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A tacit admission from on high that compliance isn't necessarily about safety?

This is exactly how the factory belts were fitted in my Falcons.

I hope you are keeping your notes in a 3B1 like a proper barry.

Can still get away with a bit in Northland then?

Won't hold much else.

This looks sketchy as fuck. How does one steer the thing with any sort of load in the tray?

I never saw it, just read about it in the papers at the time.

I remember some Gore boys having a go at the Catlins Rally in a V8 coon way back. Think they crashed out in about the second stage somewhere near Tawanui. Snow may have been involved.

Not even sure where I'm going to be then but keen as to see @Lord Gruntfuttock and his mates booting the whale up the hill.

Only to the first pole from the boundary as I understand it. I'm pretty sure we had to pay a not inconsiderable sum for several new poles and other stuff when we upgraded the supply to the cowshed here in the 1970s.

Site topography here in Northland would tend to rule that out unfortunately.

I know there are a few sparkies and other assorted electrical workers on here. I am in need of a bit of advice in that area. We have an overhead electric power supply to a farm water reticulation pump. This consists of four wires strung on poles in the usual manner over a length of 200 or so metres. This installation is approximately sixty-five years old. An electrical contractor has suggested that it may be necessary to replace these overhead wires in the very near future. Can any of you guys give me even a rough ballpark figure for the cost to do this please? The poles appear to be good so as far as we know at this stage it would be just a matter of replacing the wires, probably with aluminium, and maybe the cross arms and insulators.

An admirable approach, particularly from the viewpoint of future availability of replacement parts.

@Lord Gruntfuttock, @gettinroundtuit, @Toddy415

Lawn mower tank with a hose gravity feeding the carb. I've driven a car home like that before.