What did you buy today ???

[KiwiCol]

That's lovely Stan, I agree with your sentiments!  Well written informative piece that, I can see a promotion coming your way ole boy.   

[Tony Nitrous]

At least you live in a part of the world you can have a wood fire! I had a fire pit out the back to roast marshmallows and hotdogs with the grand kids only to have the fire brigade arrive informing me I was in contravention of the most recent by-law - no open wood fires allowed! How f##ked up is that!! This namby pamby woke society is out of control!! Makes me want to up root and go somewhere I can shoot, burn, rape and pillage to my hearts content! Well may be within reason!!!

Seriously what next. We now have governments that cater for all this woke shit and wonder why the debit is out of control. Our property taxes have a portion allocated to debit service! How f##ked up is that! They are not able to budget so we have to pay for their incompetent behaviour! We have multi-coloured crosswalks to please the likes of fudge packers and bicycle lanes with lovely green intersections all paid for by all other drivers/riders but not cyclists who for the most part cannot ride on a road without separation and pay no attention to the rule of the road! Makes my blood boil!

I have now given away 3 pickup truck loads of cut/seasoned firewood and now only use Charcoal in the fire pit with a grill over it to satisfy the By-Law - How f##ck up is that! They haven't gone so far as banning wood burning stoves and fireplaces for house heating but they are working on it - some little weasel greenie sitting behind a warm desk in the Municipality - probably rides a bike and has a car and protests tanker shipping in a plastic kayak - all made from the oil/chemical industry - how f##cked up is that! - ignorant pilicks! What a f##ked up world. Makes my blood boil!!

^ Absolutely ^

When I lived in the city and worked with several local councils they just made everything a drama.  I put a shed up behind my house in suburbia, not a huge industrial affair just a reasonable size garage. Council knocked back planning approval and we had to fight to get it. They measured to the mm how far it was off the boundary,  they insisted roof water was plumbed into the mains drain (not a rubble pit soak away) even though the run off was minimum and the shed was lower than any drains on the property etc etc.

Even stuff like filling up a water tanker for work, I worked in several local suburbs that each had their own council, every one made me sit an identical course to get an identical ticket / permit as they didn't recognise each other's.

It wasn't the only reason I left the city but it was certainly an influence.  I'm a few hours away from most folk now and it's a different world.  I asked to build a 2nd big shed on my block... instantly passed by council. I asked to build an Off-Grid house... septic, tank water, log burner etc, somewhere with no postman or dustbins, ...instantly passed by council and they point out theres "Rural Home Builders Grant" to claim.

As I said in another post, Australia really is a country of contrasts. From Traffic, Speed Cameras, Cops, Weather, Land Prices, how councils treat you and a huge amount of other stuff, the citys on the coast are very different to areas more rural (that do have poor services infrastructure, schools and hospitals etc though to be fair, it's not perfect!)

[Kiwifruit]

I'm building an awning 4.5m x 12m off the side of my workshop. Building it to comply or exceed council standards but am not getting council consent, they are too greedy, pedantic and delaying, just making work for their army of clipboard jockeys.
Will see in due course what if anything is said.

[Hooli]

Yup it's mental. Coal fires are banned here next year, nation wide. Utterly fucking mental, all for the carbon myth that has no real science behind it.

[Tony Nitrous]

Yup it's mental. Coal fires are banned here next year, nation wide. Utterly fucking mental, all for the carbon myth that has no real science behind it.

There's are things that Australia lags behind in, but sometimes it suits me just fine.

We still got bikes like the Gen-2 Busa when the UK / EU took them off sale due to Euro-4 or 5,  there's not huge push for electric vehicles in fact some states are working how to tax them and not subsidise them, having a log fire is more common than not where I am.  I'm not going to win an Eco Warrior prizes though.



Like a lot of stuff firewood's gone up in $$'s but I have a few trees ready to be donors.   In my defence, I have planted a lot more trees than I've cut down recently.

[grog]

Today i got 2 pairs of prescription glasses from Specsavers for $178. Work, fit perfectly.Bargain👍😎 My Wife wanted to give local blokes a go last time. One pair cost $700. 🤯 Id like to comment on local council rules but would just ruin my frame of mind. Money grabbers. Their trees destroyed my house 4 yrs ago, still havent had a phone call to see if im ok.

[Tony Nitrous]

Today i got 2 pairs of prescription glasses from Specsavers for $178. Work, fit perfectly.Bargain👍😎

I'm a regular. It's cheaper for us to have private health care than not have it and pay more tax, and it includes $200 towards glasses each year, Specsavers always do a good deal.

The little squirty bottles of glass cleaner they give you are good. I normaly ask for a couple extra. They go under my seat of each bike with a microfibre cloth and make nice little visor cleaners when I'm out and about.

[grog]

Agree, good spray. Do both tv with it. Clean visors, wipe over inside with Cat Crap, no need for pinlock. https://www.mcas.com.au/shop/item/cat-crap-helmet-visor-goggle-lense-cleaner-anti-fog

[grog]

Today got MAP sensor. $25 off low k bike. Will look for another. Seems a good idea to have spares as new cost is ridiculous.

[Kiwifruit]

I feel your pain regarding woodfires. We are not allowed to have a wood burner that burns all night as our land is only 1 acre yet our neighbour can as he owns more than 2 hectares. Go figure ??
Stan you should have made your firewood into sawdust for smoking your fish using a 2stroke chainsaw. Get noise and two lots of pollution for the one price. 

Today some of the steel turned up for our awning.
... How exciting. The rest should turn up on Wednesday.

[Tony Nitrous]

Today some of the steel turned up for our awning.
... How exciting. The rest should turn up on Wednesday.

I went to buy some 200mm C-section purlins to put a dividing wall in my 2nd shed, they needed to be 4.3m tall. After a couple of quotes and some calculations I did it in timber instead !

There's been a bit of a timber shortage here but the prices don't seem to have snot up like steel prices have.  When I ordered my shed they gave me the option of paying up front and avoiding the considerable price rises coming in.

[Irish in Oz]

@Tony Nitrous
Are you putting a bakery in there because its going to get bloody hot.

[Tony Nitrous]

@Tony Nitrous
Are you putting a bakery in there because its going to get bloody hot.

I may fit a whirlybird vent to the roof, but it's not too bad with the big front doors open. One shed is new but it's twin has been up and in use for a year and it's only uncomfortable up on the mezzanine in Summer with the main doors down. Not a problem yet.

To be honest it's normally cooler than the coast (and a lot less humid) here but I'd be more interested in fitting a heater.  The heat doesn't bother me but the cold does.

[Irish in Oz]

I would recommend the whirlybirds as from my own experience I did that. I later did some other mods like polystyrene sheets above the mezzanine.

[Tony Nitrous]

I would recommend the whirlybirds as from my own experience I did that. I later did some other mods like polystyrene sheets above the mezzanine.

Yeah, I put a whirlybird on the Titan shed at the last place. It worked well.

I'm not a huge fan of windows in my sheds ... but... as the mezzanine is quite high I might put a small one in high up. It'd give more light and let the air through and being so high be less of a security risk. I can easily  put bars across it.