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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    Enjoy your bed time and coffee Dove, you deserve it. x

    Devon.
  • Beaus MumBeaus Mum Posts: 3,554

    Sounds like an amazing project Hosta and plans sound superb. I was only teasing about the not sleeping, I know it must be awful bless ya x

    do you open your garden for the NGS? It looks amazing from the pics you have posted before and hope we get before, during and after pics of your new project image

    keen it's my hands that ache the most today and think we are both due to suffer more tomorrow! Hope you are stocked up with pain killers image

    Good morning dove Joyce and panda x

    hope you have good day at work fairy and the stress of the build is not getting to you too much xx

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    BM, for once, I did remember to take some pics yesterday before I started. 

    The biggest problem I have, is that I'm determined to move a large " rock" over a cubic metre in size. I only want to move it about 2m, but it really , really needs to be moved.

    Devon.
  • Good morning All,

    I'm being very naughty this morning and ducking my French lesson. image I've had a busy morning already, had to scrape ice off the car to get to bakery at crack of dawn before I even started. Now guests have gone, Charlie is in school and OH is in UK. Just enjoying an empty house, a leisurely breakfast and a browse of the internet. Lots to do in the garden but it can wait, I am being a rebel and sitting down for an hour in peace. image

    • “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
  • Did you see Dove's link regarding rock moving Hosta?

     

    • “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    G'day.

    Actually not much good about it, cold, rain, and snow later.

    OH's birthday, and our Wedding Anniversary this w/e, so taking her away to the Black Swan at Oldstead, in N. Yorks. Michelen starred restaurant with rooms. Hope weather improves.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    Good morning all

    Hosta best of luck moving rock 

    DD nice to have some me time 

    Going on walk later this morning 

    Have a good day everybody image

  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    Tackles and levers, Hosta; tackles and levers.

  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    Lovely Punkdocimage Hope you and OH have an enjoyable break.

    SW Scotland
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    DD and Steve, the biggest problem is the rock is on soil, not on a solid surface. I have no idea how flat or otherwise it is on the bottom , or how much is under ground.

    My theory is : lever it up one side at a time and gradually add wood underneath until I get it higher than the new position ( only needs to be lifted about .5m max I reckon). Then use cut railway sleepers I have and maybe corrugated tin on top to form a ramp and use 3" round fence posts to roll it into place.

    What d'ya think guys?

    Devon.
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