1400 Owners Life Today ( The 'What did you do today?' thread)

[Hooli]

I always imaged Oz was cheap, it's not like ya short of land over there. Unlike the UK.

[Sweaty]

Plenty of land Hooli, but most of it is unliveable or has no services, employment etc, so majority of the population live around the coast or within a few hours drive at least.
SYDNEY property is ridiculously  expensive, but just lucky we put the hard yards in and went without when we were young and have a nice house to show for it. Bloody hard for the young ones starting out though. My 23 y/o daughter moved into her New home 12 months ago with a big mortgage, but has her head screwed on well and will do fine. My 22 y/o Son, who is living with us, is waiting for us to Drop off the Perch or he might even knock us Off 
https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/australian-property-still-world-s-most-expensive-despite-sharp-falls-20190508-p51l5x

[Irish in Oz]

Just to give you a better idea the house Tony posted above would have been approx. 50K AUD to purchase 30 years ago. I know this as I was in the buying market then and looking at investment in Brisbane areas.
Like Sweaty I am leaving mine as it is so the kids can pick it up when I fall off the perch.

[Tony Nitrous]

I always imaged Oz was cheap, it's not like ya short of land over there. Unlike the UK.

Some properties and land are cheap here.
The problem is the cheap ones aren't where most folk want to be.

There was a very crude calculation that meant an Aussie had 100 times more space than a Pommie if the countries were divided up. The reality is almost everyone wants to live around the coast and most of those near a capital city. Folk like the coasts weather, jobs, infrastructure, having a hospital or airport.

I can guarantee you I can find you a big detached house on several acres for less than almost any house in the UK, but you may not want to live somewhere so rural.

Then they have put a house on the block next door, the price will equal 3 properties just outside of Brisbane to the North or West. Folk don't want to live in rough areas and spend an hour and a half commuting in heavy traffic.

I recently looked at a nice house in an OK country town within commuting distance to an inland city. House was very nice, land was twice the size of yesterday's, they hadn't sold it at $247,000..... £131,000.

If you want to compare AU / UK prices compare inner city prices here with London area prices.  A desireable area that's an easy commute to a capital city is high.

[Tony Nitrous]

The house yesterday was bought just for the land.

A much bigger block of land with planning permission at Crows Nest is $85,000 (£45,000) and it's easier to commute into the city of Toowoomba than it is to commute into Brisbane from many of it suburbs.

£385,000 for a smaller city block, £45,000 for a bigger country block.
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-residential+land-qld-crows+nest-201433394

I'm sure London v places in Wales or Scotland would be similar.

If you don't need to be near a city's business hub, airport or private schools, I actually prefer the rural (but not remote) properties before you look at them being 8 times cheaper.

Again... cottage in the UK's countryside or little house in London?

[Kiwifruit]

Parked quietly in Mount Maunganui mainstreet yesterday. Rather nice me thinks   

[Irish in Oz]

There are places here in Ireland we call rural and no one wants to live there either.
Then there is also interest rates average Oz 4.5% then UK 2.25%, but then you are trying to get away from that. But if we all had the same idea it wouldn't be so rural anymore.

[Irish in Oz]

Parked quietly in Mount Maunganui mainstreet yesterday. Rather nice me thinks   

Front discs are on opposite direction 
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[Tony Nitrous]

Parked quietly in Mount Maunganui mainstreet yesterday. Rather nice me thinks   

A less modded version of mine, with modern wheels and an early USD front end.  That's very nice. Front discs are a 10 minute fix but I'd have to fit the proper headlight,   The boxy square lines are part of what made the ET / EX, round chrome looks odd on one.     F#ck..... it's still nice though.

A mate keeps making me offers on mine.
He wants to race it in a Classic Superbike type races.

[Tony Nitrous]

I have the next 17 days off work.  Taking tomorrow, then the next two weeks off, 1 week away with my wife, 1 week working on the house with a builder. Lazy night tonight then head off in the morning. 

When I do return to work I still have 26 days banked so might start taking more time off.  Apart from buying the H2-SX I haven't really done much this year so my man-logic says I have a heap of "me-time" banked too. 

[grog]

Today was give the brake/clutch levers service day. Lots of crud builds up. I washed out both pivots with WD40, cleaned every bit around them with a rag. Then applied some Inox. Perfect job. Then the ride home, maybe hit 140 in places. Forgot about the wind factor. Inox creeping up both levers, all over my gloves also. I then wiped mirror, bad smudge. I mustve changed setting on clutch lever, could hardly reach it. How could such an easy job turn to shit, it did. Hard to be perfect all the time. 

[Mick_J]

Today was give the brake/clutch levers service day. Lots of crud builds up. I washed out both pivots with WD40, cleaned every bit around them with a rag. Then applied some Inox. Perfect job. Then the ride home, maybe hit 140 in places. Forgot about the wind factor. Inox creeping up both levers, all over my gloves also. I then wiped mirror, bad smudge. I mustve changed setting on clutch lever, could hardly reach it. How could such an easy job turn to shit, it did. Hard to be perfect all the time. 

It take a shit load of practice to achieve that 

[KiwiCol]

Been working in the evenings (after paid work) on the electrics on the boat. Took out the master rotary battery switch & replaced with a newer improved (for my circumstances) version, that has a digital voltage sensitive relay in the setup. Got that done, renewed some terminals in the battery compartment, then set about fitting a new fused power feed & negative busbar to the helm station.  I was going to install the larger fused power distribution box for the positive connections, but just ran out of room in there, so had to leave it as a terminal block on those.

Got it to the stage of first test last night, all working as it should & no smoke or fire, so that's always a plus!  Now today just a general tidy up of things, cable tie up etc & install the chart plotter, the GPS & the sounder, test they go & I'm all set. 

Well pleased with completing this lot.   hell, might even get to take the bike for a spin tomorrow!

[Irish in Oz]

@KiwiCol
I had a look at the technical specs of that BEP unit, could have done with a setup like that recently as I ran both battery flat while messing around with an Eberspacher. Engine wouldn't crank next morning, lucky for me the public jetty I was on had a power outlet post beside, a quick charge and I was on my way.

[grog]

Today the angle grinder won. Just a quick job so never put boots on. What a dickhead. 7 stitches later. Now sciatica left leg & toes on rhs. Please pay out on me, feel free, im paying out on myself. We should have a new forum subject, biggest fuck up of the week. I win this week.