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Re: Ok here we go...

Postby Sheddie » Thu Dec 11, 2014 3:53 pm

Hi Kerry & Dale,
You guys are lucky that your dollar is usually a bit closer to the Yankee dollar than ours. Kerry, I don't know if you had notied that I had been quoted 1800 each to get some made locally.
Dale, that wet weather you had last week got here yesterday. I'm sitting in my truck, can't mow in this. :rainy: :fb
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Re: Ok here we go...

Postby dales133 » Thu Dec 11, 2014 4:58 pm

Yea even yesterday was wet now it's 30 plus for the next few days.
Geelong weathers like Auckland on steroids
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Re: Ok here we go...

Postby Sheddie » Thu Dec 11, 2014 5:57 pm

I gave up and came home. Will have to try again tomorrow. Sunday is looking even worse, we have car club Xmas party and I will be spit roasting a sheep.
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Re: Ok here we go...

Postby felixx » Sat Dec 13, 2014 3:49 am

spitroasting a sheep has an entirely different meaning to an Australian! :shock:

Back on topic, your trailer looks awesome!
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Re: Ok here we go...

Postby dales133 » Sat Dec 13, 2014 4:18 am

Lol Felix.
And thank you.
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Re: Ok here we go...

Postby Sheddie » Sat Dec 13, 2014 5:01 am

Just as well you are a Kiwi Dale, I hear that those out backs can get rather lonely. :o
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Re: Ok here we go...

Postby dales133 » Sat Dec 13, 2014 5:20 am

Yea aussie got far more lonly men in the outback, far more sheep and far more two heads. ... I'd say the whole sheep thing is because they know we punch above our weight and also teach them a thing or two...they don't like it...never mind the all blacks
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Re: Ok here we go...

Postby dales133 » Sat Dec 13, 2014 5:24 am

Anyway I welded the idea gaurds to the main gaurds and rivnuted them to the chassis.
Welded some stubs on to extend the chassis and did a bit more problem solving.
How high is yours off the road to chassis and again overall Frank?
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Re: Ok here we go...

Postby Sheddie » Sat Dec 13, 2014 6:27 am

I take it that is the "inner" guards?
I've got 11.5in or 290mm under the frame, and without going over to the shed to measure it (it's piddling down again) that should be 1600mm oa height.
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Re: Ok here we go...

Postby dales133 » Sat Dec 13, 2014 6:55 am

Thanks Frank. Mines like 470 to the hitch and another 230 to the top of the wheel arch.
It looks great for a off road machine but I'm in the process of redesigning the whole thing...
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Re: Ok here we go...

Postby Vedette » Sat Dec 13, 2014 12:29 pm

Great to follow you two guys in conversation.....but even for a Canadian it is hard for me unless you guys speak inches?? (we half heartedly switched to metric in my graduation year) :?
It is that "Old Dog" thing.
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Re: Ok here we go...

Postby Sheddie » Sat Dec 13, 2014 2:05 pm

I went through school in imperial, then NZ went metric from about 1973. My dad and I built a boat late '70s early '80s, we did all that in inches. We have been building our house over the last few years, and with that and the TD it has all been metric. My wife is younger than me and most of her schooling was in metric. I still visualize things in ft & inches. :?
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Re: Ok here we go...

Postby dales133 » Sat Dec 13, 2014 8:16 pm

Yea i can use both but much more proficient with metric.
I remember as a kid I had a T shirt that was a govt advertising campaign for the change over.
Metric in my views far more acurate and alot easier when everything is a multiple of 10...fractions are a waste of brain power![WHITE SMILING FACE]
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Re: Ok here we go...

Postby Vedette » Sat Dec 13, 2014 8:38 pm

It was the late 60's here, when they started to switch over.
And Yes we learned both while in school, but I to visualize everything in inches & Feet.
My wife (who is also much younger than I am) is a sewer and does everything in Metric.
And yes it is easier....but I was always good with math and have no problems with fractions!
Building Kermit in inches. :thinking:
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Re: Ok here we go...

Postby rebapuck » Sun Dec 14, 2014 3:35 pm

Back in the 70s, I think, the US made a stab at trying to convince the public to go metric. I remember my mother in a panic about her recipes. I had to assure her that no one was going to come in and forcibly take her measuring cups away.
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