It looked long and thin to the untrained eye ( mine)
Yes Ramone, quite small and easily handled, if that blows your frock up.
Youāre a different breed down there
Itās probably safer than holding a kitten.
I personally have no desire to handle or disturb wildlife, unnecessarily.
All native wildlife is protected.
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talking of wild life i have always wondered what a drop bear is. I have asked several aussies and they all look blankly at me. Is it a koala or more like bigfoot
MPs are the most dangerous living thing here in the Uk
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And we have very few snakes here because they have been hunted almost to extinction. Their natural by-products are widely dvertised all over the place.
(Make your own minds up about the snake oil salesmen are!)
Thereās been quite a few Adders spotted out and about up and down the country but nothing near where i live.
I used to love these trials!as a young kid, in the '60s.
Thereās a few cars in there, you havenāt seen in a while.
Similar looking to a koala, which isnāt a bear.
Drop bear is the common name for a koala like animal that waits in trees, to attack any animal that strays into its territory. Some will even take on humans. The most reliable deterrent is to smear Vegimite behind your ears.
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yep lots of them have had to resign in the last 14 months hopefully wont be long till the king cobra resigns
then of course we will have a ge as all the lefties and labour moaned and whined about sunak not calling one they arent hypocritical at all
Just for you Ramone.
Well SDU itās all very well kicking a bloke when heās down but i will tell you this.That bloke on the video was head and shoulders above me and my Volvo Vida. If when you plug them in and a message came up saying what the fault actually is then fine but they dont. I was told you can do all sorts of things with a Vida and it will pinpoint any fault.The said V70 i bought a couple of weeks ago with an intank fuel pump fault had many more faults than that. I plugged in the vida and some faults came up i got in touch with the bloke who sold me it i took a photo of the faults on screen and he said nothing on there would stop it from starting .Ok. So after getting very frustrated i had it recovered to a garage and the mechanic said its the engine thats not good or words to that effect.Heād tried easy start with no splutter or fire and he bypassed both pumps with diesel ā¦. nothing no compression ā¦. Then i found out it was a CAT N write off which basicaly means its worthless or Ā£250 in monetary terms .So all in all i lost a Ā£1000 and the scrap man is one of two winners.My own fault but i did manage to get Ā£200 for the Vida too. These diagnostic tools are very good in the right hands but for the mentally disturbed ( me) they arenāt worth a you know what
Saw a few where I (and my ex) used to live but not that big, diamond pythons too. Didnāt have to look far cos the noisy miners were kicking up a stink. Generally speaking, the elapids (blacks, browns) are ground-dwellers.
Spiders (the ground dwellers especially) are a whole other thing, funnel-webs (Atrax robustus) especially.
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I hope you fellows can see this, over there.
Iām an out-of-practice HC (not an MC), but thereās some good stuff here. The best bit he saves till last: if youāre new to it and itās a technical reverse, use your noddle and split the trailers.
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interesting video is driving back in a straight line part of the test
Theoretically, I agree. Itās not rocket science, but he makes it look easier than it actually is. Iāve never driven a truck that you can straighten up the prime mover, after itās stopped.
I started working for a mob that every type and model driven had to be assessed and ticked off. I got away without testing, on a local single, for a couple of days. Then I got sent across town to load a set of stag trailers, with a new MC pass, female driver. Our instructions were for her to drive over and load with me returning and unloading. I was given a further surreptitious instruction, to help her out if needed. All she needed was a little confirmation and encouragement.
On my return, I was asked how she went, to which I replied āFineā. Apparently, I was her assessor. 
It was then my turn to be assessed by my boss (a top bloke), backing into an awkward, shed, It was a tight, dogleg reverse on unevenly steeply (side to side) ground, into the dark shed. I made a right pigās ear of it,but I passed the assessment.
My boss told me later, he loved doing that assessment, particularly if it was someone who got their nose out of joint about being assessed.
As he pointed out to me, someone may be able to reverse a couple of fridge vans in a flat, spacious D.C., but stags behave totally differently. Add the difficulty of that particular manoeuvre, and the big mouths are quickly silenced.
I, apparently demonstrated that I understood how to reverse, but I would have to get my head around stags.
Stag B double set.
Normal B double set.
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It is similar in principle to a traditional wagon and drag setup in Europe (NOT centre axle ācaravansā), in the sense that 2 articulation points are involved as oppose to 1 with an artic. The way I taught myself, and the way I taught my 3 drivers at Toray when I introduced wagon and drags is to think from the rear. Firstly concentrate on the rearmost trailer (or the rear of the trailer with a W and D) and decide where you want to put it, then decide what you have to do at the front end of it to make it do that. Then work your way forward in your mind deciding what needs to be done at each stage for the required result.
So, with a W&D, you want the rear of the trailer to go left, you need to push the front of it to the right which means pushing the front of the A-frame to the left, which means steering the front of the wagon to the left.
I went on holiday when the first 2 sets arrived and I had arranged for the 2 drivers to spend a week beforehand night trunking with a friend TM of mine in the FTA for them to be shown the method as they swapped bodies down at the London depot. I left strict instructions for them not to nose in the trailers. When they started on their own wagons one driver had it off pat by the end of the week the otherās trailer had been left at Hyde all week because that driver had gone with a bloke who nosed rather than reversed. He was less skilled at it always but did learn eventually.
I learned on A-triples in the Territory, in truth there wasnāt much need for reversing, animal shutes tended to load from the side and, with plenty of room we simply pulled forward stopping each time a door was lined up. But where we did need to know how to do it was when making up trains in the yard where there was plenty of room to do so. With one trailer attached as a semi and the other two parked side by side, it was simple to back the semi onto the first A-frame. Then, more difficult, and needed practice, pull the 2 trailers forward and reverse the 2nd one on to the 3rdās A-frame. Always bearing in mind the principle I mentioned above, but with more ābendy-bitsā to think about. Although rarely required the same principles could be applied to reversing 3 trailers.
At Toray I ended up with 2 drivers who took to it like ducks to water and were highly skilled in our quite restrictive spaces, and a 3rd who could manage it with care, but was not a natural. All were banned from nosing, as we had van bodies, nosing meant that you always lost sight down one side of the trailer and sometimes both. It was a health and safety issue. I understood why the old timers with their eight leggers and drags nosed, because they didnāt have power steering and you do need a light and instant touch on the steering wheel.