ID this bike?

[John Gryphon]

The road opened today after the recent bushfires so I took the time to visit my old place. The green iron is what is left of my 4 bed 2 storey home of seven years. The bike,polaris were mine. The wine bottles were in the "winery shed". The 'circles' are poly watertanks.

 

[jall55]

Bloody hell - terrible

Will you rebuild in the same spot ?

 

[John Gryphon]

so I took the time to visit my old place. T

Will you rebuild in the same spot ?

see above jall. Iwas there for seven years,boy we had some rollicking times there too. Shot/hunted lots of game as well on and around there. My kids drove the quads and polaris and partied justas hard lol.
my goodmate half an hour from my current place lived nearby then. I went to the ruin of his place also and took pics. I will load some...there were 430 homes done for btw.

 

[jall55]

see above jall. Iwas there for seven years,boy we had some rollicking times there too. Shot/hunted lots of game as well on and around there. My kids drove the quads and polaris and partied justas hard lol.
my goodmate half an hour from my current place lived nearby then. I went to the ruin of his place also and took pics. I will load some...there were 430 homes done for btw.

Got ya - sometimes here we call the old place where we live

Bloody hell that f'ing crap

Not sure what else to say - but hope everyone is physically ok

 

[frank666]

Looks like a Yamaha AG200?

 

[John Gryphon]

carbon fibre push bike.



oven glass melted FFS.

 

[John Gryphon]

but hope everyone is physically ok

yes but the mental strain and pressure is immense. Tims (house above) mate lost his 800 acres and at an age where you can never get back again.

 

[Pighunter]

Mate, I live in the middle of the woods and dread that.

You must be devastated, best of luck with getting back on your feet.

 

[John Gryphon]

I live in the middle of the woods and dread that.

Yes and the ****ing aussie wood (bush) is the worst. This is Tims concrete shooting bench,it had a roof structure over it for all weather shooting/sighting in and a 200 yard range cut through the ti-tree.

 

[Pighunter]

It's bad here too, we've had a lot of rain recently after a couple of years of drought, which is good.

The bulk of the woods here are Mediterranean or Holm oak, which goes up like a good one and spreads quickly, but the authorities are really on it and generally get fires out very quickly.

Still makes the old rear end pucker whenever I smell smoke......

 

[John Gryphon]

It's bad here too, we've had a lot of rain recently after a couple of years of drought, which is good.

The bulk of the woods here are Mediterranean or Holm oak, which goes up like a good one and spreads quickly, but the authorities are really on it and generally get fires out very quickly.

Still makes the old rear end pucker whenever I smell smoke......View attachment 458201

not enough water to putit out is the problem.

 

[Pighunter]

Fortunately there are several big lakes nearby and the sea is 40 minutes drive, so a lot less in a fire water scooping plane.

When we get a fire, the skies are buzzing.

This was a couple of years ago, about half an hour from here near the coast.

 

[John Gryphon]

Fortunately there are several big lakes nearby and the sea is 40 minutes drive, so a lot less in a fire water scooping plane.

When we get a fire, the skies are buzzing.

This was a couple of years ago, about half an hour from here near the coast. View attachment 458203

your big population makes them deadly,this fire atm has burnt 450,000 hectares for one death but 450homes and all the other **** like stock and sheds/tractors

 

[Pighunter]

Fortunately deaths are rare, they are on the case very quickly.

It's all the peripheral damage as you say, such a waste......

 

[Taff]

Blxxxxy

Eucalyptus​

 

[John Gryphon]

Fortunately deaths are rare, they are on the case very quickly.

2009 173 burnt to death.. Black Saturday I had taken a Sydney mate out for a drive that morning looking at some deer country and the north wind got up as the temp hit 46c and I remember saying "**** me we have got to get out of this ****ing bush" We had only just been back an hour when we heard that most of Victoria was on fire. (i was in the house above at the time)
75 dead in the 1983 fires. Ash Wednesday,I did my little bit on a fire truck for a week like so many others having been living in a hard hit area.
Fires that affected so many on a scale that`s hard to believe.

 

[John Gryphon]

Blxxxxy

Eucalyptus​

Until one see`s what they do in a fire you wont believe how explosive they are. The leaves bursting with oil 'flash'

 

[Taff]

It’s what caused the devastating fire in Portugal, nothing to do with global warming, apart from paper production, apparently you can harvest three times per planting, nobody thought it was a bad idea to bring in a non native tree, which from experience in Australia proved how much of a fire risk it was, into a urban area.

 

[Pighunter]

Just for the record, when I said deaths are rare, I am talking about here in South East France.

 

[John Gryphon]

It’s what caused the devastating fire in Portugal, nothing to do with global warming, apart from paper production, apparently you can harvest three times per planting, nobody thought it was a bad idea to bring in a non native tree, which from experience in Australia proved how much of a fire risk it was, into a urban area.

California has I believe a fair few,Israel also in fact many places have them as they are fantastic timber sources.
I wandered online as per below...no royalties of course.
I actually passed a 'blue gum' plantation yesterday that was burnt out.

• Brazil: With approximately 7.6 million hectares, Brazil is the world's largest producer of eucalyptus, utilizing the wood primarily for pulp and, increasingly, for bioenergy.
• China: Holds significant plantations (approx. 2.6–5.4 million hectares) focused on timber and paper production, particularly in southern provinces like Guangxi and Guangdong.
• India: Possesses roughly 3.9 million hectares of plantations, often used for pulpwood.