Energex

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #1 12-09-2006, 05:42 PM

Bless their hearts.
They came around today to tell me that they will have to cutdown all the trees lining the front of the house paddock. The poor bloke thought that I was going to give him a hard time about it as I'm sure many do.

If the ground is dry enough they'll do it tomorrow.
Can you imagine how much it would cost if I had to pay to have this done? And, even if hubby doesn't want it done, well, energex has to do it, the trees are interfering with the powerlines.
I'm gonna gain 5-10 degrees of western sky.

The trees on the other side of the road will still block a bit of the sky.

Lee · #2 12-09-2006, 06:29 PM

5 degrees...... If I could lop a couple here, I'd gain 30deg from my weeny back yard.... sorry - if I could bulldoze a couple of neighbours houses.... trees, houses, same diff - can't see through either too well!

gaa_ian (Ian) · #3 12-09-2006, 08:11 PM

Our favourite sites are "Borrow Pits" tey are abot every 5 to 10 km along the road & form the closest thing to a clearin around here !

astroron (Ron) · #4 12-09-2006, 11:24 PM

Ian I am sure you are expecting someone to ask what is a Borrow Pit?

so what is it

gaa_ian (Ian) · #5 13-09-2006, 06:34 AM

Hi Ron
A "borrow pit" is where the road builders & Maintainers "Borrow" the rock, that they need to build up & maintain dirt roads.
Not that they ever intend to return it

We have Aprox 800km of dirt road between us & the next town of any size.
So there are lots of Borrow pits to choose from.
Here is one example below, the site of our GAA Astrocamp 2006, next W/E.

astroron (Ron) · #6 13-09-2006, 06:19 PM

Thanks Ian, We just call them quarries

And have a goodweekend