hihosland

I think it was to achieve ground clearance for large prop

...in high heels, twirling a parasol and wearing sandwich boards declaring .........

Shouldn't it have a rainbow colour scheme? demanded Loxie.

NESers must remem ber that Loxie had become quite enarmoured of the rainbow flag since..............

Mike Hughes did manage short term steam powered flight,

Unfortunately ( at least for Hughes) on the first attempt he telescoped a few vertebrae and did not survive the second flight.

IF the "high temperature source" for an IC engine is the combustion temperature then it easily beats any usual steam temperature and so it will be more efficient thermodynamically.

And I can't get my head around just why you can't build a "steam" engine using ether and a solar heater. If the ether boils at 40 C and condenses at 20 C then you would think an engine powered by a solar hot-water panel and condensed with an evaporative water-cooled condenser would work just fine. Apparently it doesn't produce enough power to make the exercise worth while.. bugger huh.

latent heat of vapourisation ether 377 Kj/kg

of water it is 2256 Kj/kg

that is why an ether steam engine would not be very efficient

AFAIK no other liquid comes close I think that ammonia and ethyl alcohol and perhaps some refrigerants are the next best candidates however their levels are less than half that of water.

Water is special.

They don't buy American

Yikes here I am stuck with yet another NES wannabe world leader.

Once they get a few likes and a thumbs up or two they think that the whole world is in love with them and put themselves forward for the Democratic plenary convention believing in their delusion that if any one can trounce the tweeter in chief theme the one completely forgetting that...

......was sharing a tinny or two in the back of the corrigated iron shearing shed with Barnaby, his major source of info on all matters OZ.

Information for which when telegraphed US wards via Pine GAP he was amply rewarded with shares in various Trump golf enterprises.

Shares which greatly surprised Randy the SSAAR when he examined the latest tranch of Trumpster shares to find that TE enterprises held a covenant over the shares such that they could only be traded..............

.. the "Eicher diecher" TE's latest innovation and reality distorting device, sales of which went skywards when it was reported that Mike Pence used his personal example to modulate his boss's dissertations into something that Fox news could broadcast without precipitating yet another incident in the South China Sea or ..........

.. stance before the Powerpoint screen when he presented to Fox media his simplified attachment device whereby the original Mark 1 Turboencabulator could be attached to the DNA replicator in the search for a Covid 19 vaccine

a stance that so moved the audience that they petitioned the Bill and Melinda foundation for sufficient funds to enable the WHO to .........

.....they'll get Barry Cassidy to do a "One on One" with me and truth to tell there is not ONE of me. Even a cursory glance (an/nav ref) at NES will show a multiple personality trait sufficient to make Freud..........

....Barnaby whose main claim to fame was to prove that a single loose screw could bring down a whole cabinet. An established fact that when reported in the Stockholm edition of the Svenska Dagbladet caused a local stockmarket rush to cash in Ikea shares echoed in OZ by Volvo dealers suddenly..............

..........told me about this marvelous idea before?

"well the truth is that I was keeping it quiet because I was hoping to impress Mavis with my erudition and my influence at the AUF board

but that scheme collapsed (Turbo ref) when she discovered stock cars with Planey consequently

I totally failed to get her into the Drifter and me into ............

Seeking a relationship between length and wing span is a question many a duck has asked of a drake

...spiritual adviser to Turbo a role secured after serving an internship in the White House as kitchen hand to Paula White she who walks on the holy ground of the White House

Little did he know that Paula's spiritual energy derived from her regular turboencabulator massage and that if ever she should miss that TE enhanced morning ritual then..........

....nodded his appreciation and after a swift precautionary scan of the room quickly flashed the lining of his Burbery to disclose a range of face masks in diverse colours and patterns say "you wanna buy?"

Th which Turbo responded "My friend Twiggy...........

...downloading the app.

The TurboLocator app

All you need is to keep your blue tooth off

and all your other blue bits hidden else millions of Turbo fans fasten on to where you have been secretly and illegally exercising at your favourite ALA outside of your designated lock down zone.

If not they will find you and descend upon your ALA in their tens of thousands swarming like a Hillsong convention hyped up on................

... the missionary position while....

been into the mead again

...thought about that for a second or two and then gave his favourite leaky News Corp person a call, who in turn called the BBC and asked of them was it true that the famous Turbo invention was nothing more than a cheap Chinese knock off of the original William Hartnell sonic screwdriver, and what's more that if one were to peel off the 'mark iii' sticker you will find revealed a 'mark ii' sticker.

At which the man from the BBC immediately rang Slacker and Grubier the esteemed attorneys at law who rounded up all the Dr Who fans and with the Pertwee family as lead plaintiffs launched a class action against Cecil and co of the Stock Exchange accusing them of causing a precipitous fall in the TE shares.

At this juncture Cecil and co remembered their economics 101 lectures and placed multiple buy orders for TE shares. the value of which shot up again, the class action collapsed and Turbo.........

The ground is quite wet, it just looks dry because no weeds have been allowed to grow, timely spraying.

 

 

The tractor is a 1996 model so current value only about 50k aud, only 6400 hours with no overhauls on any components. Just like an old aircraft it can go on for many more years with simple maintenance. It sits in the shed every year for 11 months with no starting. Seeder is about 10yo and worth about 50k. A new rig like this would be north of $400k.

Apologies for the thread drift

Thanks Thruster for the response,

Those of us sitting back in our isolated retirement need those crops, to mature and off to market,

thank you for keeping the show going in hard times and harder.

How much and by when do you need some moisture to get that cooking oil sprouting, it looks very dry despite the wet weather boots on the tractor.?

on hearing on Fox news the Twitterrer in chief's promotion of iv disinfectant and internal sunlight as Covid-19 treatment.

Turbo had a Turbo/brainwave and immediately took out a patent on the Per/rectal Photon-emitting-Turbeencabulator as a presidential endorsed cure for the Covid virus.

However after receiving a phone call from the chief medical officer the branding was downgraded to merely a treatment for the Covid-19 virus.

Vigorously promoted on late night TV complete with bonus steak knives (if ordered on line that evening) TE once again started to rake in the $$$$.

$$$ that flowed MBN (avref) wards even faster when the new improved model was released with variable vibration levels, a market penetration that advanced ever further upwards when a bluetooth remote control was added to the mark iii model.

All was well until it was discovered that as a cost cutting measure (no surprise there) the complimentary lubricant packs had..................

... i got a glimpse of the SOP (AV/med ref) illustration on the box and I do not like it one little bit

I know that Cappy is a dab hand at fixing a weeping blue head and given that knowledge

and he being a much valued old friend I would prefer that we call Cappy for a second opinion or failing that .........

...Turbo Hall of Fame, installed in the re-purposed Ruby Princess permanently moored off Rottness Island and the major Western Australian tourist attraction since Gina in a joint venture with TE had exported all the quokkas to Wuhan to make quaranteed carona-19 free quokka burgers.

The burgers being better at Hungry Turbo's there was a mad scramble to establish franchised quokka burger stands throughout the Mid West US of A, an enterpirse that came to a sudden trading halt when..............

huan