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Thanks Richard - another great forum.

Thanks Mick. Good to hear your house works well. We are building out near Bathurst and have extreme temperatures too so hope our place works as well as yours - Nectre wood stove for winter, don't...

We have just put our application in to Council to build a bush weekender/cabin and they have knocked back our septic tank since we are less than 100 metres from a river.

Our Geotech guys have now...

Thanks for all the great info! Yeah any agreement will be in writing. I'm thinking at this stage to give the neighbour access to the bore and existing irrigation system (in wiriting) until sometime...

We recently bought a couple of acres (as you might know from elsewhere in this forum) planted in olive trees. The previous owner also owned the house next door. He had set up about $10,000 worth of...

Thanks Weisyboy. That pretty much tells me all I need to know. I'll be doing it next weekend. I guess the same method will apply to gate posts as well.
Guess I'll have to use the casuarina wood for...

I need to put a small access gate in a post and wire fence at the back of our property.
Is casuarina timber suitable for the gate posts? We've got tons of it.
And is it possible to put the gate...

Mark - i have friends who grow miniature vengetables for restaurants all over the country. They can't keep up with the demand.

My partner reckons kangaroo paws is the way to go and says there's a...

Hey Jedd

We just bought 2 acres planted in olives near Bathurst. We bought it for the land rather than the olives and plan to just leave the trees (there's a bore and an irrigation system in...

Peter

Thanks for the great info. That sounds good enough for me. Will investigate Aircell further. I guess the roof blanket you used does the same thing as a radient foil heat barrier.

I had...

Ianab - do you know if timber (weatherboard) has the same or similar R value as galv iron? I'm just considering my options. Will definitely investigate the foil backed wriggly tin.

In reply to...

Thanks!!! I get more good avice from you experienced and hands-on guys than from any other resourse.

We are currently thinking of using concertina double sided radient barrier foil - roof and...

We are building a small (40 sqm) cabin in the country with hopefully all the passive solar benefits.

My question is - is it possible to insulate a building sufficiently that's clad in galv iron...

Old farmer - no I haven't thought about which breed of hen yet. And yes I do want layers rather than meat. Could you recommend a good breed?

Me and my partner are about to move out of our inner city Sydney place and build a tiny (40sq metre) passive solar cabin in country western NSW in a little gold mining town we love. With the...

Thanks for all the info! Particularly re dogs and chooks. I'm keen to have both and would like to be able to let the chooks out during the day. Looks like it's not a problem. I can't recall seeing...

Old farmer thanks for your knowledege - I wish I knew as much as you guys do.

I hope I haven't become too worried about the browns (and I've learned the medical advise if bitten) but I guess...

More questions!!

Is it good to have a dog around in snake country? And can I keep chickens (other than for snake food)?

And madmix what is your snake pole and what do you do with it? Seriously (no inuendo intended!)

I've got a question. I'm about to move to brown snake country (western NSW) and snakes are sitll a novelty to me and I still get a kick out of seeing them (although not so much with browns).

I...