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Ocean and Outback House Removals

Locality: Gympie, Queensland

Phone: +61 427 739 939

Address: 1 Drummond Drive 4570 Gympie, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.oceanandoutback.com.au

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23.01.2022 3 bits from Chinchilla to Bauhinia Downs this week so far, chopped it up and loaded last week and run the 3 piece the last 2 mornings about 400km. Should be buttoned up up by mid next week. Got a old school mate to give me a hand and it showed today when he guided me onto our pegs in one hit with my old trailer, no state of the art bullshit just proper house moving.

22.01.2022 All go, 20mm of rain last night and a black soil driveway, was here till 9pm digging drains to protect our 107 holes from filling up with water. Then this morning after a fun drive in skimmed the top 2 inches of mud off the driveway so we could get 2 10 wheeler conc trucks in. All worked we are half way there. Got our concrete pumpers from Gympie, Cardale Concrete Pumping here, couldn’t get anyone around here.

20.01.2022 Awesome shift, didn’t get bogged in the park like I thought we were going to.

20.01.2022 The old donga survived. Mel came out to Gayndah to do back pilot for me and we stayed with our great Friends Sue & Ritchie Walters. They hung out with us today and Ritchie had a steer of the Mack in a few tight places while I guided. And the owner Ted drove his 1930 Dodge in front dressed up as a pilot, was a bit of a crack up. All unloaded and home tonight, Ted has given himself the fun job of stumping it. And big thanks to our Ergon escort the boys and girls did a great job for us, highly organised and ran like clockwork. And our police escort did a awesome job, good to get local police for a change.

19.01.2022 WIDE LOADS - what to do? The following article is shared from the Truck Friendly Web site - 'Sharing the roads with trucks' https://truckfriendly.com.au/being-s...afe-with-trucks WIDE LOADS Sharing the Australian highways with very big loads is part of the adventure of travel. Regular travellers on Australia’s highways will see a vast array of vehicles and machinery being transported across the country, but few understand the role that pilot vehicles play in escorting these vehicles. It’s a harsh reality but ignoring these pilots and their large & oversize vehicles can have dire consequences. These pilot vehicles travel our highways with a large yellow sign on the roof, accompanied by yellow, rotating beacons to warn motorists of the approach of an oversize load. Most oversize moves occur during daylight hours, between sunrise and sundown. Only extremely large oversize movements may happen at night to avoid disturbing heavier day time traffic. These moves are well lit and are accompanied by a convoy of support vehicles, including police escorts. The truck driver and escorts communicate on UHF Radio, channel 40. These vehicles can be travelling very slowly from sixty kilometres an hour to one hundred kilometres an hour, depending on size and weight, and state laws of course. Anything wider than two and a half metres is oversize, and the truck carrying this load will be flashing you with bright yellow, rotating beacons and displaying a banner across the front. If you are approaching the rear of such vehicle, you may see a bright yellow beacon, and warning sign advising the load is wider than normal. If the load is being escorted by one pilot, it’s wider than three and a half metres. If the load is preceded by more than two pilots and a Police Traffic Escort, the load is huge and you will have to pull over in a safe place off the road. The first pilot vehicle you see may also have alternating flashing drive lights known as wig-wags. This indicates the load is more than four and a half metres wide. Then there’s the rear pilot. It’s this driver’s job to warn vehicles approaching from the rear of the presence of something big sharing the highway ahead. Sharing our roads is the key. A good tip if you are a regular traveller of our highways is the use of a UHF radio. It could save your life, or at the very least, your caravan or motorhome. A few stone chips are the least of your worries if you fail to give way to oversize vehicles. A two-way radio allows you to scan or monitor channel 40 and communicate with the large or oversize vehicles. It’s recommended drivers use channel 40 as the call channel, and move to other channels for a chat. There will be strategic information which you can use to your advantage to make your travels safer. Most of the time the radio language is purely and simply information about road and traffic conditions. There is a very short window of chat opportunity when passing in opposite directions. Some examples of terminology are, Southbound oversize is 4.5 metres. You may need to back off and make some room. Another example, Copy in the caravan? We have six metres. Please find a safe place to pull over. In some states, particularly in Western Australia, oversize vehicles can travel in convoy. So the call from the Pilot may be, Copy southbound? We have two at four and a half metres. In most circumstances the pilot or truck driver will instruct you how to safely negotiate the wide load from either direction with safe negotiation as the priority. It is in the motorist’s best interest to communicate with the pilot and truck driver. It’s a simple matter of calling up on channel 40. They will do everything in their power to keep everyone in the vicinity of the load as safe as possible. Your co-operation will make their job much easier. If they don’t see any indication you’re waiting to overtake, you may stay behind the convoy for more kilometres than you had planned. So be on the lookout for pilot vehicles and their oversize loads and share the road safely for a better traveling experience for all. Source: National Pilot Vehicle Drivers Association and Chris Thiel. .

18.01.2022 Almost there, concrete in holes tomorrow, can’t believe how well this old girl traveled over some of the worst roads in QLD. All joined roof up 107 post to cement in tomorrow. Usually stump them before we do roof and full join but this one will be fine

14.01.2022 Up loaded and ready to roll with a high load escort tomorrow. She’s got a bit of age on it, built in 1845 still got the timber shingles under the tin and the walls are all slabs of timber 2-3 inches thick.

11.01.2022 Sunday nights all ready to roll. Offsiders not a real good guider.

09.01.2022 Boys are going unreal arrived 7am Monday morning, Tuesday afternoon we have 3 bits, one fully loaded ready to go. Tomorrow have next 2 fully loaded ready to go and roof down.

06.01.2022 Thanks Ray Whitmore Jake Harris and part timers Chadley and Ethan Jones. And our Awesome Clients Howard and Gail absolute pleasure to work for, even shouted us a feed of prawns this afternoon. Our 2nd one for them in the last 12 years.

05.01.2022 Flock of Galahs flew into the side of the tool truck when Ethan was on his way to the job this morning. This little bugger managed to get stuck between the cab and headboard of the tray. Wildlife rescue mob came and got him, he’s pretty shaken.

04.01.2022 Wednesday night from Kawana to Tin Can Bay, was a very tight fit about 2 inches each side not a scratch on it getting in. Holes dug and unloaded. Today let one down and got our gear from a jack up we did in Noosa a couple weeks ago. Ray finished the roof in Hervey Bay, all cyclone proofed and insulated and a happy client . Had Dude working with me this week he’s another 3rd generation house mover that is starting his own business, was awesome working with him, greatfull he could fit me into his schedule .

04.01.2022 Jack up, dig out and restumping we are currently working on. And a little cream move from last week.

01.01.2022 Working with the Mackay Boys today, towing half a house for them tonight.