29th August 2020, 01:57 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Belgrave, Australia
Posts: 803
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Gum trees are famous for dropping branches.
They usually do it on still hot days without warning.
One of the lessons taught to Scouts when they go out camping is never pitch your tent under a gum tree!
Although I did mention gum trees down Kaola St (and there's one that's fallen over the Puffing Billy line opposite our driveway which they haven't cleared yet too), the tree that nearly hit the S8 (and took out 6 of the 9 corrugated sheets on the garage roof!) was an old scraggly Wattle, which as it turns out was full of termites!
It took me a day to clear it as I kept blunting the chainsaw blade on termite mud. I sharpened it 4 times and used 4 tanks of 2 stroke and 3 tanks of bar lube!
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Marty
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Current:
2001 Audi S8 - Brilliant Black with Black interior, C5 RS6 rims (whenever I actually put them on...), Solar Sunroof, Tinted side and rear glass, RNS-D, Grom, Bose, clunky old phone in arm rest!
2002 Audi S8 - Project
Replacement head coming arrived  thanks to MJ
Silver with Black interior. All features as the '01, with the 'S' mode auto shifter. Dodgey rear tint (need to find a way to get rid of that).
Family:
2009 Volvo XC90 V8 R Design - has a louder more obnoxious exhaust than the S8, sounds great! Love this thing - Q7 was double the price, and certainly not double the car!
Sold:
1997 Audi A4 - Hamilton's Club Sport, Achat Grey (will miss the old girl)
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