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Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 20 8:17 am Post subject:
I am surprised at that Dpack, but I suppose if they are healthy and that old, they must cope with it well. Perhaps they are more able to survive it when they are dormant, or may be 'bred' more for that environment. Looking good Jema.

jema
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 20 8:17 pm Post subject:
Need 48 hours for the mortar to see, then cover the concrete with earth and finally deck things. I will do another normal postcrete post to go with these two.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 20 8:45 pm Post subject:
they do look like rather solid footings that should stabilise that bit as well as giving an anchor to the metpost mountings

jema
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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 20 6:36 am Post subject:
Mostly rained Friday, but plodding on. Hopefully finished in a few clear hours, or rather taken to the next point. Been a debate on whether to take the deck leftward or to build more raised beds, currently beds are winning the argument. Impact wrench managed 7 out of 8 coach screws at 50x martin speed, the 8th showed it could manage less than 1 martin strength.

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 20 7:54 am Post subject:
Looks good. Sounds as if the impact wrench is good for speed, but perhaps Martin needs to do the difficult bits.

dpack

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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 20 8:15 am Post subject:
that looks fairly strong, well done. re the coach screw thing even when dpack could have ripped the head off a turkish wrestler he used to oil coach screws to make driving them in easier even then a huge wrench and socket was needed sometimes

jema
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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 20 1:36 pm Post subject:
I figure enough decking board left for 6 or 7 more, which fits with easy posting and still being usefully wide. So may as well get that done.

dpack

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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 20 4:09 pm Post subject:
nice

jema
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 20 1:52 pm Post subject:
New post, the digging of which put a dent in the rat population. Not pleasant. Contemplating pairing it with another biggish concrete filled hole.

dpack

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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 20 3:38 pm Post subject:
less rats is always good, what was the body count? i just got 2 in 24hrs(after a while for them to get over their neophobia)

dpack

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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 20 3:40 pm Post subject:
PS nice deck with a good view over the extended estate

jema
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 20 10:46 pm Post subject:
The last post of the year. It's an esoteric mix of postcrete posts, posts mounted on concrete plinths and posts in a lot of concrete, but then it's an interesting landscape. I'm pretty sure it's not going to subside any time soon. need to give it a bit of time to set, then the last decking for now,

dpack

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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 20 1:15 am Post subject:
it looks a lot healthier than a few months back well done re rats i got 2 in 2 days and am still vigilant, did any of your ones escape immediate doom? yes or no, whichever it was a few quid on a fenn and bait it in a box with long life bait, check with a mirror on a stick to see if it needs resetting etc

jema
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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 20 6:30 am Post subject:
It was a nest of new born, damage from the post digger followed up with drowning the tunnels.

dpack

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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 20 10:20 am Post subject:
that will work and removed quite a few next gen ones, so far mine are large adult+ a couple of "teenagers" at least i got those before they multiplied i often add chilli to the buckets of water for tunnels to reduce their desire to reoccupy when the tide goes out

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