Here’s a couple of cool sisters hanging out at the local tavern. We took the family out for a nice pub meal. They’ve been visiting this week and it was great to catch up.
Progress on the GoKart!
Looking good! I’ve managed to get the motor mounted with safe cover for the cogs and motor bits. The electric speed controller failed so it’s running fast all the time so I have ordered a new more powerful one off the net.
I’ve also butchered a 3 channel RC plane to get the servo’s out. I’ll use these to remote control the motor’s cutoff switch and potentiometer (speed).
Also managed to get some Disc brakes off TradeMe from an old bike so that’ll be some good stopping power!
It’s a bit of a ‘Frankenkart’ but looking good! However Jack isn’t going on it until I have all the safety and ‘remote’ systems in place.
He’s going to love this! I’m trying to get it finished before Zach comes down for a holiday 🙂
Twit note:
As side note, all this effort, many hours researching and building and the one thing I overlooked was the direction of the motor. Ha! It was running in reverse the way I had it setup. Sheesh what a walley!
All credit to Ben Viv though who pointed out I should just flip the motor and cogs to the other side. That’s what mates are for – to aid us walleys by pointing out the obvious I overlooked.
What a cute puppy!
How’s this for a cute office dog. Bob being lazy or perhaps waiting for Hobbes to get out for a play. That’s Rich and Aimee’s dog 😉
Meet our new mutt–“Bob!”
In a moment of either genius or insanity I drove 180km downcountry and got the family a new puppy. This is “Bob” (named by Jack). He’s a cool wee fella – very smart and cheeky and keeps Jack on his toes . Those two are trouble together…
He’s a Cairn Terrier crossed with a Wire haired Fox Terrier. Quite a cool cross breed actually. So there ya go…
The balloon visit was a little ‘deflating’ but fun.
We popped up to Darfield to see the ‘Balloon Day’ but unfortunately it was too windy and they could blow them up. Still nice to go see the big Balloon even if it was a little ‘flat’.
The ‘Wild Hogs’!
This is me taking jack for a very slow cruise on the bike around the farm. I think we got up to about 3kph! He loved it!
Jack’s Lego Creations
What a smart lad we have. Jack did these all by himself! He keeps inventing little vehicles with the Lego set. Engineering mind eh!
Earthquake Clippings
Check out the chart below. So far we’ve been in 388 earthquakes! Man! It would be an understatement to say we’ve been shaken, not stirred!
If you look below, We live where the white arrow is. That’s how close we are to the fault line. Crazy stuff!
The new pump shed nearly complete!
A bit of painting to do and we’ll sort a garden around it, but the pump shed is almost done, and most importantly – we have water!
17mm treated ply bolted to the old steel tank tower frame. Was a bugger cutting ply to skewed trapezoid shapes! Should be nice and solid. Just the edge strips and door left to do.
Here’s the new pump and filter. The white cylinder is a 20 micron particulate filter I added to remove most of the sediment. The Aquifer is still a little dirty and if the sediment gets to the house it ruins the ceramics and fittings.
The new system is high pressure (we had low) but when connected, a number of joints leaked (below ground too…). They couldn’t handle the load 😉 So there’s been a good number of small leaks we’ve needed to fix.
The end result though is that we now have a 13,650 litre storage tank and high pressure house supply with awesome tap and shower pressure!
A few loose ends to tidy but should be all finished by next week!
Thanks to the ChCh earthquake, we now have a new water tank!
If you look below the tank is no longer in the middle. It shifted 6 inches in the quake and we were concerned it would fall through the office roof and squash the staff. EQC were great and approved a replacement.
So I worked magic and got the contractors sorted and now the old tank is down and new one in – all in a day! new pump goes in tomorrow!
You can see below how close the old tank/stand was to the office. The new tank is great though, 13,650 litres actually! (chose the smaller one).
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New view out the kitchen. I guess we need to plant some trees! Glad to have a safe water supply now though and stoked that EQC and Westpac came to the party quickly. Much appreciated!
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