Quite proud of our hole - "Look Dad, we dug a hole" - ("well done son")
We now needed to form our methane vessel. After considering bricks, and realising we didn't have any PLUS, we are probably lousy brickies, we decided on concrete.
Concrete is the best stuff, it starts wet, and goes hard like rock! amazing stuff.
In the time between finishing the hole and getting an opportunity to do concreting there was time to think and prepare a few things. Not satisafied with a 44 gallon (205L) drum, Dad had exceeded himself, aquiring a stainless steel tank larger than a drum and with the benefit that it won't rust. A small tap was also sucessfully added the top (for the gas)
Concreting needed to be done to form a water and shit-proof vessle to hold the,.. shit..
Innovations included using a combination of carboard and glad-wrap to form an annulus around the tank to allow the tank to move up and down. - vertical strips of carboard rather than large panels were used to make removal of this "annulus" easier -.JPG)
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Mark and Dad being busy on the wheat harvest, and running out of time, we rushed a bit because of Adrian's wedding in 2 days, But his fiance being very understanding allowed us to get it done - the rush came back to bite us.
We all headed off to the wedding happy to have made progress.
We now needed to form our methane vessel. After considering bricks, and realising we didn't have any PLUS, we are probably lousy brickies, we decided on concrete.
Concrete is the best stuff, it starts wet, and goes hard like rock! amazing stuff.
In the time between finishing the hole and getting an opportunity to do concreting there was time to think and prepare a few things. Not satisafied with a 44 gallon (205L) drum, Dad had exceeded himself, aquiring a stainless steel tank larger than a drum and with the benefit that it won't rust. A small tap was also sucessfully added the top (for the gas)
Concreting needed to be done to form a water and shit-proof vessle to hold the,.. shit..
Innovations included using a combination of carboard and glad-wrap to form an annulus around the tank to allow the tank to move up and down. - vertical strips of carboard rather than large panels were used to make removal of this "annulus" easier -
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Mark and Dad being busy on the wheat harvest, and running out of time, we rushed a bit because of Adrian's wedding in 2 days, But his fiance being very understanding allowed us to get it done - the rush came back to bite us.
We all headed off to the wedding happy to have made progress.
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