If it is a tractor war they want, then a tractor war they shall get.

If you haven’t got a Massey-Ferguson, then you are doing it wrong…

Iron Cove

What is it with steam buffs? The train was filled with autistic blokes in costume who spoke in a language no regular person could understand.

That was the Welshmen, the train buffs were even worse?

Don’t add an incline into the picture though.

Well that triggered a memory of doing a wheelie Cat 769, tipping mullock into a stope or heading to a nighty degree bend no steering or brakes in the old charge up flatbed. Thanks! Gez.

Mater,
thanks for heads up on the John Deere. I have used them. I have used several different brands over the years at different work places. This has been a good thread re mowers and tractors. Lots to research and think about. As for chainsaws, Stihl all the way!

RickW, here is an interesting comment that was posted to the clip you linked to. Food for thought? or tinfoil hat time. I have no idea.

Myth
1 hour ago
You might have heard of an Australian company called Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto wants to exploit lithium in Serbia, despite the people being against it, the Serbian politicians who were bribed are for it. Novak Djokovic spoke out against it. With his antivax stance he unfortunatly played right into their trap. The Australian Government are ruthless and quick to cover their international failures, just like when they tried to gain economic advantage over newly formed Timor-Leste, they will do anything to break this mans career and reputation.

Colston Four acquittal raises doubts about 10-year jail term proposal

The Coulson Four are shitbags who were charged with destroying the statue of 17th C. slave owner Edward Colston at a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest.

Apparently they had a valid excuse.

The jury seems to have agreed with their lawyer:

“Those valid excuses included their right to free speech, their right to conscience, and that a conviction would be disproportionate interference with those rights. And that they were preventing a crime – it was a criminal offence to keep that statue up because it was so offensive. It is really beyond belief it was up for so long.”

The UK has fallen further.

And Nadal puts his oar in

That Spanish loon needs to spend more time thinking about supporting players than pulling his shorts out of his crack and playing with his nose.

@ Pogria-

Tinfoil hat-wearing trollbait.

It’s an Anglo-Australian multinational, named for the Spanish mine the investor consortium originally purchased in 1873.

So, about as ‘Australian’ as Russell Crowe and Phar Lap. And related to the government only when something can be extracted from it to the company’s benefit.

6th January 2022

President Donald J Trump *

To watch Biden speaking is very hurtful to many people. They’re the ones who tried to stop the peaceful transfer with a rigged election. Just look at the numbers. Does anybody really think that Biden beat Obama with the Black population in select Swing State cities, but nowhere else? That he would lose 18 out of 19 bellwether counties, and 27 out of 27  “toss up” House races, but somehow miraculously receive the most votes in American history with no coattails? That he would lose Florida, Ohio, and Iowa and win, even though it has never been done before? They spread a “web of lies” about me and Russia for 4 years to try to overturn the 2016 election, and now they lie about how they interfered in the 2020 Election, too. Big Tech was used illegally. Where did all those votes show up from in Georgia, where it was just revealed they sold ballots for $10 a piece, or in Pennsylvania, and Arizona, and Wisconsin. He acts like he’s aggrieved, but we’re the ones who were aggrieved and America is suffering because of it with poisonous Borders, record Inflation, a humiliating surrender in Afghanistan, $5 a gallon gas and higher, empty stock shelves, and rampant crime. America is a laughingstock stock of the world, and it’s all because of the real insurrection, which took place on November 3rd, but this is an election year and MAGA Republicans should get elected and work with me to fix this horror that Joe Biden and the Democrats have brought us.
Never forget the crime of the 2020 Presidential Election. Never give up!

*after years of predictive spelling on my devices not spelling Trump, now all of a sudden, it does!

Battery Sancho.

How do you set fire to a tree stump with a battery?

Sit it there and wait if it’s a lipo or punture it with a screwdriver if in a hurry.

Gabor says:
January 7, 2022 at 8:26 am
Dr Faustus says:
January 7, 2022 at 8:06 am

If I read your posts right, you are quite a fan of the vax, and everything our overlords are doing to us.

You probably don’t.

I know the car, it must be one of the first, five years old or more, drives that road both ways every day.
I’d say it’s battery is at the end of it’s life.

due hard.

Ha! ha!

I can fix the Covid “crisis” today.

Fire all of the “health officers”.

Stop reporting numbers.

If you catch a cold, stay home.

Protect the vulnerable.

On to victory!

Top Endersays:
January 7, 2022 at 9:48 am
I can fix the Covid “crisis” today.

Needs more piano wire and lampposts..
I mean Kubota mowers and sthil chainsaw attachments.

Bear at 9.14:

+1. Dickless uptick.

Damir ‘Two Pieces of Fish’ Dokic is just the bloke. Put him in the same room as that lukewarm beige weathervane Morrison and watch him go.

Once set, those Balkan gents are like Terminators. As the man said in the film – they can’t be reasoned with. They don’t feel pain. They don’t feel pity, or remorse. That’s what he does! That’s ALL he does!

Mother Lode

When decisions need to be made appoint experienced doctors with relevant background ad hoc.

Perhaps unintentionally, this is what Queensland has done with Gerrard, and he seems to be nudging PalaceChook in the direction of rationality.

The vibes are that Australians on the whole really want Djokovic ‘deported’, and Morrison is onto it- something nasty as well as stupid about the country. Those vibes may yet die, though. They will, sooner or later, of course.

At the risk of being seen as optimistic, the NT News is telling me today that one of the two concentration camps there is not having its contract renewed by the Gunner ‘government’.

The Mercure Hotel in Alice Springs, previously one of the better touro hotels in the place, and on the right side of the Todd River was leased for the purpose in mid-2020. The contract expires in March and it has yet to be renewed, which is unusual in any event but more so here because there aren’t multiple other locations to choose from.

The hotel is taking bookings from tourist folk from 1 July. The four month gap is reasonable when you take into account that the joint’s almost solely been populated by coof-ridden fullbloods from Central Australia, and therefore large parts of it will need to be rebuilt.

What exactly is the plan?

Even if 100% were jabbed it would make no difference to the spread.

Perhaps unintentionally, this is what Queensland has done with Gerrard, and he seems to be nudging PalaceChook in the direction of rationality.

Unlike his madwoman predecessor, Gerrard seems to be focussed on the medical reality of the situation. It’s in the community, out of control, everyone is going to get it – brace yourselves for what will be, for most folks, not too much.

I guess the difference is that he’s an infectious diseases expert rather than a public health administrator.

It’s a small pleasure watching Palacechook’s ‘cats’ bum’ facial expression when he speaks at joint pressers.

It’s a small pleasure watching Palacechook’s ‘cats’ bum’ facial expression when he speaks at joint pressers.

Exposing toxic maternalism does that every time.

Those Balkan guys could teach the Liar Left about holding a grudge.

Having a macho culture, Serbs especially loathe mincing Western pouves. Same with the Russians.

At the risk of being seen as optimistic, the NT News is telling me today that one of the two concentration camps there is not having its contract renewed by the Gunner ‘government’.

Why would they need them?

Camps are 2020, 2021 is RAT tests, self reporting and incrimination, and house arrest for unvaccinated people.

Toxic femininity.

I’m going to run with this.

No victory parade in the truck vs. train war is ever premature…

Well Dah! they are alway premature just ask…

Grader operators on the other hand are have more intricate knowledge of how to get the best results.

No victory parade in the truck vs. train war is ever premature…

Haha.

London chaos as longest EVER Tube strike begins tomorrow – ‘severe disruption’ into SUMMER (6 Jan)

LONDONERS are facing a record six-month strike to Night Tube services from tomorrow, with “severe disruption” expected into the Summer, as drivers despair at being made to work four weekend night shifts a year.

Enjoy the sheer Britishness of this: tube drivers are going on strike for six months because they’ve been asked to do four night shifts per year on weekends. The horror!

So both QLD and NSW Labor and the ABC have signaled what’s coming down the pipeline this morning.

Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath said her department was working on a system that would allow residents to easily notify authorities of their RAT results, but her preference was for a national solution.

…

Chris Minns
@ChrisMinnsMP
· 16h
Positive rapid antigen tests should be counted by the NSW Government.

We know that infections will continue to rise in the community.

But tracking these RATs will ensure NSW health have the critical information they need to ensure resources are deployed effectively.

People’s runny noses are being dangerously not reported to the government. So there’s going to be a national reporting scheme, which will begin as a state based thing in Victoria or QLD and eventually spread and go Federal, it will be mandatory to report a positive test for a runny nose or sore throat, with a $10,000 fine if you don’t – you watch. It’s necessary to ensure the health system can “prepare” for illness.

Chaos surrounding Queensland’s COVID-19 testing systems has an expert worried that data on infection rates during the Omicron wave is so grossly under-reported it is almost impossible to make predictions about the future impacts on hospitals.

What it means is the last two years is being made a permanent feature of society. The government is depowering the guns-out portion of the revolution and cementing it in for good via social and bureaucratic instruments. If you have cold symptoms you will have to take a RAT test, if it is positive you will have to notify the government that you are sick. You will then have to self-isolate, get vaccinated, do whatever they say, then they’ll notify everyone around you. People will accept this is the New Normal, because it is.

Ultimately what we’re witnessing is the regulation, control and the nationalisation of illness and permanent regulation of private behaviour around sickness. It’s no less in scale, and danger, than the same being done to private economic behaviour last century.

It’s on!

The hysteria on the NSW Health Covid Twitter thread has to be seen to be believed. People are calling for lockdowns and mass sackings and generally have their hair on fire.

No wonder governments are responding the way they are.

How can they govern sensibly if the pressure towards insanity is so strong? Or are these Twitter numpties there to give the government cover? I know people can be dumb, but this is beyond rationality.

empty supermarket shelves

This problem can be solved by issuing supermarket passes at each jabbenening.
No jab no eat!

‘Or are these Twitter numpties there to give the government cover?’

prguy17 will be knighted for this.

Bruce – anyone who has caught the Tube during a London summer would see that as a bonus.

Which I’ve done, HB. The most irritating thing was I couldn’t actually stand up in the carriages, the ceilings are so low. Made for short people. The week I had in London though was wonderful – about 30 C each day. Londoners were melting and here I was thinking yay, this is just like home! I was in the British Museum five days, the bling on display is extraordinary.

This problem can be solved by issuing supermarket passes at each jabbenening.
No jab no eat!

Is that a translation from Chinese?

Thousands Of Cops Deployed To Quell Public Anger In China’s Locked Down Xi’an Amid Widespread Food Shortages (5 Jan)

Tens of thousands of police officers were deployed to China’s Xi’an where public anger has exploded among the city’s 13 million residents who were left bargaining and bartering for essential foodstuffs amid ongoing food shortages, as the city entered its 13th day of lockdown amid a wave of COVID-19 cases.

As some people took to social media to appeal for assistance as their food supplies ran low, or they were unable to access medical care, others started local trading networks in residential compounds to try to meet each other’s needs through bartering.

“Everything is getting bartered in Xi’an,” a resident of the city told RFA. “People are swapping stuff with others in the same building, because they no longer have enough food to eat.” Another resident said in a video clip that some people were trading cigarettes and iPhones for bags of rice.

Let them eat Xi Thought books.

If there’s good evidence that even one vaccine that works, your proposition is shot.

This is hilarious. You tried to march from Berlin to Moscow but ended up retreating to Iceland.

Your new line in the sand is “It might be possible for at least one vaccine to have worked. I don’t know which one, if any, but just maybe they could and that’s all that matters”.

Amazing.

Imagine being a parent and taking your kid to get dozens of shots with risks of injuries and telling yourself it’s all justified because it just might be possible that one or two vaccines in all of human history might have prevented a disease.

When you were writing your drivel Tim, did you not stop and think about just how far you’ve retreated (some might even say “beclowned”)?

Your new position:

Smallpox vaccine – ok, probably useless.
Polio vax – ok, probably useless.
Measles vax – ok, probably useless.
Pertussis vax – sure, almost certainly useless.

But maybe, just maybe, some day when all the stars are aligned and there’s a blood moon then scientists will come up with a vaccine that can prevent the grand total of one person getting sick.

Temporarily.

Just a reminder that in the NT right now unvaccinated people are under strict house arrest, cannot even leave home to exercise, and there are “low vaccination exclusion zones” where movement of everyone into and out of areas <80% vaccinated is controlled.

March 2020 crazy conspiracy prediction #1035, status: true.

Speaking of supermarkets, the Chinese Communist Party can’t believe how stupid we are and how easy it was for their Kung Flu release to bring down filthy capitalist roader supply chains in the West.

Email this morning from Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci:

When you’re shopping with us at the moment, you might unfortunately have noticed gaps on shelf, or substitutions in your online order. Unlike the surge buying of early 2020 (who could forget the toilet paper), this is because of the number of people in our supply chain in isolation – from suppliers to truck drivers and distribution centre team members – which in turn is causing material delays to store deliveries. To give you a sense of the magnitude of the challenge, we are experiencing COVID-driven absences of 20%+ in our distribution centres and 10%+ in our stores.

‘They caused this hysteria, and now they can’t control it.’

Made worse by the establishment of a covid industry and the infrastructure to go with it. Thousands upon thousands of people have been given highly-paid sinecures just for coof, and they will not under any circumstances want this particular gravy train to derail.

The vast majority of them are light grey public servants unused to working for a living anyway, and when you combine that with the self-importance they’ve been feeling for the past two years – ‘finally, I am being recognised for my brilliance’ – it’s no surprise that they are the loudest voices for a) agitation to bring back the restrictions that line their pockets, and b) even more agitation to retain the ones still in place.

They will have to be prised from their trapdoor burrows with fire.

If you can have a pretty decent go at self driving cars, eliminating the driver from Tube trains should be a snap.

When the car software fails, at worst, you kill a carload or two.
Train software failure and the insurance payouts are very big numbers.

Isn’t it funny how command and control governments and systems always end up at food shortages.

I ain’t laughing.

I was at Woolies this morning. The bog roll section was almost cleaned out. Ditto with tissues. Rather annoyed they didn’t have my favourite brand of bog roll. Had to slum it, sigh……

Shit! I sound like Betty Bucket!

Seriously though, it would pay to grab a few extra rolls peeps, especially if, like me, you give the roll a tremendous yank instead of drawing down a few modest squares. I grew up at a time when mum only bought a set amount of paper each fortnight. If we ran out, it was onto the newspaper (aaarrgghhhh), or, if lucky, dad would knock off a roll or two from work. THAT STUFF was the old crispy, crackly crap you used to find in railway station loos. Between the newspaper and the crackly stuff, our bums were shredded raw.

Email this morning from Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci

Just as well they sacked all their unvaccinated workers. Vaccinated people only like to catch covid from other vaccinated people.

C.L. says:
January 7, 2022 at 11:15 am
…
They caused this hysteria and now they can’t control it.

It is the essence of “Rabble Rousing”

Pollies used to be vary wary of overstimulating the man in the street, lest he rise up and do something unexpected.

This current crop seem to be oblivious to this, or even recklessly chasing a whirlwind.

Interesting to read the local rag in Hobart this morning.

The letter page devoted to the ‘rona consisted of 100% abuse of the government for allowing the ‘rona into Tasmania. Every single letter.

Surprisingly though on the sports – yes sports – page, a journalist printed a column supporting Djoko and accusing Australian governments of seriously fucking up the response to the ‘rona.

Too bad I read the sports page first, so was left with a bad taste in my mouth.

Your new position:

Smallpox vaccine – ok, probably useless.
Polio vax – ok, probably useless.
Measles vax – ok, probably useless.
Pertussis vax – sure, almost certainly useless.

That’s bullshit.
Your comprehension skills are negligible.
I never said that any of those vaccines were “probably useless”, nor any other vaccine.

Your new line in the sand is “It might be possible for at least one vaccine to have worked. I don’t know which one, if any, but just maybe they could and that’s all that matters”.

That’s bullshit too. I’ve repeatedly said that there’s ample evidence that large numbers of vaccines are effective. I just pointed out that, as a matter of logic, your “all vaccines are useless” assertion can be destroyed by any validation of any vaccine.

Which of course it has been, by vast numbers of successful clinical trials and post-rollout surveys in respect of a great many vaccines, until and unless you can provide compelling evidence that every successful clinical trial and every successful post-rollout survey is wrong.
Which you’ve abysmally failed to do.

Your ludicrous “smallpox is stalking the world wearing a false beard and sunglasses” fantasies don’t count as evidence. Nor do your assertions that “some” clinical trials are flawed, since that means that other successful clinical trials are valid and are good evidence for the effectiveness of the relevant vaccines.
As for your claim that diagnostic bias always exists in post-rollout surveys, it’s not my fault that such an absolutist claim is essentially unprovable.
Incidentally, even if it were true that diagnostic bias affected all post-rollout surveys, where’s your evidence that it does so in every case to a sufficient extent to invalidate the conclusion, rather than just to reduce the statistically significant margin of proved efficacy? Remember, you’re the one who’s stating that the surveys are always bogus, so it’s up to you to provide some evidence to support that assertion.

It’s a strange policy for a politician to work so hard for an even greater defeat at the ballot box than he was handed the last time.

He’s trying to outflank Maximum Leader round the third standard deviation of stupidity.

‘a hottish August day’
19 degrees then.

On that particular day, it got into the late 20’s.

I remember it vividly because of an appalling meeting. About 10 of us sitting in a windowless meeting room, no working air-conditioning, all wearing ties and jackets Brit-style.

I had sweat tricking down my body, puddling in the arse of my trousers and was losing the will to live. One of our hosts brightly said: “Sorry, it’s a bit hot. But you Orzie chaps will be used to it…”

It was with the Inland Revenue, so we weren’t about to show any sign of weakness.

Putting aside the political why, the nuts and bolts of the situation are more or less as follows:

Since the 2009 Swine Flu pandemic that wasn’t, public health and governments have studiously built a vast “pandemic” control apparatus in every country at differing levels of scale under the WHO’s orders. Quick examples are the WA Public Health Act updated in 2016, and the Aus Biosecurity Act in 2015 to comply with our ‘obligations’. All over the place you find the changes to public health acts, health policies, etc being touched around 2010 – 2019 to bring them into line and implement updated “biosecurity” and “pandemic preparedness”.

One of the central pillars of that apparatus is a vast, invasive and person by person disease surveillance, testing, reporting and movement controls around respiratory illnesses.

This is all happening because of that. The WHO called “pandemic!”, in line with the 2009 revised definition where they had removed one of the key criteria (must be visible illness and death in a community), and all across the world the public health departments and governments pulled the sheet off their vast, incredibly complex, brand new pandemic response apparatuses, fired them up, started tracking people with sore throats and two years later here we are, enslaved to the system.

Like many government projects, especially any that involve bureaucracies intervening in the personal decisions of millions of people all at once, everyday, all the time, this system of tracking and literally controlling and regulating runny noses and sore throats at the individual level by government, is unfolding as a total catastrophe and needs to be actively dismantled before it starts killing us.

H B Bear says:
January 7, 2022 at 11:51 am
The worst toilet paper was State government issue stuff in primary school. A cross between grease proof paper and rice paper. I assume it was cheap.

Was that the corrugated shiny stuff?

I was at Woolies this morning. The bog roll section was almost cleaned out.

In World Mental Defective HQ, inner Melbourne, there didn’t seem to be a lot of shortages in the supermarkets.
Maybe the hipsters, slacktivists, pseudo-ferals and bugpeople are supremely confident that Maximum Leader’s infallible management skills will prevent things from descending into a shambles.

Stihl make some rather fetching kevlar reinforced chaps too.

Had to buy a Stihl spring yesterday for a w-snipper.
8 bucks.

Rush on COVID vaccines for WA children sees GPs and pharmacists struggle for supplies

From the ABC, of course. It is difficult for me to express how much I despise these people. Now they’re propagandising medical experimentation on our children by trying to gin up some parental FOMO. Is there any depth they will not stoop to?

By the way, does anyone believe the 91% double vax rate for those aged 12 and older, and 95% one shot? Those numbers just don’t ring true, particularly when you take the youngsters into account – loads of people I speak to are fully and enthusiastically vaxxed up, yet aren’t willing to medicate their children with Fauci’s poison. I wonder how the medical tyrants are finessing these vaxx rates up so high? My guess is they’re being extremely generous in their definition of the vaccine ineligible population cohort, and excluding these people from the count.

I just pointed out that, as a matter of logic, your “all vaccines are useless” assertion can be destroyed by any validation of any vaccine.

Ok. So it’s very simple then. Give me the absolute best data you can find. One where not only is there no obvious bias, but that any kind of bias would be inconceivable.

Which of course it has been, by vast numbers of

Aaah yes. It’s all there somewhere in that big pile of literature. It’s the vibe!

Which you’ve abysmally failed to do.

Because refuting stuff that you refuse to specify isn’t my obligation. If you wish to specify something, then I’ll deal with it.

Your ludicrous “smallpox is stalking the world wearing a false beard and sunglasses” fantasies don’t count as evidence.

I don’t think any of these people are wearing sunglasses.

https://www.google.com/search?q=monkeypox&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjIk8uLt571AhVlSWwGHcB9DGUQ_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=1280&bih=605&dpr=1.5 or https://www.google.com/search?q=pellagra&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjN_NGMt571AhV86XMBHZ8zC98Q2-cCegQIABAA&oq=pellagra&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIICAAQgAQQsQMyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQ6BAgAEEM6CAgAELEDEIMBOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAVD_HViMJmDEKGgAcAB4AIABvwGIAc0LkgEDMC45mAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=g4_XYY2vD_zSz7sPn-es-A0&bih=605&biw=1280 or

Nor do your assertions that “some” clinical trials are flawed, since that means that other successful clinical trials are valid and are good evidence for the effectiveness of the relevant vaccines.

Oh wow! This could be the greatest example of straw clutching I’ve ever seen.

Firstly, I don’t recall implying that only “some” trials were invalid. Secondly, lots of trials show that the vaccine is worthless/too dangerous. Those trials might also be invalid (ie bias in favour of the vaccine), but either way, it hardly helps your case.

“As for your claim that diagnostic bias always exists in post-rollout surveys, it’s not my fault that such an absolutist claim is essentially unprovable.”

It’s true by definition as long as you accept that doctors believe the vaccine works. If you want to claim all doctors don’t believe that then you’re golden. Except you have to accept the fact that doctors don’t believe in vaccines.

In fact, it’s probably largely true for flu shots – doctors have minimal confidence in these things (despite bullying people to get them). To some extent for pertussis as well. That’s why even the *official* data indicates these vaccines are largely useless. If there are a large proportion of doctors who are prepared to diagnose it even in the vaxed, then the official data will indicate the vaccine is useless. If doctors largely believe in the vaccine (polio, diphtheria), then the official data will make it look like the vaccine is a miracle.

Do you see now? You need to show the bias absolutely doesn’t exist in a particular instance and that the data still shows the vaccine works.