Gday

[weisyboy]

just realized i never introduced myself.

GDAY. My name is Carl.

i live in Sunny Queensland, Australia (gods own country).

i run a lucas swing blade mill doing mainly mobile work. when there is not enough i cut feedstock to supply flooring planning mills and tool handles.

i also have an
AD10 fiat dozer for sniging and contract work.
fiat 480 4wd wheel tractor with loader and forks, 3 pont hitch sniging winch, and just about every implement one could need.
a clark 763 bobcat with 4in1 and post hole borer. (forks in production)
7 chainsaws, makita electric, 026, 032av, 034av, ms 170, ms 460, 3120xp
home made resawbench
16" bandsaw
3 rodeo utes
a big tandem flat top trailer
1 6x8 box trailer custom made to fit mill.
1 7x4 tipping trailer
doing up toyota D6000 truck.

i also do property maintenance. fencing, retaining walls, slashing, clearing, irrigation, shed and stable construction etc

i love fishing, camping and shooting.

have way to many boats. 7' tender, 12' tinny, 14' center console, 15' runabout, 20' glass over ply fishing boat with kitchen and bunks, half built 21' displacement hill glass over ply boat. and 54 fishing rods.
;D

so there you go, thats me.

[Weekend_Sawyer]

Hello Carl, welcome abord!

[paul case]

welcome carl,
thanks for your participation.pc

[Onthesauk]

Welcome Carl!

You've added some good advice to folks already.  Much appreciated.

Steve

[ljmathias]

Carl: good to know you, and thanks for your input over the last while...

Australia is one of the few places I really want to visit and can't figure out how to get to cheap- just too far away, I guess.  I have friends in New Zealand that I'd love to see again but that won't happen anytime soon either.  Oh, well, plenty to keep me busy here...   

Lj

[sgschwend]

Welcome,

You must also have plenty of space to keep all that stuff.

You can never have too many boats.

[DextorDee]

Welcome to the forum.  I noticed that you said you enjoyed shooting, so you can own a gun in Australia?? ??? I don't know why I thought Australia was one of the places guns had been banned.  ???
Ken

[Carpenter]

Hi, Carl. Welcome to the forum.  I think you'll fit right in.

[fishpharmer]

Hey there Carl, glad to get to know you.  I have enjoyed reading your (and the others with Lucas' )posts about milling with a Lucas.  You have taught me a few tricks.

Post up some pics of the boats, I would like seeing the 21' build you got going on.  I have dabbled with some small boat building (like pirogues).  This has brought about an unexplainable mental disorder ;) compelling me to build a larger  wooden boat.  To me 21' is large. 

[taw6243]

The Forestry Forum Woodopedia does not have a definition for sniging.

Tim

[Carpenter]

Carl, I researched solar kilns a bit today.  Found myself on a woodworkers forum from Austrailia, and saw that you were at one time building a solar kiln.  How is that going?  I am considering building one myself.

[Okrafarmer]

Welcome to the forum.  I noticed that you said you enjoyed shooting, so you can own a gun in Australia?? ??? I don't know why I thought Australia was one of the places guns had been banned.  ???
Ken

Yes, I was wondering about that too. If you ever come here to visit, we can take you shooting and you can try out all kinds of guns-- and bows, if you like them.

I did go to Queensland once-- spent 4 days in Cairns. Very nice. I was only 20 at the time. I spent 4 and a half months in Victoria with a few days in SA and NSW.

[redbeard]

Hello Carl, I always enjoy your posts also would like to see more of your Toyota D 6000.

[weisyboy]

i will get some pics of our boat for you when i get a chance.

Snigin - i think you guys call it skidding.

[weisyboy]

Guns -

we are allowed to own guns, you have to have a licence and each gun has to be registered. to get a licence you have to have a legitimate reason and no history of violence. you have to either live on a large property, be a member of a gun club, work on a station or have a job that requires you to carry a gun (security guard). you cant own a pistol unless you are a member of a pistol club and then it has to be kept at the club. all guns ahev to be kept in a safe that is bolted down. tehy also have to be stored with the bolts out/action broken and ammunition stored seperatly.

pretty highly regulated but you can still have some fun.

we dont have hunting season or anything like that. and you are oly allowed to shoot on private land. if you go into national park with a gun even if its not loaded and stowed away you will land ya self a massive fine and lose ya gun licence.

most native animals are protected and not alowed to be shot. but we have that many fels it dosent matter.

hare
rabbit
deer
bafalow
dogs
camels
cats
goats
pigs

dingos are about the only native you can shoot. and kangaroos out west.

[weisyboy]

[weisyboy]

never got the solar kiln off the ground.

still sompthign i wanna do but im that buisy i cant hardly get time to have a snooze.

i got all the info and designed a really goo setup if you want some info let us know.

[Meadows Miller]

Gday Carl and Welcome if i havn'nt already said it yet Mate  ;)  ;D

I like the d series Toyota trucks myself too but they where always bloody hard to come by down here in mexico  ;) :D :D they where a pretty popular truck up your way though  ;)

Regards Chris

[weisyboy]

yer im having trouble getting parts, tehre are a few around but the wreckers wanna sell the whole truck.

[Meadows Miller]

Yeah its abit hard to get parts with some of the old girls  and i dont think there was a huge number of those d series brought into aust there is an old farmer that has a pretty slick looking toyota the same as yours i see on the road a fair bit and ive heard he's got a couple as spares Mate  ;) I reckon im lucky with the Acco ;D near new ex firetruck motor with around 45000ks on it will set me back about $2500 del and and most of the other parts can still be brought new over the counter at the local IH dealer same goes for the 71 KW cabover i have coming down the track too hopefully its not too far away   but i recon i should get stuck into the acco refurb firs before i bring another one home  :D ;) ;D 8)

[weisyboy]

yer i tend to accumulate what everyone else calls crap.

in the hope of oneday doing something with it.

[ljmathias]

I'm with you there, Weisy- as they say here in the South, you can tell the rich rednecks by the fact they have two rusted pickups setting up on blocks in the back yard... and I've got three! :D  Moved two of them yesterday because I was tired of looking at them begging me to do something with them, so I did: moved them back on the property about 100'...

Lj

[paul case]

lj,
in my neck of the woods , you would be the envy of a lot of folks.i get a lot of visits from the junkers wanting to buy all my old parts storage units (junk trucks and tractors) .i wish i had never mowed around them ,since nobody ever stopped when you couldnt see them from the road before .  pc

[Meadows Miller]

Gday

Paul you wouldn't have a spare Pete lying around there for me would you Mate  ??? ;) :D ;D 8)

[paul case]

no pete's here. old gm trucks and allis and farmall tactors. but i got more of them runnin than i do for parts. pc

[Okrafarmer]

no pete's here. old gm trucks and allis and farmall tactors. but i got more of them runnin than i do for parts. pc

That's quite an accomplishment, Paul!

Carl,  Chris, when I get rich,  : I'm going to pay you guys to find me a good running Countryman and send it over here! Along with another one for parts. . . . I'd be the only kid on my block to have a genuine Australian Chamberlain and I'd be the envy of the whole neighborhood! 8)

[paul case]

no pete's here. old gm trucks and allis and farmall tactors. but i got more of them runnin than i do for parts. pc

That's quite an accomplishment, Paul!

not really.haul off 2 old junkers that are picked clean  and buy 1 that runs. 10 to 9 at that point.pc

[weisyboy]

i know where there is 2 old countrymen one ws kinda going when i was there. it had a loader on it.

[Okrafarmer]

i know where there is 2 old countrymen one ws kinda going when i was there. it had a loader on it.

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