Fencing Part 3: Dip your poles, droppers and fence

August 31, 2015 by easternhighlander

So we’ve started dipping the giant pile of poles, one by one, two by two! At this stage we reckon on needing 450 poles and droppers at 10m spacing.

Poles dipped in carboliniumPoles dipped in carbolinium

Poles dipped in preservative

Three by three also possible.

Poles dipped preservative

Garikai is determined to catch that sun.

Poles dipped in preservative

Poles leaving the dip tank

Reflecting in the dip tank

Don’t forget the secret sauce

Dipped pole

Now a giant pile of dipped poles

Happy Days Pole Dipping Plant

Part way through we also dipped the rolls of veld fence (Bonox fence) in bitumen to provide some protection to the bottom of the fence in contact (or buried) in the ground. No pictures of the operation due to yours truly being the ‘senior driver’ but we used the forklift attachment on the front loader to pick up each roll held on end. Then dipped it in the butumin and placed it on the stack shown below. Each roll is 100m and weighs approx. 90 kg.

Bitumin dipped veld fence

Bitumin dipped Bonox fencing

Humans enact the function of PTP-MEG2 in secretory-vesicle fusion with the plasma membrane

July 18, 2015 by easternhighlander

Delight and Edmore as PtdIns 3 & 4

Mr Garikai in full PPE as PtdIns 5

Out of the heat haze

Inactive NSF (N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor)

Take your positions directs Mr Ramius

Stone built plasma membrane

The formation of a secretory vesicle

And, finally, the obligatory puppy pic (for Sue)

Hamlet and Brutus

See WengLong, Joachim, and Hilary – I must have been paying attention at some time!

The Worlds Most Powerful Flying Chainsaw

April 8, 2015 by easternhighlander

Never before seen images from the hi-tech side of logging, we can now exclusively show you THE WORLDS MOST POWERFUL FLYING CHAINSAW, invented here in Troutbeck

the worlds most powerful flying chainsaw

Look at all the toys she has on board …the new levtek seat AND the tree-o-scope vision system …

shaved pilot with safety glasses demonstrating levtek seat & tree-o-scope vision system

Finally we get some idea of the power behind this machine.

flying chainsaw twin turbo-prop engines, with double port side wingdoodles

No trees were harmed in the production of this post

Rondavel extension part 4: Foundation Walls

April 8, 2015 by easternhighlander

Although these look like walls – they are in fact the foundation walls build on top of the footings i.e. they will be below the level of the final building ground floor.

Here is the idea in progress – the foundation walls now part way up.

Rondavel extension foundation walls in progress

and here, showing a temporary retaining wall in stone immediately behind the builders

Rondavel extension foundation walls in progress

Next some details of the building process when working in stone as we are here.

Farai begins his wall

Of course the stones don’t come in pre-packed sizes…so yes they have to be first burnt, then hammered and finally, artfully positioned so that they fit and the ‘look’ from the outside or inside is ‘good’