Category Archives: Projects

Getting close with the compost toilet

Posted on July 2, 2024 by james

Now it’s in situ, I grabbed some scrap timber and 15mm hexa ply from the waste bin at work and today made the “throne” for the compost toilet. Hopefully I have sufficient left over to make some doors and perhaps … Continue reading →

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Fun moving the compost toilet

Posted on July 2, 2024 by james

When I designed and started building the compost toilet, my intention was that it should sit comfortably on the pallet forks I have for my compact tractor so I could move it around. I’ve now reached the stage of wanting … Continue reading →

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Let’s have a little jig

Posted on May 13, 2024 by james

One the rain started this morning, I retired to the workshop for the day. I was casting around for things to do when I realised that I had sufficient bits to make two more fat dummies, so I got those … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 17th May 2023: Frankenstein’s greenhouse

Posted on May 13, 2024 by james

I have decided that the solar greenhouse shall henceforth be known as “Frankenstein’s greenhouse” because it has been stitched together from bits I’ve dug up from all over the place, many of which bear no relation to each other. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 7th May 2023: Next stage of solar greenhouse

Posted on May 9, 2024 by james

To support the north-east wall of the solar greenhouse my plan was to build a wooden framed wall. The wall on this side isn’t going to have any glass, so that wasn’t a problem I had to deal with. In … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 4th April 2023: Solar greenhouse revisited

Posted on May 2, 2024 by james

I’ve not been keeping up with this one very well, but the project has been slowing moving forward. After levelling the area for the greenhouse, I used various bits I had lying about to make a base for the structure, … Continue reading →

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Busy as a bee(keeper)

Posted on April 21, 2024 by james

After getting through other stuff today I thought I’d push on with a few things in the workshop to try to clear a bit more space. First up was turning some old frames from which I’d recovered the wax ages … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 3rd January 2023: Time for a new smoker

Posted on April 18, 2024 by james

I kept my old (cardboard box) smoker in the greenhouse because it was way too smelly to stay in the house. I fetched it the other day intending to do some smoking and discovered that smoked cardboard is in fact … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 9th December 2022: Progress on the compost toilet

Posted on April 16, 2024 by james

After getting the front and back sorted, I decided that actually the back wasn’t sufficiently high, so I made the sides a little higher and I’ll add an “extension” to the back to match them afterwards. After extending the back … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 6th December 2022: Compost toilet begins in earnest

Posted on April 15, 2024 by james

The floor that I posted about not long ago is now actually supporting something! I’ve started making the framing for the toilet from tanalised 3×2. Front and back first, so I can measure off the exact slope for the tops … Continue reading →

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