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by Dusty
Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:34 am
Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
Topic: Dusty's Bus
Replies: 251
Views: 282983

I'm not going to give you another "30 yrs in a house truck" . I find this Typing difficult (one fingered). So , no progress pics , straight into it . A suitable coal range was found , stuff constructed around it , and , on the whole , I find that there is more free fuel (pine cones) lying ...
by Dusty
Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:24 am
Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
Topic: Dusty's Bus
Replies: 251
Views: 282983

The immediate issue that I found , after the brakes , was that mains electric is useless without a 500mile cord ...... :shock: There was a mains fridge , mains cooker, mains hot water, mains lights... USELESS !!! So I changed to gas and 12v over the next yr or 2 , we went away often , got hot , got ...
by Dusty
Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:10 am
Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
Topic: Dusty's Bus
Replies: 251
Views: 282983

Well Rudy , I really didn't expect to you to post that pic , but now you have , I can give you guys a few more. Thanks to for showing me how :D When I first bought the bus in 1990 it was already converted and had been parked at a beach camp for the previous 6 yrs. The old man was past using it and t...
by Dusty
Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:59 am
Forum: Stuff Forum
Topic: Photography
Replies: 144
Views: 117083

Of course , the nice spots are known to like minded folk .... :roll:

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Its always interesting meeting new people , but I'm a strange sod and its even better when they leave again.
by Dusty
Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:53 am
Forum: Stuff Forum
Topic: Photography
Replies: 144
Views: 117083

I've been trolling thru my photos , there are a few that I can post here showing some aspects of non-tourist NZ.

Still with the seagulls at marfells Beach.

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Beautiful isolation , and only a few kms off the main road. Shell fish in abundance.
by Dusty
Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:27 pm
Forum: Stuff Forum
Topic: Photography
Replies: 144
Views: 117083

Yeah, that was a moments insanity Stuart, it wasn't untill a long time later that I was diagnosed as chemically sensitive and I had just finished spray painting a truck before we left on that trip. :shock: . One of the effects chemicals have on me is reduced ability to make rational decisions .........
by Dusty
Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:12 am
Forum: Stuff Forum
Topic: Photography
Replies: 144
Views: 117083

Parked at Marfells Beach earlier in 09. I watched this group of seagulls playing in the waves ,

They must have been practicing their syncronized surfing , as their timing was near perfect.

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by Dusty
Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:16 pm
Forum: Stuff Forum
Topic: Photography
Replies: 144
Views: 117083

Try again, this is central South Island NZ Hakataramea Road, in the summer, it gets pretty bleak on the other side of the pass. Oven in summer and freezing in winter. A basic road, interesting to travel on as very little traffic but for the local farmer (who always seems surprised to see another veh...
by Dusty
Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:07 pm
Forum: Stuff Forum
Topic: Photography
Replies: 144
Views: 117083

more New Zealand pics

OK< just learning how to do this....

Old Bedford Buses,

"You back up"
"No, you back up"
"YOU back up"
"I'm a lighthouse!"

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by Dusty
Sat Jan 09, 2010 5:21 pm
Forum: Trouble Report
Topic: Feel Like Chatting?
Replies: 75
Views: 54297

great chat machine sharkey , I think it's nice to be able to interact directly with someone on the other side of the world.

on my computor , firefox does not allow automatic refresh. I have to manually [ALLOW] the process to follow a conversation.

Do you know what I can do about this?