Termites & Tyres

Yeh well Tyres must be different compound, funny though, I have noticed normal ants to enter a caravan will go up the caravan Jocky Wheel, water hose, power lead, annex ropes, grass, but not the tyres ,

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I have had normal ants keeping their brood in the tread gaps on my vehicle.
Usually meant plenty of rain coming. But this has not been a problem for years now.

Yeh.........well Backhoes have been known to have had a good old chew too.

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Hi Russnic,

You know that since you been here more then 3 times that you are now a fully fledged Aussie.

I like to think of it as you come home in winter and go travelling to NZ for the rest of the year.

Welcome aboard, you wont regret it ar least now you can follow a good rugby side and finally get rid of that kiwi passport.

You have a good xmas too fellow ozzie.

Cheers Wilko

Hi Wiko
Been across the ditch a few more times than that. first time as an 18 yr old in NZ shearing and woolhandling team. Some af us stayed on and had a bit of tour, Went back with Rodeo and then following family with thier sport. and back again.
Met lots of nice people, including the guys that rodeo ed here,
Once you get away from the city's most people are pretty good, just like here I suppose.
Don't talk to me about RUGBY, Did you know that my home province has the RANFURLY SHEILD, even better Whoopa (Jamie Mc Intosh) is a almost a part of the family,parents are good friends and my wife changed his nappies and probably gave him a tap on the butt if needed, Went on to teach him at primary school and was a member of the board when he was head boy at secondary school.
DID I TELL YOU SOUTHLAND WON THE RANFURLY SHEILD.
My biggest disappointment was I was in Aus at the time, the nice young thing at Milpraanika did not have a bloody clue what I was talking about when I told her, had to tell someone!
Our youngest Mokopuna got born in Canberra not long ago, bit if a hassle getting her back to God"s Own, still not through the full gestation period and needs a passport to come home, I suppose that is why we feed bureaucrats.
I wil lhave to get more practise in to be an Aussie, but then sooner expire in a desert there somewhere than rotting away in a hosplal bed here.
Have a great Christmas, might catch you somewhwere next year.

Well, looks like the myth has been BUSTED!

I put up the reply about the termites, and i dont need to prove anything, its a fact on the property i mentioned and its on the vehicles that sit around, not those used everyweek.
The darwiniensis termites are the most destructive in australia, know to remove the botom layer of a pack of building timber on the ground on a building site in 24 hrs.
Doug, just because a tyre you found had been there for years, doesnt prove anything more than there may not be a darwiniensis nest within reach, or they had no desire to chew through it.
Like a house thats 100 years old not been attacked against a 2 year old one that has, termites dont work to a pattern.
Besides the obvious, that i work in the industry, my own power company cable under the footpath in our street, in the mid north of SA was eaten away leaving many metres of bare copper wire laying in the dirt, causing low power voltages to my house, had to be ripped up and replaced with termite resistant cable
Yes they will find there way up through concrete, especially older concrete, and will also etch a hole through thin metal such as tin.
Crazy dogs reply sums it up well.
Someone also said about making sure they dont take any home, unless you take the whole nest, or more importantly the queen who is in the centre of the nest, they will die in a short time as they need to teturn to the nest regularly, and they are blind and cannot be exposed to sunlite, so take as many as you like!
There is no relationship between black/red ants and termites, in fact black/red ants are a predator.

Cheers Pesty