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That is the easy part .....................

Gravity takes over, so one way or the other, you will be able to land :lol: :lol:
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Shes been watching me unload machines off trailers
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Something you wish to share Dirge!!!? :lol:
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:roll:
I will post it in the story thread when I get time
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I look forward to reading it. :wink:
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Post by cyclone »

TT you were asking what I bought,

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This is my new toy lotus exige s, a really nice drive as long as not in traffic, then your reminded how small they are :( . still prefer the sti, so exige is more of a garage wench, and the sti remains the daily driver.

A friend sent me this to remind me not to get too lead foot when travling in NSW(state of Aust)
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Thats a nice set of wheels Cyclone :wink:
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How much was that Elise? I've always wanted one, but they're really expensive here.
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Got mine for 80k Australian total, from 95k+ taxes, onroads etc, its a buyers market plus the fall in the Au dollar has not hit the car prices yet.
Elise was about 65 from memory but that was only sticker :twisted:
I really wanted a Ford GT(us), just way to pricey :roll:
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Nice cyclone, I have always been a Lotus fan. Shame I don't think I could fit in an Exige though. Esprit one day! (yeah..... right....)

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just make sure that your boots aint made out of lead :lol:

Personally i really cant see the point of having a fancy car
yeah ok they can go fast but thats about it
they cost twice as much as a standard car
they are twice as costly to repair
they aint got any kind of power and by that i mean real power as in pulling power, these cars couldnt pull the skin off a rice pudding

yeah i know that tractors are slow on the road but i can pull 30 tonnes of deadweight up the road and i can go anywhere, be it road, pasture meadow, moorland i can even cross rivers without using a bridge

thats my opinion anyway
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Well, we all know my car budget is bread and water for my fine wine taste, but dirge, i'd just like to throw this out there as a ride i wouldn't mind having for the snowy houghton hills:

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decent pulling power, plus room for some friends!

And it's a convertible!
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Post by Ironhide »

@cyclone: sweet ride!

@rumble: not much space in an Esprit either!

@dirge: there's no logical reason for buying a sporting car, that's why you buy one with your heart! :lol:

@TT: imagine that for a xcountry-hike! Would be sweet! Also, it'd be a nightmare for the tarmac :P
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Post by cyclone »

rumble I'm a good 6ft 4 and can still fit quite comfortably.
Agreed dirge they do cost more to maintain more to run :( . My poor skid steer bobcat can pull more weight than any of my cars be it all of 5 Tonne and it would be lucky to do more than 15Kph. But I used it to build all the fire trails and almost all of the dams on my property. I say almost as my poor $800 at auction backhoe done some of them until I could not wrap any more tape arround the hydrolic lines to stop 'em leaking.
When the site for my sheds needed to be cleared did have to be call one of my neighbours out they have 2 huge CAT dozers (1/2 a mill each those monsters cost :roll: ). Watching them drop some huge trees with 1 inch diameter chainlink was quite impressive :shock: . Only took them a couple of hours of clear a full acre of scrub.
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I would have a half track in a flash, the only problem is that half tracks arent very clever to drive.
until I could not wrap any more tape arround the hydrolic lines to stop 'em leaking.
it only takes 2 minutes to replace hydraulic pipes y'know
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@Hound: For an Esprit I would saw my feet off.

@Cyclone: 6' 4" eh? Good to know, 6' 3" here. Maybe there is hope!

@Dirge: Cars are the most illogical thing in my life. A halftrack would be nice.

Also...
Dirge1 wrote:it only takes 2 minutes to replace hydraulic pipes y'know
Try telling that to a Forklift Engineer! :lol:

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the hardest hydraulic pipes to replace are those on a self propelled forager they can be 8 inch diameter and the longest that i have seen was 20 feet long and it took 5 minutes to replace it.

lets face it its only one nut each end to remove and if it winds around anything i just tie a long length of string to one end and pull the pipe out leaving the string then tie one end of the string to the new pipe and pull the string out leaving the pipe in place then just fasten both ends and bobz your auntie :wink:
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Post by Computron »

hydraulic lines are easy to replace. UNLESS ytou have a half brain doing it and he "forgets" to install a high pressure "o" ring between the fittings. That happened to me/us on board the "Bob". I had to go back behind some of my junior guys and fix thier little blunder.
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hydraulic lines are easy to replace. UNLESS ytou have a half brain doing it and he "forgets" to install a high pressure "o" ring between the fittings.
damn it :lol:

seriously you could train a monkey to do that job
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