering them.
Opening an old truck door, the worst Iād expect would be a mouse, Iāll guarantee it will be full of harmless spider webs.
I only have 1 kind of luck
That sounds like a cue for Cream and Claptonā¦
..but with a mind to the other āMusic you may not heardā thread try this split lead/ jamming blues guitar.
Looks like an early Victorian nimber plate.
Now donāt go messing all technical with me, I had a B61 Thermodyne which pulled like a train (handy in a road train), 3 trailers full of single deck cows, you tell me what sort of weight that was, plus the 4 crates of Georgeās 6 wheeI body truck, which I also drove but never met a weighbridge to find out for myself.
Anyway, whatās the engine got to do with it, I remember someone saying you could take the engine out of a Morris Minor and put it in a Mack, and, as long as you had enough gears it would be good to go. With whatever was pulling in front of me, I had 20 gears to complete the task, not sure how many I would have needed with the Moggie Minor though.
As regards sleepers, the bull dust was soft enough, under the trailer out of the sun when waiting to load but nobody told me that snakes and scorpions favoured that berth as well. Fortunately Australia is big enough for us all to share unaccompanied. 
But SDU reminds me about the snakes, I shook one out of my sleeping bag one morning after rising with the sun, never knew he was there, he took one look at me and skedaddled in terror.
Ha ha, I never wanted to see another spare wheel in my life, even when I got here, over 40 years later and had a puncture on the road I rang the office and the man said ācanāt you change it yourself?ā, I said āNon. Pas possibleā. A man arrived with a little truck and nothing more was said on the matter. 
Isuzu Bedford truck?.
Reading Spardos reply there SDU iām just wandering if you are giving us Poms a false sense of security.Waking up with a snake in his sleeping bag, now i wont go into the obvious reply of i wake up every morning with a big snake in my bed but i think you want shut of any Poms that arrive there PDQ
@oiltreader That photo would have been taken long before any of us had heard of Isuzu.
I was thinking more along the lines of what tends to spill from crates, liquid, semi-liquid but always pungent.
@ramone mate, statistically the only thing you really need to worry about is drop bears, but if you smear a bit of Vegimite behind your ears, theyāll mostly stay away.