Due to the fact that I now had a double axle trailer, they were able to put a full cubic metre of mix on. I had been anticipating 2 trips, but it only took 1.
I then headed to Rangers to get some cash out before heading to Paul King’s for some roofing iron. I had a nice coffee with him and Sam there before leaving $130 lighter, but all the iron I’ll need heavier. A fun development was the spotting of some clear corrugated plastic, which will be excellent for increasing the natural light inside the shack.
At Paul’s recommendation I then headed to Select Reinforcing where Wayne gave me what he assured me was an amazing price on some steel reinforcing, while Kevin cut and bent it for me. I’m really starting to feel a lot of excitement about the project now, as everything starts to come together.
I returned the trailer to Amberley and the nice guy charged me $55 for the additional trailer hire, and the cost of repairs to the other one. I’ve gotten out of this pretty well I think. They were fixing the one I messed up yesterday while I was there, it had a drip in its arm, and was looking in a pretty sorry state. Apologies.
The Ravensdown fertiliser bags have been awarded a grade a notch just above useless for their role in transporting the sand from Kate MacPherson’s house back here. They split and made a mess while under light loadings, certainly not the 40kg that are marked on them. I don’t know how they got here, maybe they are seconds.
Kate had some old sand that was left over from some concreting work that she had done. I was able to cart this away, as well as a bag and a half of cement. Cheers Kate, appreciated.
I went back down to the first offal quarry and collected a barrow load of rocks, I reckon these might be useful for putting at the bottom of the trench prior to pouring the concrete. I’ll see what my advisors recommend though.
Thanks to all involved today, I’ve been helped out by a lot of people, and it has been a real good experience.
Below: Kate’s Laser riding low, laden with bags of sand, and Ravensdown fertilizer “bags” making a mess.
I then headed to Rangers to get some cash out before heading to Paul King’s for some roofing iron. I had a nice coffee with him and Sam there before leaving $130 lighter, but all the iron I’ll need heavier. A fun development was the spotting of some clear corrugated plastic, which will be excellent for increasing the natural light inside the shack.
At Paul’s recommendation I then headed to Select Reinforcing where Wayne gave me what he assured me was an amazing price on some steel reinforcing, while Kevin cut and bent it for me. I’m really starting to feel a lot of excitement about the project now, as everything starts to come together.
I returned the trailer to Amberley and the nice guy charged me $55 for the additional trailer hire, and the cost of repairs to the other one. I’ve gotten out of this pretty well I think. They were fixing the one I messed up yesterday while I was there, it had a drip in its arm, and was looking in a pretty sorry state. Apologies.
The Ravensdown fertiliser bags have been awarded a grade a notch just above useless for their role in transporting the sand from Kate MacPherson’s house back here. They split and made a mess while under light loadings, certainly not the 40kg that are marked on them. I don’t know how they got here, maybe they are seconds.
Kate had some old sand that was left over from some concreting work that she had done. I was able to cart this away, as well as a bag and a half of cement. Cheers Kate, appreciated.
I went back down to the first offal quarry and collected a barrow load of rocks, I reckon these might be useful for putting at the bottom of the trench prior to pouring the concrete. I’ll see what my advisors recommend though.
Thanks to all involved today, I’ve been helped out by a lot of people, and it has been a real good experience.
Below: Kate’s Laser riding low, laden with bags of sand, and Ravensdown fertilizer “bags” making a mess.
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