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Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.
- Thread starter Farmer Roy
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- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Possibly the worst stretch of SH1 is the bit that you avoided - Gore to Milton.Actual they felt quite good to me, unless they've deteriorated hugely in 2 years
Much of it is simply old corduroy horse roads, metalled and then sealed over - average in a car, bloody awful in a cab-over truck ? all the old logs used in the corduroy roads decomposed at different rates, is the problem there.
Once you get out of the South Otago bit, it's OK.
Unfortunately we have a whole lot of roading, power network etc, but very few inhabitants to share the costs via rates or line charges
still worth it to have a bit of space!
And, it's nice and cool - it was so cold this morning, I think I saw a Socialist with his hands in his own pockets!
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Yeah, Australian roads ... and put up signs with something like ' summer road' on them , or words to that affect. Iirc.Guess you guys will have to go to gravel and dirt roads like us countries that decided it’s not worth attempting to pave every surface.
Then we can listen to you moan about washboard and dust instead
The parish lengthsman is gone now, cant be afforded apparently.
The last one seemed to have lost his plan of bits that needed cleaning. So i do one or 2 around about now or else it overflow / floods into our gateways instead of the drains, , or ruins the tarmac.
Last time j saw him and his nice new council truck, he was parked up for a long time reading the paper, when he left thd bit he was parked at still wasnt shovelled enough, we had to finish it off . Wasnt hard job.
Road not maintained.
Road impassable when wet.
Caution: dustbowls.
All signs I’ve seen in various countries that don’t have paved roads. And before UK folks say they have many roads during floods that are impassable when wet, keep in mind we get like 6” of rain in a summer. When roads are impassable here, it’s not because of the water, it’s the mud ?
There’s also the ones that say “Warning: No fuel for next X00’s of kms” Not as much to do with road conditions as with planning ahead.
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Just shows how much you know.
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Every time i fill the tractor i give the-chancellor
£40
Every time i fill the pickup its £60 i give to the pri.ck
Would be over £100 a day at present
£40
Every time i fill the pickup its £60 i give to the pri.ck
Would be over £100 a day at present
Bet you dont have 'blind summit and hidden dips ' signs
Nor have any of you got culture like...... the Proms. Of which tonight is the last night of..large lady is singing right now...
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
"Dry weather road".........So basically all year round.....
It’s a big country... just because it’s fairly flat where I am doesn’t mean there aren’t areas that can give the UK a run for its money with hills. Those signs sound similar to Hidden Intersection, Hidden Approach and Blind Curve signs.
Plus the No Stopping Allowed: Rockslide Zone and No Stopping Allowed: Avalanche Zone signs.
Not sure when a music festival in the city has to do with road signs though... doubt any of us will argue that our traffic is as dumb as UK traffic. We don’t live in countries with ridiculous population numbers ?
Well Bristol must the world capital of busy road ,crazy layout ...even sat nav cant keep up there.. anyway worse than bejing i bet.
just not as many bicycles ...Music has to do with everything
and the Proms are an institution.Soon we will be singing land of hope and glory..
And Jerusalem i forgot Jerusalem....
.....and Rule Brittania
and of course Hornpipe... doesn't get going till about 5 minutes in
all under the title of things that @holwellcourtfarm possibly will miss ...
all under the title of things that @holwellcourtfarm possibly will miss ...
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- Location
- Bay of Plenty NZ
I don’t.and of course Hornpipe...
all under the title of things that @holwellcourtfarm possibly will miss ...
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Yeah, I generally take the gravel roads over the tar if possible.Guess you guys will have to go to gravel and dirt roads like us countries that decided it’s not worth attempting to pave every surface.
Then we can listen to you moan about washboard and dust instead
About 1/3 of local roads are sealed, the rest are just metal/shingle/gravel, they could really use an extra grader but at least gravel tends to keep tourists off.
Or, under 7mph
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Why is wombat faeces cubed? Researchers have figured it out and won a prize
Wombat researchers at the University of Tasmania have won an Ig Nobel Prize for unexpectedly discovering the "quite incredible" reason the animal's scat is cubed.
mobile.abc.net.au
Learned 3 new things before midday ?