The Arbalk morning register!

[AHPP]

I suspect it does have a bottom but will google what you mean. I’m trying to buy a property with no mains connections so I’ll have to learn about it at some point anyway. 

[maybelateron]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Made a box out of old bits lying around to keep the batteries in one place in the van.  

I did similar a few days ago to stop the trolley jack rolling around the load bed. Note the lazy man's tool for pulling it out. Unfortunately I didn't have yew or walnut to make the box with, hence use of plywood offcuts.

[peds]

Outstanding work fellas. Great carpentry skills on display. You all fell into the wrong vocation.

 

I need to build a pull-out draw for the back of the jeep.

 

[maybelateron]

Simpler method is park facing up hill, drop the tailboard and then drive forwards suddenly. They say necessity is the mother of invention.

[Mick Dempsey]

33 minutes ago, AHPP said:

I suspect it does have a bottom but will google what you mean. I’m trying to buy a property with no mains connections so I’ll have to learn about it at some point anyway. 

Yes, probably, I’ll ask him more about it tomorrow. 

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

I suspect it does have a bottom but will google what you mean. I’m trying to buy a property with no mains connections so I’ll have to learn about it at some point anyway. 

Sounds good. My well is only 12ft deep and filling a couple of water butts will empty it but it generally refills in a day. I normally rely on rainwater as it's  a faff lifting the cap and dropping the submersible pump in.

 

From what I can gather it never was a traditional well but a hand pump shared between the two cottages. It looks like it was used to dump old bits of pipe in before it was capped and the mains was connected. If I were younger I would dredge it and should have done when I was.

 

 

[AHPP]

If only there was someone with some spare IBC flasks in the south of England. You could bury/stack a few and run the pump as often as you liked to build up stock. 

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

If only there was someone with some spare IBC flasks in the south of England. You could bury/stack a few and run the pump as often as you liked to build up stock. 

No need really, we have mains water and the sewerage rate is linked to our usage ( not intending to go down the composting toilet route) so I have to pay the standing charge and our daily average is 70ltr so no real cost savings are possible. I flush the loos mostly with greywater.

[AHPP]

For me it isn’t about saving costs. It’s about never having to talk to the water board ever again. 

[openspaceman]

4 hours ago, AHPP said:

For me it isn’t about saving costs. It’s about never having to talk to the water board ever again. 

Entendido señor Quijote