Rewerb
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A very nice mix you have there. 'Looks like you're going to be busy with different harvesting schedules....
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jungle666
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Definitely be growing it next season
jzs147
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very nice.
DustyDuke
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It’s awesome if you get a good pheno
Rewerb
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More like WOOT WOOT WOOOOOOT!!!!!
LowRange
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You are living up to your name with that jungle, awesome mate they are going to be loaded. Do you do indoor also?
jungle666
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No ,I'd like to give it a go but circumstances prevent me at this stage
Lucky Luke
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The Pinkies on their way.
OzyM8
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I like pink bits
OzyM8
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tis the bomb.
DustyDuke
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Gday stranger, hope you’ve been well
Lucky Luke
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"Bombing of Darwin 79th anniversary: legend of the naked gunner
BULLETS sliced the air around Wilbert “Darky” Hudson as he stood in the middle of the battlefield – far more exposed than his fully clothed comrades.
The gunner was awarded the Military Cross for shooting down an enemy plane during a Japanese raid on Darwin – while wearing nothing but his boots and hat.
War veteran Peter Hackett, 94, served alongside Darky and remembered fondly the story of his well-tanned mate getting caught in a firefight with very little protection.
Darky was on guard duty the day before the raid, which afforded him a rest day the following day.
He ducked up for a shower at about 9.30am on that clear February morning and felt the refreshing water flow over him when the Japanese gunfire came into earshot.
His position was to man a machine gun in the command post.
“When he heard the guns start to fire he was still in the ablution blocks,” Mr Hackett said.
“He grabbed his tin hat which he had with him, his boots and a towel because he didn’t wear any clothes going up to the shower – there was no need to – and that’s how he manned the gun in the command post.”
During the firefight with the Japanese bombers, Darky found he couldn’t get a good field of fire or good view of the targets coming in.
He spotted a 44 gallon petrol drum in the middle of the gun site so he took his weapon and jumped on top of it for better elevation, still donned in nothing but a hat, towel and boots.
The towel didn’t last long.
“In the movement of planes coming from every angle, he was moving one side to the other, and in the up and down with his knees and unfortunately, or fortunately, the towel became dislodged,” Mr Hackett recalls.
Undeterred by his exposure to the enemy, Darky carried on just the same and eventually brought down a Japanese Val dive bomber.
“When we had reunions the story always came up about Darky Hudson shooting down this dive bomber,” Mr Hackett said.
“We always had one question for Darky at the reunions many years after the war.
“The other gunners including myself would ask ‘now Darky, we want to know the truth, we want to know if your bullets were actually hitting the plane or did the pilot look over the side and die of shock?’.”
Darky escaped from that conflict unscathed, but later suffered third degree burns when oil tanks under his guard were fired on by Japanese aircraft.
“Darky Hudson and a West Australian and two New South Welshman got badly burnt,” Mr Hackett said.
“One died in the hospital that night.
“Eventually Darky and two other gunners were sent to Adelaide River. They couldn’t move them far.
“That was one of the worst casualties we had.”
2st photo Peter Hackett served in the 2nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery in Darwin in 1942 and through several of the Japanese air raids, including the one where Wilbert “Darky” Hudson showed some naked aggression towards the Japanese attackers."
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Lucky Luke
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Mines still going fine. (DE)
What happened to it? I know Bong had a problem with his DE but sounded like he didnt center the lamp properly and it welded itself. He got a replacement no drama.