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It's not like you've got much choice in Mildura. Most of the dealerships are owned by just one of two companies

Because I haven't cleaned my glasses either?

How much of either is required to service the needs of the Australian market? I'll wager it's small enough to be financially unviable compared to bringing it back in from Europe or Asia.

Yep. And at some serious scale too at the Tomago smelter, just north of Newcastle.

SX+ was where my thoughts were headed but as a cab chassis because tubs are hopeless. Same reason the Shark is off the list as it can't be had without and removing it oneself voids the warranty because of the hybrid gubbins underneath.

We put our eucalyptus leaf fall (we don't have any deciduous trees) into either rounds made of fence netting or a one of a few dedicated compost bays. After a year and some occasional turning... excellent soil improver and not so much potential fire carrying leaf litter.

Don't waste them!! Turn it all into 'leaf mould' - awesome for the garden!

But when we can do it so convincingly, day after day, whose going to call our bluff?

I was allowing for the ten second track stand at the top whilst thinking about how badly the next twenty seconds was going to go.

That roof rack is VERY tidy...

Whatever you can get locally from the usual players. That way if it bricks you can dump it on their counter and ask for another one. Personally, we just use a 100 Ah deep cycle RV battery in a home made battery box and a fold out Dometic solar I got a decade ago from the 4x4 shop near Autobarn...

I remember some serious thinking we made (for about ten minutes) about a gravity trail in that area...back in the day. We even dreamed up the name of the first 'trail': Thirty Seconds of Terror. Of course, what killed it was the Forty Minutes of Tedium required to get back to the top of the cliff...

[ This is how weather forecasting works. Forecasts are not predictions. They are forecasts...in other words, best fucking guesses. 20 years ago, the best fucking guess was "it might rain today". I think I liked that better than what we have today with everyone trying to value add to the BoM...

Angus would look good in drag...

We looked at a battery just before the election. And it didn't make sense. Now with the rebates...it still doesn't make sense. If we had an EV, it might make sense...but the battery in the EV might be five times the size of the house battery. And until there's more EVs that can do V2G then I'm...