Recent content by asheddie

Hi Ben, I finally caught up on this thread. A lot has happened since I last read your blog. Congratulations on the birth of your son. By the sounds of it the move back to Melbourne was a good idea. Nothing worse than working a job you hate. How's the build coming along? Any more progress...

haha, its a small world, great minds think alike! It looked good on the advert, I guess you never know until you check them out. How's the job going? Any better options coming up yet? I think you'd be surprised how effective starting your own home maintenance business can be. Maybe even building...

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/1089385373 Close to you as well!

Hi Ben, I'm also a commercial market gardener and have grown thousands of tomatoes over the years. When I grow them in a glasshouse and run them up a trellis I pinch out every second growing shoot, not the fruiting shoot (you want the fruit!) and wrap them around the string weekly. They grow to...

I just saw this on Facebook

Hi Ben, if you ever need to get your tools test and tagged to work on site you'll have to do away with the white plug tops and use clear. It's the law now for all replacements to be see through. It's silly but as a test and tagger I'd have to fail it.

Hi Ben, Be very cautious with a rear rack. They're good on long range enduro setups, but bloody dangerous on a motorcross bike. If the bikes comes out from under you, you will catch both legs on the rack and do a backflip with the bike. They're designed to be slim so you can "abandon ship" if...

Hi Ben, I've been a WR450 rider for a long time. They're great bikes. As far as bark busters go, I'm not a fan of the full wrap around style with the metal inside them. Although they're very strong, they're also nicknamed "wrist snappers"... If you go over the handle bars and your hands are...

I think the tray back comes down to practicality. Lets presume 80+ % of Landcruisers are bought by farmers in Australia, now the mines aren't buying them in big numbers. When a farmer wants to shift a big load, he doesn't want a tub getting in the way, he wants to lower the sides and come under...

Hi Ben, I have been kayaking for many years. I started of with the sit-in style, they're fast, but no good for water sports where you want to get in and out of the yak, ie swimming, snorkelling etc. I moved on to a sit-on like the first picture you put up. They're ok, but without a rudder...

Time for an update mate! You don't normally leave it this long between posts. Must be busy with the move?

https://youtu.be/ggYvZMBpvnY This link is a video I took yesterday at work! It'll give you an idea of what it's like on a daily basis...! I'm not sure if it'll work as a link or if you'll need to copy and paste it? I'm writing this on my phone and its not as user friendly as my laptop.

haha, we live with spiders and snakes every day. I have a massive wolf spider that lives on the dashboard of my car, it catches all the fly's and never bothers me. We have eastern brown snakes (second most deadly snake in the world) that cruise through the backyard and shed, they catch the mice...

Good stuff mate, Syncro would have been so much easier. Another student was doing syncro while I was using the RoadRanger, we were comparing our days during our breaks, the hardest part for him was the size of the truck. For me I didn't get a chance to think about that, I was to busy double...