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Nice work mate can't wait to see it come together


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thanks Sheepy good to see you the other day in the process of welding blue barrels together and making a start on gb stand looks like it's going to take awhile with work and all but will chip away at it

Hey Rod,
Keen to see the rest unfold. Love to see the progress.
I'm going to have to build systems for other people when I run out of things to chip away at on mine.

As a stand why not try and find an old rack, it worked well for me.
2nd hand should be available at a reasonable price.
If you bolted your barrels together on the long sides for support, you could just plonk them on the beams.

Waiting for the next update

Thanks Mr Python yes I have got some pine for the top rail and are using my mums old patio beams for legs the beams are jarrah so I will take the old paint off and might varnish the legs and because I'm using pea gravel for gb I got some brickies strapping.about an inch wide will be using that to support gb as well as screw the sides of gb to the rails

getting a bit done today have to make legs and add one more gb

progress

Looking good rod. How many are you planning to make and what will be the growbed volume?


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Hi Ben I can fit 5 half barrels so I think that's 500 litres?

Yep 5 half barrels would be 500L. So you'll be looking at stocking around 20-25 fish.


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Yes Ben I was thinking of putting an ibc that holds 6 to 700 litres and sink it in the ground a bit just inside the hot house but it might take up to much room so I might have to use three barrels on there Sides and put under gbs I looked at Arbes l shape slo and was wondering if it would be possible to have an intersection type slo on bottom of ft

As a sump?

If you do use the barrels 90mm uniseals work great but you might get away with 40mm, just depends on how much your sump pump will pull LPH.

Ye Jay I have a 3000lph pump with a hight from sump to ft about one metre five hundred

bit more progress on the weekend just waiting for uniseals to come

I've really got to invest in a PVC welder. Would have paid for itself by now I'd imagine.

Looking good!

Looking good rod. Are the barrels underneath going to be the sump?

How are the mealworms going?


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