Today I BOUGHT

[SCROUNGER]

think about all the money you save on haircuts tathradj.

 

[Tathradj]

LOL, Only needs cutting once a year.
.
I save enough out of it for 1 slab so, Not bad.

 

[Ridge Runner]

I use a no.4---still bluddy cold even in Brisbane.--Had to buy a beanie.
Jaros

You should of just got ya Ears lowered,

No 4 here Too, I made the mistake last year and forgot to put the Comb on the shears and I Put A Fire Break up on the right Side, That was cold I had to sleep with the Beanie On.

 

[yobskin]

I bought the Eureka Stockade movie.... with good ole Chipp Raferty. My son wanted to know what happened to the colour....
He also discovered window winding handles in me mates car and a cassette player....he is 5 and he was amazed.

 

[rotor]

Great rides there men.

I always carry a chainsaw with me in case of trees blocking tracks etc, and have used it on quite a few occasions.
BUT.
Hated the smell of fuel etc etc.
SO
Today bought a battery powered saw and am impressed, chewed thru an old red gum sleeper with ease.
AND
Not much noise, could use this on the front lawn without disturbing neighbors.
Same size bar and chain as my husky as well.

Redfin - good stuff - never have trouble starting that one! 2 battery options, any idea what the battery life is like??

 

[Redfin]

Redfin - good stuff - never have trouble starting that one! 2 battery options, any idea what the battery life is like??

I'll let you know soon, am packing for a 10 day trip to the GT, leave in a few hours.
I presume it will be good for 35/40 minutes. Just enough for Mrs Redfin to cut enough for a few days at a time.
I still have the husky for trailer loads etc.

 

[SCROUNGER]

Today i bought 10 minutes of a medical specialists time for $320! And they called ned a thief.

 

[Jaros]

They're pretty good aren't they. The bloke who did my discectomy has 3 light aircraft and a bloody big yacht.$8000 above the gap fee.
Jaros

 

[SCROUNGER]

Yep, i was supposed to have an op of a repeat problem from 12 years ago last year. Didn't have it because of cost. No longer private insurance and the surgeon said the cost for me to pay personally started at $10,000+. My wife was weighing up whether or not it was better just to top me and go on a holiday! This bloke i saw this morning couldn't see me again until August he was that busy!!! Not bad hey, even if he's only seeing two or three patients (victims) a day (which he wouldn't be) he'd be well off to say the least.

 

[yobskin]

Its funny how it costs a life to live one??

 

[SCROUNGER]

yep yobskin, and as you get older you start weighing up as a cost/benefit scenario. I know these blokes are highly trained and skilled and actually do a lot of great work helping people but bloody hell. $300 plus $ a pop???

 

[Ridge Runner]

Today i bought 10 minutes of a medical specialists time for $320! And they called ned a thief.

At Leased Ned wore a Mask,

you can't tell these blokes are thieves

 

[yobskin]

yep yobskin, and as you get older you start weighing up as a cost/benefit scenario. I know these blokes are highly trained and skilled and actually do a lot of great work helping people but bloody hell. $300 plus $ a pop???

Im with ya on this one mate...i got hit $900 at 24 for heart checks?? $8000 at 25 for physio rehab back injury....and nilly $2500 on treatments and follow ups every year after...i stopped treatments and doctors and spent $18,000 on tattoos. Now i just cant afford a visit to the gp...

 

[Chewy]

yep yobskin, and as you get older you start weighing up as a cost/benefit scenario. I know these blokes are highly trained and skilled and actually do a lot of great work helping people but bloody hell. $300 plus $ a pop???

Im with ya on this one mate...i got hit $900 at 24 for heart checks?? $8000 at 25 for physio rehab back injury....and nilly $2500 on treatments and follow ups every year after...i stopped treatments and doctors and spent $18,000 on tattoos. Now i just cant afford a visit to the gp...

Yep my back treatment has stopped now to since I invested the rest of the money I had in the 5k and Exploder. Back hasn't been too bad lately, but as the temp goes down it acts up a bit.

 

[Heatho]

Private health insurance is the biggest scam ever invented, I've had 5 collapsed lungs fixed with a pleurodesis, numerous seizures due to an AVM, then had the AVM removed by one of Australias top Neurosurgeons, then had a lung abscess treated by top respiratory specialist at RNSH, Life threatening stuff is always treated first whether private or on medicare. All my stuff has always been on Medicare. Only elective surgery will be helped by private insurance. Private stuff sux anyway as the shareholders would probably rather see you die than them lose money..... Just my opinion though.

 

[rotor]

1st question at the doctors/dentist is usually "Do you have private health?" - that's so they know whether or not they can add the 20% sucker fee .......

 

[G0lddigg@]

1st question at the doctors/dentist is usually "Do you have private health?" - that's so they know whether or not they can add the 20% sucker fee .......

i dont know about that mate, ive been on both sides, havaing and not having private and having the private generally meant more consultation as far as "we could do this will probably cost around $x or we could do this $x. with public generally pull it out or drill and fill..... no options just pain...

 

[Heatho]

1st question at the doctors/dentist is usually "Do you have private health?" - that's so they know whether or not they can add the 20% sucker fee .......

The sucker fee is the gap fee that insurance won't cover. As Aussies this is why we pay medicare, we pay it all our working lives and deserve medical care with no hidden fees.

Another thing with private hospital visits is you get your own room with nobody else in there with you to press an emergency button if something goes horribly wrong and you can't press it yourself, I've seen it happen in a public hospital when I had to call the nurses when someone fell out of bed and hammered themselves.

Health insurance really is meant for the ultra rich but it seems it's been hammered into us through advertising and dodgy government campaigns that private cover is best, I'll take the public system anyday. Hear something often enough and humans will believe it...... I reckon there must have been 20 private health insurance adds per night during any single nightly TV watching session, now it's death or funeral cover that's being hammered out. If only insurance companies put the hundreds of millions spent on advertising back into their healthcare then less people would die.......

 

[SCROUNGER]

Fair enough Heatho, but i know when i had private and i needed a spinal operation i got it done within a week. The same operation needed to be done again 12 years later when i didn't have private and i waited on the public list for two years, got bumped twice in that time and have now been placed on another loooong waiting list.
I didn't have private so i could have my own room, i had it so i could get attention when i needed it and also to avoid being financially penalised because for a period of time i was on a good wicket wage wise.

For the life of me i still can't understand how anybody can justify $300+ per ten minutes of consultation.

 

[Heatho]

There are pros and cons I agree Scrounger, getting bumped on a waiting list sux. I'm 100% with you on the $300 for 10 minutes, a bit over the top I reckon. Even the guy who did my brain surgery doesn't charge that much...... actually was half that price.