Thread: starting from scratch on my rural block

Hi All, just a little up date on the house, the air con and ducting were installed on sat, aswell as the water heater and heat pump.

the plumber installed and connected all the taps fittings we have water in the house woo hoo. we arrived on Sunday morning to the below,

some f**k wits and his mates have taken my trailer and have ripped out the hot water service and heat pump, then went about ripping the air con

units out, from inside and out side, plus all the installed ducting. see how they have moved the insulation bats when the unit was dropped from

the ceiling. apart from my trailer ive lost all the nuts bots nails and screws from my humpy. the other stuff is insured by the house builder.

Ive borrowed a camper trailer and now living on site, just need to find my beanie, it was bloody cold last night!

PS removed almost 200 litres of water last week end from these electrical pipes ( spot the pump), how and were it came from? who knows.

Friggan aresholes

cheeses twice!!

I can only imagine how that'd make you feel. Hope they get gangrene and their old fellas fall off.

Hi all,
We have moved in! about four weeks now, its great! All the damage from the brake in was repaired and new air con and hot water installed. It delayed our hand over by about 5 weeks.
All our furniture is moved in, and I have a work shop! An old ex-refrigerated 20 foot shipping container, its supper insulated great on hot days. only $ 450 bargain! Ive run some waist
Water pipe from the shed to the house, needed to be done before I started on the monster deck, as you can see its all steel sub floor, (termites are bad here) I used screw in piers, Hired a two man post hole machine to drive them in, they worked a treat saved time and money too. I'm using the hidden fasteners for the floor boards. Tallowwood for the flooring. Cant keep the smile off my face!

Good to hear it is all working well for you.

Looking really good as well.

Hi All,
We have been making progress with the deck, been slow though, custom fitting each board, the biscuit joiner has been getting a work out. Ive removed the keel from the fasteners and using it
Also in the traditional way on the ends, this saves having to joint them on the joists. Its working quite well plus the plastic wont rot out. The joints are strong even mid way between joists.
I'm not wasting any of the flooring timber. I've included a few pictures of the bull dozer, its moving a lot of the fill around our place. I might get a drive of it before long! Also one of our tree got hit
By lightning, only about 200 mtrs from the house!

Hi,
A few progress photos from over the last 6-8 weeks, the deck is almost finished but still usable for our new years celebration, my mate Rodney who dose this for the local schools, sanded the floor with an old buffer machine, only killing 5 or 6 buffing pads, this levelled a lot of uneven boards, wash down with a stiff broom and soapy water. then sealed it with a polyurethane product called " starlight express ". The first coat was very thinly mopped on, then a second and third coat. Would you believe it only used 7 litres total for that size area! The day it went down it was blistering hot, so it dried very quickly. The sanding, cleaning, sealing and finish coats to dry took about 4 hours!
The bulldozer has flatted out a maintain of dirt, to make another flat level part of the yard, start of a nice cricket pitch! We have also shaped the front yard ready lay grass, we'll plant out the bank and a nice garden area above that, after we cut steps into the bank ( the work never stops!).
These are the two containers and make up my workshop at the moment, work bench down one side, space for the drill and drop saw down the end. The newly repaired band saw is on wheels so I can move it out. The other one is for storage and future projects.
Jason

Where can I get a shovel and garden rake like this?

The fella that own this " shovel and garden rake " although old, is still in the 40k+ range! For that sort of money he's welcome come and play in my sand box for free any time!

Hi all, been a little busy lately, I hung my first gate yesterday! Woo hoo! I'm building a dog compound between the two containers, cutting the posts and dropping them into the holes, few litres of sump oil, to soak over night, then back filling. I'll install a few more panels to night, then the task of making it dog proof, I have some diggers. Last week end we laid 100mtrs of agg pipe, across the front of the house, up early to avoid the heat, the trenchers were cut earlier in the week, the clay and rubbish removed. Laid a bed of gravel, laid the pipe in, then back filled with gravel. I was so buggered by the end of it, I had the rest of the weekend off! A few week ago, I had a drive of this monster, a 22 tonne excavator! Air con cab, with a bouncy seat and a radio, and joy stick controls and check out the size of the bucket, it’s the size of three bath tubs, think of that the next time your digging a hole! , I used it to cut a new path across the river, we haven't had access to that corner of our property, since we've owed it, the access may have been washed out during the June storms in '07, when the pasha bulka run aground. Real Tonka toys are great!

Hi all, we have been working on getting front yard into shape, Ive laid these big logs as a boarder for the drive way, then a bed of gravel, we had the neighbour down with his possi track, to spread the top soil and level out a few area's, we are ready for grass. I have the dog compound finished, working well no great escapes yet!
A project Ive been wanting to do since we moved in is the drive way. We have 100 mtrs long x 20 mtrs wide, I Want to plant London plane tree's down each side. I'll get the grass growing first, I'm almost finished building my water cart, then plant the trees. I'll get the tree's from Tocal field days event, that’s on in about 8 weeks. We may need a new mower by then aswell!
Also you'll see the piles of dirt brought in yesterday, about 15 loads, this well help extend the house yard. Enjoying the ride!

Thats going to be one hell of a driveway Im going to have the same problem, mines about 100m worth too
What have you done to make your water cart?
I built myself one a while ago, using a 1000ltr shuttle tank made a small HD trailer(solid axle)too which I added a petrol water pump powering a couple hose's.

Yes , that’s what I'm building, the neighbour had an old trailer, Ive put a floor in it, bought one of those tanks, and plan to hook the fire pump to it. Just need the fittings now, I went to the local plumbing shop, but they only sell bsp threaded vinidex stuff. The irrigation place in Maitland should have the fittings. I'll see them on the weekend. Then fit a jockey wheel, and its ready for action. I did extend the draw bar so it could fit on the quad, then I realised 1000 litres = 1 ton, even half full the quad wont move it! Did your unit work well? Did you seed you drive way or let I come natural?