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    WTH did you do today?

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    3 hours ago, Digger said:

    I cut out burned fence posts from 300  metres of fenceline yesterday morning. Then cut up some trees that had come down in the fire and moved them so I could get access with my tractor. Let me tell you that carrying a chainsaw for 600 metres didn’t do my back much good.

    After a cuppa I took the tractor back down and removed a post that had star pickets either side of it.

    All the while the shire were working on the front boundary chipping burned trees and foliage, cleaning up for me! There are a few bigger tree trunks left there for me to cut up and use for firewood.

    My mate Tony came around later in the arvo and we moved all the twisted and tangled roof beams from the shed that were in the way.

    A pretty productive day all told! Today I’m expecting $3.5k of fencing materials to be delivered and a volunteer group is doing the rebuilding.

    (God bless them!)

    Whatever I do today will be with machinery as my back won’t take 2 days in a row like that.
     

    Good progress though!

     

     

    Glad you're getting help,the lord moves in mysteries ways. 

    The Champ

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    These 57 custom amps are really great, they take pedals wonderfully,but by adjusting the volume on guitar and amp you really don't need them. Organic overdrive and distortion I think they call it.

    WTH did you do today?

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    9 minutes ago, Digger said:

    It started off pretty a pretty mundane day but the govt appointed clean up contractors rang and that resulted in a mid morning meeting to sign permissions and to give instructions for how we want the cleanup of the buildings to proceed. That's all happening free for us and represents a significant saving. Once that is done in a month or so I’ll be ready to rebuild my farm shed!

    Then the president of the local RSL (Returned Services League) popped in to see how we are and left us a modest (but gratefully received) cheque for assistance in our recovery. Nice bloke!

    During the day 2 separate aid organisations deposited significant amounts into our bank for us, and  this is the “second" round. We are not used to taking charity but this money and other unexpected amounts from our insurance company are going to leave us better off than we were before. Of course part of that will be getting paid out for the cottage we lost and don’t intend to have rebuilt.

    I tested my new JD zero turn mower on some long wet grass and was delighted to see it literally blast through, much better than the old one!

    None of this was expected and we ended up having a bloody good day thanks to the generosity of the Australian people, and indeed others who contributed to our recovery.

    Life ahead is looking much brighter!

    I'm glad things are working out,hoping the same for everyone else.  The loss of human life because of the fire is what truly is sad, prayers to those families that lost people. The animals that perished in the fire will take years to get back to normal population . But you know me I got no feelings for the snakes,but those bastards probably crawled down a hole and lived.

     

     

    WTH did you do today?

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    39 minutes ago, Tman said:

    OK Fixed it. Traveled to Fiji for my 60th birthday next Wednesday.

    Here is the beach at the hotel. Amazing.

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    Here is a mountain ridge called The Sleeping Giant. See the Giant?

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    Me driving on the "wrong" side of the road. Commonwealth nation and all that:

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    Well happy 60th TMan. 

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    WTH did you do today?

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    15 minutes ago, jedzep said:

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    Cleared snow, brought in firewood, and stared longingly at an old Martin on Reverb.  I ended up changing out strings to occupy hands that were hell bent on making an offer or just buying it outright.  Cooler heads prevailed.  I go through this every so often.

    Looks like you have more snow than here in ND. Good looking dog too.

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