:dodgy: well Robbie being a pain in the arse has finally paid off for ya :mocking: all jokes mate, I'm a shocker sorry :) Some times if you ask nice enough but not be a total pain good things sometimes happen so is this ok as I'm still lookin for cheap hooks sorry but have made you this..it was gonna be a surprize but I thought I should show you first as I can make another :) Oh and if it's ok send me your address thanks mate :good:
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OMG
I'm goanna cry
I am so surprised
Thanks so much AJ :heart:
that looks tops and like something that we really need here in the heart of winter
it's been freezing
I even have a fan heater on here in the study tonight and I have my coats dotted all over the house
the hubby will be thrilled to have a tidy up rack for Robbie !!
thank-you thank-you thank-you !!! kiss kiss kiss and so on ... ha ha
my pleasure :thank_you: message me your address and I'll send it down :)
pm sent
let's see if the old man can set it up on the wall - without the walls falling off ha ha!!
it will be a Kodak kind of moment in our house for me to have my coats on a hanger!
That looks totally awesome, AJ! :)
What kind of wood is it, and did you have to look hard to find such a nice looking piece of it?
Thanks fulvio, it's cypress pine mate and I had to move a few boards, maybe 10 at 1.2m long to find some that I like..so it was a mission :mocking: It has beautiful grains and colours and if anyone is interested it come from bunnings and they use them for fencing, it comes in 1.2 and 1.5m lengths with either a plain or a fancy end..ask for cypress pine pickets like these but without the fancy stuff :good:
http://www.bunnings.com.au/products_product_65-x-20mm-09m-unseasoned-dar-cypress-pine-windsor-fence-picket_P120377.aspx?search=cypress+picket&searchType=any&searchSubType=products
Thanks. I never would have thought of using pickets. I'll be sure to check them out next time I go to Bunnings.
I find timber all over, second hand dealers and friends padocks and sometimes garage sales..some timer looks like crap until you play with it a little and a coat of clear to bring out the grain and bob's ya uncle :)
Awesome job A.J. !!
i'm jumpin outta my jeans with excitement!!
hold ya horses robbie the post office isn't open yet sorry..so post tomorrow mate and then a couple days :winkextra:
You not having a day off in celebration of the Queen's birthday?
:scared: AWE CRAP..thanks heaps PP :hi: saved me goin to the post office :dash1:
Make that tuesday sorry robbie..it's great bein a sieve :kez_11:
ah thank-you QEII for turning another year older
I love public holidays!!
got my uni assignment submitted around 11.30 last night after working on it all day yesterday (ex popping in here to chat too much)
late submission but that happens
so now I feel like I am on a long week-end
you are a gem AJ
I will look forward to the hubby swearing about my new coat rack and how are we (i.e. how is he) going to set it up on the wall!
after all that is over - it will be very well used
good things come to those who wait ... I shall be lady like and wait patiently .... (not)
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='17557' dateline='1370747988'i'm jumpin outta my jeans with excitement!!
Just make sure that there are not to many people around if and when you do.............
ha ha
yeah - I wouldn't want to scare the horses!!
Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='17539' dateline='1370734338'I find timber all over, second hand dealers and friends padocks and sometimes garage sales..some timer looks like crap until you play with it a little and a coat of clear to bring out the grain and bob's ya uncle :)
Heh, every year this stupid persimmon fails to produce
(or maybe the scumbag possums strip it before it can), I look at it and think "That's some pretty fine wood you got there, sunshine...". One of these days I'll carry through the implied threat and chop the bastard down.
meanie
i love persimmons
do they need another tree to cross pollinate?
they grow really well here in the ACT
i have been told that the plum tree too has a nice wood to it
we have a couple in the back yard that the hubby keeps threatening to chop right down
I've recently moved to an old timber town and have access to some amazing Tasmanian specialty timber. Surprisingly cheap given the high quality. My house has 5 King Billy Pine fire mantle places. Such beautiful wood and craftsmanship.
sounds divine :)
it's a bit chilly here tonight (-1.2 here at the moment) and I could do with 5 fire places - right here in the study!! ha ha
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='17605' dateline='1370788582'do they need another tree to cross pollinate?
Believe so. This one seems to manage a crop about every 3 or 4 years, though even then its a race with the wildlife to actually get any.
I usually end up buying them cheap, since not a lot of people seem to really understand them, and judge the fruit on their looks rather than taste.
Interesting that wildlife take to persimmons. I thought they had a small window of being ripe, which would require some very alert wildlife.
5 fire places, but only one wood box. The open fires are just too inefficient.
Quote from: 'coxsp' pid='17607' dateline='1370788722'I've recently moved to an old timber town and have access to some amazing Tasmanian specialty timber. Surprisingly cheap given the high quality. My house has 5 King Billy Pine fire mantle places. Such beautiful wood and craftsmanship.
Tasmanian timbers are awesome I reckon. I stayed with an artist down there who was one of the few to have a permit to harvest Huon Pine. At dinner, he served wine in Huon goblets which were so fine you could flex then by pressing on the rim gently. He had a display cabinet full of all sorts of awesomeness made from beautiful timbers, rare and not. Sadly, it was before digital photography, and I have NO idea where the photos I took disappeared to. :(
the hubby grabbed two huge ones a few weeks ago at the markets for me & i had them on the window ledge for a couple of weeks
it was just fabulous to wait until they were perfect and indulge as i'm the only one in the house who eats them, so there's no competition either!
my neighbours have trees and the former neighbours always gave some to me
but the new neighbour cut the tree right back last year
i picked one of the (only) two pumpkins in my pitiful veggie patch today
i had popped one pumpkin into a cardboard box about 5 weeks ago - 2 reasons, 1. to protect from the frost 2. to protect from mrs possum who lives near by
one year she ate a pumpkin so that it looked just like an eaten apple by the time she finished with it!
Quote from: 'coxsp' pid='17610' dateline='1370789146'Interesting that wildlife take to persimmons. I thought they had a small window of being ripe, which would require some very alert wildlife.
Seems to be possums mainly. Perhaps other rodents as well. In a year when they produce a crop, you can pick them while still firm and let them ripen indoors. You run out of horizontal surfaces since there are hundreds or even thousands of fruit. But even so, you often find just the end caps on the tree. No sign of half-eaten fruit, the whole thing's gone.
Once of twice when there was no crop, I had seen flowers, but they all disappeared, presumably eaten. Other years I haven't really taken note, but it just didn't produce anything.
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='17612' dateline='1370789427'one year she ate a pumpkin so that it looked just like an eaten apple by the time she finished with it!
Why
DO we protect horrible, nasty species in this country anyway? If you've ever shared dinner with a possum, you'll know they're really little s**ts of things, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Oh wait, they're native... the way the conservation mindset goes, even cane toads would be protected if they were native. :(
my hubby chats me when i leave out food for mrs possum and her huggy baby
i think she is beautiful
and we have enough stone fruit to share & mrs possum doesn't strip the trees bare (at our place)
but the parrots ... that is another story, they destroy entire crops of fruit
sounds like you have a monster tree Fulvio - i'm jealous!
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='17608' dateline='1370788900'sounds divine :)
it's a bit chilly here tonight (-1.2 here at the moment) and I could do with 5 fire places - right here in the study!! ha ha
Put your jeans back on. That might help hehehe
ha ha
that is clever!!
:heart::give_rose:
thank-you ausjack
you are a sweetie
great packaging as well!! arrived safe 'n sound tonight at the post
darker shot is closer to the real colour - lights were reflecting a bit
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it's truly my pleasure robbie, just glad you like it :)
and hope it's not too much trouble for him :winkextra:
I really like the grains and colours you get in it :good:
the adhesive strip looks as if it could be like it could hold a tonne
bit like the old superglue ads!! ha ha
20kg rating on that stuff mate and these is one that is stronger but a hell of a lot dearer and you can always screw it if need be :)
i'll tell the hubby
I am sure he will be happy to take your advice!!! ha ha
so is it ok now you have it in hand, are the hooks big enough? is it big enough? is there anything I should change :)