Posts from smokey in thread „Fan Geography“

hi kilo

they were the bodies of the snakes we had 2 dogs and a cat and they were good snakers they got most of them and killed them the dogs did this by grabbing them behind their heads and shaking them till they broke their necks or they just ripped their guts out the cat did the same thing, if they cornered a snake and couldnt kill them one of them would sit and keep it trapped till one of my parents ( mainly my dad) who would then chop their heads off as they raised themselves up to strike. had one get into the house once dad was out so the cat kept it cornered till he came home then off with its head.

stumpy

i know that we have dangerous wild life down under but we live with them you just have to be careful, it also depends on where you are as to what is around you in the cities you dont seem to get too many snakes but they are around where i live we still have bushland nearby so we still have snakes, spiders well you can spray all you like but they are still around so you look under all of your outside chairs before you sit down to make sure that you have no wildlife living in your chairs

chester

when we were kids living in outback NQ we had outside dunnies you had to check for redback spiders and snakes before you went otherwise you could have ended up with a nasty suprise, well at least the snake did bite the bloke on the bum first otherwise it might not have surrvived :lol:

hooroo smokey

stumpy

he picked a fine pet there i myself dont have a liking for them as i grew up where there were more venomous ones than anything else as children there was a plague of them and when we played out in the yard we used to watch each others backs. we went to school one day and came home to 3 sides of a trailer filled with dead ones ( we lived on a pineapple farm) and these where only the ones caught near the house.

does he still keep them as pets

hooroo smokey

ps the snakes were redbellied blacks, eastern browns, green bellied blacks, and one other but i cant remember what one it was but it was long and skinny, it was mainly the blacks that we had near the house as the shed was near by and they were after the rats and mice which were in plague as well

hi kilo

i have seen just that very thing used in the out back as well, heard of a bloke who used to carry around a ruddy lump of tree in his ute when asked why he used to say that if his brakes failed he could use it for a braking system or if he broke a axel he could wire it to the axle and it would get him as far as he needed to go.

the true bush machanic are our black fellas they can get a worn out car up and running again and run it into the ground so that all it is good for is scrap they can work miracles with lumps of wood and wire.

chester the best defence for stopping your car from getting stolen or house broken into is to have a pet carpet snake, knew a fella when i live in outback north QLD who had a carpet snake in his car all of us who lived in and around the little town new he had it in his car but some city slickers came into town and saw his car sitting there unlocked and thought that they would help themselves to it well when they started it up the snake climbed up the back of the drivers seat and rested its head on this numnuts shoulder he froze on the spot while we all looked on watching and the local copper came over and nabbed them for trying to get the car what a squeal

cheers smokey

hi kilo

we too use this system for cooling water down in our out back, how it works is that the flow of air (from the car traveling at speeds) going over the bag with the evaperation factor causes the water to get cool ( this system also works with milk). have used it well i should say that my dad used it as he was the one driving and the water was lovely to drink on a hot day, if you were traveling far we would use two to three bags tied this way to the front of the car that way we also had water for the radiator. have you ever tried the egg in the radiator to seal a leak this works for a short time if you travel slowly and carefully till you get to a petrol station or to a bush machanic to get it fixed up better for the trip home.

cheers smokey

hi hondo,

who could forget you just have been busy with a few personal things lately and have missed you when i have been on board. am going down south thursday night for a week so will have a lot of catching up to do when i get back.

chester and mrs c the state i live in we are called banana benders and i am proud to say born and lived most of my live QLD except for about 2yrs

cheers smokey

hi hondo,

are you from alabamma (i think thats how you spell it) i don't know towns for you but i hope i got the state right

cheers smokey

hi sunuva,

i come from the land down under where it storms and thunders, the land of vegimite sandwiches, australia. we are a bunch of laricans who enjoy a good puntch up and knocking back a few coldies (only kidding) we'er not all like that but we are from a varst land of many cultures. there is a great many fans of the dukes down here.

cheers smokey