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The Regular Stuff: Chat, Buy, Sell, Off Topic, etc. => Off Topic => Topic started by: Nick on December 07, 2023, 10:03:58 pm
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Hey Jim
Believe it or not we have heaps of feral deer up here in Brisbane. My wife and I had a near miss in her Mazda 2 last year with a big doe jumping out in front of us on our way to work at 7am!! It ran in front of us for a few meters before darting to the side...our little car would have been totalled if we had hit it. A motorcyclist wasnt so lucky in 2015, and ended up in hospital after hitting one in the same spot.
On another point... Panel beaters in Oz are also called "Smash Repairers"... kinda more logical I suppose. They also were called "Body Shops" last century before gyms became popular and assumed that name LOL.
Cheers
R
Rob...you've also got cane toads and fire ants now :(
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Hey Jim
Believe it or not we have heaps of feral deer up here in Brisbane. My wife and I had a near miss in her Mazda 2 last year with a big doe jumping out in front of us on our way to work at 7am!! It ran in front of us for a few meters before darting to the side...our little car would have been totalled if we had hit it. A motorcyclist wasnt so lucky in 2015, and ended up in hospital after hitting one in the same spot.
On another point... Panel beaters in Oz are also called "Smash Repairers"... kinda more logical I suppose. They also were called "Body Shops" last century before gyms became popular and assumed that name LOL.
Cheers
R
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Coyotes are the problem around here, I used to trap a lot and many farmers thanked me, but I have heard the more you take, the faster they reproduce.
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I didn’t realize you guys have such an open season on hunting, here you can get extra deer tags for like $1.50 but I think they said numbers of hunters were down quite a bit this year. I see them nearly every day to and from work and have to hit my brakes at least a couple times a week, but this one came out of the ditch and all I seen was a blur.
Its because they're introduced ferals Nick and millions of them and numbers exploding, they do a lot of damage to the bush. Even shooting them using helicopters hasn't made a dent in their numbers.
Like roos they are dumb around cars.
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Bruce the local panel beaters around here must thank their lucky starts as the deer, wombats, the occasional cow and kangaroos and Wallabies are their bread and butter.
Jim, I had to look up "panel beater" & then it became abundantly clear...lol
The Australian term for panel beaters is panelbeaters 1. Panelbeaters repair damage to metal, fibreglass, and plastic bodywork on vehicles, and form replacement vehicle panels 1. They are also known as collision repairers
Only ever seen them called 'Panel Beaters' Bruce not 'Panelbeaters'.
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Sorry to hear of the accident. Been there, had that done to me.
A trooper came quickly to put it down and then we gave it to an
impoverished country family who lived down the road and knew how
to dress/harvest it. I love it, no waste.
I grew up in the mid-Hudson Valley and deer were always a problem.
Starting in the 70's, it got worse and was so bad that even Vassar
college, a 'caring' institute, hired hunters in the late 90's to cull
dozens from their properties and other areas in Dutchess County.
My mother used to have a couple dozen in her yard in the mornings.
The danger, besides accidents, was LYME disease carried by the deer
and the Mid-Hudson valley was a hot point. Anyway, perhaps 20 or
25 years ago a plague hit the deer population and now you hardly
see them anywhere. Nature rules.
Good Luck,
Wayne
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I didn’t realize you guys have such an open season on hunting, here you can get extra deer tags for like $1.50 but I think they said numbers of hunters were down quite a bit this year. I see them nearly every day to and from work and have to hit my brakes at least a couple times a week, but this one came out of the ditch and all I seen was a blur.
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When reforming mildly deformed parts, or creating new parts from scratch, "Panel Beaters" typically use an "English Wheel" to form the sheet metal into the shapes needed.
English Wheels are heavily used in classic car restoration circles, where replacement parts are simply unavailable, unless they are new made individually!
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Bruce the local panel beaters around here must thank their lucky starts as the deer, wombats, the occasional cow and kangaroos and Wallabies are their bread and butter.
Jim, I had to look up "panel beater" & then it became abundantly clear...lol
The Australian term for panel beaters is panelbeaters 1. Panelbeaters repair damage to metal, fibreglass, and plastic bodywork on vehicles, and form replacement vehicle panels 1. They are also known as collision repairers
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Bruce the local panel beaters around here must thank their lucky starts as the deer, wombats, the occasional cow and kangaroos and Wallabies are their bread and butter.
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Just curious Jim , do you hunt ,or are you allowed to hunt "Roo's " in Australia ?
G'day Bruce :)
Property owners can get permits to reduce their numbers (because they're native animals), they are shot in their millions. I've shot hundreds for dog food, its not an animal that I enjoy shooting or want to shoot.
My boys and I hunt feral goats, wild boars, rabbits, foxes, feral cats and ducks. We've tried for ages for deer with no success .....we only ever see them when we haven't got a rifle!
You can hunt wild horses, wild donkeys, wild camels, wild water buffalo and there are millions of deer (lots of species) .....all these introduced feral animals and there are endless endless numbers of them can all be hunted 365 days a year and 24 hours a day (with spotlights) to try and reduce their numbers and the impact they have on the country. We don't have hunting seasons here, its a permanent open season to cull them......and their numbers just keep increasing.
interesting, thanks Jim. Deer around here are a common nuisance, its not very safe to ride a motorcycle just before dusk or dawn, have hit several myself. Its ironic that we have to buy a hunting permit to "harvest" them, the insurance companies should be paying hunters to reduce their numbers.
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Just curious Jim , do you hunt ,or are you allowed to hunt "Roo's " in Australia ?
G'day Bruce :)
Property owners can get permits to reduce their numbers (because they're native animals), they are shot in their millions. I've shot hundreds for dog food, its not an animal that I enjoy shooting or want to shoot.
My boys and I hunt feral goats, wild boars, rabbits, foxes, feral cats and ducks. We've tried for ages for deer with no success .....we only ever see them when we haven't got a rifle!
You can hunt wild horses, wild donkeys, wild camels, wild water buffalo and there are millions of deer (lots of species) .....all these introduced feral animals and there are endless endless numbers of them can all be hunted 365 days a year and 24 hours a day (with spotlights) to try and reduce their numbers and the impact they have on the country. We don't have hunting seasons here, its a permanent open season to cull them......and their numbers just keep increasing.
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Just curious Jim , do you hunt ,or are you allowed to hunt "Roo's " in Australia ?
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Thats a bummer Nick :(
A mate of mine got this Saturday arvo and gave me half....just cooked up a bit for a taste just then.
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Sorry to see that Nick, where I’m situated on the globe it’s kangaroos that cause this sort of thing.
I’m actually very lucky to have gone this long without getting one, the past month I have had to slam on the brakes at least 3 or 4 mornings every week. The same big buck ran out in front of me 3 times in the same place at the same time one week 😆 too bad I didn’t get him 😆
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Sorry to see that Nick, where I’m situated on the globe it’s kangaroos that cause this sort of thing.
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Hey...your van didn't look like that when you were at my house last Saturday 😳
I hope everyone's ok...
I’m glad I made it to your place before I decided to wreck my van 😂
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Ouch! Hope you brought the deer home ;-)
It wasn’t too big and pretty well done for after I got done with it 😂
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Ouch is right!
Hope you are all ok.
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Ouch! Hope you brought the deer home ;-)
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Hey...your van didn't look like that when you were at my house last Saturday 😳
I hope everyone's ok...
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OUCH!!!
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Oooooh Nick, sorry to see that - been there, done that. Hope it's fixable and your insurance company is good to work with, mine wasn't, they just totaled the car.
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