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12bolts
19th January 2012, 03:54 PM
g'day I'm Phil from near Ingham, about 1 hour north of Townsville.
I do a bit of woodwork and metalwork. I found this site whilst searching for Hercus information on my latest acquisition, a southbend 9" clone, so for now I will probably be lurking the metalwork section.
Cheers
munruben
21st January 2012, 01:44 PM
Welcome aboard. nice to have you as a member. :2tsup:
Grommett
21st January 2012, 05:15 PM
Welcome to the forum. Hope you enjoy your stay and get out of the metalwork section eventually.
Veedubeuro
22nd January 2012, 09:26 AM
Hi Phil, welcome to the forums:) done a bit of metalwork myself and once i get my own place i might just have to set up a small section in my 'shop for some:) inherited some tools from my late father such as a drill press and bench grinder, alot of hand tools from apprenticship too:)
chambezio
22nd January 2012, 10:00 AM
G'Day Phil
"HooRoo" is one of those typically Australian sayings that is heading for extinction, alas, due to our overwhelming bombardment of American TV.
Its a real pity to loose these sayings, and a whole lot more, from our everyday speech!
I think that we are claiming to be clever to adopt "modern" sayings and expressions in our language rather than keeping our old ones slip by.
I have a nephew who is in his mid thirties. He has dreadlocks down to his shoulders and works as a gardener/qualified tree arborist in the blue mountains. To look at him one immediately thinks "hippy" (and all the derogatory terms that go with it) but he is a conscientious and hard worker
The "odd" thing about him is that he always says "HooRoo" and has done since he was a little fella. He is very Australian in his way
Hope to hear more from you Phil
fishflog
22nd January 2012, 10:56 AM
Hoo Roo is always my parting comment either in person or on the phone.
Welcome to the forum Phil.
Oddjob1
22nd January 2012, 04:28 PM
G'day mate,
there is a wealth of good folks with good info and camaraderie on Neils website and I'm sure you will add great value as well, but we need to get one thing straight:) G'day means Hello and Hooroo means goodbye for now, So which is it?:D Are you comin or goin? Not much is dead these days, it's just laying in wait to be revitalized!
Anyway, Hooroo or in fact, I will see you Anon.
Oddjob1:2tsup: