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["Australia Felix" <pcorgbgo@bendigo.net.au>]

Hi Pete,

 

Good to hear you've gone beyond lurking.....Yes we (!!) will be busy next won't we - not that going to bed early at Kenton Range is something I've ever done!! I'll be bringing over all of my Zip Discs to burn on your CD burner so we'll be able to sort out all of those dam and earthmoving files I have lurking away (Yes I have a box of CD's). When we catch up we'll have to upload all that stuff to Larry London's site - you'll probably know how to do it better than I. Also we can have a crack at cranking up some interactive web pc stuff for Franks Farm in readiness for Frank's scanning success !!

 

Also I have some timber samples to bring over. Sharn and I have been working up a few - including some Osage Orange (I'll get some cuttings tomorrow), Acacia pendula, Grevillea robusta, that weird Eucalyptus camaldulensis hybrid we found and a few others. I put a Stihl 038 on layby today so that I can get stuck right into the samples....

 

Talk to you tomorrow,

 

Cheers,

 

Darren.

 

PS.

 

If there is anything else you want me to bring over give us a call or drop us a line.......

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Pete@Kenton Range Tree Farm

To: permaculture

Sent: Tuesday, 3 August 1999 19:36

Subject: Re: Pond construction ideas needed (for FranksFarm)

 
Hi Frank, Darren, etc.
I'm Pete and I Lurk here a lot. Great thread. Dams (ponds) are one of the projects that I have been extremely interested in
over the past few years here at Kenton Range Tree Farm. I have built some "Earth Construction Water Storage Areas" here in
the Adelaide Hills South Australia, where we need to hold all the water we can (or are allowed to by law).
Some basic stuff I've done can be found at  KRTF water pages
I would like to share some of my experiences with interested people, so In the next few days I'll knock some things up and post
them in pdf on Lawrences upload file site if that's ok.

Just to make sure I do post some documents, I'll let you know what to expect.

     Island construction without wasting space
     Wall and bank stabilisation (with rocks and vegetation)
     Saddle dams (ponds) with drainage lines but no natural catchment

Darren, guess what you'll be doing late at night on your visit to South Australia!

Cheers, Pete
 Kenton Range Tree Farm Pages