PD
Leave tomorrow for the west once again headin for Rocky monday then out through to Emerald Alpha Barcaldine and Blackall Tuesday and through to Roma Wednesday travelling through Tambo - Augathella - Morben and Mitchell Getting back home Thursday and will try to remember to get a few pics. Kingwilly travels around a lot as well and he can spin a good yarn.

Getting some extensions done at home at the moment and I have been picking up some bush stuff for the BBQ area got quite a few horse shoes and bridle bits - spurs and Ram horns etc and have picked up some side flitches round back cutoffs anf have spent some time carving wagons and other pitures into them with a router to hang in the BBQ area when the work is done. I want my kids and grandkids to see some of this stuff while they are young and I want to pass on an understanding of life away from the city as well I have a mate who is buiding me a replica 4' high cobb and co coach for a display as well and it has a toybox under the seats where the grandkids will be able to actually get inside the coach and play.

In a couple of months I will be able to post a few picks of the finished result

You are right mate we sure have got away from that bloody pinkie and it amazes me that I am actually getting some of these yarns in writing but for some reason I am really enjoying yarning with you guys and I'm starting to wonder where we will end up

But while we are having fun I guess its hurting no one so brace yourselves
Regards Furphy

Furphy.
Missed your last post, in the sense I was writing mine.
The intriguing part though is your comment "where does this end"
Well, it seems that PD and I (we) met some years ago, quite by accident, on a side track off the Quilpie /Eulo road. We were looking for an O/N camp spot, it looked like rain, and another couple pulled in after us. Well the gidgea was blooming,(quite a charming scent) it did rain, a black soil road, and we left a bloody mess getting out. The van one side, the truck on the other. The other vehicle there was (you guessed it)  PD. Their trip out was quite hairy, we spoke to them later in Quilpie. Its a small world, eh?
mikel

Mike & PD

No never had the pleasure of operating one of those dozers but if they were as you say you have my sympathy old mate you would have been pleased to see the end of the day turn up most of the machinery that I operated were D4 etc only little stuff and did a hell of a lot of work plowing with these and only a few months pulling timber so most of my time was in level country not so you and you are still at it.
PD go through Surat quite often and have gone through that museum bloody big fish in that tank and it is a great little camp area alright use the toilet there now and then and there is always someone there trying out the fishing.
I have been off work all week with a pulled muscle in my lower back but back into it Monday and I will be back WEd or Thurs and will yak on again my camp oven mate should be here when I get back and I look forward to trying it out
I have to say that I am enjoying our yarns and hope to keep them going and look forward to some input by others when they find out what we have been up to here

Cheers guys
Furphy

Ok, group,  I too am enjoying the yarns, although I live on a different continent and can't really add to the yarns.

But I have to ask, do you all know what I mean by a timberjack?  This one is a lot like my neighbor's.



& for using it, well, I had this silver maple tree that had a double trunk.  One December just before snow time, right after I heard that silver maple trees have a short life, one trunk came down.  The following spring I asked neighbor Tex, who is in the pulp wood business, to take down the 2nd trunk.   

Here's the tree limbed and the timberjack with cable attached.




& the tree fully down all of the parts gathered behind the timberjack



Then Tex hauls it away for landfill on his own place.




Have any of you seen/worked with that beast?

CB.
The topknot is a fairly large bird, but being a fruit eater dont know how it would go taste wise. (not to be confused with the crested pidgeon, which is a grain feeder)
I have eated many a bronzewing and wonga which are very plump and top eating.
Dont forget they are all protected, but I guess if one "accidentally" kills itself there is no reason you should not eat it if starving!
Once again, like wild duck, they benefit from a very slow cooking in the CO.
cheers mikel
ps. ferel pidgeons are fair game and generally eat well. Just tend to be wormy.