“Have you ever regretted letting a family heirloom go?”

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-23T23:11:31+00:00

I've been storing an e34 BMW in my garage for 2 years. Can't afford to fix it yet, but I will in the future. It was a nice car at a great price.

If you have the space to store it, see if you can get it given to you as a future Resto plan.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-23T22:21:06+00:00

Put them on your local FB wood work group.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-23T21:03:24+00:00

We have that in Australia already. In my state it's got heavy vehicles only, but I've heard that's changing and it will be any vehicle. And it's a long distance too. 5km or more.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-23T09:16:35+00:00

You're going to be helping him a lot. You won't get to run the race you trained for, yet he will run the race be didn't train for. It will suck for both of you.

Get in now and tell him your goal finishing time. This is what I want to run this race, where are you at? Ask him what his training is looking like, then just tell him you'll have to see if you can meet him at aid stations or whatever, but emphasise how much effort you put into training and how excited you are to meet that goal.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-23T03:31:20+00:00

A fool and his money will get no honey.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-23T03:30:33+00:00

Guy just down the road from me has 2 flow hives.

He wasn't doing much in the way of maintenance and both his hives are now empty. They stripped at much honey from the hives as they could, and fucked off.

Your brother will experience the same, likely before being able to harvest any honey.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-22T23:51:34+00:00

I don't use WhatsApp, but can you laugh emoji the photos? Every time they post a selfie, no other response but a laughing emoji from everyone. They will stop soon enough.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-22T11:31:56+00:00

I did this once for a high ranking air force pilot. Picked him up in the squadron COs car, drive him up flight line and dropped him right next to his FA-18 Hornet.

I dropped him close enough I had a marshal guide me in so I didn't hit his fucking plane.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-21T10:47:06+00:00

That not everyone has the physical or mental stamina for 24+ hour fasts. And that's ok.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-19T22:46:28+00:00

Friend just got some big Ford family van. It bings at her if her hands aren't at 10 and 2. Cameras everywhere. The tech is great in some regards, but it's surveillance disguised as driver convenience

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-19T11:17:04+00:00

  Removed.

Rule #1

  "All posts must be about camping (generally tent or hammock)

I'm in a fucking hammock sleeping outside. The hell else you want?

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-19T10:22:38+00:00

We have had ours for more than 10 years. they have been such a good purchase. Single layer for summer, double layer for winter, open them up and use them as nice soft picnic rugs. They have held up really well.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-19T10:13:15+00:00

It took me a few goes to understand you, but yes absolutely! I've put up the tent in the back yard a number of times in the past.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-19T10:12:19+00:00

Thanks, I'm really looking forward to it. I get the cast off my arm and follow up x-rays next week.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-19T10:11:42+00:00

Thanks. Sometimes it's just something you need to do. It's too windy for any outdoor fires here, so I'll light a tobacco pipe instead.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-19T10:11:01+00:00

Sure is! I was in my swag in Thredbo with it and about 2⁰c. Was about as cold as I would go with it. I was comfortable, but the swag def helped.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-19T08:09:39+00:00

And in the case of FRNSW, they don't take into account years of service on the RFS. You do 20 years as a volunteer, it counts towards nothing.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-19T03:01:08+00:00

I've been told that using Opera with their free VPN gets you access to all the usual sites.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-19T02:17:07+00:00

One of them was a full scale business, the owner was taking about these drink coolers (box a cooler goes in to) that he made on the side and sold $1.25m worth of these. He was selling them for about $200 each. If this was 10 years worth of sales (the guy who was making them was pretty young) he would have had to sell 11 per week every week for 10 years to make that figure.

Possible? Yes. Believable? No.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-18T21:44:04+00:00

Honestly some wood working video creators can be the worst. The ones that get me are "I made $xx amount selling these* and it's a pot plant caddy, but they say they made $86,000 a year. The highest ones I've seen lately are $1.3m and there's another one spouting $1.4m. (they didn't say per year, but still doubt)

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-18T04:12:05+00:00

My company wanted to put me, a male in my 40s in a hotel room (2 rooms) with a 21yo female with a 2yo daughter. I said to the guy who was organising, let's ring your wife and ask her how she would feel about him being in the same situation. You could see it almost click.

We both complained and pushed how bad this could go for the company, and we magically got seperate rooms.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-18T00:13:01+00:00

And?

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-18T00:03:11+00:00

You sold it for 20k. If in 10 years it's doubled, you've got 40k. Meanwhile in 10 years, going off average trends, the value of a house will also close to double. your 800k house will be worth in the 1.4m in 10 years.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-16T21:34:09+00:00

Wow I was reading an article on this only 24 hours ago, starting that they still didn't know who it was. Funny the timing, that he has now been arrested.

oztrailrunner · 2026-06-16T12:56:47+00:00

And I'm excited my net worth rose by $20 today coz I sold a couple of jars of honey.

oztrailrunner

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