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Two days of thunderstorms and a day of sun, so I was keen to get back to a national park to do some grading on fire tracks.
Saw a pack of these, all identical, then another single one (still identical) couple of kilometres further on in the track drive in.
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Taken through a smudged windscreen quickly before the last one bolted, then I zoomed in later for a screencap.
They were all dingo/cross-bred and in the same pack.
Then stupid me thought I could straddle the ruts on the track at an incline as I normally do without rain in 4H or 4L and nearly succeeded before breaking through a clay barrier and making new smaller ruts.
Each time I tried to break out, I'd lose all traction (clay in tyre treads) and spin in place or have to rock back and forth to continue going backwards blind.
And I would have succeeded if it weren't for those pesky kids... I mean big ruts I earlier avoided.
It was like train tracks to a bogging and I couldn't get off the backwards ride unless I wanted to tumble into a ravine.
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Anyway, had to walk about 5k's in elevated territory to get mobile phone reception... through the mongrel dingo grounds and because I had my service tray lifted out the back of my ute to fit a 1 tonne bucket, all I had was a small shovel. Then I left again because it was 2 5 hours later and I had to make a move for the water I had... with my BOOM SHOVEL
Then the 63 year old rescuer whipped down the trail with tail swinging like a fucktarded mong just happy to be in the borrowed owners supercharged V8 Landcruiser with monster tyres... lol
He was ripping up the track we were trying to preserve.
That dude treats me like a clueless turd... but I told him where to stop and let the winch out... he's like "nah, I wanna get closer".
He was so close to carrying down a steep pitch.
He's a age old diesel mechanic with bad hands because of solvents... but never an operator before. He's broken or costed tens of thousands of dollars on machinery... and has taken to referring to me as the young guy..
I appreciate him when he shows me how to remove an oil cooler off a newer tractor, but don't appreciate how he makes suggestions about how to drive things.
He's absolutely nuts on the roads. I've told him this prior.
He needs to pull the handbrake on machinery and I think he knows it too..
But he sees it like a competition... I hope it stops. I need him.
Yesterday he asked me if I was scared by his driving. I answered simply "on straight away, I don't care how fast you go in line. I fear for the turns and curves where the arse end starts to feel like it's slipping out".
He's an operator in training just like me now... but I've been operating machinery instead of fixing it for nearly 30 years.
I like the guy... but he feels threatened by me. Even when I started and got put into a brand new skid steer. He made snide comments even then.
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