Yeah, I reckon. For our big does at the Obi Obi hall I would cut a couple of tonne of standing dead Ironbark off my place for the bonfire. A couple of tonne is a good all night party fire. Call me a carbon criminal, and that's before I admit to working in a dry ice plant as a young bloke.

carbon bs aside - we humans will always be drawn to a good camp fire :)

For sure, particularly as the dark closes in around us. That's a great looking spot for your fire, and a well used camp oven. Is that a rock wall or bits of a broken up concrete slab? 

finished the cooker, needed a shelf, tested the heat transfer by cooking some wings and ribs

Disgusting......

Went to a grassfire yesterday burning in 1.5 m grass, overgrown with 2.5 m lantana clumps. 20 kph wind gusts pushing it towards a house that was built right up against the overgrown paddock. Fire was hot enough to melt aluminium irrigation pipe that had been overgrown by the grass and lantana. We stopped the fire while it was still 80 m from the house.

Cool trike 👍

Thanks. It would be better if it had a diff though. It's only got a free-wheel on the back axle, so only one wheel drive and one wheel brake at the back. Riding it is weird when you're used to 2 wheels. But does the job.

Why did you offset the footpegs ?

So I can go round corners faster. When it tips over onto 2 wheels cornering at speed the footpeg at the front digs in, so it's made so you can spin the footpegs round and put the outside one at the back.

Thanks for the explanation mate.  Makes sense to me.

Ride one down a coast hill, tip, do not try to keep ya feet on the peddles, can cause bruising and bleeding if you hit a cow track an come off!

Good pick up BB, shows you're paying attention! 

Had a few hours fun on Friday evening, just across the road from home. We burned off between the old railway line and the road, only a few acres but a lot was covered in 2m high Johnson grass, went off as fierce as any cane fire I've seen. I'm damn glad it was only 24°, lit up at 4pm. Wind started gusting to 20 kph minutes after we lit up. We had 2 trucks, crew of 4 on it and we had to work bloody hard to keep it contained. Went through 2 fills of water on 1 truck, 800 litres, 1000 litres on other one, used a lot of foam. Glad not to be doing this spot as a wild fire in 3 months time  when it's 40° and some arsehole decided to light it up. That's my place just across the road in the pic.

Gunna be a summer of fires by the look of it, you will be a busy man I'm thinking 

Yeah, for a variety of reasons they're predicting the worst grass fire season for 20 years around here. Only good thing (for us) is that cattle prices have dropped, so people are holding onto stock and flogging the paddocks just that bit harder. We had big fires in timber at the very start of the 2019/2020 black summer, almost burned into the outskirts of Esk, only stopped outside of Linville by a burn scar from 2018.

Butchers up here are asking people to check them out as they are struggling, someone is making a mint.

Been busy, got the call at 2pm yesterday  didn't get home until 7:30.