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Mr. Olly with his good-boy carrot!

At the moment, we are deep into winter with frosty mornings and a cold chill setting in mid-afternoons. But, it's predicted to be an early spring this year, which means grass will be growing again soon. I don't do a lot of mowing in winter, so the machinery gets a little rest from the hard slog...

What a cutie. Those wheels look ace as well.

P&S Release Vacuum Aid As if the detailing world needed another product category, P&S has gone and created one anyway — the vacuum aid. I know, do we really need such a product? My answer to that is another question: who here hates vacuuming carpet as much as I do? Probably my least favourite...

Mr. Olly with his good-boy bone, which isn't keen on sharing.

Got the Ranger and Mustang washed this week. Tyres cleaned with Brake Buster, wheels and body with Carpro Reset. On the Ranger, after the wash I decided to apply Reload 2.0 to the paint and plastic trims. I feel like this product gets a bad wrap, but the latest formula is easier to apply and...

Slowly but surely, Olly has become ball crazy. Faych would chase a ball occasionally, but he was always scent and food motivated, a ball was a distraction. My first cocker Hafey was 1000% ball crazy though, it didn't matter where the ball went, he was going after it. Circa mid 1980's...

I bought this Stihl HSA56 back in November 2018. Up until that point, I had been running petrol-powered tools across the board. With how you handle a hedge trimmer, it puts a lot of strain through your shoulders, upper back and neck. Compared to my old HS45, this battery machine is lighter...

Sunshine, an empty cricket field, a new ball to chase, and an impromptu play date with the ladies. What more could a boy ask for?

Well, it got the better of me. I managed to track down a set of blue and red Snappy Grip handles. The black ones will be repurposed elsewhere. A small change, but having them match the decal, gamma seal, and bucket dolly makes quite a difference.

The nightly ritual, and doesn't he look pleased with himself.

It lives! :cool: Sunny winter days are perfect for driving, and today I got both V8s out — the Mustang and XR8, back-to-back. Despite sharing engine architecture, they're completely different animals. The Mustang loves to rev, spinning happily to 7500 rpm with a hard-edged induction note...

Briggs & Stratton DOV / Vanguard Back in the late 2000s, I was shopping for a new mower for my business. After a series of Victas and a dud Honda riddled with problems and far too heavy, I wanted to give Masport a try. I also decided to switch from aluminium to steel for the deck construction...

This is one of those things I didn't know how to search for because I didn't know its name. When I finally landed on it through a vague chain of Google searches, I discovered others didn't know the name either. The product in question is called a Bettix 'Bettamix' — a twin-chambered chemical...

The height and depth of a pickup tub makes them hard to work out of. They are also too small, so people end up towing a trailer to carry their tools. Just doesn't make logical sense to me. But then my povo base model Ranger doesn't have an ego inflator function, which matters to 95% of pickup...

Picked up a new garden client at the end of May. No mowing, just general gardening work. It's a large sweeping garden that backs onto bushland and the river, which I worry about come spring and summer as the snake population wakes up. There is also a large flowing creek bed and pond, of which...

I'll need to drop a couple of trees in at some stage in the next year, working on something BIG, a lifelong goal. I can't wait to put that saw to good use, its such a hotrod!

I don't know the exact moment, but since I was a kid, I've been obsessed with small engines. Lawn mowers, leaf blowers, grass trimmers, chainsaws — if it's got a small engine, I'm in. Pinpointing my Stihl obsession is easier: I used to watch in awe as our neighbour cut firewood with his Stihl...

Walkies this afternoon in our favourite spot. With all the rain earlier in the week, the river has breached the banks and has begun flooding into the valleys. The walking track also doubles as a levy bank, with a separate path below that is now flooded out in spots. The bird life seems to be...

From what I've noticed, there are two types these soaps. Type 1 - these back off the "protection" to be a better soap (cleaning, lubrication, suds). KCx CES, KCx Nano Magic, Ethos Ceramic Shampoo. Type 2 - these go the other direction, upping the "protection" at the expense of being a soap...