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Post by spinifex on Mar 6, 2024 7:40:25 GMT 10
Thems some nice looking Plymouth Rocks at the start there!
Here in Oz the old farmers/rural folks just used to plant wormwood bushes along the fence of the chicken run and the chickens would graze it through the wire to self-treat.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 2, 2024 17:31:54 GMT 10
They’re all relocating to their private islands ahead of the nuclear war looming between NATO and Russia?
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Post by spinifex on Mar 2, 2024 17:20:02 GMT 10
I can see why folks wonder about the 10 gun thing. Where it occurs my experience has been this: 1. Often more than 1 shooter in a farming family but only 1 licence holder. (I have no idea why) So the 1 licence holder ends up with other family members items on their list. 2. "The best tool for the job" means even a single farmer will likely own a .22 (birds rabbit foxes - at close range) and putting down small livestock), 12 gauge (birds, rabbits, foxes), .410 (snakes around the sheds), small calibre centrefire (foxes, roos and hares at longer ranges) and a .30 cal centrefire (larger ferals that can't be mustered and sold). 3. Accumulated history - A 50 year old farmer today likely still has his/her fathers and grandfathers rifles in their possession. Quite a few .303, 12G and .22's in this category. Also stuff like 8 X 57, 7 X 57, 303/25 and 30/30. And this was the sad part about the Howard era gunlaw changes and buy-backs - a lot of nice, sensible browning semi-auto A5's belonging to previous generations of farmer got outlawed and scrapped. Great tool for shooting foxes flushed from cover under spotlight.
Yip, NO one talking about human hunting requirements. well over the last few years they have been relentless publishing minimum calibre for humane game hunting. So for each class of animal you need the correct caliber. For example shooting roos with .223 is acceptable but if you want to deal with a pig problem you need something more powerful. The premises being the smaller the caliber used the better for cost, noise and safety.. I was considering getting .338 for water buffalo as that is what is recommended, the humble .308 is not up to the task according to minimum humane hunting requirements. .338 are banned from most ranges and would be banned in WA.. newzealandsafaris.com/shot-placement-for-australian-water-buffalo/#:~:text=To%20make%20an%20ethical%20shot,338. To make an ethical shot on an Australian Water Buffalo Bull it is recommended to use a minimum of .375 caliber although some hunters may use a .338. On our Australian Water Buffalo hunts we have seen that the .338 caliber is moving much too quickly to achieve maximum expansion of projectile which should be bonded, or, first shot even a solid but this can be left to the experts to discuss in depth. What can you hunt (includes recommended caliber) This section presents some of the most common species that can be legally hunted in Australia. Most are classified as feral or pest animals and can be hunted any time. www.ssaa.org.au/resources/hunting/what-you-can-hunt/The .308 and 303 have taken more buff than .338 rounds have ever been fired in oz. 303 during the hide trade of the 20s and 30s. Then the .308 during BTEC in the 80s. But of course, back then men were men and magnums were but a penis compensator. My personal experience is that .308 is perfect for taking feral bulls … of the Santa size … because accurate shooting is much easier with that calibre. In much the same vein … the hilux will do way more for you than a Dodge Ram or F250.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 2, 2024 15:44:45 GMT 10
Thanks Frostbite. Looks good having deep window sills. We will be doing same but installing our own windows from scratch so we can use the size we want.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 1, 2024 9:17:45 GMT 10
Genuine question though, for what reason would it be sensible to own ten as a primary producer? Unless I'm missing something, you can only shoot one at a time. Is it so that you can provide equipment for shooters coming onto your land? I'd have thought most shooters would have their own kit and prefer to use that regardless. I guess I could see a reduced reload timeframe being valuable if you already have a few firearms loaded and ready to go but even then, it seems overkill. Happy to be cleared up on that one, I've not been a primary producer before and for all that we went spotlighting a lot when I was a kid for local farms, there was never more than one per shooter and not because there weren't options, it was just the preference. I can see why folks wonder about the 10 gun thing. Where it occurs my experience has been this: 1. Often more than 1 shooter in a farming family but only 1 licence holder. (I have no idea why) So the 1 licence holder ends up with other family members items on their list. 2. "The best tool for the job" means even a single farmer will likely own a .22 (birds rabbit foxes - at close range) and putting down small livestock), 12 gauge (birds, rabbits, foxes), .410 (snakes around the sheds), small calibre centrefire (foxes, roos and hares at longer ranges) and a .30 cal centrefire (larger ferals that can't be mustered and sold). 3. Accumulated history - A 50 year old farmer today likely still has his/her fathers and grandfathers rifles in their possession. Quite a few .303, 12G and .22's in this category. Also stuff like 8 X 57, 7 X 57, 303/25 and 30/30. And this was the sad part about the Howard era gunlaw changes and buy-backs - a lot of nice, sensible browning semi-auto A5's belonging to previous generations of farmer got outlawed and scrapped. Great tool for shooting foxes flushed from cover under spotlight.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 28, 2024 18:17:36 GMT 10
the original from the 80's
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Post by spinifex on Feb 28, 2024 18:16:23 GMT 10
Like this guy
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Post by spinifex on Feb 28, 2024 18:12:13 GMT 10
They are such a funny bunch of piss-takers. Bit like Cosmic Psychos in that way. Not scared to make fun of anything. I miss that Australia.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 28, 2024 17:54:56 GMT 10
Mandatory mental health checks may have the perverse outcome of increasing reluctance in the community to seek support for genuine mental health concerns. Isn't that the point tho? If people are nuts they wont be able to keep their guns? If people dont get help for their mental health issue that's not anyone else's problem. Those people WITH guns AND mental health issues...well that is our problem.
Not sure about the rest of the legislation, but this I would support. I doubt it will happen tho, cost too much to implement?
I've been on the wrong side of a spurious "mental health" allegation and had my firearms seized.
At the end I got all my gear back but it CREATED a fair amount of mental stress and cost me $1200 in legal costs.
The system gets abused pretty often. And given the prevalence of "mental health" issues in the community and among people who own firearms ... if there were a serious causative correlation with gun murder ... the gun murder rate would be sky high. And it isn't. There is no causative correlation.
Should people with mental illness be prevented from driving cars? Lest they mow down pedestrians on the streets or have head-ons willy-nilly on the nations highways? Guns are just a tool. Which for some reason The Powers That Be are mad keen to take away from everyone for no good reason. If the real reason were safety then the sale of petrol and glass bottles would be tightly restricted - so many people cut themselves on broken glass and get burnt in fires. And plenty of bona-fide psycho's love committing arson with accelerants. Yet ... fuel stations are selling fuel to everyone without any mental health checks.
Fun fact: did you know that if you are under 16 you cannot buy a knife from woolworths For "safety" reasons. LOL!!!!
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Post by spinifex on Feb 26, 2024 17:19:33 GMT 10
NSW to make you need a planning approval to keep a caravan on your property for more than 6mths Labour, the party for the working class, looking after battling Aussies during a housing crisis they created by importing half a million immigrants. The sheep get the government they deserve. They keep voting for these idiots. Absolutely nailed it.
The question is who does one vote for.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 23, 2024 17:57:20 GMT 10
That seems like good pricing - how much was the excavation part of the cost?. My site is flat but still costing me 5k to get a 24 X 12m area graded dead flat and a compacted pad (20cm thick) of wet shavings that is laser leveled.
I've heard reo concrete with moisture barrier is $100 per square meter laid (on average).
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Post by spinifex on Feb 23, 2024 17:48:43 GMT 10
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Post by spinifex on Feb 23, 2024 17:45:51 GMT 10
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Post by spinifex on Feb 23, 2024 17:44:06 GMT 10
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Post by spinifex on Feb 23, 2024 17:29:29 GMT 10
Well ... the final 4 year run to exiting the workforce and being self sufficient and economic shock-proof has begun.
Getting a shed pad laid down by end of March - cost $5k
Then getting a 9m X 20m shed built on it for $50k
Bracing myself for the quotes for the concrete flooring to come in!
It will be fitted with stand-alone solar generation and very high level insulation to keep the interior cool during the hot summers.
I'll start putting up photos as they come to hand.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 20, 2024 15:40:16 GMT 10
Frostbite, who makes the steel framing you used? And is it available through the likes of Mitre 10 or best sourced from steel suppliers?
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Post by spinifex on Feb 20, 2024 15:31:43 GMT 10
A few questions: Did you get the shed designed and built with windows already in place or retrofit them? Can you please put up a few pics of how those windows are fitted into walls/framing before the plasterboard is put on. How easy is it to use the steel framing system for lining out and putting in internal walls? (I've got plenty experience with timber but not steel and am wondering which way to go for doing my framing).
Mate forget plasterboard! Check this bloke out at 3.13 I wish I saw his YT Vids 30 years ago if they were around! Matter of fact check all his videos, there is some good stuff there re shed builds! I was going to use thin ply to line walls instead of plasterboard. I'm not into building dwellings out of chalk. But that iron finish is rather good. And I've seen a small cabin done like that and it looks pretty good. I'll check those videos out for sure.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 20, 2024 8:48:49 GMT 10
Spent 2 days at the retreat with a friend who is an electrician. Wiring in new cabin now finished and I’ve started lining the external walls with R4 insulation. All the plasterboard arrives in just over a weeks time. I'm in early stages of a similar project on a slightly bigger scale. A few questions: Did you get the shed designed and built with windows already in place or retrofit them? Can you please put up a few pics of how those windows are fitted into walls/framing before the plasterboard is put on. How easy is it to use the steel framing system for lining out and putting in internal walls? (I've got plenty experience with timber but not steel and am wondering which way to go for doing my framing).
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Post by spinifex on Feb 20, 2024 8:39:56 GMT 10
I had a young guy I was working with who's friend called him a gay-retard, to which he and I laughed hysterically, reminiscent of my youth when being called such things was normal. The 80s were Peak non-racism and non hate really when we could mess with each other [with respect] for our differences. Laughter the cure for all of this nonsense really. Fairness was still hard to come by for some parts of society in the 80's. At least in rural Australia where I grew up.
It didn't go too well for gay people and non-white immigrants. Or females in a male dominated occupation. But that changed quite quickly in the 90's
Its interesting how quickly shifts in societal attitudes happen.
But what Wokeism has now created is a generation of young people (under 25's) with a disturbingly high proportion who are lazy, self entitled, mentally weak and scared of their own futures as adults. We then replace these useless members of society with useful people from poorer countries who had harsher upbringings because we need them to do all the hard work that needs to happen to keep the economy going. Then we end up with a housing crisis because we need to find places to live for 500,000 useful immigrants this year AND keep the entitled young generation tucked up in their Safe Spaces at mum and dads or at tax payer expense in public housing as well.
We seem to be facing a demographic issue that is not going to self-rectify without a big upheaval. The system has created a condition where many parents can no longer raise their young to be determined and resourceful. Kids have so many rights and so few responsibilities put on them by regulators parents can't actually parent with tough love when that approach is sorely needed without real risk of being prosecuted. (I know a few of these situations now ... it's truly disturbing what can happen to good parents acting quite fairly.)
And then from a national security perspective: How far are we from having an ADF that is mostly populated with young people born in india, SE asia, middle east, africa and pacific islands? Can that be made to work in dire combat situations? An ADF that is basically a multi-national mercenary force?
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Post by spinifex on Feb 16, 2024 17:12:15 GMT 10
In the 1970's and 80's the pendulum of tolerance was swinging towards a fair balance. The 90's seems to be a time of fair balance. And the pendulum has, since 2010 swung well out of the fair balance zone to the point of societal damage.
Don't worry about Pandemic, EMP or financial collapse ... we are in the zone of societal collapse purely due to the dysfunction that Wokeism promotes everywhere and all the time.
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