Today i have mainly been………

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Pellet Pinger

Pellet Pinger

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Digging.
Been a manual worker all my life but theres one thing i absolutely detest and thats digging out busted fence posts, too tight to pay anyone so have to suck it up, b@stard of a job especially in my heavy clay soil, all five of them done today.
Looking on the bright side the money saved will be spent on something shooting wise.
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Oddly enough I took out a metal clothes line post las week and have put an old eight foot concrete fence post in its place and fixed it with bricks around it on the hole and then to fix them in the hole Heidelberg Post Fix which I did yesterday afternoon just before the rain came. That way the post should be easier to ever remove as it ins't except at just below ground level fully in contact with the concrete mixture.
 
enfieldspares said:
Oddly enough I took out a metal clothes line post las week and have put an old eight foot concrete fence post in its place and fixed it with bricks around it on the hole and then to fix them in the hole Heidelberg Post Fix which I did yesterday afternoon just before the rain came. That way the post should be easier to ever remove as it ins't except at just below ground level fully in contact with the concrete mixture.
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Except you'll also have to dig out your big lump of bricks and concrete.
 
VSS said:
Except you'll also have to dig out your big lump of bricks and concrete.
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Dig the hole. Make sure the bottom is flat, level and true. The post if the bottom of it is flat stands up on its own. Place bricks on end around it and gravel around them to tamp and compact them in tight about a third the way up. The add the water and pour in the "Postfix" which will fix the bricks. I hope I'll be long passed when that time comes around to take the post out! It'll be good for thirty years odd. But break the top half inch small dressing of "Postfix" surrounding it above the brick tops and the post should slide in and out with two men putting effort on it. Then just slide a replacement in and with no concrete at the bottom of that brick "surround" even a wood post could be used at that future time as the hole can drain.
 
I've just spent part of a third weekend diagnosing dodgy work by a car dealer and building an ever growing case against them.
B@stards.
 
Today I have mostly been......

Cladding a section beside my chillers to created a dedicated skinning area. My last Council inspector passed my existing practices as acceptable, but gave me some really good ideas as to how I could improve. I had the materials lying around, so it's a no-brainer really. Roof and floor still be be figured-out, but it already looks pretty good I think

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I whacked in some metal spike type supports (we've got clay and gravel).....they're still good after 15 years although the posts have now rotted to the point where they're getting a bit loose.

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Whereas today, I will be mostly skinning my knuckles replacing the exhaust pipes on one of my Harleys........without shearing any studs that are traditionally made of plasticine!
 
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