In The Shed Today

[rumby]

Its never to earlier to teach the young ones about science and chemistry. :D

[maheel]

i just put down 25L of TPW.

5kg sugaz
went the "no added salt" TP this time
and back to real lemon juice
pinch of epsom salt
bakers yeast

i got noting on Rumby, your floor sander is going to wonder what the smell is he can smell over his floor varnish stuff lol
he might pass out from all that CO2 getting made downstairs.... maybe we are the carbon tax environmental vandals ?

[MacStill]

maybe we are the carbon tax environmental vandals ?

:lol: :mrgreen: :lol:

When you think about it, there's a lot of yeast merrily farting all over the world :lol:

I've got a 44g drum of molasses bubbling in the shed and I can smell it from the house 20m away, not sure I'd be game to do it in suburbia :?

[QLD.Andy]

Is it really that bad?
Maybe I wont try it downstairs in the house.

[MacStill]

Is it really that bad?
Maybe I wont try it downstairs in the house.

Nothing bad about it, it's my favorite aroma :mrgreen:

[rumby]

Woke up a few times last night & all I could smell, was that lovely smell sweet of mollasses (from up stairs), my last fermentor has a airlock in it, & even know it was really cold at our place last, all I could hear was bubble, bubble.
Andy it stinks, I love it, and the missus doesnt complian (much). Store it in your garage.

[maheel]

lol

if you have real close neighbors they are going to wonder what your up to...

mine no i am a beer brewer so i sometimes say i have experimental recipe i am "cooking" if i know it's going to be stinky or weird
but +200L is not really experimental and must throw off a "smell"

[rumby]

Its all good, there is no-one living on one side & the other neighbour likes my home brew beer.

[wynnum1]

Tell the neighbors you sprayed garden with home-maid molasses spray to kill pests and that will smell for a while.

Molasses Spray
Dissolve one tablespoon of into a litre of warm water.
Add one teaspoon of Sunlight dish washing liquid or other pure liquid soap

Spray regularly over the leaves of all plants attacked by caterpillars and other chewing pests. Caterpillars would rather starve than eat leaves sprayed with this mixture. It has also been used with success by some gardeners as a possum repellent and for the treatment of soil affected by root knot nematodes by doubling the concentration of molasses.

[rumby]

Good one wynnum. I actually use a chilli, vinegar & neutral spray to do the same thing. But what you said is perfect, because I spend a few of time in the garden.

[maheel]

what about nut grass ? does it kill that in the graden.... lol

[MacStill]

Couldnt get motivated today so just stood there pondering what to do with my new supply of copper pipe and fittings, kept thinking what should I build now, couldnt make up my mind so had a rum for inspiration purposes :lol:

Fuck it! started building another bubbler :lol: :lol: cant help it :? it's an addiction :mrgreen:

[Cane Toad]

I found that the best thing for nutgrass was a special mix of velpar and krovar,but be warned,it fucks everything that is green for about 18 months lol missus wasn't happy

[rumby]

There is a product called "sempra" it really does kill nut grass, and not your blue couch. The problem is that it $180 for a tiny bottle. It is graunals, but you use 1 gram (makes up some many litres), I have some down stairs, got given a sample. It works, need to hit it twice & happy days.

[R-sole]

Started on the collar for my kegerator freezer upgrade.

Dry hopped my beer, sliced meat for a jerky run, and pasturized straw and did three buckets for King Oyster Mushrooms.

That'll do me for a mornings slaving.


BetterCutMcStillsPipeThoughPunkin

[maheel]

There is a product called "sempra" it really does kill nut grass, and not your blue couch. The problem is that it $180 for a tiny bottle. It is graunals, but you use 1 gram (makes up some many litres), I have some down stairs, got given a sample. It works, need to hit it twice & happy days.

yeah have seen that stuff, but i dont love my garden that much...

[Kimbo]

I finished building the Mother-in-law's 60th birthday pressie. :D

P5260050.JPG

[maheel]

Kimbo did you do all the timber and the felt on the tray lining ?

looks good, hope the wife got one 1st :)

[busman]

That looks really good kimbo, well done :mrgreen:

I (FINALLY!) got my first strip run done :D :D :D 30L of DWWG, collected down to a bit under 40% (it was running really slow by then and I couldn't be bothered waiting for any more). My 2" pot still stripper pulled nearly 6L/hr so I was pretty happy with that :mrgreen: McStill's liebig worked fantastic, thanks again mate :D While I was waiting for it to boil I took the angle grinder to my old leaky liebig, cut it down and soldered a cap on one end and turned it into an alcometer test tube instead :lol:

Tomorrow I've got about 40L of TPW to run, and if I have time in the afternoon I'll give the VM it's first spirit run :mrgreen:

[Kimbo]

Thanks heaps fellas,

did you do all the timber and the felt on the tray lining ?

i did the whole lot (except for cutting the mirror ;) )