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Framing around the drop box is in place.

 

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Bottom of the drop box is flush with the ceiling.

 

The rain stopped any more work ( on the roof) today , so thats it until next weekend.

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Hi BF,

 

yeah, of course - the insects you get over there are a bit more troublesome than the ones we have in Britain (although I did once find a scorpion on the ceiling). The Hunstman's the really nasty one isn't it?

The cap'll be removable for cleaning the flue, I guess. Do you have a square-headed brush? wink.png

 

Cheers,

Gavin

 

Hi Gavin .

 

The Huntsman spiders are generally quite harmless and shy , but if you tease or aggravate them , they can bite , especially the big ones.

 

What can happen is that they could invite themselves to your bedding if you let them inside , and that`s when you could get bitten I guess.

 

Some people over here handle them and keep them as pets !

 

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Love the stove. Fits in well with the rest of the boat.

You're doing a cracking job. Have you a rough completion time for launch. And how will it be transported.

 

And I don't mind spiders but if one of them popped up in would freak.

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Love the stove. Fits in well with the rest of the boat.

You're doing a cracking job. Have you a rough completion time for launch. And how will it be transported.

 

And I don't mind spiders but if one of them popped up in would freak.

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Love the stove. Fits in well with the rest of the boat.

You're doing a cracking job. Have you a rough completion time for launch. And how will it be transported.

 

And I don't mind spiders but if one of them popped up in would freak.

 

Low loader and prime mover was the plan mate ., but I have since found someone who has an adjustable houseboat trailer ( it adjusts in width to suit the pontoon / float spacing )

so that will be the preferred way now , as it saves the cost of a crane .( This trailer can be backed straight into the water .)

Expensive .

 

As of completion .......hmmmmm.......no idea.

 

I wasn`t going to do any more work until Saturday , but I went into the shed tonight , and did some more work on the ceiling plate .

 

I made a shallow surround for the ceiling plate and put some brass channel around the edges to make the plate a little more rigid.

It was bowing under its own weight !

 

The shallow sides are cut from a length of recycled galv. stormwater downpipe , and the brass channel came from an old trashed fire screen.

 

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Cutting slots into the sides of the surround.

 

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Folding the corners.

 

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Ceiling plate with brass channel fixed on.

 

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External corner.

 

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Upside down picture of what this will look like when put in place.

 

That was another two hours work believe it or not ......maybe I`m just slow rolleyes.gif

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Fascinating stuff, please, please keep posting especially when you get to cruise the river!

 

I've friends in Australia, not especially near the Murray (Perth, a very long way away, and Bombala, simply quite a long way) but if I get to the country at all I will just have to come and see the river... I think it's just overtaken the Indian Pacific on my wish list

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Upside down picture of what this will look like when put in place.

 

That was another two hours work believe it or not ......maybe I`m just slow rolleyes.gif

 

Compared to the time I would have needed to do that job, which would have been more likely to have been two days (or more !) I think that you made a quick and very good job of it.

 

Peter.

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That look bloody awsome, best stove i have seen in ages, better than the usual black box. Can just see myself ,feet up and a few pints of bow at my side :)

 

you done great again kida ;)

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Do I need a moderator to do that ?

 

I`m a bit " forum challenged " biggrin.png LOL .....

 

lol. i think you do, they can move the whole thread to the blog section

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lol. i think you do, they can move the whole thread to the blog section

If it goes to blog section do I then have to go into blog section to read new postings?

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Miss A.N.Other forum challenged individual

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If it goes to blog section do I then have to go into blog section to read new postings?

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Miss A.N.Other forum challenged individual

 

Yep, just the same as in the original place but not, as it is here now aswell as there linked to here ;)

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1 hour ago, ditchcrawler said:

A couple of guys in America have just built an almost identical boat for one of them to live on. It was on a TV program called "My Floating Home" on More4 on a Wednesday evening at 10 o'clock

 

 

shame we havnt heard form Boat Fan as it was dam interesting to hear his adventures , i have PM`d him a long time ago but nothing for ages.

 

 

 

 

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