How we used to do things.

[DrDuck]

painting the Harbour Bridge in 1945. Red lead primer and no harness.

 

[Mackka]

Snapping off a piece of fibro to use as a note for the gopher and then licking the lead pencil so it would write.
Mackka

 

[limpalot]

Used to put the lead slugs in my mouth 10-15 when using the air rifle, was a lot easier and quicker than getting them out of my pocket.

 

[7.62marksman]

Used to put the lead slugs in my mouth 10-15 when using the air rifle, was a lot easier and quicker than getting them out of my pocket.

yes i use to do the same
also cut asbestos with a power saw

 

[Jaros]

As a trainee tech used to have to climb lOOOoooong extn. ladders up 4 floors and then find the ladder had blown away in the wind--my senior was having a smoke somewhere. Lucky I didn't need an ablution.

 

[Dave79]

Those were the good old days when you could hoist the apprentice up on the crane by his belt if he gave you any cheek!

 

[OzzieAu]

painting the Harbour Bridge in 1945. Red lead primer and no harness.

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/158/1597816900_fb_img_1597816653224.jpg

Glad to see hes got his sun protection on... :sunny:

 

[Nightjar]

Those were the good old days when you could hoist the apprentice up on the crane by his belt if he gave you any cheek!

I was one of those apprentices. the only difference was the tradies had made a steel collar which they bolted around our waist. If the cheek fitted, you got hoisted up into the clouds with the P&H crane.

 

[Davent]

Used to bite down on split shot to close them on my fishing line when using a float for luderick

 

[Manpa]

I line of gents ( fly larvae, just so theres no derogatory comments) between your lips as you fed the hook thru when fishing for gar!

 

[RM Outback]

My dad used to carry his rifle on the tram on his way to and from school, what a sensational story that would create today :| the world's gone mad 8.(

 

[OzzieAu]

Yep RM, I can remember riding my tredley up into the foothills of Adelaide with my .22 rifle across the handlebars.
Would come home with a few rabbits for mum to cook up.
Ah, the good ol days hey.. erfect:

 

[Mackka]

Bought my 410 shotgun, snake gun from the the barber shop. Got a few bunnies at the dam. However it was great cleaning the Brownies off the toilet seat that were warming up in the Sun

 

[Solid Luck]

Penny bungers. 1 Cent each at the milk bar. Mini dynamite. They'd be 6-7 of us and pool our resources. Sometimes we would have enough dosh to get 100 of them. Spend all day in the park letting them off.
Ii wonder how that would go down today? :lol: :lol:

 

[StoneTheCrows]

My first job out of school was brickies labourer
Walked home many a day with with the boots full of cement
learnt early to shut my mouth

 

[Nanjim]

That pic is looking back towards Circular Key
Yep I still bite down on split shot
Lots of other things I remember but most wouldnt be favourable to mention in this PC mad world these days ....

 

[Guest]

Used to put the lead slugs in my mouth 10-15 when using the air rifle, was a lot easier and quicker than getting them out of my pocket.

Me too,didn't stunt anyting eye thinxs :lol:

 

[Guest]

Penny bungers. 1 Cent each at the milk bar. Mini dynamite. They'd be 6-7 of us and pool our resources. Sometimes we would have enough dosh to get 100 of them. Spend all day in the park letting them off.
Ii wonder how that would go down today? :lol: :lol:

A penny bunger inserted into a head stem of a bike or a piece of pipe and some marbles,now that's a lethal weapon

 

[kemjak57]

Yep RM, I can remember riding my tredley up into the foothills of Adelaide with my .22 rifle across the handlebars.
Would come home with a few rabbits for mum to cook up.
Ah, the good ol days hey.. erfect:

Nenad is picking up all of your slugs these days when hes looking for gold.

 

[Ded Driver]

In the 70's my sisters & I would sometimes ride our horses to school on a Friday, to go stay with friends for the weekend. Their farm was on the other side of town, & sometimes it was reversed & our friends would ride to school to stay with us. We had a corral in a strip of bush about 100m wide between the school & a powerline. The council had allowed our parents to ressurect an old remnant of one from days gone by. The school provided the water.
The best part about it was that on those days we didnt get given any crap.
Any kids dishing out oop: that week knew that the payback was a horse on their heels as they ran screaming home. layful:
No other kids were permitted to go near the horses during school hours, but after school we would let a select group of friends pat them before we left.
Had a 2 fold consequencs tho'. Made some good friends (girls ) but also some jealous enemies.