PUREORA labour weekend 2007

Satalite · Post by **Satalite** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:04 pm

shell wrote:
yorick wrote:Thanks Ben, Excellent weekend. Thanks Merc for letting me beat up on the G-Wagen. Thanks everyone else for excellent company.

Lessons learned from the weekend
Lexus's don't fit through Suzuki sized cuts
Tonka 35s don't work in 36" grooves
Daihatsu's slosh for a long time after getting drowned
Sometimes a BSTM8's best-mate is a Zook
The best way to take the shine off a newly painted Suzuki is to throw it on it's side.
Nothing seems impossible when your butt is warm!

Cheers
Yo

and the other lession was "up the bum no babies" " yea.......#### YEA"

Also a manicure can last a whole weekend in the mud without chipping, and Av Gas does freeze in cold weather. :roll:

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:36 pm

and to add to all the fun we managed to gather $180 which will go to the people that maintain and upgrade the block so that we can use the area.

so ideas on how best to spend it are

digger fuel (they not cheap to run)
dunny ? (nice to have somewhere to crap out there)
BBQ table ? (or would that get trashed ?)

any thoughts ?

skid · Post by **skid** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:05 pm

wopass wrote:and to add to all the fun we managed to gather $180 which will go to the people that maintain and upgrade the block so that we can use the area.

so ideas on how best to spend it are

digger fuel (they not cheap to run)

king country club are working on it

dunny ? (nice to have somewhere to crap out there)

same as above and taupo club working on it too, but OSH regulations make it a right pain in the ass

BBQ table ? (or would that get trashed ?)

whats wrong with ya bonnet

any thoughts ?

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:07 pm

maybe a donation to one of the clubs to contribute to the expenses

yorick · Post by **yorick** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:10 am

wopass wrote:and to add to all the fun we managed to gather $180 which will go to the people that maintain and upgrade the block so that we can use the area.

so ideas on how best to spend it are

digger fuel (they not cheap to run)

skid wrote:king country club are working on it

wopass wrote:dunny ? (nice to have somewhere to crap out there)

skid wrote:same as above and taupo club working on it too, but OSH regulations make it a right pain in the ass

Probably better to have a portable on a trailer. DOC insists on composting toilets these days, bloody expensive

wopass wrote:BBQ table ? (or would that get trashed ?)

I reckon a DOC standard type shelter, that's a leanto with a roof with a stainless bench inside and a tank that gets water from the shelter roof set up on a campsite somewheres. If there's a Bully going up there at some stage, levelling an area next to that top skid would be a good thing.

skid wrote:whats wrong with ya bonnet

Makes the beer go warm, puts rings in the paint work and it always slides off if you start the motor

wopass wrote:any thoughts ?

Na #### that, thinkin' just gets you into trouble

shell · Post by **shell** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:46 am

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SEXY AS BIATCHES @ NGAROMA BLOCK
shell, sara, mandy, melissa and a diffed out VX

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:49 am

shell wrote:

SEXY AS BIATCHES @ NGAROMA BLOCK
shell, sara, mandy, melissa and a diffed out VX

shell · Post by **shell** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:53 am

ben you are such a hunny what would us poor dumb blondes do with out ya :wink:

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:32 am

shell wrote:ben you are such a hunny what would us poor dumb blondes do with out ya

i can think of a few thing you could do without me....... and im sure tony would like it :wink:

Tonkar · Post by **Tonkar** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:04 pm

wopass wrote:
shell wrote:ben you are such a hunny what would us poor dumb blondes do with out ya

i can think of a few thing you could do without me....... and im sure tony would like it

LOL #### yea :lol:

shell · Post by **shell** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:42 pm

Tonkar wrote:
wopass wrote:
shell wrote:ben you are such a hunny what would us poor dumb blondes do with out ya

i can think of a few thing you could do without me....... and im sure tony would like it

LOL #### yea

"#### YEA" ( BLOODY THIN WALL TENTS LOL )

mroffroader · Post by **mroffroader** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:54 pm

come on you oldies.....keep it PG :lol:

yorick · Post by **yorick** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:13 pm

mroffroader wrote:come on you oldies.....keep it PG

Younguns should keep quiet, listen and learn. May as well be corrupted sooner rather than later!

turoa · Post by **turoa** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:20 pm

yorick, do you have a scammel or are they justy specs of them? if you do then cool. Scammels are

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:55 pm

this is what i need
http://www.extrem-motorsport.de/fahrzeugbezogen/mercedes/mercedes-g-engl.html
not so keen on the price though :lol:

and what sort of tyres can i fit on 16 x 5.5 rims :lol:

yorick · Post by **yorick** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:30 pm

turoa wrote:yorick, do you have a scammel or are they justy specs of them? if you do then cool. Scammels are

Na, I wish, not the Scammel so much as the Kaiser. Those three trucks are three of the Four Recovery wagons I operated when I was in the army (The other one was a Scammell 6x6 with a Rolls Royce motor)

The old Pioneer (I mislabelled that one, it's not an Explorer) did 28 mph flat out. It had a clutch on the thing that was built for big boys not skinny sods like me. I had to have both hands on the steering wheel and heave to get the bastard thing to disengage. Luckily on the road you could start the thing in third skip to fifth then sixth then never have touch it again if you were lucky. Every year at annual camp we had drive it from Papakura to Waiouru. It took two days. Our Worksop got one of the first of the 816s. When it arrived we thought the world had stopped turning and we'd been shifted to heaven. 250 horse Cummins, 6 wheel drive auto diff locks and power divider locks, a heater and a rag top so you could drop the top and the windscreen and look hardcore!

The Yanks certainly know how to make a butch looking truck.

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:42 pm

they have these at the army muesum in Waiouru, and there was a feature in the jan/feb 07 nz4wd mag on them as well

yorick · Post by **yorick** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:43 pm

mercutio wrote:this is what i need
http://www.extrem-motorsport.de/fahrzeugbezogen/mercedes/mercedes-g-engl.html
not so keen on the price though
and what sort of tyres can i fit on 16 x 5.5 rims

Ah bugger that, Archers in Rotorua will make some up to spec.

Did ya see the price of the Fuel tank guard!

yorick · Post by **yorick** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:27 pm

Jerry wrote:they have these at the army muesum in Waiouru, and there was a feature in the jan/feb 07 nz4wd mag on them as well

I heard that they had rebuilt one of the old Scammells, I didn't know they'd kept an 816 though. As far as I know they were still in service up until only a few years ago. I would suspect my old outfit would have kept one. It was unbeatable for doing track changes on the big Bulldozers in the field. The crane could slew through 270 degrees and it had levelling pads. The Tankies had one at Waiouru but I have a suspicion that's the one that McGintys have got. They upgraded to a tracked recovery wagon and an M113 outfitted as a fitters wagon with a HIAB so they wouldn't have needed it. For Engineer Workshops though, all the work was on heavy earthmoving plant, Bullies Scrapers and such. To them the 816 was a godsend.

Having one strategically parked out at Ngaroma would be most useful. Even if just as an anchor ... they weigh close to 18 tonnes.

Did you see how I brought that nicely back on topic!