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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 95264 Melbourne Gender:	Fix the roads yourself? Nov 3^rd, 2022 at 7:00am In New Zealand farmers have to fix their own roads – public roads – using their own excavators as no one else will do it. Are we doing the same in Australia?
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Reply #1 - Nov 3^rd, 2022 at 9:23am

Up this way there was a recent news thing about a local who paints the pot holes on the road so people have a chance of avoiding them.... next day the council gang was out patty caking some pot holes... they didn't include in that news thing the local hero who goes down and cuts back the long grass that obscures a dangerous corner off his own bat and on his own fuel and rideon etc... that's me.

We're a Wild Bunch out this way it seems... take the lore into our own hands all the times (bit like Abos) .... since we know the truth and what's best. At the local progress association I tell them it's time to secede...

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Reply #2 - Nov 3^rd, 2022 at 12:16pm

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2022 at 9:23am:

Up this way there was a recent news thing about a local who paints the pot holes on the road so people have a chance of avoiding them.... next day the council gang was out patty caking some pot holes... they didn't include in that news thing the local hero who goes down and cuts back the long grass that obscures a dangerous corner off his own bat and on his own fuel and rideon etc... that's me.

We're a Wild Bunch out this way it seems... take the lore into our own hands all the times (bit like Abos) .... since we know the truth and what's best. At the local progress association I tell them it's time to secede...

Hi Grappler,
get in there and fix the roads.
I wonder if you really need a council permit? Undecided

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Reply #3 - Nov 4^th, 2022 at 7:39am

I love the blase style of humour the Kiwis have in approaching things like this.

You wouldn't see it here in Australia.

I found the NZ approach works here in a different way.
Once I decided to fix a road myself.
I knew it wasn't the right way to go about it, but I made use of some left-over cement Grin

Grin

in the wee hours of the night.

Sure enough, a few days later, the Council had got the Road Crew to 'fix the road properly'. Wink

Wink

AIMLESS EXTENTION OF KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER, WHICH IS WHAT I THINK YOU REALLY MEAN BY THE TERM 'CURIOSITY', IS MERELY INEFFICIENCY. I AM DESIGNED TO AVOID INEFFICIENCY.

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Reply #4 - Nov 4^th, 2022 at 1:24pm

Jasin wrote on Nov 4^th, 2022 at 7:39am:

I love the blase style of humour the Kiwis have in approaching things like this.

You wouldn't see it here in Australia.

I found the NZ approach works here in a different way.
Once I decided to fix a road myself.
I knew it wasn't the right way to go about it, but I made use of some left-over cement Grin

Grin

in the wee hours of the night.

Sure enough, a few days later, the Council had got the Road Crew to 'fix the road properly'. Wink

Wink

Really?
I have been tempted to do some repairs quite a few times.

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Bias_2012 Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 10304 Gender:	Re: Fix the roads yourself? Reply #5 - Nov 4^th, 2022 at 4:02pm My Council has discovered a new quick way to fix pot-holes ... just dump some loose gravel in them and bob's yur uncle
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Reply #6 - Nov 4^th, 2022 at 5:49pm

Bobby. wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2022 at 12:16pm:

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2022 at 9:23am:

Up this way there was a recent news thing about a local who paints the pot holes on the road so people have a chance of avoiding them.... next day the council gang was out patty caking some pot holes... they didn't include in that news thing the local hero who goes down and cuts back the long grass that obscures a dangerous corner off his own bat and on his own fuel and rideon etc... that's me.

We're a Wild Bunch out this way it seems... take the lore into our own hands all the times (bit like Abos) .... since we know the truth and what's best. At the local progress association I tell them it's time to secede...

Hi Grappler,
get in there and fix the roads.
I wonder if you really need a council permit? Undecided

Undecided

Patched a couple - didn't last, but for a while it was OK... if we fixed the roads ourselves somebody could sue if they had a prang or something... busted a tyre in a hole...

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
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AusGeoff Gold Member Offline Sage of Gippsland Posts: 5998 Victoria Gender:	Re: Fix the roads yourself? Reply #7 - Nov 4^th, 2022 at 5:54pm Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Nov 4^th, 2022 at 5:49pm: ...if we fixed the roads ourselves somebody could sue if they had a prang or something... busted a tyre in a hole... Good point.
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Reply #8 - Nov 4^th, 2022 at 6:09pm

AusGeoff wrote on Nov 4^th, 2022 at 5:54pm:

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Nov 4^th, 2022 at 5:49pm:

...if we fixed the roads ourselves somebody could sue if they had a prang or something... busted a tyre in a hole...

Good point.

.... just another way of ensuring that the common person has no real power in society.... think on it.... when you're slapped...

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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 95264 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Fix the roads yourself? Reply #9 - Nov 5^th, 2022 at 6:28am AusGeoff wrote on Nov 4^th, 2022 at 5:54pm: Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Nov 4^th, 2022 at 5:49pm: ...if we fixed the roads ourselves somebody could sue if they had a prang or something... busted a tyre in a hole... Good point. yes - we have a litigious society.
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Reply #10 - Nov 5^th, 2022 at 9:27am

Jasin wrote on Nov 4^th, 2022 at 7:39am:

I love the blase style of humour the Kiwis have in approaching things like this.

You wouldn't see it here in Australia.

I found the NZ approach works here in a different way.
Once I decided to fix a road myself.
I knew it wasn't the right way to go about it, but I made use of some left-over cement Grin

Grin

in the wee hours of the night.

Sure enough, a few days later, the Council had got the Road Crew to 'fix the road properly'. Wink

Wink

Good on you for being proactive.
You did something positive and got a good outcome

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Reply #11 - Nov 5^th, 2022 at 3:50pm

The roads leading to the carpark near my place of work are so bad that I have wondered how the council does not fix up the massive potholes much sooner. I was on holiday for a month, a while ago. Having restarted work again, I found the little potholes. that were there before my holiday, have widened with a few new ones. Perhaps the rain washed away whatever was holding the road together.

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Reply #12 - Nov 5^th, 2022 at 4:08pm

UnSubRocky wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 3:50pm:

The roads leading to the carpark near my place of work are so bad that I have wondered how the council does not fix up the massive potholes much sooner. I was on holiday for a month, a while ago. Having restarted work again, I found the little potholes. that were there before my holiday, have widened with a few new ones. Perhaps the rain washed away whatever was holding the road together.

Go to Bunnings and get some gravel to fix those potholes up.

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Reply #13 - Nov 5^th, 2022 at 5:22pm

Bobby. wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 4:08pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 3:50pm:

The roads leading to the carpark near my place of work are so bad that I have wondered how the council does not fix up the massive potholes much sooner. I was on holiday for a month, a while ago. Having restarted work again, I found the little potholes. that were there before my holiday, have widened with a few new ones. Perhaps the rain washed away whatever was holding the road together.

Go to Bunnings and get some gravel to fix those potholes up.

or a bag of quick set cement

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Reply #14 - Nov 5^th, 2022 at 6:56pm

Sprintcyclist wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 5:22pm:

Bobby. wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 4:08pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 3:50pm:

The roads leading to the carpark near my place of work are so bad that I have wondered how the council does not fix up the massive potholes much sooner. I was on holiday for a month, a while ago. Having restarted work again, I found the little potholes. that were there before my holiday, have widened with a few new ones. Perhaps the rain washed away whatever was holding the road together.

Go to Bunnings and get some gravel to fix those potholes up.

or a bag of quick set cement

I put some excess cracker dust I had into a couple - cars eventually just sweep it out anyway... you need to firm it up... might mix some cracker with a bit of quick set....

Trouble always is that if the pot hole is wet at all or takes in water when it rains, water will not compress and when a car runs over it, it forces the water through the seal again, and the whole pothole process starts off again.....and again.

Parts of the road here just need tearing up and re-doing.... traffic is getting heavier and heavier and the infrastructure is not up to it... lots of construction going on with daily cement trucks and heavy load trucks coming and going.. and a lot of the road is barely above swamp level so when it rains it all gets wet underneath and away she goes.

Got a plan I call The Two Bridges that would create a faster shorter and more modern route from town to here.... and unfortunately open it up, since I pass flat spaces by the lake and always say the developers must be absolutely drooling over those once the sewer comes in as well .... throw up one of those cheek by jowl 'retirement' places gated off from the scum of the universe fifty homes to the acre ... wish I had one of those acreages - worth a mint one day soon.

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Reply #15 - Nov 5^th, 2022 at 7:01pm

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 6:56pm:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 5:22pm:

Bobby. wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 4:08pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 3:50pm:

The roads leading to the carpark near my place of work are so bad that I have wondered how the council does not fix up the massive potholes much sooner. I was on holiday for a month, a while ago. Having restarted work again, I found the little potholes. that were there before my holiday, have widened with a few new ones. Perhaps the rain washed away whatever was holding the road together.

Go to Bunnings and get some gravel to fix those potholes up.

or a bag of quick set cement

I put some excess cracker dust I had into a couple - cars eventually just sweep it out anyway... you need to firm it up... might mix some cracker with a bit of quick set....

Be careful that the council doesn't see you. Grin

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Reply #16 - Nov 5^th, 2022 at 7:07pm

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 6:56pm:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 5:22pm:

Bobby. wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 4:08pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 3:50pm:

The roads leading to the carpark near my place of work are so bad that I have wondered how the council does not fix up the massive potholes much sooner. I was on holiday for a month, a while ago. Having restarted work again, I found the little potholes. that were there before my holiday, have widened with a few new ones. Perhaps the rain washed away whatever was holding the road together.

Go to Bunnings and get some gravel to fix those potholes up.

or a bag of quick set cement

I put some excess cracker dust I had into a couple - cars eventually just sweep it out anyway... you need to firm it up... might mix some cracker with a bit of quick set....

If you do something, that is of benefit.

On a totally different but related topic, we have lots of kids playing up and down our street.
I really like it, so wave to them , etc, etc.

Kids are kids, they leave a bit of rubbish around.
Every now and then, I take the wheelie bin up and down the street with a rubbish picker up thingie and pick up all the rubbish.
When I have finished, my neighbourhood looks a lot nicer and I far prefer that.
It's a small thing, takes me 15 mins.
The world is better after that small action.

Putting quickset cement or whatever in local potholes is a lot more work.
Someone around here did that in a 'backroad' to the local servo. It made a big difference.

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Reply #17 - Nov 5^th, 2022 at 7:10pm

Sprintcyclist wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 7:07pm:

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 6:56pm:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 5:22pm:

Bobby. wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 4:08pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 3:50pm:

The roads leading to the carpark near my place of work are so bad that I have wondered how the council does not fix up the massive potholes much sooner. I was on holiday for a month, a while ago. Having restarted work again, I found the little potholes. that were there before my holiday, have widened with a few new ones. Perhaps the rain washed away whatever was holding the road together.

Go to Bunnings and get some gravel to fix those potholes up.

or a bag of quick set cement

I put some excess cracker dust I had into a couple - cars eventually just sweep it out anyway... you need to firm it up... might mix some cracker with a bit of quick set....

If you do something, that is of benefit.

On a totally different but related topic, we have lots of kids playing up and down our street.
I really like it, so wave to them , etc, etc.

Kids are kids, they leave a bit of rubbish around.
Every now and then, I take the wheelie bin up and down the street with a rubbish picker up thingie and pick up all the rubbish.
When I have finished, my neighbourhood looks a lot nicer and I far prefer that.
It's a small thing, takes me 15 mins.
The world is better after that small action.

Putting quickset cement or whatever in local potholes is a lot more work.
Someone around here did that in a 'backroad' to the local servo. It made a big difference.

We had one regular as clockwork - bought dinner at KFC and finished it in the car at the same pot virtually every day... threw the boxes etc out the window. Same spot every time we went down the road.

That's an adult who grew up to be a pig... must've been a tradie since it stopped a while ago.

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Reply #18 - Nov 5^th, 2022 at 7:12pm

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Nov 5^th, 2022 at 7:10pm:

............ We had one regular as clockwork - bought dinner at KFC and finished it in the car at the same pot virtually every day... threw the boxes etc out the window. Same spot every time we went down the road.

That's an adult who grew up to be a pig... must've been a tradie since it stopped a while ago.

I SO hate that.

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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 46477 Gender:	Re: Fix the roads yourself? Reply #19 - Nov 6^th, 2022 at 3:09am I spat my chewie-gum out the window today while driving. Doing a good deed for the day to fill that pot-hole. I hope it sticks.
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47364 At my desk.	Re: Fix the roads yourself? Reply #20 - Nov 12^th, 2022 at 11:08am I've seen it happen after storm damage. To be fair, the council did not have access at that stage, but it still took a long time to get in there and fix it up properly when they did get access.
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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 95264 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Fix the roads yourself? Reply #21 - Nov 12^th, 2022 at 11:15pm freediver wrote on Nov 12^th, 2022 at 11:08am: I've seen it happen after storm damage. To be fair, the council did not have access at that stage, but it still took a long time to get in there and fix it up properly when they did get access. So - have you ever fixed the roads yourself?
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47364 At my desk.	Re: Fix the roads yourself? Reply #22 - Nov 13^th, 2022 at 12:11pm I was there are the time with a machete, and dragging logs off the road. Not exactly filling potholes, but there was enough of a path to get cars through, once the creek could be crossed. There were a few chainsaws, and one of the locals had a backhoe, without which we would not have made a dent.
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freediver wrote on Nov 13^th, 2022 at 12:11pm:

I was there are the time with a machete, and dragging logs off the road. Not exactly filling potholes, but there was enough of a path to get cars through, once the creek could be crossed. There were a few chainsaws, and one of the locals had a backhoe, without which we would not have made a dent.

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Bias_2012 wrote on Nov 4^th, 2022 at 4:02pm:

My Council has discovered a new quick way to fix pot-holes ... just dump some loose gravel in them and bob's yur uncle

We've certainly had more than our share of chronic whingers up this way

FIRSTLY, they haven't worked out that this rapid deterioration of roads is caused by record rainfalls from a persistant La Nina cycle - and that it's futile to pour YOUR money in to repairs until this cycle has passed, forecast early next year (or as close as a forecast can get).

SECONDLY, it never seems to occur that the upkeep and repair of roads fall into the jurisdiction of EITHER their Local Government Authority - OR their State Government.

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