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Post by richardw on Feb 15, 2014 2:53:52 GMT -5
How are you moving all that soil? Shovel and wheelbarrow
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Post by richardw on Feb 15, 2014 2:56:20 GMT -5
Beautiful stonework Richard Thanks, but a shame to cover it really,but,oh well.
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Post by steev on Feb 15, 2014 11:30:41 GMT -5
How are you moving all that soil? Shovel and wheelbarrow Sturdy fellow! Our common habit of manual labor will keep us both alive.
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Post by philagardener on Feb 15, 2014 12:00:02 GMT -5
richardw , that is really gorgeous work! I know it is not easy but it will serve you well! Thanks for sharing your progress with us.
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Post by richardw on Feb 15, 2014 12:45:30 GMT -5
Sturdy fellow! Our common habit of manual labor will keep us both alive. Yer too right,my nephews reckon i'm mad ,"why dont you use a digger" they say ,i said "show me a digger that can sort out rocks into the shapes and sizes i'm after,or screen and wash the shingle for concrete & mortar sand". The problem today is there dam near to be a machine for everything which has produced a young generation who are scared of doing hard physical labour.
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Post by steev on Feb 15, 2014 12:59:42 GMT -5
An hour in a gym, emitting CO2 and methane, is just not the same as breaking a sweat building something.
Last week I was working with a casual laborer; when he said he's 23, I replied "I'm three times your age"; he was astonished that I could, or would, still be doing grunt work, but saw the light when I told him "I do it because I can and I can because I do".
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Post by richardw on Feb 15, 2014 16:00:35 GMT -5
yes pretty unproductive lifting a set of weights a 100 times.
I'm at that age where i'm now seeing blokes either with bad backs,dodgy tickers,hips and knees been replaced etc etc,but they mostly guys who have spent years with there arse parked pushing pins,ive shorn only 300,000 sheep over the years yet my back and hips are better now than when i was in me 20's,use it or lose it i say.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Feb 15, 2014 18:38:31 GMT -5
One summer I built a farm pond with a shovel and a wheelbarrow. It was astonishing to me how much dirt a man can move in a few minutes a day for a whole summer.
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Post by steev on Feb 17, 2014 0:19:39 GMT -5
That's the thing; you don't do one thing for eight hours; some of this, then some of that; go all day, everything gets worked, nothing gets damaged; bit by bit, much gets accomplished.
I've gotten lots of work from "week-end warriors" who've gotten ambitious and bitten off more than they could chew; it's remarkable how little white-collar work conditions one for grunt labor.
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Post by MikeH on Mar 21, 2014 1:55:35 GMT -5
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Post by richardw on Mar 21, 2014 4:10:44 GMT -5
I like his concept in building down into the earth,something i just cant do because of my extremely high winter water table,so had no option but to build above ground level with my earth-sheltered solar design.
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Post by richardw on Mar 24, 2014 21:20:11 GMT -5
First wall compete on the next glasshouse,this is the left side of the door,the other side of the door will be glass down to ground level
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 24, 2014 22:13:08 GMT -5
Richard, can you come here. Leo thinks this is drop dead gorgeous.
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Post by steev on Mar 24, 2014 23:23:09 GMT -5
Leo's right.
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Post by richardw on Mar 24, 2014 23:48:57 GMT -5
Thanks you fella's. Had a friend come around a few days ago and he reckons not many people are prepared to take on a building project that takes years,most people dont have the patients and much prefer something thats quick to erect.I want this glasshouse to outlast me and if it takes me a few more years so be it.
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