Thread: Restoring a Weir boiler feed pump

Thanks Jayson, Bruce, Ray Mark and Stuart and harty.
I just need you guys to keep everything crosssed for about 3 more days.
even in this world of computers, banks can be a bit slow giving out money to old guys
The reason I am asking you blokes (and ladies ) is it somehow always seems that only good stuff comes from this forum.
It all started with the first Melbourne scraping class (Thanks Phil) and since then I have made a lot of good friends, and like minded to boot.
Looks like I will be making a trip over to say hi Ray and fingers crossed Stuart that it is a 'house warming gift'.
Keep everything crossed everyone, I really want this one. We are out of town, zoned farming, no neighbours and a 9" angle grinder I can use all day if I want to and noone to complain .
I recently received care package from another forum member and by the way this member and you Stuart aren't the only ones to have done this which is very humbling. Incredibly humbling.
I have tried house buying before and always get to this part when it becomes one of those 'epic fails'. Thats why I have asked everyone to keep their fingers crossed.
I am calling that "introducing new parameters".

A still nervous
Phil

Originally Posted by Steamwhisperer

Keep everything crossed everyone, I really want this one. We are out of town, zoned farming, no neighbours and a 9" angle grinder I can use all day if I want to and noone to complain .

Crossing away here too Phil.
It will be great when you get it. I suggested to my other half that we move to somewhere like that recently but that was knocked on the head - I think she thinks it would require her to convert all visible land to garden. I'm a trees and grass person myself. Cultivating flowers does nothing for me.

Michael

You deserve it Phil.

Originally Posted by Michael G

Crossing away here too Phil.
It will be great when you get it. I suggested to my other half that we move to somewhere like that recently but that was knocked on the head - I think she thinks it would require her to convert all visible land to garden. I'm a trees and grass person myself. Cultivating flowers does nothing for me.

Michael

Likewise here Michael. We live in the bush & I am also a trees & grass person, currently trying to minimise "gardens"
After building & living here for 43 yrs, time has shown the best gardening tools are a chain saw, woodsplitter, ride on mower & backpack of "Roundup" for weeds.
Hope Phil gets his place in the country where he can use his angle grinder.
A man needs a shed where he can do things, to his hearts content, without worrying about disturbing neighbours !!!!!
Go Phil & good luck.
regards
Bruce

Originally Posted by Abratool

Likewise here Michael. We live in the bush & I am also a trees & grass person, currently trying to minimise "gardens"
After building & living here for 43 yrs, time has shown the best gardening tools are a chain saw, woodsplitter, ride on mower & backpack of "Roundup" for weeds.
Hope Phil gets his place in the country where he can use his angle grinder.
A man needs a shed where he can do things, to his hearts content, without worrying about disturbing neighbours !!!!!
Go Phil & good luck.
regards
Bruce

I have to agree with these sentiments. I have found that if you let the cows in to the yard they tend to sort out a lot of things for you. Saves wear and tear on the mower too. This place had nice gardens when the original owners lived here. We bought it about 6 months after they moved out by which time the garden was starting to suffer. Since then it has been all down hill. We don't have the time or energy for it. We used to have 2 Silver Birch trees and the biggest had red mushrooms with white spots grow under it. Just like in Alice in Wonderland. No hookah smoking tho. These mushrooms have a symbiotic relationship with the Silver Birch. The birches started to suffer over time. I can only imagine that it was lack of water. We did try to give them plenty of water, but they still died. I hate to think how much was being used before. My favourite trees are gums and they don't need looking after.

Phil, I am crossing everything and I hope you are successful.

Dean

I hear what you are saying guys.
I grew up on a farm that was so far out in the bush that some parts didn't even have electricity. A walk behind slasher, (Mobilco maybe) another one behind the old David Brown DB 25 and a chainsaw were the gardening tools of choice.
No fancy pressure pump just a high tank and a chip heater for hot water using a tall pipe heading towards the heavens as the safety valve. Damn I loved that life. I won't even start on how it was my older brother and my responsibility to empty the toilet pan.
The dam was just over a kilometer from the house and it really sucked as it was a major production when we ran out of water in the big tank.
Just keep keeping them crossed guys.
The parameters have to change for this to work.
Many many thanks for the responses.
I have even crossed the 'family jewels' which in turn has made my eyes cross

a STILL nervous
Phil

Originally Posted by Steamwhisperer

I hear what you are saying guys.
I grew up on a farm that was so far out in the bush that some parts didn't even have electricity. A walk behind slasher, (Mobilco maybe) another one behind the old David Brown DB 25 and a chainsaw were the gardening tools of choice.
No fancy pressure pump just a high tank and a chip heater for hot water using a tall pipe heading towards the heavens as the safety valve. Damn I loved that life. I won't even start on how it was my older brother and my responsibility to empty the toilet pan.
The dam was just over a kilometer from the house and it really sucked as it was a major production when we ran out of water in the big tank.
Just keep keeping them crossed guys.
The parameters have to change for this to work.
Many many thanks for the responses.
I have even crossed the 'family jewels' which in turn has made my eyes cross

a STILL nervous
Phil

Some parts of the farm?

I won't have a pressure pump. We have one that pumps from the dam which is only used as a pressure pump for watering etc. We turn it off when finished. It also supplies an overhead tank for general use as a simple switched pump. House water is another overhead tank. Both poly and replaced by me. This is the only system I will use. Many people have tried to convince me to change, but their arguments sound strangely like marketing blurb and don't make sense anyway. If you have fallen for the bs you don't like to think someone else has seen thru it.

When the power is out, we still have water. Our hot water is heated by a wood range. I have plans to add a solar collector.

Dean

Good luck Phil. If you are like me, you hate asking the bank for money. I find it quite stressful knowing some little nerd in a suite is in control of your destiny, well your house.

Simon

Originally Posted by Oldneweng

Some parts of the farm?

I won't have a pressure pump. We have one that pumps from the dam which is only used as a pressure pump for watering etc. We turn it off when finished. It also supplies an overhead tank for general use as a simple switched pump. House water is another overhead tank. Both poly and replaced by me. This is the only system I will use. Many people have tried to convince me to change, but their arguments sound strangely like marketing blurb and don't make sense anyway. If you have fallen for the bs you don't like to think someone else has seen thru it.

I did the tank on the hill thing when I built my country place in NSW. 30 years later it still works just fine.

No convenient hill at my Tasmanian place and the big concrete tank is under the house, so I used a pressure pump. I need to buy my 3rd one.

A tank on a stand is on the job list.....

WRT gardens, I have one. It has a 1.8m high wire fence around it to keep the wildlife out, otherwise there'd be no fruit etc. The rest of the place is grass, bracken & trees. The wallabies keep the grass mown except for about twice a year when the spring growth kicks in.

Lots of room for big sheds on properties, Phil, so good luck with it. You too can litter the place up with dead & dying machinery.....

PDW

Phil, good luck with the house purchase. Barb & I were in Ballarat again on Thursday on our way to Melbourne to pick up my welding table and once again we thought that we might retire there - but I'm blowed if I know how you put up with the cold, that night there were brass monkeys running down the street singing soprano!

The whole issue of cold weather is overrated! You just get used to it or wear warmer clothing. Its like swimming in the bay at 6:00 am in winter, sure its bloody cold but do it twice a week and you get (kinda) used to it..... and feel bloody awsome!

Simon

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Originally Posted by simonl

The whole issue of cold weather is overrated! You just get used to it or wear warmer clothing. Its like swimming in the bay at 6:00 am in winter, sure its bloody cold but do it twice a week and you get (kinda) used to it..... and feel bloody awsome!

Simon

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Agreed. Highly overrated topic of conversation. Last 2 nights out in the shed until late, in summer weight shirt and pants. The more you talk about it, the more you feel it. I just ignore the cold until my hands get painful. A lot of people claim that getting cold and wet will cause you to get sick. Total BS. Try working in a winery on 12hr shifts. It is all about self belief. Just get out in the shed and do it. Phil may have a viable excuse tho lol.

Dean

Originally Posted by simonl

The whole issue of cold weather is overrated! You just get used to it

Or do a bit of woodworking... remember the simplest woodworking project is a fire..

Originally Posted by RayG

Or do a bit of woodworking... remember the simplest woodworking project is a fire..

Foundry work?

Dean