Thursday 23 February 2012

Consulting the poofessor

Being entirely self sufficient on our own water resources, a key component of the project design was to recycle the waste water generated from the buildings as garden water. After considering various worm and reed bed systems we opted to install twin Taylex aerated treatment plants, which deliver all our waste water back into sub-soil irrigation fields. The first irrigation field waters the central garden areas between the stables and the other buildings, maintaining an important green band right through the summer months and acting as part of our wild fire  management plan. The second field will be installed in plantations to be planted along the colt paddocks, to create shade and suppress summer dust from the lane.

Clay checks the levels in the hole

Taylex plant in, filled with water and backfilled.

Monday 20 February 2012

Barwon Heads Bridge

Our heavy timbers for the trussed area in the Riders lounge arrived today. Long straight sections of 200mm x 110mm stringbark, salvaged from the "infamous" Barwon Heads bridge.

Our supplier, Mark from The Beauty of Timber, a Kinglake business that was devastated in the 2009 bushfires, has put together this order for us from his re-emerging business. The timber was delivered by their new truck. Looking forward to working with this heritage timber and giving it a new life holding up the roof rather than the traffic.

Offloading the bridge