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Well I was looking for a lower shaft for the CTX 3030.
One deal fell through from one guy.(after the Mrs got the money exchanged for him the US cash)
She was peeved.

So another member contacted me.
I sent the funds to California. He sent it to a US postal box.
We have a friend that picks up the mail.
👍
He sends me photo of delivery 👌.
He delivered the carbon fiber shaft to me yesterday at the farm.
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He took it out of his truck, put it on the wife's car trunk lid.
She takes car....
The car gets an error light.
They take truck then to come to the farm dinner.
Driving down the road they slow for what appears to be a black rat snake.
Yup one dead carbon fiber shaft.

They felt so bad, and he asked where he could buy one.
Well it took me X amount of time to get this one and it cost me $$$.
Let's say his expression was 🥺.

Some days I really love my dog even more.
 

Chilli said:
We are moving tomorrow. The other day I said to the misses, I think we have too much for a quick move with the go slow guys we have coming. They are the only ones within miles of where we are, used them last time and it was like I was watching people in slow motion milking the time, payed by the hour. So I organised a light truck and we took all the plants and things from the garage and shed. Phew, glad we did. Took two and half hours load time and the same to empty at the new place. That's 5 hours save time. Cost us $230.
Them $170 an hour. We're in front.
But what a drive. Almost, and I mean so close to getting run off the road going there through the bush by a double b road train. He swerved towards us and if I hadn't dropped the passenger side wheels onto the gravel off of the bitumen we'd have been hit. Took me 15 seconds to keep control feeling the truck trying to sway wanting to leave the road. Some of these guys driving these rigs are a.....les, on their phones paying little attention. I was glad when we arrived.
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Chilli said:
We are moving tomorrow. The other day I said to the misses, I think we have too much for a quick move with the go slow guys we have coming. They are the only ones within miles of where we are, used them last time and it was like I was watching people in slow motion milking the time, payed by the hour. So I organised a light truck and we took all the plants and things from the garage and shed. Phew, glad we did. Took two and half hours load time and the same to empty at the new place. That's 5 hours save time. Cost us $230.
Them $170 an hour. We're in front.
But what a drive. Almost, and I mean so close to getting run off the road going there through the bush by a double b road train. He swerved towards us and if I hadn't dropped the passenger side wheels onto the gravel off of the bitumen we'd have been hit. Took me 15 seconds to keep control feeling the truck trying to sway wanting to leave the road. Some of these guys driving these rigs are a.....les, on their phones paying little attention. I was glad when we arrived.
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Best of luck on the resettlement mate.

The road trains and texting don't mix.
 

releventchair said:
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We drove in Australia for 6+weeks. Lots of miles in the northern outback.

The car we had bought had a new windshield.
The seller told us a few simple rules.
When seeing a roadtrain slow down, drop the passenger side tires right over in to gravel.
Flash the headlights indicating he has the full road.

If not the roadtrain will yield by dropping his passenger side tires onto the loose gravel.
Result will be chipped windshield, or worse a broken one.
We never received a chip.
 

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