This shows the chain block slung in the step ladder to lift the beam.The photo below shows the post sunk into the ground with out any footings.

 This is how I lifted the heavy beam to the roof line the chain was used to support the weight when not lifting.

 Bed frames are used for floor supports.

 The steps are set on steel beams and are glued into place with liquid nails.

 Hand rails are in place.

 Roof supports are going in.

 More steel ready to be joined ready for use.

 Wooden treated pine posts are used to support the steel beams there is no concrete used in this job.

 Steel beam in place.

 The final position was done with a car jack.

 Steel pin was used threw chain link to support steel beam.

 This shows the half chain link welded to the beam to lift it.

verandah

 This shows the floor rafter made from bed frames

 More of the same

 The steps were picked up for a dollar each.

 The steps are sitting on heavy steel beams and are glued on.

 Getting ready to put in supports for the roof.

 This shows the heavy supports for the floor. The last photo shows more of the same.

Illegal act

The ABC is into publishing photos of defense installations which is against the law in this country. I might take a writ out against them..

Breaking the law

ABC TV news has done it again publishing photos of Amberly air force base on the nightly news tonight.

DEFENCE ACT 1903 - SECT 82

Sketching etc. of fortifications prohibited (1) If:
(a) a person makes a sketch, drawing, photograph, picture or painting of any defence installation in Australia or of any part of one; and
(b) the person has no lawful authority to do so;
then:
(c) the person is guilty of an offence; and
(d) all sketches, drawings, photographs, pictures, and paintings, and all tools and all materials or apparatus for sketching, drawing, photographing or painting found in his or her possession are forfeited and may be destroyed, sold, or otherwise disposed of, as the Governor-General directs.
(1A) The maximum penalty for an offence under subsection (1) is a fine of $200, imprisonment for 6 months, or both.
(2) If:
(a) a person enters or approaches any defence installation with sketching, drawing, photographing, or painting materials or apparatus in his or her possession; and
(b) the person has no lawful authority for that conduct; and
(c) the person intends to contravene subsection (1);
then:
(d) the person is guilty of an offence; and
(e) all tools and all materials or apparatus for sketching, drawing, photographing or painting found in his or her possession are forfeited and may be destroyed, sold, or otherwise disposed of, as the Governor-General directs.
(2A) The maximum penalty for an offence under subsection (2) is a fine of $100.
(3) A person is guilty of an offence if the person trespasses on:
(a) a defence installation, or on any land reserved for or forming part of one (whether or not any erection, fort, fortification, or work of any kind is on the land); or
(b) a building or land reserved or set apart for or used in connection with the administration, accommodation, or training of any part of the Defence Force; or
(c) an aircraft.
Penalty: $40.
(4) Any member of the Defence Force, member or special member of the Australian Federal Police or member of the Police Force of a State, may, without warrant, arrest any person who he has reasonable ground to believe has committed an offence against this section, and take him before a Court of summary jurisdiction to be dealt with according to law.
(5) In this section:
"defence installation" means any fort, battery, fieldwork, fortification, aircraft, air force establishment or aircraft material or any naval, military or air force work of defence.

I would like to thank the governor general for replying to my emails I wish.....

ANIMAL SLAUGHTER

I just watched Four corners tonight and what I saw was totally unexceptionable even for me as an ex-slaughterman.

Check out other blog

This is another of my blogs http://footrotflats.blogspot.com/ its just stories.

Mackers

Dear Sally,
Thank you for your reply, I was not concerned about the weight or the diameter or height of the big Mack. I was concerned with the way the big Mack in the photos did not match the actual size that was served to me . I did not mention the nutritional value or the amount of salt or sugar. I never once said the big Mack was smaller in any way. I am glad of the information especially that the size has not changed since 1971. I feel that to make sure that you know what I was talking about I would take some photos of one of your outlets menu board. For this I was threatened with eviction from the store and was told it was illegal after I took the photos. I feel disheartened for trying to bring a potential law suit to your attention. On the Hume highway there is a bill board on the left going into Gundagai which shows the real size in relation to the drinks. This looks good and even I know I couldn't eat a twenty foot high Big Mack. When you go into the store I see the photo is different to the billboard. Some how the Big Mack gets bigger compared to the drinks. I took some photos of my empty cartons and I couldn't get them as high as the drinks so I put the Big Mack carton on half of a Grand Angus pack and this gets near the height if it was put on a plate.

I have worked it out the store Photo was taken with a telephoto lens and the distance between the Big Mack and the drinks is probably about two to three feet. Then it could be you decreased the size of the drinks, that's it. This then makes the meal more healthy due to the less sugar used, thanks for looking after my health..

Dear Sally,
Thank you for your reply, I was not concerned about the weight or the diameter or height of the big mack. I was concerned with the way the big mack in the photos did not match the actual size that was served to me . I did not mention the nutritional value or the amount of salt or sugar. I never once said the big mack was smaller in any way. I am glad of the information especially that the size has not changed since 1971. I feel that to make sure that you know what I was talking about I would take some photos of one of your outlets menu board. For this I was threatened with eviction from the store and was told it was illegal after I took the photos. I feel disheartened for trying to bring a potential law suit to your attention. On the Hume highway there is a bill board on the left going into Gundagai which shows the real size in relation to the drinks. This looks good and even I know I couldn't eat a twenty foot high Big Mack. When you go into the store I see the photo is different to the billboard. Some how the Big Mack gets bigger compared to the drinks. I took some photos of my empty cartons and I couldn't get them as high as the drinks so I put the Big Mack carton on half of a Grand Angus pack and this gets near the height if it was put on a plate.

I have worked it out the store Photo was taken with a telephoto lens and the distance between the Big Mack and the drinks is probably about two to three feet. Then it could be you decreased the size of the drinks, that's it. This then makes the meal more healthy due to the less sugar used, thanks for looking after my health...

Teck screws

I was questioned about my welds today and would like to let you all know that a Teck screw will hold on a 3mm screw a quarter of a ton in sheer. I would think the wood would give away first but it doesn't. Then my crane on my trailer will hold a ton on a meter radius with four 1/2" bolts in tension. The load is only on two of those bolts at a time. So how much will my welds hold?
6" long weld with a depth of .25" well 6x.25"=1.5 sq inches
Steel carry's a load of 25 tons per square inch so my welds should carry 37.5 tons

Concrete footings

It amazes me when they poor great masses of concrete into holes in the ground for house footings.
Generally houses are in the range of forty tons and twenty tons is in the footings. Now if I were building a boat I would put all that weight at the bottom to keep the boat upright and this is a good thing. If I were to build a boat of forty tons I would get a stronger structure than a house, and the thing would carry a load of forty tons making it eighty tons.
The buoyancy of land to carry loads is greater than that of water. Let me explain, drive a heavily loaded truck on a road and its OK now drive it onto soft wet ground and it will get bogged, drive it into water and it will go straight to the bottom. So all three surfaces have a buoyancy, the road, the soft wet ground and the water. Now it is no good putting all that concrete into the ground if it is going to sink.
Lighter load for softer ground. Next to spread the load a boat has a surface area now put the boat onto the ground and it will support a massive amount of load with out sinking into the ground. Thats why big trucks have lots of tires to support the load so as not to sink into the road. If a building is going to move bigger and more concrete is not best. If I were going to build on soft ground I would go for surface area and allow the whole building to move as a whole.
I did work years ago as a drilling contractor and on one job in Corrimal in NSW. there was a skin of hard ground about three feet thick and below that the drilling rig would have sunk over eighteen feet threw the underlying mud.
How did I know well when we broke threw the skin I was able to push the drill bit that was three feet in diameter to the full extent of the machine with out turning the bit. The capacity of the machine was close to twenty feet for the depth of hole. So putting big concrete footing into the ground would have resulted in the building sinking over twenty feet threw the mud.
Any ground can be built on it just takes imagination as to how to over come a sites special needs.

Parasites

Parasites

I know for a fact as it is happening here, that the religions and charities get a donation and then they put you on there mailing list and you have the devils job of getting off there list. So here is a way to make shore that they do take you from the list. When you get the next persistent mail from your favorite charity or sponger with a return address envelope. You are set for the next stage, now you find something that is heavy and useless then cover it with laundry powder and you post this heavy object to the recipriant wrapt in brown paper without paying the postage. Now my mate carries this out to the extreme return posting a slab of broken bricks to Canada air mail. It was funny to see him at the post office with the clerk helping him lift it out of his van onto the post office trolley. This was done to a particularly aggressive organization and it worked.

I love my wife

I have made this to show how hot my love for my Pamela is ....

internet phones

I have a internet phone and it is not listed. Some how this person rings me and does not show there phone number and wants me to go into my computer and open up the workings on line. So I listens to the instructions given by the caller and proceed to shut down my computer and in the mean time say yes to all her instructions. They tell me to do this and that and I say yes did that and they rattle on. Then I say bugger what has happened and I sit there tapping the keys and she waits till I finish.I say "We will have to start again" and we go threw it again then they hang up. Or it might go something like this Are you the owner of this phone and I say no do you have a computer and I say no and after about six nos they hang up. Or they ask if I would like something and I say yes and they go on and on and it finally asks for my credit card details and I say I don't have one. Quick as a whip they ask If I could send them a money order  and I say that's OK and they give me the details on where to send the money. I figure next time they want to go this way I will send them a brick covered in white laundry powder collect!!!

drug sub

I have made new bearings for the winch and rebuilt it. The cable was refitted and wound up and it works like new. will heve to wait for the weather to improve I do not want to fight bad weather in a untried boat. This gives me more time to do those small jobs that require time. i will make a list and then get that work all done. i read about someone talking about messing about in boats and they said it was the journey and i find this to be true.

drug sub

I have been busy on another project and the drug sub wants to get in the water

This is one of the cabin hold down bolts and it has a small leak.

 Looking for more leaks with the camera.

 more of the same

 this is looking down the left bunk

 Seats are dry

 Rain comes down but surprisingly warm inside the boat

 Water drips from the roof

 Window leak

 These two photos of the space between the inner hull and the outer hull

 

nuclear power

Nuclear power stations should be built below ground water so they can be feed water in a disaster situation. FREE TO THE MAKERS OF THESE MACHINES. gravity does not break down. The cost to built below ground is not that expensive and if there is water that can run threw the installation all the better.

Just to recap here is a previous post on the subject.

Well I here in the news by a whistle blower that safety is a problem at ANSTO at Lucas Heights. What's new, here is a photo of a cartoon drawn by one of the workers at ANSTO when it was the AAEC. Things haven't changed  just look at the reactor in the image The extension cord and the sparks coming from the computer and this is from the elite of Australian technology. Or is this just the coffee shop at the canteen? Now I personally haven't worked at the above places but when I was working with my old mate from the UTS in Sydney some of the engineers from ANSTO came in and told of harrowing stories and things to come. This is why when I saw this cartoon at the rubbish tip, that I was to have it for this blog and this moment in time. IT'S AMAZING HOW MUCH TRUTH IS SAID IN JEST......I dont know who the artist is or who the person is in the cartoon. What I do know of is that the waste from the reactor is in holes drilled into sandstone.....

Keep up the good work????

Vita Needle Finds Vital Employees Among the Elderly

Workforce, Nov, 2000 by Caroline Louise Colec

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As a group, the senior citizens at Vita Needle Co. are still working to take home weekly paychecks for many of the same reasons that those half their age do.
Some need the wages to supplement pensions or their Social Security checks. Others are saving for vacations or "those little extras." Still others just want to stay active in their "retirement."
To their employer, though, the mostly older workers at the Needham, Massachusetts, company represent a loyal, dedicated, and flexible workforce that meets the modern-day needs of a small manufacturing concern in a competitive market.
Of the 35 employees at Vita Needle, most on the factory floor are over 65. Many who spend their days turning slender rods of hollow steel into syringe needles are well into their 80s.
These days, the average age at Vita Needle hovers around 76, but given the company's reputation for providing "work for life," that number edges up with each passing year, according to company president Frederick Hartman.
"We haven't had anyone hit 100 yet, but we're hoping for that; it would be just fine," said Hartman, one of the handful of company youngsters at age 48. "It's not that we won't hire someone younger. But when younger people come up the stairs and take a look at who we have working here, they generally say it's not for them."
Hartman, however, didn't adopt his gray-haired employee profile after attending a business-management class or in response to an overactive sense of civic responsibility. Rather it happened by accident.

Earthquakes

I have said before in a press release on March 1, 2010 about the greedy ones taking oil from the earths shock absorbers before. Now they plan to take the gas from coal seams as well in Tara in Queensland as well. We do not learn moving mass amounts of  iron ore and other substances from the earths plates and putting it somewhere else. This looking for more trouble. It continues at an alarming rate. We deserve what we get. Do not construe this as impassionate it is just the truth. The only way to reduce harm to the plant is to reduce population and thus reducing the need for more stuff. Lets do it by not reproducing, not by wars. I commend the Chinese for there one child policy and its about time the western world followed.

Boiling water in small spaces

I read about small houses and thought this might help to reduce energy consumption. The cup is heated at the same time as the water I sometimes use an insulated mug but I like the ceramic cup to drink from.

drug sub

I have been given some perspex to make a few more windows to get rid of the blind spots in the sides of the cabin. This will have to be done before launch day.

water

Just to recap about water and coal. Now they the big company's are at it again they are into removing the gas from the coal seams in Queensland as it is easier to get than the coal and are contaminating the water of the worlds food basket. The Artesian basin that feeds water to the states of NSW and Queensland and South Australia. All this to feed Liquid natural gas to the developed countries of the world. Can they be trusted and the answer is no as they don't have the trained personel to do the job.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Water without rain

There is a creek in Wollongong that runs through the long periods with out rain. It never dries up. What all cities and towns need is one of these. Imagine no dams just good clean drinking water and  it runs from the mountain.  There could be a hydroelectric power station to generate electricity but there is not.  it could deliver free energy 24/7 . It could generate 40 kilo watts of power I think. Yes it is there (the stream that is) and its true. The village the stream runs through is Wongawilli west of Dapto where the dogs are.. I ask you all to follow the stream to its source you will be amazed from where it comes from. Talk about the man himself getting water from a stone. This isn't just water its a stream. Ask the powers to be where it comes from and some will say its from God himself. Yes  if you don,t believe me go and look for yourselves. Google it if you have to on Google earth. The places name again is Wongawilli.:)

Posted by stewart at 12:52 AM

tyres

I have asked the question before,where does all the tyre treads go to? The answer lies in the fact that it comes off real slowly in the form of dust! rubber dust. You can read that earth-ships are not environmental as they gas off toxic materials. Now this is a fact an undisputed fact. So the tyres of your car have the same gasses and material in them this is also a fact. Undisputed. Now getting back to the treads and where do they go to and the answer is onto the roads in the form of very fine dust particles which also gas off like the earth ships. The dust is then pulverized by traffic and made even smaller and it becomes air borne. Where does it end up? In your houses and in you and your children's lungs  to fester and grow into who knows what? Don't believe me? I just bought one of those ceiling fans and it has been up for a month and the tips of the blades are covered with you guest it black coloured dust. Now check this out for yourselves and notice the ceiling fans in your area and think.where did that come from? I would like to here from someone who lives in a country setting and has fans, do you have this?

Australians

We in Australia are tolerant of all nations and creeds and religions. We have a sense of humor that is different, Some times I forget that the whole world is reading and watching and If I offend some readers it is unintentional. Then there is those from the rest of the world that must not make racist remarks as Australia is a multicultural country. I have friends from China and other parts of the world so I know that not everyone likes say Chinese people but would be walking round nude if it was not for those little Chinese working in there sweat shops for a dollar a day.  In the case of say England 50 p / day. In the words of a great English engineer "nuff said".....

ANSTO or AAEC call it what you like

ansto

Well I here in the news by a whistle blower that safety is a problem at ANSTO at Lucas Heights. What's new, here is a photo of a cartoon drawn by one of the workers at ANSTO when it was the AAEC. Things haven't changed  just look at the reactor in the image The extension cord and the sparks coming from the computer and this is from the elite of Australian technology. Or is this just the coffee shop at the canteen? Now I personally haven't worked at the above places but when I was working with my old mate from the UTS in Sydney some of the engineers from ANSTO came in and told of harrowing stories and things to come. This is why when I saw this cartoon at the rubbish tip, that I was to have it for this blog and this moment in time. IT'S AMAZING HOW MUCH TRUTH IS SAID IN JEST......I dont know who the artist is or who the person is in the cartoon. What I do know of is that the waste from the reactor is in holes drilled into sandstone.....