Yawn....morning y'all. Brrrr again, -1C and 8am - hope the day warms up real soon.

I sprayed my lawn with poison yesterday, I'm not planning to cut it for a while :D
Although it only takes about 30 min to do front and back anyway.

Should get around to finishing the prep on the 4x4 today. all I've got left is to finish mounting a second spare wheel/tyre, fuel and gas (propane) tanks. Still waiting upon the local sheet metal worker to give me a call so I can bring the 4x4 over to him. He's fixing my bullbar for me - the bullbar lost a wing back on the easter trip and he's fabricating a new one for me.

Careful with that propane tank

Just a little 3kg bottle for my camp stove. been carting it around inside the car for years but that activity has always scared me, especially now that I've got a fridge compressor switching off and on in the car too. It's up on the roof rack now where it can breath if it needs to.

This happened to a mate of mine when a spark from a fridge thermostat set off a leaky gas bottle
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He was very lucky in the end, and it only took us a couple of hours to put his ute back together. Can laugh about it now and I still bag him about it :D

Did you guys see the news from the Tweeze?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/6908403-post272.html

I remember that Jeff. There was a pic of a nice set of legs in one of the aftermath shots

I remember those legs too but I wasn't there in person to see them. That one was an autogas tank the ruptured under a 200 series cruiser. This was a little 4kg bottle that the tap opend up on in the back of his canopy. I got to witnes this one

Pretty funny story;

We were travelling across part of an outback track called the The Savannah Way - Australia's Adventure Drive From Cairns To Broome via Burketown, Borroloola, Katherine and The Kimberley and had been for about a week. In that time we'd repaird the clutch and rear drum brakes of that ute with the limited tools that we had. So to get a call over the CB (Sharyn and I had stopped to take some photos and my mate in his ute had gone ahead) 'um, I think my car has blown up', we looked at each other and said 'what now?'

So being a couple of ks back, I got a wriggle on to catch up. About 1/2 a km back we got sight of the back of his ute on fire. I floored it and was running over a 5hit load of debris (one of these thing happend to be the back door of the canopy :D) to get to him.

My mate was in a daze and wandering in the bush picking up his stuff - he didn't know he was on fire. I pulled up a little way behind and yelled out he was on fire. He ran for his extinguiser, ran to the fire, pulled the pin, and it just went pfitz with a tiny puff of powder. Well that got thrown. I ran to get mine, and bugger, the bloody thing is still sitting back home waiting for me to fit it to the cargo barrier :eek:

So I grabbed my shovel out of the back of the car. I dig it into the false door/work tray at the back of the ute and rip it open. Bug rush of air now hits the flaming gas bottle. WHOOSH, big flames. I manged to get the bottle out of it's enclosure and threw it on the ground with my shovel (burnt patch on ground in pic above). So I've got this little flame thrower thing happening in front of me and between the two cars, so I flick it out to the other side of the road to get it away from us. Well the bloody thing rolls off the road ind into the tender dry bush. WHOOSH, now the bush is on fire. :D

In the end, lots of shovelling, the fire at the bottle and the burning scrub are now out and all the debris picked up, we sit down and have a beer. This gives us time to think about the next step. Over the next couple of hours, we panel beated, drilled, filed, screwed, riveted and got it all back together. Between the two of us we had all we needed to do the job. You have to look real hard to find any evidence.

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But Rick, I am a gimpy old dude about to go get a new hip. I would do it but I am limping a lot right now from doing my own yard. Maybe you can come do mine. ;)

Ummmmmmm I sit on a tractor to do mine.

My yard is not tractor friendly. :).

I walk behind a 21 inch wide mower.

Buy a 21" wide tractor.

smartass riposte of the year. LOL!

Max, very sweet of you to be excited about my news. Means a lot to me, you don't even know. Yeah, but this really doesn't mean much. Just that I will positively get the car ONE day. I just take it as a sign she might come around sooner than later. I am going to keep chipping away. :D

Again thanks for being interested in my Porsche story. :)

Fistful of dollars (Connors band) came in third. He had a blast. Vids up on fb later.

Tweez, that great news. Maybe she will let you get it into a garage or dry place as a start.

FB vids shared from the better half, Dave your excused from watching. LOL!!!!

That's good news Tweeze.

A visit to the bone cracker and a little fang around town in the 944 - I feel good, now it's time to find some lunch....hmm, something with bacon....

how do i watch these?

your a freind on FB right? They should be on my wall.

I thought the wall was a Pink Floyd album ;)

Yes I think it is.