AnswerID: 197778 Submitted: Wednesday, Oct 04, 2006 at 13:26
Member - Stephen L (SA)
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Hi Lachie,
You are right, it is a great part of SA. Every time we get back to the Flinders, we always say why did it take us so long to get back there. This sounds like your first trip in your Diesel.
Having owned both petrol and diesel, I would never go back to a Petrol Vehicle, as you cannot beat a Diesel for that low down power and the engine braking in steep terrain.
SA records its lowest winter rainfall ever on record, with only 53mm of rain falling during our winter period. It will be a very bad year for many farmers in my area, and one farmer said that he will not be getting his header out of his shed this year. It will have a flow through effect for the whole country.
Glad you had a great trip.
Cheers
Stephen
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FollowupID: 456357 Submitted:
Wednesday, Oct 04, 2006 at 16:14
Lachie posted:
Its my first trip doing steep hilly tracks. I was raised near Alice so nearly always do desert trip
The last petrol 4wd I had was a 1959 lancruiser with a 3 speed gear box.
Brother and I went around Aus in it in 1982. We used to call it Clyde --- slow and steady. From memory we got about 15 mpg at best. Dearest fuel was about 50cpL.
4wds have come a long way since then and so has the price of fuel.
Lachie.
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FollowupID: 456459 Submitted:
Thursday, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:11
Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses posted:
Stephen, Heather and I were through early in the year and it looked so promising with crops at 5-6" at that stage in the Northern Clare to the South Flinders. We buy grain so know the depths of problems on issues like these.
Lachie, we had an old cruiser about that vintage, a good thing about it we didn't take advantage of was the PTO ready for a winch. Was handy though, and easy to hotwire when son threw the keys out of the window. Remember the dust when the footwell vents were open, but the fresh air with the under windscreen one was....
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FollowupID: 456462 Submitted:
Thursday, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:31
Member - Stephen L (SA) posted:
Hi John.
We live in Clare and it is so very patchy with the crops. There are still a few reasonable good pockets around here, but
places like
Burra, Blyth, Snowtown etc.. are all looking very grim. A lot of farmers in the area are cutting what crops that they have for Hay.
Like I said before, at the end of the day it will flow through to the whole of
Australia.
After all, Bread, Milk and Meat are not grown in supermarkets. Clare is always regarded as a safe farming area, so when things are not real good here, it is very grim in other areas.
Regards
Stephen
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