Thankyou, it was something I always wanted to do, the "Australian way".

Where are you writing from? We'll still get bushfires and it's nothing to do with global warming crap, it's to do with not being "allowed" to do hazard reduction burns in cooler months like we used to. Now there are piles of forms to fill in if you want to do a burn and most times you get knocked back by the big brother RFS sitting in their ivory towers in Sydney. They like to control everything.

No problem, go for your life. The full version is here kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6DbaZeNrreNmrM Also another video on my timeline of the more recent fires in 2019 in this area (Bilpin) We are facing a big problem with all this stuff because there is not enough hazard reduction being done for the simple reason of too much red tape and too many forms to fill in just to be "given permission" to burn a bit of scrub. Too much "health & safety" rubbish these days as well. In this clip you will see a friend of mine who is in the rfs nearly lost his house which had smoke just starting to come out of the roof because the NSW fire brigade refused to go in to the house without breathing equipment. My mate Sam grabbed a hose and went in himself and extinguished a small fire in his exposed rafters that was just beginning to take hold. You will see the guys in breathing equipment turn up as he comes out of the house. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWbbop6bq6lqo6M

What coast? this is on Mt Tootie, NSW Australia. Google it!!

Hi Roger, sure is, I did send you a message when you sent me a friend request. My email is [email protected] if you want to drop me a line on that. This video by the way, the lady beating the carpets is my sister in law Pat, she lives in Plymouth but used to visit us in Australia every year. The other girl was my wife in happier days, she died from Alzheimer's in July 2021. I live in Bilpin, NSW which is 80klm north west of Sydney.

Yes a sad song indeed, that fire was caused by the army doing live fire practice on a bad fire day up near Lithgow. It was stopped at Bilpin by the RFS including Tony Abbott who was Prime Minister at the time and he turned up driving his fire truck with his crew and worked all night doing a back burn with all the other crews.

@@johnkeeble3068 where are you located

@@aussiefarmerboy245 Bilpin NSW, what's your interest in the 59 club? I am member number 3544, joined at Hackney Wick 1963.

@@johnkeeble3068 what is the 59 club

@@aussiefarmerboy245 My mistake, I clicked on your channel and saw the 59 club listed but it was mine I was looking at, not yours. The 59 club is the biggest motorcycle club in the world based in London where I come from originally. It was started by a vicar in the east end of London in 1959. I joined in 1963.

It's the track down from Mt Tootie at Bilpin, NSW

@@johnkeeble3068 i wasnt that far away though.lol.i remember being down through that way with my old man carting bricks .pretty wild bits of road and country in that nick of the woods.

They stayed to protect the buildings, if they had left everything would have been destroyed, it's what we do! The noise you can hear like a motor going are the water sprinklers on the roof, they were instrumental in saving the place. At about one minute 44 you can see droplets of water on the glass, that is because the strong wind generated by the fire was blowing the water back on to the buildings, so keeping it damp and preventing it from catching fire, the building is weatherboard. The young lady you can hear in the video had a few days previous to this had a similar experience at her fathers place further up the road when the fire hit there. This place was her mothers.

Mack V-8 is deeper and stronger due to the larger pipes Scania likes them skinny and hi pitched for some God awful reason I can’t imagine

I drove one with the Williams air throttle with the pressure turned up putting 690 horses at the wheels

Track down from Mt Tootie at Bilpin, NSW

Bilpin, NSW, 80klm west of Sydney, track down from Mt Tootie.