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I'll round up a few more volunteers so.

I mean, I definitely don't disagree with you. And we were going to do one room paneled in beech face ply instead of gyproc, but the economics of the situation got the better of us, and here we are. We are doing 66m² of t+g softwood in a couple of weeks though! All handball though, no ski lift needed. But this is basically all a lot of distraction to hide the fact that you don't know what the fella's big red tractor can lift. No biggie, I was just making conversation really.

That would be pretty funny, yeah. I'll file it away for future Yeah, that would be pretty funny. I'll file that suggestion away for future use. We actually need to lift 2 loads of plasterboard up to a balcony, first one is 1.4 tons for 60 sheets of 12.5mm, it'd be handy if we didn't need to split it down into smaller loads first. Second load is a little lighter. I'll ask the fella with the tractor tomorrow. Just want to be as quick as possible, he's doing us a favour.

Quick question chaps... what weight could a big new shiny red tractor carry on its front forks? Ton point eight? No, I can't be more specific I'm afraid.

I'd like it to have a little pocket to store loose change.

Dirt can be found under fingernails and the on the top shelf of magazines at your local newsagents. That is soil, or earth. Flipping yanks.

Plain old handbag is what we were told. But we were still learning, of course.

Beans, squash, sea-of-green-style cannabis, peas, any number of ornamentals... heras would fill so many gaps.

Bit far, I guess I'll stick to the hazel frames for now. The timber frame company who built my house left a dozen slings behind, and another dozen sliced open that went in the bin. Not the fanciest slings, only 750kg, but they've been useful enough so far. Handy for moving all sorts around.

Crikey, whereabouts? Imagine all the beans you could grow up a few dozen heras!

A thought popped into my head whilst driving in this morning. Do you have any experience with tip bearing varieties? When I was learning about them they seemed to be a bit of a pointless endeavour, I never understood their value. But would they work well in this exact scenario, as a screen in a garden that also happens to grow fruit?

I wasn't going to bother commenting, but now that there's pictures, I'll echo everyone else, as I was imagining something else from your description. 3 days for that? Shameful. Are you sure those are photos of the right place? Some mistake, surely.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e3Trm9EgTbg

Oh! Well in that case, I don't know what to think! I guess bad people can come from anywhere, eh?

Good thing British people don't rape anyone.

Well, what an absolute shocker! Who could have possibly foreseen such a thing?

Depending on your soil, some stumps can pretty much just be pushed straight down into the ground with the digger bucket, like you're pushing raisins into a bowl of thick porridge with the back of a spoon.

That's his overnight edging load, keeps it on a low smoulder so he can flare it up easily in the morning. Honest, guv.

To me, this is also the most important argument against homoeopathic medicine. Sure, water has memory, but it chooses to remember ONLY that one time you shook it around in a bottle with a lump of arsenic, and not the time it was a drop of sweat on Napoleon's ballsack, or the millions of years of being pissed out by pterodactyls...

Often wondered the same thing. I keep meaning to set aside the bigger chunks I find to experiment, but never got round to it. I took out an absolute monster of a fuchsia a while ago as well and wondered if it'd burn well enough to bother with.

There we go, that's all 200 of the bastards up on the house. Not the hardest thing I've ever done, but definitely not the easiest, either. Next I'll be focusing on the corners, flashing, and trim to tidy up all the edges. Scaffold comes down on Monday.

Only just saw this reply, sorry. Yeah I'd hate to as well, so I'm just thinking of other things for now and ignoring that bit until we get to it. Seems to have worked at every other stage of the build! I keep meaning to do a more thorough update of this, because the foundations were a particularly interesting process and I'll have to share some pictures of that one day. But here's where we are now. It's been a long month, but 98% of the cladding is now on, and the scaffold is coming down on Monday. Delivery itself was a pretty hectic day because the crane was supposed to have been collected a month ago, but they just left it sitting there. I was going to start charging rent for the driveway, but then the corrugated fibre cement cladding sheets showed up. We had just lowered the first bale of 14 sheets onto the top deck of the scaffold when the driver showed up to take the crane away, but there were still 9 tons of material parked in front of it so he pretty much had to help us at that stage. He's happy enough, he's paid by the hour anyway, and I gave him a bottle of wine and a few notes for his trouble. The dog was thrilled to finally be able to go upstairs for the first time ever, after I upgraded the ladder to the temporary stairs. Roofers did the roof, a pair of stout fellas and I did the walls. Heavy buggers, the 3m sheets on the shed are 50kg, but the 2.75m sheets on the house roof and walls are only 44kg. It's graft, you've got to manually position these things and lean your weight against them while screwing them in. It's easiest with 3, good enough with 2, and tediously slow as just 1, but you can wrestle them into position on the ground floor and prop them up with a couple of wedges. It's easier when it isn't snowing horizontally. Only got 6 left to put up, a little triangle on the shed gable. Corner shapes and holes for the doors and windows are cut with a concrete blade on an angle grinder. The roofers made their holes with a Stihl con saw, and I was pretty jealous. After the cladding comes a load of barge and corners, then I'll start thinking about gutters and window flashing.

Sungold are pretty decent.

I enjoyed that!