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[trout]

I finally got the new whipper snipper into action and it has plenty of "Grunt", Consequently Mrs Trout wreaked havoc upon the exposed polly  pipes around the yard with it.
So yet another trip into Town to get a bucket full of various fittings and some new glue because the 3 jars I had at home had gone off .
Anyway it has been all worthwhile and The yard looks fantastic .
I think Mrs Trout can't wait for the grass to grow again so that she can use her new toy again, She Loves it

[r9453]

I completed my drainage project. This is some of the pipework:



New concrete cover:

[robbiegal]

jeepers
give a man a sledge-hammer and a jemmy bar ......!
i hope it works well come the summer rains!

looks like a lot of hard work to me and you finished it off - well done

[autocoupler]

Nice job in a nasty spot. I notice when laying large pipework, plumbers will put a layer of fine sand in the trench, is this to guard against ground settlement or something?

[r9453]

Nice job in a nasty spot. I notice when laying large pipework, plumbers will put a layer of fine sand in the trench, is this to guard against ground settlement or something?

I didn't do it all with hand tools. There is a previous shot of the concrete saw I hired and I also needed an electric jack hammer to remove some excess concrete I found.

I would have back-filled with sand (to cover the pipes) if I had more time but it looked like rain and I wanted to get it done asap before the trench turned to slop.

[trout]

Your project shows very clearly the amount of effort required just to have that little hole in the concrete for the water to escape from that most people would take for granted :good:
A nice neat job Mate :ok:

[robbiegal]

you need a pair of camping crocs thongs thingees


bummer about the foot trout
hope that you heal up OK
terrific loaf of bread there mate

when you are way out in the sticks there's nothing better than being self sufficient
good on the both of you

well i haven't had this happen for about ... oh say ... 15 years  
but this is what I came home to after our little trip to the RBA today!!
yours is a much better job!!  

i think that i figured out the problem - i started using one of my old jugs to measure the water & figured out that it is 60 mls out (i.e.  450 mls = 510 mls)
i had a few more fails
accidentally used my usual water measure jug
all good
repeated - yep it's the new (old decore jug) fluid measurements

thank goodness
gosh if a person can't make a loaf of bread after more than 30 years of bread making then something is really wrong!!

[trout]

HeHe
That "Exploding" loaf is a classic RG
I had a power outage the other day and my loaf "Prooved" for about 4 hrs without baking.
I had to take the dough out of the bread maker and cook it in the oven.
It turned out OK but the dough was a weird fluffy sticky consistency when I removed it from the machine, So I hand kneaded it before baking in the oven.
I bought my first shop made bread the other day for the first time in a couple of months and it was garbage compared the home bake item  

[robbiegal]

the yeast was probably getting tired

i think that you can 'prove' overnight in the fridge  
and sourdoughs is a bit different too

yes the hubby really enjoys the homemade bread
bit more chewy then the shop bread
and one slice is almost a meal!!

[robbiegal]

we have a couple of those asbestos houses in our street
they are currently covering them in big plastic tents and demolishing them

the hubby goes out to the bin just a little while ago

and even though it's raining

there's dust flying up everywhere from where the machine is smashing up the house


hummm it is supposed to be safe demolishing

[trout]

They should have contracted you for the job RG.
Just put one of your "exploding" loafs in a house and that should do the trick :laugh2::laugh2::laugh2:

[robbiegal]

ha ha

update

hubby calls worksafe
finally gets through to a human being

advised that there should be a worksafe officer on site for the demolition

robbie downloads demolition advice PDF
misting is used during the final demolition phase ONly after all asbestos has been removed (following other things like PVA glue which binds any remnant fibers which may have remained sprays on house)
negative pressure units used during the demolition

and so on

hubby lobbs up and has a chat with the worksite guys - worksafety guy had just left
they also explained that the dust he saw is mist that is used to prevent any fibre/dust from getting too far airborne

hubby is wet after walking up in the rain,  but satisfied
goodness- there were kids walking up the street after school when this was all going on
 
will take some pics as there is another house just up from us that is going to be demolished this week as well
then i think the ones the next block up will start being demolished

[trout]

Asbestos is pretty "nasty" stuff and the prior occupants of these houses have probably ingested quite a bit of it just living there, You only need to drill a hole to hang a picture and you are exposed.
A bit of dust that you can at least see when these houses are removed is far better than leaving them standing and breathing the wind borne dust that comes off this stuff all the time that you can't see.

[robbiegal]

so true
we have friends who were in mr fluffy homes
they have sold back to the government and bought homes in nearby suburbs

my own kids did plenty of sleep-overs at their places as well

i was trying to buy the mr fluffy house just around the corner in our street when we bought the house we are in  (didn't know it was a mr fluffy of course)

canberra is full of mr fluffy and government offices were really bad with the stuff - some staff describe the stuff literally falling onto their desks, phones computers
although, no body particularly cares about public servants as sadly, they/we are generally viewed as sub-human entities

[trout]

We just got a power outage and rang up to find that the power will be out until 5pm.
It took me 5 min to set up my two 3KVA gensets and they are enough to power the entire house :good:
I am so glad that I like to "Double Up" on just about everything and we have the two gensets available, Otherwise just one of them would struggle with the load :ok: