And very pretty!
I think I'd not bother with the 'ladies'. There's plenty of cover anyway ...
Mary
Non-metallic hot water cylinders
Oct 09, 2008
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Hehee! Good luck. A copper roof huh? What an ostentatious display of wealth! ;-)
Nice collection of cave wetas you have there Matty.
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Zealand?
I'd never heard of wetas until today, when a friend (Auckland) blogged about finding a 2" long one stuck up their hot water tap. None, then two of you. Clearly it's an invasion.
If the orcs weren't enough, New Zealand also has 4"+ roach-crickets to worry about. I don't want to go there any more.
Easier to cut too, just use a hacksaw.
Should be able to get a decent meal from a handful.
Mary
Don't last as long though - and look naff. Perhaps that's why it's not touched, there's honour of some kind even among thieves!
Mary
Bearing in mind where they seem to live - I think I'll pass.
Andy
You're not a gardener who mulches with manure then :-)
Mary
No, just an axe.
So what is your Solartwin? Water loop, or something better?
Because if it is some newer improved version, then it _ought_ to have a stagnation temperature high enough to damage plastic pipe! If it doesn't, it's ineffective in comparison to heatpipe / vac tube systems that can do this.
The plants are a pretty good filter. The bugs, on the other hand, are likely to have eaten ...er... I think you can work it out.
Andy
Aye.
Damn! It was supposed to be undercover.
Ehhh, wetas are harmless as long as you leave them alone. I believe the Giant Weta is the worlds most massive insect? In a country without native mammals (barring bats) insects and birds evolved to fill empty eco-niches.
Cheers,
Just talking to a builder this afternoon.
4 weeks ago, he got quite a good amount for an old h/w cylinder. Today (or rather yesterday), they're worthless. You can still get something for clean copper, but scrap yard wouldn't pay anything for old h/w cylinders (although they will take them for nothing). Apparently there's a backlog of copper in the chain but suddenly no demand for it. Same with lead.
Wondered why my battery supplier wasn't too keen to take 8 dead UPS batteries yesterday, they used to snap my hand off when I say "do you want the old ones?"
Damm and double damm!..
We've a pile of 'em at one location I was stockpiling them!!
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