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Casa del Oldfart
There has been a little progress while we were away.
The cleared area has had some steel cored concrete pads laid.
The metal stumps that the house will stand on will be welded to these. The pads are several feet deep.
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05-04-2014, 10:54 AM
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05-04-2014, 01:54 PM
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05-05-2014, 02:13 AM
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05-07-2014, 06:20 AM
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Come on!  ............... Some information please. 
What is the diameter and length of those pilings? Do you have a pic of one of the tops? What is the pattern center size? How many cubic meters were poured?
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05-07-2014, 07:10 AM
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05-16-2014, 09:50 PM
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The frame has begun. This is only the living part of the house, not the carport or verandah which are still just concrete pads as yet.
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05-17-2014, 04:56 AM
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So far, so good. 
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05-17-2014, 05:54 AM
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05-17-2014, 05:33 PM
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My email has started to play up, something called spamhaus is now blocking me. Frustration rules.
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05-18-2014, 11:20 AM
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Steel frame, OF?
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05-18-2014, 05:11 PM
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Yep, GG. The soil up here is riddled with termites.
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05-18-2014, 06:19 PM
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05-18-2014, 07:30 PM
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Not really DB. Tropical savannah across Australia and Southern Africa has no large grazing animals. Termite colonies fill that niche, and we build to give them as little encouragement as possible. The original overland telegraph was built on timber poles. The lesson was quickly learned and iron posts with efficient insulators became the rage.
As a historical aside, the aboriginals learned to throw stones at the glass insulators, garnering a ready supply of very sharp and durable spear points and tools.
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05-19-2014, 08:45 PM
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^_____ Very interesting. 
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