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TheForestGardener

@leighscotford

Landscape gardener, Autograss racer and car enthusiasts. Blogging about my personal activities and achievements.

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TheForestGardener
@leighscotford Jan 30, 2024, 5:45 PM UTC

English oak pergola sat on staddle stones.

I’ve posted about a few of our previous oak pergolas, but this was a bit of a unique one. Firstly the pergola was joined to the house which usually isn’t a problem, but with this particular job, the…

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TheForestGardener
@leighscotford Jan 28, 2024, 2:38 PM UTC

The Volancia maiden season

It’s been an incredibly long time since I blogged about the build of this car, so a catchup is definitely in order. Since the last time I wrote about it, the car build has been completed, and the fin…

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TheForestGardener
@leighscotford Sep 21, 2022, 8:40 PM UTC

A hard day at the office, as a soil relocation engineer.

When I was in my late teens and twenty’s, myself and other labourers used to do the majority of the hard graft on site, as we were young, fit, agile etc. The stories we used to have off the skilled w…

496 upvotes 1 downvotes 11 replies $6.63
TheForestGardener
@leighscotford Sep 18, 2022, 10:28 PM UTC

My small DIY solar panel set up.

With the huge rising energy prices throughout Europe, I decided to finally do something that I had wanted to do for a fair while, and install a grid tied solar system to our house. With plenty of sec…

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TheForestGardener
@leighscotford Sep 17, 2022, 12:45 PM UTC

Complementary contrasting materials. Composite decking and rustic oak sleepers

So we’ve been on this particular job for a while now, and finally things are really starting to take shape. The whole job has taken a lot longer than anticipated due to the nature of the property. Th…

293 upvotes 10 replies $5.42
TheForestGardener
@leighscotford Sep 15, 2022, 8:41 PM UTC

Woodwork in the wet, again!

So yesterdays sleeper steps were finished off first thing in the morning. We had left ourselves with the last few sleepers to install at the top of the flight of 12 yesterday, and once that was done…

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TheForestGardener
@leighscotford Sep 14, 2022, 7:32 PM UTC

More sleeper work today.

So yesterdays sleeper beds were all finished easily enough, although this morning I had more aches and pains than usual. So this morning was spent doing a few more jobs in the area. I installed 3 sle…

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TheForestGardener
@leighscotford Sep 13, 2022, 9:14 PM UTC

A few oak raised beds built in a day.

This is a nice easy and cost effective way of building some raised beds, in this case for vegetables. The oak sleepers measure in at 2.4m long, and 200mm x 100mm, and therefore are extremely heavy. T…

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TheForestGardener
@leighscotford Sep 12, 2022, 10:41 PM UTC

Another composite deck started.

These are now getting evermore popular, partly because of the rising timber prices along with the very apparent drop in timber quality nationwide, and the quality of composite materials very much imp…

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TheForestGardener
@leighscotford Aug 22, 2022, 9:21 PM UTC

Quick easy deck built in less than 6 hours.

This was a simple, effective, and quick deck to construct. Firstly it was a very nice blank canvas to build upon. Previously an Indian sandstone patio had been constructed here and was no longer want…

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