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45 minutes ago, mrsswordfisherman said:
Not showing swordie that hat. He also has a hat selection.
He bought a $60 one last week. Caps there are dozens and dozens.By the way is that a Viridian shirt?
One of dozens I have.I live in them.Free advertising.Served 20yrs.I know Stewy served at ingleburn.Small world.
40 minutes ago, DerekD said:Probably fortunate that post covid people are still used to seeing masks used. I admit you have taken it a bit further than other people but I respect the fact you take the communities welfare so seriously.
No more yelling at flies wearing it.And swearing at them.They never listen.
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Just remembered just now replying to a post with @mrsswordfisherman about gardening and lawns.
I’m a keen Gardner, do every thing yourselfer/Magyver doesn’t have a chance selfer.
Anyway the other day I was out in the garden working all day wearing my new gardening hat I bought and love when late in the evening the mrs comes out and asks if I can quickly duck out to Woolies up the road and get some chops for dinner.
Like usual I put tools down, grab my wallet and keys and rush off out the door to get it.
I park up, get out the car and start walking through the car park towards the entry.
As I’m walking 2 seperate woman are walking towards me and as they pass they say hi with half a smile/grin and I notice a few people looking and look away.
Anyway I don’t take much notice or really think anything go inside, wonder to the meat section grab the chops and head to the self serve.The shop was busy and people would look “as they do and look away “.
Anyway I paid and on my way out I noticed people looking at me when they were walking in.I thought geez I must be too grubby this time as I always have my old work shirt on etc in the garden.
Anyway I make it back to my car, hop in, buckle up, start car, put it in reverse and look in the rear vision mirror to reverse out the parking when the penny drops why they were all remarking and looking at me.
This is exactly how I was dressed when I went inside to buy chops that day.😂😂😂😂😂
They must have thought I was the masked bandit there to rob them.😂😂😂
Hope you guys had a good laugh at my expense.
ps I’ll try to remember to take my hat off next time.😂
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14 minutes ago, mrsswordfisherman said:
We love the mower shop. He has bought a few new mowers when replacement needed. He buys blades and parts it’s a wonderful and very helpful place.
Geez that’s a shocker Fab!!I know it well. Father in-law is a vip there.
Sorry wrong photo that’s when I scalped it down to dirt and scarified it renovating it the other week.
Same lawn 12 days later taken today needs a mow but too wet and coming back nicely.
Lawn how I usually have it.And some strawberries I just picked for my brekkie cereal so I don’t lose my sexiness and ability to catch all @Yowie‘s fish.😂
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56 minutes ago, mrsswordfisherman said:
@Fab1 ahhhh another that mows every 2nd day.
Swordie keeps our lawn like a bowling green and mows 2nd daily. He fertilises and waters and watches like a hawk for mole crickets. He takes his bucket outside at night listens for the noise and pours soapy water down any suss areas to kill them.
People walk along our street and compliment him on the lawn. Children and dogs want to roll in it because it is so soft and lush. You will never find a bindi or a weed in this lawn. He grows beautiful flowers too.
Last week swordie had an operation on his abdomen (nothing serious). He is not supposed to be mowing lawns or lifting etc. People were pulling up in cars wondering what was wrong as the lawn was growing very long with all the rain. We had people offering to mow. I am looking after his wound which is now clean, dry and healed. For my sanity I gave him permission to mow and away he went. Pretty sure he will mow it again today!I will throw some pics in shortly.
No battery mower here. Fabian, I am sure that you use the same mower shop nearby that has been here for years.
Noel if you don't like mowing hire someone to do it. I have never touched a mower in my life
Good on him.Nothing beats a great looking lawn and garden.I love my garden and spend hours out there when I can.
As for mower shops I haven’t used a mower shop ever to service anything only to buy.
Here’s a photo of my lush green lawn.
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1 hour ago, noelm said:
It’s not that I don’t care about my lawn, I look after it and keep it good looking, it’s just mowing that I don’t like, don’t know why, it’s just one of those jobs…….
Fair enough.The key with any lawn is to make it as obstacle free as possible and if you don’t have them put in mowing strips.
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19 minutes ago, BaitDropper said:
I couldn't tell you the hours I've put in on lawns since being here, I quite enjoy it in all honesty, although having 3/4 acre to do, especially with the growth we are getting at the minute, is getting tiresome. Mowing every 4-5 days at the minute. Nothing is better than sitting back next day and admiring a nice mowed lawn,, However, currently going thru an infestation of a weed called Riccardia in the area, a shocking invasive weed that's ruining many lawns in the area, so the past month or two has being heavily spraying to try and eradicate it.,,, But on all accounts, mate is surprised and impressed with his elecky mower on his smallish block he has now, I guess if you've already got a mower and whipper snipper, probably no reason to spend money for the sake of it, he left all his mowing gear with the house he sold, so he made the change...
Pgr is your friend if you want to mow less and have good grass coverage.
1 hour ago, noelm said:A battery mower is on the cards, as long as I can test one first, they seem very small! My mower and whipper snipper is still fine, it’s just something I am considering. Mowing is a job I despise, don’t know why, it just pees me off, sometimes my wife does it, because she enjoys it, I whipper snip and empty the catcher though.
Nothing beats a good petrol rotary mower.Even better yet cylinder mower.
Be mindful the battery mowers don’t cut real low and some don’t do wet/damp long grass to good.And the battery life isn’t the best.
Saying all that I bought the mother in-law and Ego 56v self propelled and even though it’s basically a plastic toy with a tiny catcher she seams happy except it won’t go low enough on her couch.
Just by you telling us you basically don’t care about your lawn and despise mowing then I think you’ll find pretty much any battery mower will suffice for what you want.
I mow at least 3-4 times a week at this time of year and have mown daily at times if I take my lawn down to 8mm or so in height.
Hence my cylinder mowers, and scarifier.
Like I say do your research when shopping but basically the Ego brand still is right up there for battery.
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Agree with @noelm that boat is way underpowered and you’ll be straining that motor chewing through fuel at the same time.
Another 3 people on board 110kg? Are they 1 month olds?I weigh 124kg alone.😅
I have a 30hp on a tinny way lighter than that.
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You always manage a decent feed mate.👍
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5 minutes ago, noelm said:
Yes, I agree fully….up to a point, these days if I am going spinning for (say) Flathead, the method, location and gear is opposite to if I am after Whiting, of course there’s times when you catch a variety of fish on all sorts of gear, but (to me) to be consistently successful you need to “specialise” and fish accordingly. Beach fishing to me is a Whiting only affair (with maybe a Tailor session now and then) so all I take is long shank hooks, Beach Worms and a light rod, if I was to (say) use Squid or Pilchards on ganged hooks for bait, my Whiting chances are at best minimal, if you see where I’m coming from? If Flathead spinning, I am fishing to totally different location to where Whiting will be, not saying they are not swimming around, but the lure size and “zone” I target is polar opposite.
I agree with what you’re saying too.We change baits & rigs to suit which is essentially what you’re saying.
like now I know if I went ti the lake and drifted a nipper or prawn down the channel along the islands I’d catch flathead if I wanted to target them.
And whiting on beach worms on a #4 l/s hook over the sand flats and in channel.
Most places we fish we don’t really know like say yourself and guys like yowie as we are far from master anglers and try to find likely places and try several rigs/baits to see “what’s around”.Have a scout I guess.
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42 minutes ago, XD351 said:
These days I have simplified things a little because I hate carrying anything I might use and trimmed it down to stuff i definitely will need .
Beach : a rod , sometimes two , shoulder/ wading bag which has everything I need inside ( not much - a small tackle box , a spool of leader , a belt with bait box and knife on it , a pair of pliers and scissors )a rod tube ( clips to the bag ) and a bucket with my bait and water bottle in it
Estuary/ freshwater - lure : a flick stick and sling bag which is crammed full of lures, pliers,scents etc. I usually don’t do more than a couple of km so i hydrate well at the car so no need to carry heavy water bottles.
luderick : a rod , a small backpack which has some tackle and floats inside , bottle of water and two buckets, one is stored inside the other for transportation. These have my bait / berley and gardening trowel inside until i get near the water and use one bucket as a berley bucket so it gets filled with sand and the other to keep fish in , short session I just kill,bleed and place in the bucket - long session I use a keeper net . And of course a landing net .
Bait fishing : Estuary would be same as luderick but a sidecast fitted to the rod instead of a centrepin, lose one bucket and the trowel and add some bigger hooks and sinkers to the tacklebox.
Freshwater: same flick stick , lose the sling bag , add a small bucket for bait , a small tacklebox with a couple of hooks , tiny sinkers , some splitshots, swivels and a few bubble floats .
You have it all planned out.
23 minutes ago, noelm said:I think once you become used to fishing the same spot for the same species, it’s easy to simplify/downsize, I have been fishing for Bream off the rocks with nothing but my rod and trusty bucket, and another couple of fishermen turn up, weighed down with tackle boxes, an armful of rods, back packs and all sorts of gear. They always ask how I’m going and what am I catching, I say “Bream” they usually reply that they are going to catch anything around! That to me indicates a “cast and hope” type with no real plan or species in mind, and invariably, they will be going home empty handed or with a bag of rubbish fish (in my opinion)
I find with fishing you’re likely to catch anything with anything even in the same spot as I’ve proven to myself many times or nothing at all.
Remember the old wall in the lake where the fishing platform is now? We use to fish there for “anything” using different baits and have caught flathead, bream, tailor, whiting, blackfish,flounder, at various times sitting in the same spot using the same bait.Other times fishing the same spot and baits we haven’t even had a nibble.
This has happened to us everywhere we’ve been fishing so it tells me if the fish are there you will catch them fishing anywhere from any spot.Maybe I have it all wrong I don’t know that’s what I’ve found anyway.
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43 minutes ago, noelm said:
I guess in a way I forget where I live and fish, for me, beach or rock fishing land based and even fly fishing is simply a short walk, so “supplies” and stuff like chairs are not needed, the bucket has a small container with suitable spare tackle, the bait and a knife, and if I really need to sit down, I just upend it to sit on. Bait gathering is also simple, bucket, Nipper pump or Worming “stink bag” I guess if I had to drive miles away then a lot of added stuff would be appropriate?
Living local is a different ball game mate.You can just walk down have a look and say bugger this I’m going back home or take your boat to the ramp and it’s packed and say the same.
When it takes me 2hr drive or so return trip and money in fuel etc we go for at least 6hrs or more to make it worthwhile.We use to leave home at 5am and come home at 9-10pm back in the day and make a day of it.
I can’t do that these days.
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1 hour ago, mrsswordfisherman said:
That is a good buy Fabian.
These do the trick for anyone looking.
Rated to 150kgsThey have 8 positions
I think so too.$10 a chair.
18 minutes ago, Yowie said:Maybe. Your chosen chairs look good, and a good price.
The price is the best part.They are strong chairs.Should do us fine.
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2 minutes ago, Restyle said:
Forgot about the trailer needed to cart all that crap, possible you’d need a kenworth.
as for myself, it depends where and how long I’m going for. If it’s a local trip in the bay or river I’d take a rod or two, a chair, a bottle of water all my fishing tackle, bait and sometimes a bait esky and rod holders
longer multi day trips I’d take the entire house with me, a swag, the swags stretcher, blankets, meat, bbq, coal, clothes, 3-4 rods, a fridge, a table, lights, battery’s, munchies, cases of water
Do you want a new wife? You’ll get along really well after reading your last comments.
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A comfy chair, small tackle box with everything I need inside,net, bucket, food & drink, sunscreen, hat, insect repellant, esky and ice in car, maybe clothes in car too.
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All the above plus her cats, dogs, horses, birds, extra food for 3 months for us and animals, 5 seater lounge, side by side fridge/freezer, oven, 12 different sets of clothes each to cover 4 seasons, her phone, computer and tv, 3 thermoses of coffee incase one leaks, 8 different boxes of munchies to pick,Wipes, paper towels and a block of toilet paper from Costco incase, croissants and muffins from Costco incase she gets peckish on drive home and her mum if she can fit in the car after I’ve packed everything else.
What do you guys class as essentials when land based?
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31 minutes ago, Yowie said:
As Restyle stated, they are good chairs, but you wanted a fishing chair - does that mean you will catch fish while sitting in the chair?
I know I’ll feed them while sitting in it.Does that count or not really?
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33 minutes ago, Restyle said:
although outside you're budget, i have the oztent king kokoda chair. had it for nearly 5 years, on sand, in the pissing rain and salt and its near brand new. Its by far the most comfortable chair i have ever used. weighs like 5 kgs and 150kg rating and most importantly has a insulated stubby holder
Seen that one mate.Looks like a great chair.
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1 hour ago, Green Hornet said:
Google Marquee directors chair. I have a couple of them and they’re quite comfortable though rated to 110kg and about $65, which might be close enough.
I got them from that place that sells the sausage sandwiches, so they’re readily available.
I saw those mate .I’ve been looking everywhere.Cheers.I’m 124kg of pure manly sexiness.😂😂
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2 hours ago, noelm said:
It seems unless you are going buy really good (read expensive) chairs, then they are all pretty much the same, most are steel now, so not exactly lightweight, I got a couple with big plastic ends on the legs so they don’t sink into the dirt/grass cheap from a camping store years ago, and they have been good, but certainly not light or small when folded. Most of them are a good source of entertainment when they collapse, sink or tip over when those of us with the “fuller figure” sit on them…….
I’ve had a few stacks over the years.Funniest chair incident I seen was the father in-laws chair collapse and he grabbed onto the table cloth at a family wedding dragging all the 💩 off the table onto the floor.😂😂
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Thanks for the replies guys I found some on fb marketplace local rated to 150kg.The green one has a 2 small cigarette burns (cosmetic).Other than that they are like brand new.
Oztrail resort 5 is the model.
I paid $20 for both and just cleaned them.
They are like $75 each new so i call it a win.
A very happy camper.Well fisherman or bait feeder hey @Yowie.😂😂
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Hi guys, any recommendations on fishing/camping chairs rated to at least 120-130kg no more than $50 each or so if possible.
The lighter and easier to pack the better our old ones were like this but that was when we were all significantly lighter.
cheers.
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1 hour ago, noelm said:
There used to be lots of Hostels around Wollongong, all made out of kind of half round things, like a water tank on its side, no idea why, but they were called “Nissan huts” almost every migrant that came to work in the Steelworks moved into them until they could get their life “sorted”, up until only a few years ago, they were still in use for various living quarters.
Appin is certainly moving along now as the “urban sprawl” moves further and further in every direction, I was there just before Christmas and couldn’t believe how populated the entire area is.
Back in the late 70s early 80s they were around.Appin/MacArthur has gotten huge in the 40 odd years I’ve been here and not for the better like everywhere else mate there’s less bush, vacant land and even koalas.We get koalas.Lots more traffic, people, congestion in general and will only get worse everywhere.
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22 minutes ago, noelm said:
A completely useless and almost boring account of my family at Barrack Point……way back in the 1930s my grandparents bought a block of land here for 2 pounds ($4) now remember this was during the depression, pre war and that was a decent sum of money for a block of land in “the scrub” no water, no electricity, no road and only accessible at low tide! They lived in an old canvas tent and built a “house” out of wood scrounged from the timber and dairy ships that came into Shellharbour (the house was demolished about 15 years ago and all the frames were Australian Red Cedar) As my father got older and he left the Airforce after the war, he bought a block of land down the track (literally) growing up, we were the only permanent residents with only a handful of holiday houses built along the Little Lake, my best mate, who I am still great friends with and his family moved here when he was about 5-6 years old, strangely enough, right next door to where I am buying! It was a great life for a kid, endless fishing, good Prawning, surfing and diving, wandering around in the bush, snakes, messing around in boats, where Warilla Bowling club is now was always called “the island” there was a natural water hole there and of course we built a rope swing, it was near jungle with big Banksia trees, gum Trees and She Oaks, but to us, it was “ours”
Time moved on and proper roads were built, the entire Headland was marked out in blocks of land, but in a lot of ways, no one really wanted to live here, too windy, miles away from Wollongong, a single lane road from Windang, and not really Shellharbour either, the point was a “dead end” only one road in and out, and the rest as they say is history, it’s now an quite exclusive place, no more land can ever be released/developed. Buying the family home was simply good luck, it wasn’t desirable (my brothers and sister were not interested) and we were looking at a house on the highway near Kiama, gees, happy we didn’t buy that…….
So as you can see, I am certainly not a mover, my wife has only lived in two places, her family home in Mount Ousley/Fairy Meadow, and here, so we are both very stable/boring types and why this is such huge step for us, might be interesting to hear anyone’s else “journey” through life.
For me In short parents from Uruguay(Best soccer team and bbq in the world).I was .born there in 74, came to Oz in 7 when I was 2.5 yrs old.
Lived in Hostel in Guildford /Yennora for a while until we rented a house in Yennora until we moved to Campbelltown in 79.Grew up in MacArthur my whole life basically until I left the family home and bought a house in 95.
in 2001 we put our money together with family and bought 100 acres property in Appin and have all sorts of animals and horses.
Waiting 10-15 yrs for developers as it will be worth enough for all of us to walk away with 10s of millions by the time I’m 60-65.
We came to Australia with our suitcase and clothes on our backs.
Uruguay to this day if you ask anyone that’s been will tell you it’s a poor country with genuine friendly people.
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44 minutes ago, noelm said:
It is a blood pressure raising experience, talking such big numbers, it’s not like it’s 50 grand for a car or something, we are talking millions and for a non risk taker like me, it’s a major drama. I am having trouble sleeping worrying about the “what if”, I have friends that are very supporting, but that’s easy when it’s not your money! My kids are a bit 50/50, moving from the “family home” but I think they can see the reason long term, the grandkids are horrified “nanny and papas” house is their “castle” a place with endless food, nans cooking, miles of room to run around, a heated pool, the beach………but best guess is after a year or so, the new place will be the same?
You’re making money not losing it mate as you said.In a week or two once the deed is done you’ll be wondering what all the fuss was about.
just make sure you understand 100% that the new house will NEVER replace the old house in terms of all the hard work put into it and what will become family history left behind on it.
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41 minutes ago, slowjigger said:
I'm not sure it would be worth the expense and trouble. You will lose quite a bit of room too (your boat is a bit on the small side). Might lead to trim problems as well. And more things to go wrong - especially cable steering.
Agree with what you’re saying especially the $$$ to change over.
36 minutes ago, Paikea said:Thank you Fab
I think the only part that I am concerned about is the removal of the Tiller and replacing that with the linkage that goes through the main swivel. I guess I will need to remove the existing swivel and replace it with a hollow one to take the steering controls?
BTW, how do you find your motor? Happy with it? Some folk claim that they are very noisy but hey that does not affect fishing at anchor!
Thanks for the advice, if anyone else knows how/where to get the parts please let me know.
Cheers
Paikea
I think you’ll find that your tilt tube is plugged and is the same.Not sure from the picture.
My theory in relation to the tiller is if it can be put on in the first place….I promise you I’ll remove it.
Noise? What?😂 We haven’t given the noise it makes a second thought since we’ve had it.
It certainly wouldn’t be like a 4 stroke that’s for sure.
These outboards will outlive humanity if you look after them.
Very happy with the engine for what it is mate overall.
Towing Capacity question
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Anything will pretty much pull anything out of the water.The question is how good is the ramp, your tyres? Ramp composition, slime, gradient, weight over your drive axles, tyre condition , tackiness will all effect it and when you start wheel spinning/ sliding back into the water.
Personally I would go on a high tide, check the ramp is in good nick and throw a wheel chock under your cars back wheels for etc security.
i have a 550kg tinny and a 4wd hilux with off road tyres that spun in 4wd pulling my boat out of a ramp down Wollongong giving me a fright..Ramp was wet, slippery and slimey.