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Reply #30 - Sep 11^th, 2006 at 2:19pm

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LK.
Those machines are very popular here and have in many instances replaced dozers for log snigging.
They are known here as "skid steer loaders" and have the advantage of lifting the butt of the log off the ground which makes for easier skidding and reduces environmental damage.
However, they in turn are being replaced by a fully integrated machine which holds the tree upright whilst its built in chainsaw cuts it off at the base, the trunk then rotated whilst the head is cut off then finally the bark removed. The machine then lifts the log, stores it on a rack then moves on to the next tree.
These machines are particularly adapted to plantation grown stands.
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Reply #31 - Sep 11^th, 2006 at 6:48pm

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Working on a chain gang, no not that sort, the sort clearing scub with a huge chain, usually an anchor chain off a ship, dragged between two dozers, sometimes animals would get confused , go into the scrub between the two machines and get stunned by falling timber. It was then easy to grab a wild pig, wallaby and the occasional wild calf. Even after a spell in a yard being fed kitchen scraps etc pigs and wild cattle were still pretty strong and "gamey". As tired as we were of mutton and beef they were still better than the wild game we caught, I've never tried pigeons or parrots though. Have had horse (apologies camper bear) a couple of times, not too bad.
Hope I have'nt put anyone off their lunch. pd.

When I die I hope my missus doesn't sell my camp ovens for what I told her I paid for them. pd

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Reply #32 - Sep 14^th, 2006 at 3:33pm

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Hi

I moved Furphys photos the General Chat to This Thread

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Reply #33 - Sep 14^th, 2006 at 4:29pm

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Reply #34 - Sep 14^th, 2006 at 4:43pm

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Thanks Derek
We seem to have drifted right off the Galah issue here and its great that you have put the photos in a more appropriate location I will add more as time goes on
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Reply #35 - Sep 14^th, 2006 at 5:13pm

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Furphyslinger wrote on Sep 14^th, 2006 at 4:43pm:

Thanks Derek
We seem to have drifted right off the Galah issue here and its great that you have put the photos in a more appropriate location I will add more as time goes on
Regards Furphy

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Rather than just keep adding to the posts, feel free to start another one. Wink

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Reply #36 - Sep 15^th, 2006 at 9:02am

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Hi Mike

I have had many meals of Wild Duck and believe they take some beatin
My Mum used to cook them in all different ways but they always tasted great.
I believe that was the specialty with the older generation as they can make a great meal from anything and the flavour is worth talking about for weeks

Well i will have to stop thinking as i am drooling everywhere

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Reply #37 - Sep 15^th, 2006 at 12:59pm

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My mum was a pretty respectable cook, BTW she died in February this year seven months off her 100th birthday. Anyway she used to make jelly by boiling up pineapple skins and adding gelatine, also coffee flavoured jelly using coffee grounds , tapioca pudding, lemon sago pudding and lots of others you never hear of now.
As a main course she'd cook fricaseed sheep brains, tripe, mutton necks, ox tail, ox tongue, kidneys, pig cheeks and pigs trotters the list goes on and then to wash it down a cup of tea made with bore (boar) water, we wasted nothing in the old days. Yeah I know thats an old joke.
Nowadays you can't even buy those cuts of meat, I tried to buy mutton necks a couple of months ago to make a meal in the C.O. and the (young) butcher was amazed.
Rob.

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Reply #38 - Sep 15^th, 2006 at 1:37pm

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PD. Reckon your mum and mine had a similar background. I remember as a kid in England her father (grandad) making his own black pudding. They had a pub in a little village called Monyash in derbyshire, also milked cows, made cheese, their own bacon etc.
It was a treat when we went to visit, grandad was a great poacher also and grandma always cooked pheasant when we were there.
The old pub dated from the 1600's, no tap water, communal "bog" out the back and hollow walls where you could walk through and get into the rooms via hidden panels, could go on for ages! Roll Eyes

Hope this is not on the wrong page? Undecided

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Reply #39 - Sep 15^th, 2006 at 1:49pm

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KW
Yes, arn't wild ducks a flavour of there own.
Where I went to school in Vic. (by bus) I often took a cooked (cold) teal duck for lunch, just a nice amount. I also often had my lunch away from the school grounds (not quite the rules!) at the local town lake. It wasnt long before I worked out a very simple way of getting a couple of ducks from there, a bit of fishing line tied to a rat trap baited with a crust of bread, floated out then "whack", duck for dinner again.
Very politically incorrect these days, but so are many other things.
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