I get a little bit edgy when the top dam is almost empty like this at the start of summer. We may need 50,000 litres of water in a hurry if a bush fire breaks out near us. I like to be prepared. So I have already gone around and started up and tested all the petrol fire fig...
Not Good! As we have been pumping water out of it every day for watering the vegetable garden and one day a week in rotation on each of the orchards. Luckily, there was still water in the bottom 2 of the 4 dams that we had built in a ‘key-line’ system across our land, so as...
I began intensely craving the smell of foam last year, out of nowhere. Not just any kind of foam either, but a very specific sort of packing foam I had encountered at some point in my youth. I looked everywhere to fulfill this confounding need. Thoughts of foam occupied my mind; I tal...
sometimes for as little as $20. The coach clearly shelled out for various things from his own pocket – what else could he do when his players couldn’t get to practice because they couldn’t afford to put petrol in their cars or didn’t have enough cricket jumpers to keep warm on a...
If you have found mold on your clothing or there is a potential for mold growth because of a flood, you may be wondering if you can save your clothes or if you need to throw them away. The good news is that (depending on when you found the molded clothin
That was 20 years ago and that little single phase motor is still going strong, working well, and running on sunshine instead of petrol! Where as a 4 stroke petrol engine has only one power stroke out of 4 revolutions. An electric motor has constant torque every revolution, so 3 Hp of ...
I get a little bit edgy when the top dam is almost empty like this at the start of summer. We may need 50,000 litres of water in a hurry if a bush fire breaks out near us. I like to be prepared. So I have already gone around and started up and tested all the petrol fire fig...
The dawn comes a little earlier each morning and its now just on light when I wake up. It a very nice feeling to sense the return of the sun, even though it’s just a hint. The trees in the stone fruit orchard are starting to bust into flower. This time last month there was ...