Why is the billy black?

[Dave Smith]

Stephen my blackened billy has, as does all my camping pots, pans and camp-ovens an old flour bag each. This not only keeps all your other kit clean but also stops them from chaffing against each other and from rattling.

But as Bill says if you have to clean them the sand along the creek or such is just the job.

TTFN

[r.magnay]

.... there is no sweeter water than that from a rainwater tank on a shearing shed....

[manfredvijars]

With or without the floating possums Ross??? ...

[r.magnay]

never looked!...

[Heather]

You don't need to look Ross, you'd know, I promise you. My tank water tastes even with a dead frog in it. Now, did I ever mention the dead black snake - at least 6 foot of him - albiet in bits, in my water tank? Yummy!

Heather

[Bob Pacey]

Used to freak my ex out when i showed her what came out of the Filter !! if thats what you could call a square of bird wire, so after that I just forgot to tell her.




Funny how I always think of Julie Andrews when I remember those things.

Dead snakes and Possums and frogs with no skin left
floating dead rodents that have long since this world left.

Bob

[william williams]

don't worry about the frogs getting in as they keep the wrigglers down cause their your future mosquitoes but you sure have got no strainer on your tanks and no chicken wire on your outlet so these narsties can not get in just goes to show how slack people get

bill the old battler

[Glenny Palmer]

Wanna have a really good cry???

I visited my (rather townie) daughter at her shiny new house in a shiny new 'estate'
& sitting up against the side fence (2 feet away from the shiny next door neighbour)
was.....a rainwater tank!! Yay!!

Now for the head in your hands bit....

It had a big green sign on the tank saying.....

''WARNING!! Rainwater!!................

[Heather]

I don't know about other states but in Victoria you can only use tank water in town for the garden and not for human consumption. I detest town water; I can smell the chlorine before I see the water and I won't drink it unless desperate.

Not sure what my tank has in the way of vermin exlusion Bill. Some time before we'd had a humungous storm that had rolled a poly water tank down the very big hill, it went smack bang through trees, fences, landed and bounced off the cubby roof and then landed on the tank before plonking itself next to the tank. Kinda destroyed the corrugated iron on the tank roof - but in the end that was ok because it missed the house (where my son was sleeping) by inches and I nearly got clobbered by a falling ladder so the ruined tank was nothing in the end. If that ladder had got me I wouldn't be here now. That was the tail end of Cyclone Vance that destroyed Exmouth in WA. Hate to have seen the cyclone itself.

Heather

[manfredvijars]

floating dead rodents that have long since this world left.

Bob

BOB!!!! Inversions inversions INVERSIONS????

Repeat after me (at least 347 times) ... "THOU SHALT NOT INVERSIONATE!!!"