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[robbiegal]

my street today
this was the house that i wanted to buy about 7-9 years ago
only takes about 1 day to demolish what is under that tent

[trout]

It looks like they are taking every precaution available to minimise the dust there :good:

[robbiegal]

yeah
i don't think that they are taking too many chances  

ps glad that you have your own power supply as well
i just go shopping or hit the veggie patch when our power goes off

[trout]

I actually get a bit of a "Buzz" being able to be self sufficient when the power goes down.
I am just waiting for the new generation of batteries to become affordable and I will convert to solar and wind power generation and go "off Grid".
Being close to the coast we rarely get a calm day and there is plenty of sunshine here as well, it shouldn't be too big an ask for me to be able to generate more than enough power for my needs, It's just the storage of that power at the moment that is too expensive  

[keldaw]

my wife has just been told that she has small traces of asbestos in her lungs , and she has developed a bad cough and went to the doctors about it and after much checking , this is what she has been told that she problem got it from washing my cloths , because I was working for the gas company many years ago which was behind hardies who make the fibro . and we were always getting the dust from their factory .

[robbiegal]

Jesus Christ Kel :heart:
I am so sorry to hear that

added this kel - click the link
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[trout]

Bloody Hell Kell, If it wasn't for Bad luck you pair wouldn't have any luck at all.
I am sorry to hear about your Wife being crook and I truly hope that she gets better and that blasted asbestos doesn't cause any more problems. :heart:

[humpybong]

Hi Kel....sorry to hear about your better half.

Hope all goes well for both of you.

[keldaw]

thank you my friends ,
she only got the news on Wednesday , and the dr said it was not a worry just yet as it was only small modules and she may die with it
and not from it as she is 72 next march , but they want her to still have regular check ups .
as for the compo money and suing hardies , well , we have no interest in that  as the money would be no good to us now because of our age and sickness , we can not travel any more , so I have just sold my slide on camper for a mere $ 3000.00 .




camper only and I have kept the ute .

[trout]

That is a nice Rig Kel, I hope the new owner gets as much joy out of it as you would have done :good:
As Myself and Mrs Trout are still in our early 60's and we have just caught the "Grey haired Nomad" disease we can still manage to travel and set up the various things needed to be comfortable in the Bush.
We have even nearly got the setting up of the annex down pat without starting WW3 now :angel:
I imagine that it would have been a sad day to watch your holiday accommodation leave your yard :cray:
Look on the bright side Kel, At least you now have plenty of room on the back of your ute to put all those Monster lizards you catch

[robbiegal]

Kel
did you sell the camper part but not the ute as well?
it looks like a rather nifty set up

we have a friend who is 73/4 and works full time as a carpenter builder and apparently he has those nodules as well (and has known of them for a long time)
smokes like a chimney as well
he has had the asbestos exposure all through his working life - he reckons that when they invented the power saw - that the asbestos dust fibres from the power saw are what did the damage for young builders in those days

whereas before that they cut the fibro with handsaws with less fibre mess  

again
i am sorry to know of anyone afflicted with that exposure
although probably 50% of the Australian population over 45 has been exposed in a variety of ways
best to have the docs keep a close eye on them xx robbie

[keldaw]

no Robbie , just the camper and annex , I kept my ute to carry my junk around in .
when we went away , we towed a builders trailer with all our stuff in as we seem to have more and more every time we go .
so soon the trailer will be going up for sale too as we don't need it any more as we have the ute .
just now I am tired up in bed with a very painful back , but the dr said it is only muscular , so I just have to rest , and I am sleeping on a mattress on the floor , and is very hard for me to get up and down from the floor .

sold way to cheap I think , the legs alone  cost me $ 1800.00
see the 2 single beds with 9 in mattress very cofty
I started at $5000.00 ,
 but was offered $ 3000.00    so I took it

[robbiegal]

cheers kel
i have never used a camper
although many many moons ago did travel around & lived in a caravan for a few years  
loved it and learnt to keep very few things - good lesson in life
it was good for me

when we go away now we just have out little car and boy it fills up quickly
we now mostly do the motel thing - don't go away a lot but have a few motels on the Melbourne route that we stay at

i have suggested a trailor/camper but then we'd need to get the car to go with it and so on

you never get back what you put into something but if you take off your use and the $$ you have saved on holidays i'd reckon the 3 k would seem alright
sold and off your hands

i remember my father putting the tarp over the back of the ute and we'd sleep on a mattress under the tarp
and that was even if we were just out for the day on beachside picnics!!

[keldaw]

I had it on a Hilux at first before the Holden rodeo , and we travelled from Brisbane to Darwin and back for our last big trip ,the trip before that was from Brisbane to great ocean road over to S A  and back up through the middle of Vic ,  nsw act and qld and many trips out to the dams for our supply of red claw then up to cairns by many different routes , so we really had good times in it .
whatever you do just enjoy it because
 all good things come to an end sooner or later .

[stevo1962]

Been expanding my plant business lately.Getting there slowly