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Thread: My new rural place
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6th December 2008, 07:36 PM #1
My new rural place
Hi
Well i've gone rural...........
1940s weatherboard on an acre in Margate in Tasmania (15min sth of hobart).
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The house has an enviro cycle septic system, two fireplaces and a covered up bakers oven (chimmey with a cast iron baking thing like a woodfired pizza oven). The last owners have added horrid timber panelling and a few other things that will get ripped out and the yards have a bit of tidying up to be done ......glad I own a skid steer loader .
A few questions for the learned;
There is a 'spoon drain' that runs across the block at 45deg and I would like to put a pond/dam where it crosses the block. If I dig down a little and form a bank is there anything I need to put on the floor of the pond to make it waterproofish or is running back and forwards with the skidder enough?
I want to get a light weight ride on to mow the grass as its more like lawn than a paddock. I remember a ride on that looks like a gokart where you lay down in it somewhat to prompt the kids to do it. Can anyone remember what they are called?
cheers
dazzler
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6th December 2008, 07:53 PM #2
Dunno about what you are asking, but has it got a suitable size shed for you?
Pat
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6th December 2008, 08:03 PM #3
Sounds like a nice place Dazzler, so you're becoming a Taswegian!
As for dams/ponds, I suppose it depends how big it is going to be, you can either line it with a butyl rubber pond liner, but if that is too big/costly, then most dams are lined with clay and compacted. If it leaks, you can add bentonite which will stop/reduce the leaking.
I have 2 dams on the property and both are lined with clay, don't seem to leak too much, probably the most water is lost through evaporation.
Can't help with the gokart mower, I use a Kubota Tractor with a 4'6" slasher!
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7th December 2008, 01:54 PM #4GOLD MEMBER
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if you want to put fish in it i rekon put a plastic liner in .much better for the fish and for maintaining later on , i would do it with cement but plastic is the go for most people and its quick and easy and it works well
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8th December 2008, 08:30 AM #5
G'day Dazzler,
Welcome back to Tassie, looks like you are only just up the road (couple of k's away).
cheers
KevKev
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8th December 2008, 10:00 AM #6
Nice looking place Dazzler. I assume it has a good sized shed being on 1acre?
Last time I was reading about your goings on, you were starting a new business with all sorts of machinery. Was it that successful that you've retired, or have you relocated it all to Tassie?
Good luck with it all!Andy Mac
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9th December 2008, 10:01 PM #7
Hi kev
Glad to be back in the sth island.
Hi Andy
Yep, had started a bobcat business in Port which was going great until the financial crisis and work stopped dead. Sadly Port is reliant upon Sydney retirees bringing thier super up with them and investing in the place to keep it running. We hadnt settled in real well either so we sold the house, put the machinery in storage, bought a caravan and went touring the east coast of oz for three months while I finished off a couple of diplomas.
Finally decided that the sth island is "our place" so booked the boat while in brisbane, drove down overnight, caught the boat and here we are!.
Will live off the wifes money for a while and may do the bobcat as a part time job and may go back to govt investigations full time.
cheers
dazzler
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15th December 2008, 12:29 AM #8
That's a really comfortable looking home dazzler. Are you going to build a dam or a large pond? Liners are being used more frequently esp. now with water shortages. I think that material width is up around 15m x whatever length you order.
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15th December 2008, 05:28 PM #9
Hi Prozac
Kind of a large pond - small dam suppose. Once we move in on the 19th I will take some photos and a few measurements.
cheers
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16th December 2008, 04:05 PM #10
Dazzler you bugger!! you make me SOOOO jealous!
SWMBO and I went on a trip to tassie about 3 years ago and fell in love with the place. Unfortunately there isn't enough IT work in Hobart or I'd have moved there already. We were hoping (and still are) to be able to buy some decent sized property somewhere south of Hobart and commute (if you could call it that) to Hobart for work (just gotta find the work first! AND THEN GET THE HELL OUTTA SYDNEY!)
Good for you, moving back there. Maybe one day I'll finally get down there and we can be neighbours!
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Jealous here as well.
I'd planned to retire to country NSW but having made 3 trips to Tassie in the last 3 years, I'm having a bit of a rethink. Not that I can afford to retire anyway,and as Timbernut said, not enough IT work down there to keep me going.
[Spent my time there not too far from Margate, - Huonville and surrounds. Plan to be back there in the new year for the wooden boat festival]Geoff
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16th December 2008, 05:53 PM #12
THANKS
Tas is a place that puts its hooks into you and doesnt let go.
Had a pre settlement inspection today and still happy. The front door is solid huon pine but has been painted so will need to stripped and oiled.
cheers
dazzler
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16th December 2008, 07:37 PM #13
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4th January 2009, 04:09 PM #14
Hi Dazzler, congratulations mate I was going to give you a call to do some work for me but I guess I will have to find someone else.
I start work tomorrow after 7 months off we just got the house we wanted move in about 4 weeks Ill have to weld some wheels to the Bench to move it without your help.
Anyway congratulations again mate and good to see ya back online more pics of the property when ya get in .
Willy Port MacqI like to move it move it, I like to move it.
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22nd May 2009, 07:50 PM #15
Thanks willy
I imagine everything has floated away by now given the rain up there
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