Summer has officially arrived and with it the temperatures have risen. It’s reached 35c on more than one occasion and it’s becoming very draining. Even at 6am it’s around 24c and so to get anything done you need to get up and out as soon as possible.

It rained a few days ago and I needed to get the new plastic tank hooked up but first had to get the old one moved out of the way which was quite difficult. I’d only moved it enough so that I could move the new one into position and then hook up the downpipe. I managed to get things into place but my first attempt at setting things up was not quite successful. The hole cut in the top of the tank was too small and the strainer fitted was not adequate and quite a bit of debris managed to sneak through. My second modification seemed to fix this.

I hooked the tank up to the storm water, although I still need to glue the pipes into place which I’ll need to do tomorrow. Two days ago I moved the old metal tank onto the trailer and I’m still pondering on the fate of said tank. That was quite a challenge to manipulate the tank onto the trailer, not only because of its size and weight but just it was just bloody awkward.

There was still a bit of water inside it so I punched a few holes into it to drain it, however there was quite a lot of silt in there too. The internal bracing is completely rotten and I can see now why it gave way, it’s just a bugger that it happened while I was away. It could have been as much as 3000 lt of water in the tank when it shit itself and thankfully it doesn’t seem to have caused any damage…. mind you the front door is not closing properly and this usually happens when we have had too much rain.

I’ve not decided what to do with the old tank, I might cut it up to make planters, maybe put in a few veges. I’ll slice it in two tomorrow and then see how it looks and if I don’t want it I’ll just scrap it…. It’s not worth much as scrap.

Oh and I managed to save a rather large stick insect that could not climb up the metal fence. I picked it up and put it on the neighbours tree, hopefully he got away safely into the canopy avoiding the birds.