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  • Re: 36" build in Tallahassee - AKA Bruce's Folly

    Originally posted by cobblerdave View Post
    Gudday bruce
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    Here's a photo of one of my early morning visitors. I feed them a whole meal cracker and honey . If you ignore them they will fly up on your shoulder or head and pull your hair. They don't come every day as I am up and gone before they are out of bed. But the weekends they are always there.
    Regards dave
    Cheeky little buggers arent they Dave.....
    We used to feed them here too until the cockies saw the free feed then it was all over.

    The cockies stared to destroy everything in site and scared off everything else, I even made a feeder that the cockies couldnt fit into but the still managed.
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    • Re: 36" build in Tallahassee - AKA Bruce's Folly

      Gudday Al
      I only feed these little fellas, we did do the bird feeder thing at one time but the undoing was the Peacefully doves not the Cockies. There a cute little bird that hangs around in prs and coo very softly. That's until the population explosion that comes about with the free feed. Then a suburban block has 30 prs and the little beggers fornicate on the tin gutter outside your bedroom window at 5 am on a summers morning. The feeding stopped and were back to just a few couples now ...and peace reigns
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      • Re: 36" build in Tallahassee - AKA Bruce's Folly

        Originally posted by cobblerdave View Post
        Gudday Al
        I only feed these little fellas, we did do the bird feeder thing at one time but the undoing was the Peacefully doves not the Cockies. There a cute little bird that hangs around in prs and coo very softly. That's until the population explosion that comes about with the free feed. Then a suburban block has 30 prs and the little beggers fornicate on the tin gutter outside your bedroom window at 5 am on a summers morning. The feeding stopped and were back to just a few couples now ...and peace reigns
        Regards dave
        They're just giving you a little encouragement at 5am. Oh, I'm sorry that was jealousy, in that remark.

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        • Re: 36" build in Tallahassee - AKA Bruce's Folly

          Originally posted by cobblerdave View Post
          Gudday bruce
          [ATTACH]37088[/ATTACH]
          Here's a photo of one of my early morning visitors. I feed them a whole meal cracker and honey . If you ignore them they will fly up on your shoulder or head and pull your hair. They don't come every day as I am up and gone before they are out of bed. But the weekends they are always there.
          Regards dave
          Beautiful bird, wife loved it. Rainbow lorikeet based on google search. Brickie, are cockies cockatoos?

          Worked on the oven today, filled in the dome. Any hints on doing keystone?
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          • Re: 36" build in Tallahassee - AKA Bruce's Folly

            Originally posted by Bec1208 View Post
            Brickie, are cockies cockatoos?
            Correct, they will eat all the timber around the feeding area, windows, decking etc, they are in plague proportions in some area due to the reliable water supply.
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            • Re: 36" build in Tallahassee - AKA Bruce's Folly

              Originally posted by Bec1208 View Post
              Any hints on doing keystone?
              Interesting shape. I think I would just fill it with mortar. If you have the patience you may be able to whittle a brick to fit in there.
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              • Re: 36" build in Tallahassee - AKA Bruce's Folly

                Originally posted by Bec1208 View Post
                Beautiful bird, wife loved it. Rainbow lorikeet based on google search. Brickie, are cockies cockatoos?

                Worked on the oven today, filled in the dome. Any hints on doing keystone?
                Gudday
                You'll need some one to give you a hand but hold a bit of cardboard up to the hole both sides and draw the shape. Can't find a pic of mine but it was pretty skinny and a pain to make, but I was determined to have a keystone... You feel a little ripped of by the pizza gods if you don't.
                Regards dave
                Sorry how that pic get in there bl&@dy I -phone
                Last edited by cobblerdave; 07-07-2013, 04:29 PM. Reason: Bl&@dy I /phone
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                • Re: 36" build in Tallahassee - AKA Bruce's Folly

                  Originally posted by Les View Post
                  Interesting shape. I think I would just fill it with mortar. If you have the patience you may be able to whittle a brick to fit in there.
                  Originally posted by cobblerdave View Post
                  Gudday
                  You'll need some one to give you a hand but hold a bit of cardboard up to the hole both sides and draw the shape. Can't find a pic of mine but it was pretty skinny and a pain to make, but I was determined to have a keystone... You feel a little ripped of by the pizza gods if you don't.
                  Regards dave
                  Sorry how that pic get in there bl&@dy I -phone
                  Les, thanks for joining in. I think I may test my patience a bit and do so whittling. If the patience runs out, I hadn't thought that the plug could be made of mortar. When I looked at the picture of the hole I did think the easiest way to finish would be to fill with castable refractory. Do you change the mortar mix for filling gaps like that?

                  Dave, well the dome came together, hopefully it will hold. I had to do the last few rows partially blind, I couldn't see over the the upper perimeter of the bricks to the lower perimeter. Glad I didn't make the hearth any higher.

                  We have a small basin in the back of our yard that fills with water. Here are a few pics I've taken of birds in our backyard.
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                  • Re: 36" build in Tallahassee - AKA Bruce's Folly

                    As long as we are sharing bird pics, here are two more.
                    Link to my build here:
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                    Check out my pictures here:

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                    • Re: 36" build in Tallahassee - AKA Bruce's Folly

                      Originally posted by Bec1208 View Post
                      I did think the easiest way to finish would be to fill with castable refractory. Do you change the mortar mix for filling gaps like that?
                      The castable you need for a plug of that size isnt made from home brew, it would just crumble and fall out.

                      Stick the largest piece of brick, or even two pieces in the hole and bog up the rest with home brew.

                      Nice bird pics too.
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                      • Re: 36" build in Tallahassee - AKA Bruce's Folly

                        Originally posted by Bec1208 View Post
                        Les, thanks for joining in. I think I may test my patience a bit and do so whittling. If the patience runs out, I hadn't thought that the plug could be made of mortar. When I looked at the picture of the hole I did think the easiest way to finish would be to fill with castable refractory. Do you change the mortar mix for filling gaps like that?
                        I believe you add stainless steel needles. I never went that route but whole ovens have been cast. Should be no problem for your plug.
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                        • Re: 36" build in Tallahassee - AKA Bruce's Folly

                          I had loads of bird pics but my computer had a mental breakdown sometime ago, I was lucky enough to recover most of the files, some went to binary heaven.

                          Here is one pic I still have of a galah, nice birds, almost tame in the wild and very gentle.
                          They hang upside down on the power lines outside my place when it rains an chatter excitedly.
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                          • Re: 36" build in Tallahassee - AKA Bruce's Folly

                            Originally posted by brickie in oz View Post
                            The castable you need for a plug of that size isnt made from home brew, it would just crumble and fall out.

                            Stick the largest piece of brick, or even two pieces in the hole and bog up the rest with home brew.

                            Nice bird pics too.
                            Thanks brickie, though I should know better than to start comparing wildlife photos with Australians.

                            I was wondering about the mortar, seemed like it would show up more on the site if there wasn't some reason for not plugging with mortar.
                            Link to my build here:
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                            • Re: 36" build in Tallahassee - AKA Bruce's Folly

                              Gudday Bruce
                              Problem is not everyone post there mistakes it seems . You have a goodly collection of brick slithers to pick from why don't you just par them down and pack that hole till it wont take any more. You have kept the mortar thin to date so why stop now and put a big blob in the middle.
                              Regards dave
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                              • Re: 36" build in Tallahassee - AKA Bruce's Folly

                                Originally posted by cobblerdave View Post
                                Gudday Bruce
                                Problem is not everyone post there mistakes it seems . You have a goodly collection of brick slithers to pick from why don't you just par them down and pack that hole till it wont take any more. You have kept the mortar thin to date so why stop now and put a big blob in the middle.
                                Regards dave
                                Les, Dave, and Brickie - talk about an anticlimax. I took out a cup of coffee and it was still warm when I had the plug made to a decent approximation. I had the idea of filling the hole with modeling clay and made a quick form. I used calipers to measure the length and width at the top, middle, and bottom and marked a brick. Four quick cuts and I had a plug that slipped in with about 3/4" above the rim. Two quick nips with the saw and it fit.

                                By the way, I swear there is brick under the large areas of mortar near the plug.
                                Link to my build here:
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                                Check out my pictures here:

                                Selected pictures of the build.

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