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Post by graynomad on Jul 16, 2018 21:34:11 GMT 10
Here's the difference between Google Earth and my council's version. (Council on the left) The council one is more recent as well.
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Post by graynomad on Jul 16, 2018 21:19:24 GMT 10
We opted out today. But we also read that you should phone to make sure it went through as if for some reason it didn't you are screwed and on the system for ever. If I can find a link about this I'll post it.
EDIT: Can't find the link, but it seems that this could be the number to phone, 1800 723 471. I'll do so in a day or so.
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Post by graynomad on Jul 15, 2018 17:00:19 GMT 10
How do you access council's aerial images? What Peter said basically. On my council's site it's called "Interactive mapping" I think.
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Post by graynomad on Jul 12, 2018 21:56:12 GMT 10
A couple of years ago I spent 5 days walking through Karijini NP in the Pilbara with some mates. On day 3 we camped here. A lush spot with plenty of water as you can see. Here's the Google Earth pic of the same place. Now it is clear that there are are water courses, but there is little reason to go to this spot on the promise of water. That said for larger bodies of water and even dams it would work. In fact I have a huge file of my local area and it does show a heck of a lot of detail, but I used the council's aerial images and their's are much better than Google's. Possibly different years and different times of year, but still.
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Post by graynomad on Jul 11, 2018 21:37:27 GMT 10
Ha ha, use with caution
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Post by graynomad on Jul 10, 2018 20:52:07 GMT 10
... the one thing I remember with the savannah country is the rivers are upside down so a dry dusty river could have more water than you could ever need just a 1m below your feet but if you didn't know what to look for it was just another dry sandy river ... I was camped in Cape Range NP (Ningaloo) a few years ago, there is NO water anywhere, but plenty of kangaroos. So I got to wondering how they drank. I searched for a sandy hollow and dug down, within maybe 6" I struck water, another 6 and I had a nice little pool. I then watched the animals and did see them digging on occasion.
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Post by graynomad on Jul 10, 2018 20:43:57 GMT 10
I remember the QLD premier praising the population for getting down to 147 litres PER DAY PER PERSON, and thinking what a joke, we lived on 10 LPDPP with ease at the time.
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Post by graynomad on Jul 10, 2018 20:40:53 GMT 10
From the little I know of the US states I'd say that's a good move.
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Post by graynomad on Jul 10, 2018 20:40:02 GMT 10
I haven't had ANY insurance for years, so far so good as the bloke who jumped off the 10th floor was heard to say as he passed the 4th.
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Post by graynomad on Jul 1, 2018 13:30:09 GMT 10
I just bought 16 new batteries for about $245 each (Century C105, 225Ah, 6v), rightly or wrongly I have been advised to never buy 2nd hand and let's just say if I sold my old ones on eBay they would look good, but they ain't.
That said, ex-telco standby batteries might be OK as they never really get discharged.
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Post by graynomad on Jun 26, 2018 20:13:04 GMT 10
... Diesel for the termites and some weather protection? Crikey ... how's the aroma on a warm day? I sprayed out the timber on my chook house with diesel to control mites ... still smells like a refinery 5 months later. Yep, weather and termites. Actually after a day or so I never noticed any smell at all. It was good for my skin though, I used a spray gun and go absolutely drenched, haven't had dry skin since
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Post by graynomad on Jun 25, 2018 22:15:58 GMT 10
Um, please excuse my ignorance, but wouldn't diesel help them burn? It will help a lot, note the
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Post by graynomad on Jun 25, 2018 20:10:23 GMT 10
This area never gets real bush fires, and we have cleared so much land we don't worry about grass fires. But yes, our plan is to fire up the truck and GOOD should things get too hot. Also, I sprayed them with diesel so that should help
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Post by graynomad on Jun 25, 2018 13:44:02 GMT 10
A bloke I know is an avid fencer, and uses pallets to hang all of his swords instead of purchasing a rack. Just thinking, if your pallets are flush against your container, your stored items can also act as insulation. Maybe set up a vertical garden system? Yeah, at the very least they provide shade to that wall.
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Post by graynomad on Jun 24, 2018 0:04:33 GMT 10
Yeah I have, and I have the material, but publishing is a very expensive exercise and I'm pretty broke these days, spent too much on preps You can use on-demand printers like Blurb but the cost would be maybe $50 or even $100 per book, add a markup and nobody would buy it. Offset printing is cheaper per book but you have to print a 1000 to make it viable. Maybe I should start a go fund me campaign
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Post by graynomad on Jun 23, 2018 7:58:25 GMT 10
I lost big time in the GFC, man I wish I had that money these days. But the good news is that I have bugger all now, and therefore have bugger all to lose. Personally I don't care if property prices tank and the ASX dives, I have no plans to sell my land and no exposure to shares. Hmmmm, I just had a thought, I'm about to start selling my photos on line, if the economy goes belly up I guess that not many people will be buying pretty landscape photos.
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Post by graynomad on Jun 23, 2018 7:43:44 GMT 10
I tried to join the reserves last year, too bloody old they said.
As for buying friends with our money, maybe they should look up the word "appeasement" in a dictionary.
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Post by graynomad on Jun 23, 2018 7:34:41 GMT 10
I built a wall out of pallets, turned out pretty well I think The left side is just cladding on a container, the right and back is the wall. One interesting side effect I didn't think of is that the cavities inside the pallets make really good storage for long items such as PVC pipe
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Post by graynomad on Jun 19, 2018 22:21:59 GMT 10
I think the two methods I mentioned (well certainly the second one) would not create condensation because they are bonded to the steel and as such the air doesn't touch a surface that's at or below the dew point. You could still get condensation on the inner wall if that gets cold though.
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Post by graynomad on Jun 19, 2018 19:40:48 GMT 10
Would gluing them directly to the inner wall reduce their effectiveness? A stud wall might help create separation from the outer leaf, and prevent thermal bridging. Could you maybe look at a low cost studs (say 64 mm steel studs) to create a cheapo wall? I haven't done the numbers though, just being an annoying back-seat-DIY-er. Insulated foil panels definitely sound like a great idea. With metal you'd expect a lot of the heat to be radiant, so that reflective coat should be excellent! From what I've read you don't want separation unless you have a vapor barrier between the steel and the inside as any air in that cavity can have moisture which can condense onto the steel. Living in QLD as I do I never bothered much about this, and for the most part we have bare steel on the inside which at times does form some moisture but as it's not trapped in a cavity it doesn't matter I think. One method is to glue closed-cell foam to the steel, but this would get pretty tedious, maybe timber battens with spray foam infill. I think you could do that and have the foam proud of the battens then run a piano wire down the timber to trim off the foam. Yes FB, I've been thinking a bit about this since we talked
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