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   andybuildz | Oct 15, 2006 05:27pm | #1

   Nice job! Wanna go in business? I have a few cedar 2x2's left over from my fences!!

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   Creation arises, is sustained for awhile, and then things change. That’s the dance.

                                      

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   JohnT8 | Oct 23, 2006 08:39pm | #15

   You sure you didn't forget to put up a section of the fence somewhere?  ;)

    jt8

   "All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own." -- Goethe

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   andybuildz | Oct 24, 2006 01:46am | #17

   wanna buy some? Really!Creation arises, is sustained for awhile, and then things change. That’s the dance.

   http://WWW.CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM

                                      

    

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   rez | Oct 15, 2006 05:44pm | #2

   What price would something like this be sold at?

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   "When we build, let us think that we build forever.  Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John Ruskin Laminate is just a picture of hardwood printed on countertop for your floor.We can imagine something that only exists in our heads, in a form that has no measurable, tangible reality, and make it actually occur in the real world.  Where there was nothing, now there is something.
   Forrest - makin' magic every day

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   Lansdown | Oct 15, 2006 05:47pm | #3

   More than you can afford.

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   rez | Oct 15, 2006 06:00pm | #5

   I was thinking of whisky barrels that only get used once then wholesaled off by the truckload.

    

   "When we build, let us think that we build forever.  Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John Ruskin Laminate is just a picture of hardwood printed on countertop for your floor.We can imagine something that only exists in our heads, in a form that has no measurable, tangible reality, and make it actually occur in the real world.  Where there was nothing, now there is something.Forrest - makin' magic every day

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   Lansdown | Oct 15, 2006 06:08pm | #6

   I came across a website once that sold used wholesale olive and pickel barrels for rain barrels. They were plastic, but not bad looking actually.

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   rez | Oct 15, 2006 06:18pm | #7

   The whisky barrels are charred oak and can only be used once making the liq.

   Sometimes not all the barrels were completely empty when they would ship them out and we would be pleasently surprised to be able to drain a cup here and there.

    

   be from here to there... eventually 

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   Luka | Oct 15, 2006 05:51pm | #4

   If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

   Carpe that ol' diem ! ~LisaL

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   rez | Oct 15, 2006 06:22pm | #8

   hollar down my rain barrel...

    

    

    

   be name that tune 

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   DougU | Oct 15, 2006 08:07pm | #9

   "Oh little playmate,Come out and play with meAnd bring your dollies threeClimb up my apple treeHoller down my rain barrelSlide down my cellar doorAnd we'll be jolly friendsForever more.

   Oh no my playmateI can't come play with youMy dollies have the fluBoo hoo boo hooCan't holler down rain barrelsOr slide down a cellar doorBut we'll be jolly friendsForever more."

   NO name, just an old song moms used to sing to the kids.

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   rez | Oct 15, 2006 08:26pm | #10

    

    

   be an oldster remembering that tune.

   search said 1894.

   heh heh be dang, you really is an oldster 

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   Luka | Oct 15, 2006 10:00pm | #11

   You both must be ancient compared to me. I haven't ever heard it.;o)

   Carpe that ol' diem ! ~LisaL

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   DougU | Oct 16, 2006 03:27am | #12

   heh heh be dang, you really is an oldster

   I dont think that I'm any older then you!

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   rez | Oct 16, 2006 05:07am | #13

   dang I aint so old I couldn't enjoy miss texas popping out of a barrel.

   Mark me down for a dozen to start.

   be I'll sell 'em to dougger with a 10% markup

    

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   johnharkins | Oct 16, 2006 05:21am | #14

   compliments on the barrel and the zbalk lattice & trellis tails in the backgroundAndy's stash of 2 X 2s looks better than my bank account right now

   Edited 10/16/2006 3:13 am ET by johnharkins

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   Learner | Oct 23, 2006 10:07pm | #16

   I bought one from the city for $75 CND but the city is subsidsing them by 50% so they must be buying them for $150 CND.

   http://vancouver.ca/engsvcs/watersewers/water/conservation/rainbarrel.htm

   It isn't as nice looking as yours - this is a pvc unit - but as the lots in the city are quite small it is nice that the unit is a half barrel and can fit up against the side of the house. It also has all the hose connections, one for draining for wintering, one for overflow and finally one for your hose connection.

   Plants seemed to like the water. The water barrel also helps to decrease the temperature of the water that leaves the barrel on overflow and makes the fish in the streams happier. Not sure if I'd use the water on plants that are producing produce as my roof is ashfault and I likely have lead flashing - two things I'd like to avoid eating. I've been thinking about putting in a rain garden but it is fairly low on my list of things to do at the moment.

   MG

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   Gordo1 | Oct 24, 2006 03:11am | #18

   one thing you can do to make them even tighter ,is to hammer a piece of wire in to the edge of each board pull the wire out leaving a grove plane the edge down to the bottom of the grove and glue them together when the water starts to work its way in to the wood it will swell the wood fibers were you compressed them The wire neads to be about 3/16

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   McDesign | Oct 24, 2006 03:52am | #19

   <hammer a piece of wire in>

   That's a cool tip!

   Forrest