Daily Archives: 2017-06-10

Cold start and overcast but cheered up and sunny by lunchtime.

Emptied the big trailer in anticipation of Byron turning up and continuing his firewood splitting. But, despite ringing to say he was on his way, no sign of him today.

GoldPine closes at 12:30pm on Saturdays so I rushed off and bought 20 ¼-round fence posts so that Henare, when he finishes putting in the strainer post tomorrow, can start on the associated running posts.

Did a final pick-up of tree trash and bits of firewood from the heap Karola has been clearing on the west boundary near the big shed.

Brian Cope brought the old tractor back mid afternoon. The hydraulic selector handle had broken but he managed to make it work well enough for his purposes and plans to get a replacement one tomorrow. I needed the old tractor back because it, unlike the new tractor, has nothing which will burn near the bucket, the bucket and arms are just physical linkages with the hydraulics being well back from the business end, so I can push together the bonfire without anything catching alight – the most vulnerable are the front tyres.

After a false start I got the bonfire alight and by nightfall it’d consumed almost all the pile. It needed a lot of pushing together though as there was no wind and the leaves and branches were very damp.

In preparation for laying out the wires for another stretch of the north inner fence, by the headlights of the tractor I mowed a strip along the line of the fence.

Bonfire Just Alight

Well Underway

Oak Avenue Weather:-1℃—16℃ 0.1mm rain [72.7]