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[hoseguy]

Hello,

Just thought I'd post a little note to say hi from our house.

Although I am Scottish, I live in New Zealand with my wife and new baby boy and i am a victim for nearly anything mechanical.
Currently renovating ;
Suzuki TF125 Mudbug x 2 (Farm/trail bike)
Yamaha YTM200 (trike)
Valpadana 6055dt (orchard tractor soon to be log splitter)

I also like chainsaws and making them cut faster :thumbsup:

Firewood is a bit of a hobby, too.
Need about 8 cubic metres every year around here. Same for the neighbours.

Digger driver/Agricultural contractor by experience.
Now make/repair hoses and flexible lines (Chemical/fuel/food grade, etc)

Also into pipe smoking and Whisky sampling (18yo Highland malts, yum!)

 

[Muhammad]

Welcome to TBN.

 

[Marveltone]

Welcome aboard from the opposite side of the marble! Sounds like you enjoy life.

Joe

 

[grsthegreat]

Welcome aboard.... now get over here and cut me 8 cords of firewood :laughing:

 

[creekbend]

Good to have you aboard.

 

[DKCDKC]

Welcome! I've been to Scotland, but not New Zealand. I understand it's quite beautiful.

I share your interest in things mechanical, firewood, and single malt whiskey. I used to smoke a pipe - full bent with Latikia Turkish blend tobacco - but gave it up because I kept burning holes in my pockets and shirts.

Luck with your projects.

 

[Jim Shooz]

Why the h*ll would you need 8 cords of wood ??? Winter hasn't started yet and it is expected to be mild. It was only 3.8c this morning

 

[jmurray01]

Yay, another Scotsman. Where did you live before moving to NZ ?

 

[hoseguy]

Thanks all,

After getting a faint whiff of smoke people regularly ask me what i'm smoking in my pipe.

Tibetan grass clippings and sawdust!

It's truly magical how many people get sucked in

I'm originally from Butterstone, near Dunkeld.

8 METRES of firewood, not cords :confused2:
Think I'd have popped a fu-fu valve after splitting 16cords of firewood by hand.
Actually probably after the second one. I aint that good!
That's why I'm a lazy sod and building a log splitter.

Jmurray: Where art thou good sir?

Jim Shooz: It's cold up in the Kaitemakian Highlands here. Unlined steel roofs suck at retaining heat!

Whisky of choice at the moment is a 12yo Edradour 'Caledonia'

Oh, btw. New Zealand is awesome.
It's a wierd blend of the technologically new and the truly prehistoric and everything in between, which is why it's perfect for wierd, bearded, pipe smoking Scotsmen who build tractors for fun.:drool:

Kirk, out!

 

[grsthegreat]

Why the h*ll would you need 8 cords of wood ??? Winter hasn't started yet and it is expected to be mild. It was only 3.8c this morning

well if theres someone out there that loves cutting firewood...who am i to crush their dreams

 

[grsthegreat]

i wouldnt know what a meter of firewood looks like.... im an American.....we dont know how to use the metric system hehe


Jimmy Carter told us its too hard, so we just decided not to use it.

 

[TripleR]

Welcome to TBN from Missouri.

 

[kensnelling]

Welcome to TBN from Oklahoma.

Ken

 

[hoseguy]

Thanks all for the welcomes.
Interesting to see where everyone is at geographically.
Hope to visit the US properly some day.
Landed at Minneapolis/St. paul and Seattle then flew on to Anchorage but that was 16 years ago.
My Olds flew to Arkansas few years back to visit some friends (no, not those kind of friends in Arkansas :laughing

Incidentally, A cubic metre is approx 40x40x40 inches so not a huge amount really.
IIRC- 1cord is about 3.5metres.

Metrification is easy coz everything is in multiples of 10.
Although i grew up post metrification most things were still in imperial so subsequently i can use neither :confused2:

Suppose I'd better get this bleedin' tractor fixed, then.
The arms go up but don't go down. relief valve doesn't pop and it stalls the engine.
Best post in the hydraulic section.

Thanks all, Have a good one :thumbsup:

 

[Loudo]

Gudday from Bundaberg Oz, the home of the famous or should I say infamous Bundaberg rum and B R Bear.

 

[hoseguy]

G'day Ozzy :thumbsup:

Yeah, yeah, nah, bro' from Noo Zullan

One of my best buds is from near your way (..ish. Mount Isa's a bit of a skid from Bundy though. Lives south of Brizzy now)

Chu' bro' :drink:

 

[MasseyWV]

Welcome to TBN.

 

[mguitas]

:welcome:

 

[Jim Shooz]

Thanks all,

8 METRES of firewood, not cords :confused2:


Got mixed up there. :confused2:


Jim Shooz: It's cold up in the Kaitemakian Highlands here. Unlined steel roofs suck at retaining heat!


Kirk, out!

So are you able to see the Rena from there ?

I'm over on the other side heading out of town just past Bethlehem and before Te Puna.

 

[rsewill]

Welcome!

Jimmy Carter told us its too hard, so we just decided not to use it.

Actually that'd be President Reagan.