Time on the hands
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Topic: Time on the hands
Posted By: Coochdog
Subject: Time on the hands
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2020 at 8:59pm
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Started the pruning,firewood mish today and somehow got distracted:) Before i knew it we had a new member of the family,Named Roy the red.  Whats everyone else up to with there spare time? I dont dare to start looking at my boat or fishing gear this far in to it.. |
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Posted By: JustAnotherSpearo
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2020 at 9:04pm
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Got 1/2 cube of river stones on the way home from work yesterday and 50 more pavers to edge it off nicely with, time to finish off the hedgeline.. Grabbed 1kg of grass seed so I can fix the patches of lawn that didnt survive summers heat / the dog digging holes. Ceilings to do 1 more coat of paint on, walls to do another coat of paint on. two bedrooms I can strip wallpaper off and a garage walls with many holes from previous owners to fill in and sand back then paint. Skirting boards to repaint after the bathroom pipe burst 4months ago. (already put the news ones in) and running the dog in a loop daily 3x to hit the 10km run each day off the list. Enough to keep trucking for 2 or 3 weeks I reckon.
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Posted By: Coochdog
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2020 at 9:14pm
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Great to be able to keep busy! Think of all the brownie points stacking up for next season. |
Posted By: brmbrm
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2020 at 9:23pm
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Cold smoked 2.5 kg of salmon and 2kg of almonds. Nice! Now got nothing left to cold smoke so looking for a new pastime
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Posted By: terrafish
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2020 at 1:50am
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Decided to start clean up of garage and ended up building a work bench/bar. Garage now a bigger mess! Have vinyl for above water and paint for below on boat still to do, plus missus wants me to do some repainting in the hair salon, as well as all the other things that i have told her that I will get to it in the past, that now are coming home to roost ------------- Part time Devils Advocate, Fulltime procrastinator |
Posted By: Jaapie
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2020 at 8:11am
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@brmbrm - try cold smoking cheese mate.
------------- "Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught,will we realize that we cannot eat money" - 19th Century Indian Creed |
Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2020 at 8:32am
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Roy the red looks impressive. I've been killing off sheep and turkeys, I have enough meat to get through this and the zombie apocalypse. I have a big pile of firewood to stack, the world's messiest garage to clean up and painting and stuff to do. Understandably the council aren't issuing fire permits because they don't want fires as that will tie up staff if they get out of control. Looks like I'll be digging a hole to get rid of the animal body parts. ------------- Best gurnard fisherman in my street |
Posted By: Steps
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2020 at 9:29am
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Saw the writting on the wall before last weekend.. got in a few supplies of timber paint plumbing fittings etc. And very lucky the 30yr old AEG 91/4 saw in my triton died. Replaced with a 235mm maketia cost just over 1/2 the AEG 30yrs ago. New clear doors / frames for the back deck nearly finished. Replace the larger 2.4m X2.4 drop clears with framed windows (making frames from scratch) Re route and put in ceilling ducting to move excess warm air to new bedrooms. Finish splash backs in new en suite Move wash house to different part of the house. Start building kitchenette Put away all the fishing gear laid out over the filleting benches from the last trip. Repair the last tiny leak in the spa pool Drop the big 15000L pool in the back yard. Put in winter veggies on the bare patch Trim the neigbours trees from this side so ready for the summer growth. Roll the new lawn to near green flat now the rains come and grasses away. Fix the carbie on the water blaster, ready for the late winter house wash down. Look very wishfully out the window next tuesday as the waikato bar weather/swell/ tide/window goes over. |
Posted By: pjc
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2020 at 9:35am
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Day 1,check homebrew,repair kitchen mixer tap,fix shower head adjuster,put slow cooker on,afternoon nap(4hrs) ------------- Sex at 58.Lucky I live at 56 |
Posted By: feeder
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2020 at 9:48am
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Yesterday put down 40 odd cans of albie, tomorrow make 40 kg venny snags, last week finished processing a couple of moose, yep I reckon we are ready for at least 3 months of it. Cheers ------------- The only bar to frequent is the Kawhia Bar |
Posted By: baitcatcher
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2020 at 1:19pm
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Hi Steps reading your post on your to do list makes my EYES water!!! I'm busy getting my raised garden bed sortted to plant my winter vegetable in. On Bazzas (OBE) advice (over eating a Crayfish lunch) I brought over a ton of good quality top soil( a barter price of $70:00 ) on Tuesday from a Albany nursery, on the way home to Blockhouse Bay with the trailer on I called onto Mitre 10 New Lynn for some vegetable plant's only to find not one punnet left only empty shelves similar to the supermarkets toilet roll and pasta shelves.so I went inside to buy some vegetable seeds only to find watermelon and rhubarb seeds nothing else .so went back outside to find some potting mix and on deciding, Praise the Lord!!! out rolls over 12 large mobile cages of freshly delivered vegetable punets so I grabbed a good slection of my wife's favourite vegetables. All the best for you Steps and your large fishing family and all other fisho on this site.oh yes and Smudge I think you owe me a gurnard trip.(ha,ha P.S I'm sure the fish are on the bite all over New Zealand. It's stopped raining here now so its back on to the shovel for me. I'll post a photo when im done. Baitcatcher (Vinnie) |
Posted By: cirrus
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2020 at 1:38pm
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From now on ,no seedlings. Garden centres closed. So down the track more people crowding into covid19 infected supermarkets to buy vegetables they could have otherwise grown themselves. That is if you can still buy vegetables given extra pressure on commercial growers stocks.
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Posted By: Muppet
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2020 at 2:14pm
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Cleaned my metal garage door today, just the colorsteel foldable ones. Was shocked how dirty it was! |
Posted By: Big -Dave
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2020 at 7:10pm
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I've pulled my outboard pod off, the silicon was failing and there was a possible crack, 2 sheds to clean out and reorganise, drawers to make for my patrol, windows to sand and paint, re grout my bathroom tiles, and the kitchen ones too... Oh, and get one shed ready to concrete...it's only got a gravel floor..   ------------- you can't fix an idiot with duct tape, but it does muffle them for a while... |
Posted By: pjc
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2020 at 7:47pm
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Day 2 Clean bbq rods cleaned and sprayed with tackle guard,garage sorted,watched 2 old movies a bridge to far some old sub movie,thats when i fell asleep diinner done,wife home with shopping/beer .manukau pak n sav virtually all to herself.
------------- Sex at 58.Lucky I live at 56 |
Posted By: lingee
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2020 at 6:11am
| day three still thinking about where to start.my winter crops in .need to clean back yard but that beer keeps getting in the way.o well. |
Posted By: JustAnotherSpearo
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2020 at 7:17am
| What hour is acceptable to mow the lawns. After 8am? |
Posted By: lingee
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2020 at 7:20am
| make it 9 |
Posted By: pjc
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2020 at 7:22am
want to do ours but raining again. ------------- Sex at 58.Lucky I live at 56 |
JustAnotherSpearo wrote:Posted By: bricker
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2020 at 8:28am
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30 cube of firewood to ring/split and 200 metres of fir hedge to chip on the section opposite. Borrowed a big trailed chipper for the duration of the lockdown and now we jump the fence for an hour or two each day.....luckily there's a service station 250 metres away so an amble past there whilst walking the dog each evening gets me the petrol I need for the saw and the chipper. The family now call it "going to the gym" !!! To be fair, with all the projects I have, if you can extend it by another couple of weeks Jacinda, that would be about right. |
Posted By: baitcatcher
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2020 at 9:50am
Hi John Finnish my raised garden bed last night,ready for plantings 
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Posted By: Steps
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2020 at 10:13am
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What do you intend to plant..? My winter garden was Cabbage , broccoli cali, radish in between, try get away with a dwarf butter bean or topcrop. Spinch silver beet, beetroot, lettuce Carrots take a lot of space very slow to mature and very cheap in the shop. The brassicas have a good 3 month to mature..winter no caterpillars/ white butterfly. Chop and freeze for summer. A few of the stapler herbs ? Im still taking the bulbous oxcellus out of our patch.. few more popped up after that should be clean. soil clean of all the other weeds now. |
Posted By: letsgetem
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2020 at 10:24am
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Just before the lockdown, tried to buy Brocolli seedlings from Bunnings. Now way, every vegetable seedling had gone; whereas looked like every flower seedling was still there. Managed to plant one row of potatoes, but only 4 seed potatoes, because we ate the rest by mistake. |
Posted By: baitcatcher
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2020 at 10:51am
Hi Steps Check out my post up the page,I was shopping for vegetable plants at Mitre 10 at the right time and have the same vegetable plants as you have but no beetroot.I brought a bag of Rootblast should help my veges along. I suppose NO chance of a invite for my wife and I to your delishes Roast Lamb family BBQs you regularly have........???mmmbbqroastlamb,yumyum lol Vinnie |
Posted By: Steps
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2020 at 4:49pm
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Yeah m8 we have been thinking about another gathering. Put one on after new yr for the neighbours.. well most of the street. 1st one in new home. Big worry is new town new butcher, the beast has to be a certain size, weight, fat content, hung well....I think one of Smudges sons sorta looked after us very well  Old butcher had used for over 25 yrs, he nailed it every time. And yep it was all good with full fire restrictions on.. And NOT a BBQ , its an old fashioned robin hood style cadaver over an open fire.  |
Posted By: RogueOne
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2020 at 5:11pm
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Just completed a check and repack of the trailer bearings. Jockey wheel next since I've got some spare time.
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Posted By: baitcatcher
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2020 at 7:52pm
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Hi Steps Cave-man buffet,BBQ call it what you like, I'm still waiting at MY letterbox for for the my invite....... yum,yum can't wait. I planted my raised garden with winter vegetables today Made use of my softbait rod(now a bean pole)and Whitebait screen(now a wind break/neighbours cat proofer) check out my raised garden bed pics ......   I wonder how I can make use of my Whitebait net's? anybody with idea's feel free to pm / post me. Vinnie 
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Posted By: Steps
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2020 at 8:33am
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now a wind break/neighbours cat proofer Never mind the wind break.... cat proofer .. F ing bloody cats Can sort stink bugs, snails , white butterfly, weeds and birds etc.. but bloody cats..... The birds a blackbirds and thrush can get very friendly after a while and take out most of the bugs. But the cats scare them off.. Nothing worse than going to pick a few veggies and the whole satisfying experience/ achievement is totally soiled by F ing cat 5h1t and the smell , espec after a light shower/ rain. |
Posted By: Steps
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2020 at 9:01am
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Edit : post wrong thread.. |
Posted By: baitcatcher
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2020 at 10:37am
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Posted By: pjc
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2020 at 10:46am
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Slug gun for cats https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/killing-neighbours-cat-technically-not-cruelty-rspca-says" rel="nofollow - https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/killing-neighbours-cat-technically-not-cruelty-rspca-says A representative of the RSPCA says that a Pirongia woman whose cat was killed after repeatedly going onto a neighbour's property does not have a legal case for cruelty. ------------- Sex at 58.Lucky I live at 56 |
Posted By: MB
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2020 at 11:17am
| I've just tied 10 inchiku assist hooks. Pretty boring, but it needed to be done. |
Posted By: Big -Dave
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2020 at 1:39pm
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Took the ute to the car wash..  Counted my collection of prop bags, your loss my gain  ------------- you can't fix an idiot with duct tape, but it does muffle them for a while... |
Posted By: baitcatcher
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2020 at 2:24pm
Thanks Paul, I'll past your post onto Steps,he likes Chicken!!!. lol |
Posted By: foulplay
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2020 at 2:30pm
| Scrub cut neighbours drive. Cleaned weber. Weedsprayed block. Grubbed thistles until handle snapped. Washed house. Looked at my rods to see if they needed another grease. ... |
Posted By: pjc
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2020 at 4:10pm
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waterblast drive way,wash wifes car,and a 3hr walk to super market and back via local bush walk,dinner on,now beer time.Only wife and I out walking but plenty of cyclist.
------------- Sex at 58.Lucky I live at 56 |
Posted By: Steps
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2020 at 6:12pm
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Cats.. shoot well done have the heart to do that.. a pet anyway... What does work thu is a possum trap.. the wire ones with the spring door at the end. Dont set it the 1st few times , just bait it so they get to know the way in. Then set trap. Roll over a couple times, a a good wetting with the hose .. then repaet 10 mins latter 2 times. No more garden dug up No more garden smell pooed up No more deck/ back door sprayed/ p155ed on. Its surprising thu , one move on the next moves in on the territory.. Having CCTV can show some quite surprising things. Here is a guy , a while back stole the reversing camera screen out of the big horn..no he didnt break in.. it was left unlocked.. saves hastle, insurance penalties, long term if make a claim etc His intelligence really has to be questioned thu.. 3 big signs of which 2 are reflective...one of which is ri8ght over his head.. the other over the bighorn.. The cameras stand out as they have a red glow at night.. He is holding his break in tools under his arm (still rolled up) and the reversing screen in in his hand This camera is under the eves almost directly above him..  |
Posted By: Coochdog
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2020 at 7:53pm
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Cats.. Scaring the crap out of them doesnt always work,although thats what our vet friend said to do.. A few years back we had the neighbours fluffy uncatlike cat (probably a pedigree) harrass us every night. The stupid creation would come into the laundry via the cat door every morning usualy around 4 am,Help itself to our real (mongrel)cats tucker,Then the stupid bastard would make the great escape by constantly hitting the catdoor,eventually hooking the door in towards itself,getting part way through before getting pinned by the door. You could image the racuss it caused trying to free itself.. After being woken a few nights in a row by the prick of a thing,I took my vets advice to give it a good scaring.. Next morning sleeping with one eye open sure enough around 4am the commotion began. Only this time me being the stupid one ran out in a sleepy daze grabbing it with bare flesh exposed(whos the stupid one?)proceeded to be scratched like a scratching pole,blood drawn (which actually hurt a bit tbh)He was out-gone! Next night,this time with two eyes open same thing.Smashing ,banging ,crashing in i go ,Duvet in hand,leaving the misses in the cold(wasnt too pleased)Caught the thing in duvet,swung him round a bit,littrealy scared the piss out of it-pissed stained duvet..released it. Back he or she came the next night,smash,bang ,crash really!?ffs Same duvet same swinging this time adding a rubbish bin with water and alot of shaking,dog barking etc surely that would do it? Nope the nxt night and the one after that the same,this thing was friggen stupid! I left it the following night as really needed the sleep.. Long story short one day while walking the dog we found the cat dead after being hit by a car. Sorry for the owner but good riddance ya p**** of a thing! |
Posted By: Catchelot
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2020 at 8:21pm
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Funny funny story but sad ending, yes cats are great and stupid, so are people. ------------- "The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." - Jacques Cousteau |
Posted By: JustAnotherSpearo
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2020 at 9:13pm
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Neighbours cat stopped adventuring into my back yard after bex my pooch finally had enough of it teasing her and she jumped up the 1.8m fence and pulled it off the fence and scared the living daylights out of the cat. (32kg sheepdog mongrel vs a cat is not much of a match)
now it just sits and hisses at her from the otherside of the fence at a distance. More than welcome to borrow bex for a weekend  |
Posted By: fish-feeder
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2020 at 9:40pm
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I found the best way is the remnants of a Gordy's fly trap bucket thrown at a garden pooping cat.....stops them coming back,for one reason or another. ------------- dont get my personality mixed up with my attitude,my personality is me,my attitude depends on you. |
Posted By: baitcatcher
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2020 at 10:43pm
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A couple of weeks back on a hot day i walked around my front yard and their it was my neighbors cat curled up under my lemon tree sound asleep,so I rushed back to my garage filled a 10litre bucket will water and some detergent,back to the front yard stealth style and let the whole bucket on target,never seen a cat scramble so fast. No new cat sh@t on my lawns for the last two weeks. Great result so far..... just as long as it keeps out of my veges garden or 'll have to go to plan B.... Vinnie |
Posted By: pjc
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2020 at 5:32am
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Hey Baitcatcher,looking at your garden,Hmm what stops the cat from coming over the fence?? maybe string electric wire up??
------------- Sex at 58.Lucky I live at 56 |
Posted By: terrafish
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2020 at 8:57am
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At our old place we had a reasonable size vege garden and our own cats liked the look of it for there morning ablutions. Saw somewhere about citrus and as had an abundant supply of lemons, squeezed the juice out(froze it) and spread the skins around the garden. Actually worked. Just had to change out the skins every 4-5 days but better than dealing with the ****e and torn up seedlings ------------- Part time Devils Advocate, Fulltime procrastinator |
Posted By: bazza
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2020 at 10:20am
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Can't say have ever had probs with cats despite quite a few in the neighbourhood. Not so blackbirds & thrushes or any ground feeding birds however that seem to relish digging up any plant in situ seeds eg beans for an easy meal. Answer to prob has been to cover with wire netting until they have reasonable growth at which stage the birds no longer appear to be interested. Recently having exhausted supply of netting & not being able to but any have taken to supplementing with the likes of cray pots, fishnets etc. surprising how many things there are when you start looking. Have found protecting "plant in place" seeds currently of particular importance due to shortage of seeds that normally would be sprinkled liberally then thinned once emerged but now are being individually planted at the required spacing however any attrition can leave gaps which is wasted space. ------------- When you cry, feel pain or sadness, no one notices your sorrow .... BUT fart just ONE time !!!!!!!!!!! |
Posted By: Steps
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2020 at 10:30am
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I resorted to the possum trap aftwer our blue russian female cat died after 18yrs..Get a female cat blue russian.. far more like a dog than a cat in nature and behavour..sorts cats dog out even at 18yrs.. Similar to previous post on the subject, we had a foriegn cat sneak into the kitchen during the day.. was a poorly looked after 'pet ' cat think rather hungery.. So set up a home made electric fence unit out of a 16v power pack, a 24v truck coil and indicator relay that had to put bigger conacts in cause would burn out quick. Tinfoil on the floor.. damp tea towel for perpetrator to stand on (would not stand on the foil). The plastic bowl (to insulate from the foil) of food. And the live wire stuck in the food. Failed.. Did not realise why at 1st .. till filled the bowl with milk, .. the electric arch had perforated the bottom of the bowl and all the milk leaked out under the fridge.. So markII .. same bowl, on tinfoil/ damp towel as before, then the thick plastic cutting board between. We where sitting in the lounge , could see the cat come in by relfection in the china cabinet... seaked upto the bowl, sniffed around, approached several angles before desciding to go for it. Stuck its nose about 10mm from the food and got zapped. Well we see it in catroons.. It sorta leaped vertiacal near on 1 meter, feet going at 100 miles per hr, came down facing the wrong way, straight into the cupbards.. Feet still going 100 miles/hr, tried to change direction..no tracktion on the polished rimu floors.. hit the cupboards on the other side of the kitchen, bounced off, rolled, feet still going , came back on its feet in the semi direction of the door, missed it, hit the edge, deflected trying to get to the back door at right angles, missed that into the washhouse, hit the bottom of the tub...feet now going 10 miles/ hr.. turned and hit the back door jamb bounced onto ther back steps and rolled rambo style over the edge, finallt landing on its feet and gone... forever When we saw the reflection we had time to get to a position could step into the kitchen and watch.. at the same time screaming the BJ at it to make things even more traumatic. Then there was the time firewood was going missing...and the dog pack wandering at nigh, jumping in the polyethylene lined 4500l pond.. And the dog that got traped between the back fence and electric fence one night... and the son in nappies who used to play with the fence and a long bit of leaf when thought we where not watching. |
Posted By: Hook-it
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2020 at 10:52am
Loved your post ,Steps 
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Posted By: Steps
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2020 at 11:13am
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Not so blackbirds & thrushes or any ground feeding birds however that
seem to relish digging up any plant in situ seeds eg beans for an easy meal. Answer to prob has been to cover with wire nettingI gave up on netting decades ago.. means a 4 lettered work.. work.. and most of that is folding up and getting out..5 lettered work.. space. Cut bottoms off soda bottles.. I like the idea of condensation getting out and new leaves not stuck to the sides.. espec lettuce |
Posted By: fish-feeder
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2020 at 11:20am
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That post was gold.steps! ------------- dont get my personality mixed up with my attitude,my personality is me,my attitude depends on you. |
Posted By: terrafish
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2020 at 6:36pm
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Steps if you can tell a story every day like that, then 4 weeks is gunna fly. I got tears in my eyes just picturing it!!! Bloody brilliant ------------- Part time Devils Advocate, Fulltime procrastinator |
Posted By: baitcatcher
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2020 at 10:12pm
Hi Paul,just saw your post. Now where can I get those bird spikes they use to stop birds sitting on building roofs?(I can always make one with 3inch nails and some timber. I well need to consult Steps on a electric wire set-up development/installation as he has experience in these matters. I knew their was a good use for my Whitebait nets,I've layed bird netting on top of the screens ,& top it with my whitebait nets.(it's like a cat catcher all in one, now where did I put my little red recipe book..... I have plenty of nets,different models from 1 to 5. Vinnie |
Posted By: Steps
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2020 at 10:11am
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Steps if you can tell a story every day like that, then 4 weeks is gunna fly. I got tears in my eyes just picturing it!!! Bloody brilliant Just need a comment here and there to set on off. Like the time I built a big water tank under thehouse during the Auckland water crisis..then built myself in.. then later filled up and burst in the middle of the night... The re cycle water bed/ water bladder system from showers , W machine to toilet...that worked really damn well Got stuck in the rafters on a stinking hot day, kids had to rescue me after coming home from primary school.. ppl think I know a lot stuff of google what ever.. nope .. just like my grandfather , think about something , then build it.. being broke helps..some go wrong , most work.. eventually. All have some sort of funny , though sometimes dark side to them... Life is too damn short to not to see the funny side of things , the silver linings , count ones blessings. Damn I sound like my grandmother who died 1/2 century ago. I smashed up my back yrs ago, lost my legs, still dont work right, have to figure out a ways to do simple stuff , like shave , clean teeth...And life is good. Been told thats why I have a rather extreme black white attitude thats not exactly diplomatic ( ??) PS that electric fence when used a old reel of rusted mig wire would send out a spark a good 3 to 4" direct to ground... 2 to 3" if near a branch of blade of grass. Again had issues with a pack of dogs coming thru our property OH yeah.. we put it across the driveway , house end.. right of way 50m long.. 2 saw horses stradled it .. a big sign be ware of electric fence, with a big arrow pointing right to the wire about 150mm off the ground. Where expecting guests for dinner/bbq.. summer so still very light outside. 1st car came down, went out to meet guests.. and of coarse the children all saw the sign stepped over, mother did the same... Dad.. hell no, the jolt between hs middle shin thru his jandels took him down, grabbed at a saw horse, that rolled over , he goes down on the wire, another jolt , being old rusted mig wire it snapped. Next lot guests come down the drive in the car get out.. 1st guest rushes out to warn them, points out the wire and the spark jumps to him as does so.. |
Posted By: pjc
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2020 at 4:42pm
 Hi Baitcatcher,just a sample of what chillies Harrison is growing. Going to try on lamb tonight.HaHa got plenty of paper------------- Sex at 58.Lucky I live at 56 |
Posted By: [email protected]
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2020 at 4:48pm
| Yea boy PJC they look awesome. Big fan on the hot stuff |
Posted By: pjc
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2020 at 5:23pm
Like hot foods except will never ever order indian hot vindalu again.Bl@#dy nice .nose ran forehead dripping. but felt a millions dollars after a good sleep.System needed that clean out. ------------- Sex at 58.Lucky I live at 56 |
Posted By: Alan L
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2020 at 6:39pm
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Steps - priceless stuff. You could write a book. I'm on the same page - but not that level. grand kid was asking for a set of fairy wings so they could fly. Wife said - go and see grandad - he's got a welder. kid turns up in the shed asking for a pair of wings. Alan
------------- Legasea Legend member |
Posted By: baitcatcher
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2020 at 11:20pm
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[QUOTE=pjc] Hi Baitcatcher,just a sample of what chillies Harrison is growing. Going to try on lamb tonight.HaHa got plenty of paper [/4QUOTE Hi pjc, What a lovely slection of CHILLIES I also like a bit of heat in my food ,it looks like you have clockwise from left to right; green capsicum,orange Havana ,red Shisito and centre looks like.scotch bonnet and long red Ani-dojo They all have a very unique flavour, the 3 orange Havana, red Shisito and scotch bonnet use with care as they can be extremely hot.  My Italian chillies which are medium hot I grew this year from 3 plants. ------------- Vinnie wash your hands and please stay in your bubble 😷🤒😤 😎 . I know the fish are on the bite! |
Posted By: [email protected]
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2020 at 11:21pm
| Yea I got the same deal when I ordered thai hot prawn tom yum soup. Is awesome if you feel a bit of a cold/ flu etc or bloated hahahahaha sorts it out pretty quick |
Posted By: Big -Dave
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2020 at 12:14am
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Animals don't forget a decent electric shock.. I've used electric fences to keep my dog in, little tart started burrowing under the fence..it only took one jolt... But many years ago in papakura, I constantly found huge dog turds on my back lawn. Far too big for my foxie, who was locked up in a kennel, and the road gate was shut. so I hung an electric fence unit on the clothes line, excellent earth...and ran the hot wire to a nice bony chunk of meat, wrapped it well..and sat it on a chopping board, the cat got the first whack, but at 3 am, the rottie down the road took a giant gulp, I woke to hear the howling travelling down the road... Never came back...but some time later as I went out one evening, with my old diahatsu van and a tandem trailer, the very same rottie came belting out of its gate and straight under the front wheel of the van..a 2 and a half tonne van.. I admit I kept driving, the owners were not a very sociable lot, fairly gang related... ------------- you can't fix an idiot with duct tape, but it does muffle them for a while... |
Posted By: Big -Dave
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2020 at 12:15am
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Steps, your post, that sounds like a cat version of a wild pinball game... ------------- you can't fix an idiot with duct tape, but it does muffle them for a while... |
Posted By: pjc
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2020 at 3:45am
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Well here it is at 3.30am and I can still feel a bit of numbness on the lips but feeling great.Yes 'Vinnie" slightly over did it.Eyes watered,nose ran.Lamb was very tender,even the veges had a hint of chilli and I guess its because I chopped up the chili and didnt wash the board so must of sucked up the juices.No one complained though.Yes correct varieties. seeing how I am up might as well marinate the chicken with a one or two Havana and use the smallest Shisito. somewhere there are jalapenos they could be god later to flavour the rice. Started using jasmine as normal sunshine short grain never fluffs up. Time on hands and MR GOOGLE certainly helping my culinary skills.Do not need to expensive cuts,starting find cheaper cuts/chicken(almost boilers) treated right can make a nice interesting food. Certainly cheaper better quality than takeaway foods. Hmm will I go back to Burgers etc maybe but definitely will limited now. ------------- Sex at 58.Lucky I live at 56 |
Posted By: Steps
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2020 at 9:05am
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Steps - priceless stuff. You could write a book.I'm on the same
page - but not that level. grand kid was asking for a set of fairy wings
so they could fly. Wife said - go and see grandad - he's got a welder.
kid turns up in the shed asking for a pair of wings. Alan  Yep story of my life.. even when our kids where growing up. just before lockdown one of the young grandchildren wanted to make a clock out of wood for his dads birthday.. his mum and Nanna sent them to me. Then got into trouble cause too young..7 I think that one is) when they saw him , very proudly turning down a bit of heart rimu on the old myford machine lathe, dust chips everywhere... using machine tools not chisels.. Even before going on set up everything explained.. he set up, the lot from scratch. Teach them the right way young and they can weld their own wings on. |
Posted By: Big -Dave
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2020 at 9:12am
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Grandads are special people, with special powers..and priveliges.. Waiting for my turn again. ------------- you can't fix an idiot with duct tape, but it does muffle them for a while... |
Posted By: Alan L
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2020 at 9:13am
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Ha - I have a myford too. You , me and Burt munroe. Alan
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Posted By: Alan L
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2020 at 9:21am
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Taught grand daughter to shoot the slug gun. Same one we got the bunnies with the other night. That is a skinning knife in her other hand. If you are going to shoot them - may as well learn to prepare them. She makes brilliant rabbit kebabs - Gamechef recipe book. Alan  ------------- Legasea Legend member |
Posted By: baitcatcher
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2020 at 9:56am
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Hi Alan L Nice one,(IF you marinade the Rabbit in a little plain yoghurt or kiwi fruit,it's will make it super tender,)& the meat can last up to a week in the fridge. I definitely don't want those Rabbit's near my garden.  ------------- Vinnie wash your hands and please stay in your bubble 😷🤒😤 😎 . I know the fish are on the bite! |
Posted By: Alan L
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2020 at 10:09am
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Ok Vinnie - will keep in mind. Have heard kiwifruit tenderises meat. Regards Alan
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Posted By: baitcatcher
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2020 at 2:05pm
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Hi Alan, kiwi fruit is great,(I keep peeled and grated kiwi fruit in the freezer in a snaplock bag,just use a teaspoon or two per dish ,IF you use too much or marinade for too long a tough peice of meat will turn into mince!. It's better than MSG, safe and natural. I use kiwifruit for blade & chuck steak,venison,rabbit,crocodile etc. Maybe this post should be in " The Kitchen" before the mod tells me off.🙃 ------------- Vinnie wash your hands and please stay in your bubble 😷🤒😤 😎 . I know the fish are on the bite! |
Posted By: pjc
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2020 at 3:32pm
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Posted By: baitcatcher
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2020 at 7:35pm
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Your Aunty certainly knew what she was doing,sounds like a great method.(just hope Steps doesn't read this post,he's rather partial to Lamb) ------------- Vinnie wash your hands and please stay in your bubble 😷🤒😤 😎 . I know the fish are on the bite! |
Posted By: Steps
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2020 at 7:50pm
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Ha - I have a myford too. You , me and Burt munroe. Alan
Mine is 1946 long bed, complete with full set gears heads etc. Slight bit wear in the center of the bed Young fella turning the rimu Havnt shown him the auto feeds yet..  |
Posted By: pjc
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2020 at 10:00am
Why did I get up at 5.30?? To makes these rolls to go with the chicken soup for lunch.Never made bread before. ------------- Sex at 58.Lucky I live at 56 |
Posted By: Kevin.S
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2020 at 11:14am
Never too young, can't remember how old my daughter was in this photo -but not very.
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Posted By: baitcatcher
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2020 at 2:14pm
Very nice pjc,no need to shop at Bakers Delight and pay$1:40each!! I'm making some Lamb Samosa from scratch,will post pics later.😊 ------------- Vinnie wash your hands and please stay in your bubble 😷🤒😤 😎 . I know the fish are on the bite! |
Posted By: lingee
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2020 at 4:08pm
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Posted By: Alan L
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2020 at 4:24pm
Just caught up on this thread again - so much to do, so little time  Ha - I have a myford too. You , me and Burt munroe. Alan Mine is 1946 long bed, complete with full set gears heads etc. Slight bit wear in the center of the bed Steps - me too - and about 1-2 thou wear in the bed. Been up and down a few times. They are good lathes for thread cutting. Kevin S - nice pic - and you have a nice lathe lurking too.  ------------- Legasea Legend member |
Posted By: Alan L
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2020 at 4:41pm
Knew I had a better pic somewhere - 3 spd belt - but slightly later version than yours Steps. Most useful tool in the w/shop and handy for lure heads too. 100 uses.
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Posted By: Kevin.S
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2020 at 5:32pm
That's a very old pic, it was a 9" Southbend. Since traded up to a Raglan 5" (American lathes are sized on diameter and English lathes by radius). Still at my old house, didn't get it brought over to the new place before lock down unfortunately. Hope to get a guy with a hiab to bring that and the milling machine over soon though.
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Posted By: Steps
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2020 at 5:43pm
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Quite a bit more modern.. and a lot smaller....yep 3 speed, and a big pile of gears that pop on and off behind the head. |
Posted By: Alan L
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2020 at 5:52pm
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Yep - full set of gears incl the one that gets me from imperial to metric threads. Yes - the diameter in the bed is slightly limiting for some jobs - brake rotors. Some things I just have to pay for. But 90% that lathe will do. Last brake rotors (month or so ago) cost me $90 for the pair. And they probably did a better job then me - proper grinding/finish. Alan
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Posted By: Steps
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2020 at 6:05pm
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brake rotors. Dont ever attempt doing rotors on a std lathe you will not get them right...and not know till they are in use..they use a speacial rotor lather to do them. |
Posted By: Alan L
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2020 at 6:33pm
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"Last brake rotors (month or so ago) cost me $90 for the pair. And they probably did a better job then me - proper grinding/finish." Yep - exactly. Alan ------------- Legasea Legend member |
Posted By: pjc
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2020 at 6:41pm
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Posted By: Alan L
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2020 at 8:08pm
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Hmm, yes - japanese maybe. Not my 1991 relic. But yes, some parts are stupid cheap. Chinese?? Alan ------------- Legasea Legend member |
Posted By: pjc
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 6:53am
We are ripped off on car parts. The boy got a timing belt idler tensioner water pump all seal gasket goo + spanner to fit crank shaft pulley. $145 + $28 frieght,from oz.camry 2lt 1997 5 days freight. Funy story. He wanted an temp sensor,sourced one from taiwan $3.00 with postage.Ended up with 50,so now have 49 sensors . Should buy NZ I know but how do they justify prices?? ------------- Sex at 58.Lucky I live at 56 |
Posted By: Alan L
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 7:03am
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"Funy story. He wanted an temp sensor,sourced one from taiwan $3.00 with postage.Ended up with 50,so now have 49 sensors" Ha I have a story like that. Ordered new injectors for my holden - doing a head job - may as well do other stuff. Found some on line - E Bay. Turns out they were China dispatch. Then Wuflu struck. Had to wait about 2 mths. They were very good and asked if I wanted a refund. I could wait. They arrived about a month ago - they sent me 16. Sounds like I should look to Aus for some parts. Alan ------------- Legasea Legend member |
Posted By: Kevin.S
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2020 at 7:43am
But most of the time you are just buying the same thing, paying someone else to ship it for you. I'd agree if you could find something NZ made then buy it over a cheap import, sadly you don't often find that.
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