Meat Pie

I wasnt in cookery last week so im doing a similar pie and the steps involved to making that.

Meat Pie


If i were to make this, the first thing i would need to do would be heat the oil in the sauce pan and fry chopped onison at medium heat for 3-4 minutes, then i would add ground beef and stirr that all together for about 4 minutes untill the meat turns brown. While i was doing that i could also mix the beef stock (1tlbs) and corn starch (1tlbs) in a bowl. Then i would add the remaining beef stock with the Wocestershire sauce, tomato paste and vegemite to the beef. I would then add the cornstarch mix and bring to boil when i would then reduce the flame and let the hole thing simmer for roughly ten minutes. My oven would be preheated to 220 degrees. I would fill the pastry with the mixture and shape the pie then put it in the oven once it was heated.

Week 17 of Carpentry

I wasnt involved in any of the tasks for this week at carpentry but 99% of the sheds roof was put on on Tuesday and i heard some things about how scary it was to stand on the things that lifted you up to the roofs height. On Thursday the class had a catch up day, except some of the students made doors for the tool shed.

Sustainability and Building

What sustainable materials can builders use?-Macrocarpa
-Using stone for construction
-Straw

What are 2 methods of sustainable building?-Eco logical design
-Bio energy

How can constructers minimise waste during construction?-Take time to segregate waste into the right recycling tips
-Use suppliers who will take back your un used materials
-Think creatively
-Use excess earthworks materials to contour and landscape your sites

What features can be added to new buildings to conserve and use less energy?-Read into more energy sufficent contractors & builders
-Green eco suppliments for houshold items, e.g green lightbulbs

Three Tasks

In this picture Butch and Jamie were explaining to us where the sides and corners of the shed were going to be with the pieces of wood for temporary corners. The string was to make sure the sides and corners were all 90 degree angels and level with the rest of the string so the shed didnt end up on a lean.

This is Jesse and Jamie starting to dig the trenches which were going to be filled with concrete later on. We used pieces of wood to mark out where needed to be dug. The trenches were as wide as shovel width and as deep as the shovel depth too. They were as long as the string we had used to level where the shed would be in the picture before this one.

In this pictures the trenches had been dug and we put barriers up to

hold the placing of where the  cement would go to set as the concrete. The cement was being used to set for the base of the shed as we couldnt put the wood straight on the ground. The barriers were built with everyones hel[p, two at a time putting up the walls, one holding planks and one hammering nails.

How successful was my army tank

My army tank was successful and looked and rolled like a army tank, even though i thought it should have had tracks instead of wheels. The machine gun went well and looked good. If i were to do it again i would sand the wheels better and more evenly so the tank kinda flowed a bit more. The time period i had fitted with making a tank because i did it in the rest of the day i had left. The group was very successful making the toys. Some of us made more than one.

Toys

I made a army tank, using a block of wood for the base, i shaped it untill it looked like a army tank, they had a circle piece of wood with a long sort of cylander coming out of the side for the machine gun. i cut out four circles for the weels, i didnt actually cut them. I used a machine that punches the hole out of the wood. It took me two hours to make and is yet to be painted.

Tool Box

Hammer
Ruler
Tool Belt
Combination Square
Beval
Plane
Chizels
Nail Punch
Tape Measure
Ear Muffs

Whats the maximum amount of timber the thicknesser can remove at once?

3mills

7/11 Carpentry

We were given two project ideas for the class to do. Either A shed for the polytech or a dog kennel. Jamie gave us the shed for the polytech as a class project because it would test our skills more than a dog kennel. In carpentry we have to wear saftey goggles for some tasks, steel caps so we dont hurt our feet, ear muffs so we dont pop our eardrums and we have to be careful with the tools, all health and saftey precausions.

5 Machines in the work place
Hand Saw
Grinder
Sander
Air Nail Gun
Drill

Jobs linked through Horticulture

There are lots of jobs horticulture can lead to, or where you will need experience in horticulture.
Such as

-Horticulture Teacher
-Sales/Marketing
-Orchard Nursery Manager
-Horticulture Therapist
-Landscape Design

Two times with Kim

The day we went up to the Buddahs to chuck off the clay balls and went out to Aramoana Beach to get seaweed and shells.

Making the Bonsai.

Horticulture

Yesterday in hort we were placing the left over rocks in place and moving them around to create the scene of our Japanese garden, we put in three planks of wood for stands for our bonsais, it was planks of wood on top of Oamaru stone. On the planks of wood we are carving our names written in Japanese. Jamie put rocks up and moulded them around the shit tanks because they are henious but we are figuring ways to make them less visable but they have to be open for health ventalation resons. We arent allowed to paint the walls for the Japanese garden which sucks. We are yet to make a water feauture and gather sand for the ground. Tia and I cleaned the walls of cobwebs and random ickys.

Horticulture 22/2

Steps involved for making Bonsais on Monday 19/3

Who taught you ? -Joy
What tools did you use ? -Pliers, Wire
Where were you working ? -The white tunnel
Did yous get given a tree, or get given your own ? -Chose our own

Hydroponics

- A method of growing plants using mineral nutrients instead of growing in soil

-The two main types of hydroponics are 'medium culture' and 'solution culture'. The medium culture method uses solid mediums for the roots to grow in , e.g perlite, gravel,
mineral wool or coconut husk. Solution culture doesnt use solid medium it uses mineral nutrients

-Plants grow faster with hydroponics and arent as touch and thick as they usually would be

Some Advantages
-No soil
-Reusable water
-Easier to harvest
-Faster
-Food isnt as tough and thick

A Disadvantage
-If any harm comes to the plants hydroponics system the plant will experience rapid death

 

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Horticulture 15/3

15/3/2012

Yesterday (14/3) we had a pretty hands on day at horticulture,
When i arrived the class had started to make compost bins, joining 4 pieces of wood in a square and stacking 4 of them on top of each other to make big compost bins, the class had already planned to all go to the quarry to collect rocks for our Japanese garden but since me and Savou came late we couldnt all get in the van so Savou, Tia, Elisha, and i stayed back while the rest of the class went to get rocks and finished the compost bins. They brought back 1.7tonnes of rock from the quarry and Cory hosed all the crap off them on the trailer, so when i sat on the side of the trailer i was covered in shit. When the rocks were all hosed we did wheel barrow trips from the trailer to the Japanese Garden in the L Block. The big rocks that couldnt be lifted into the wheel barrow were put onto those box carrier trolley things. After lunch Jenae, Savou, Elisha, Cory, Jai, Dakota and I went to the quarry. It's the deeper than the sea, it was mean, looks like our rusty version of the grand canyon





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After we got back from the quarry we did the wheel barrow trips again and while that was happening wet news paper was being layed down on our pond base so that when we layed the plastic over top roots from the ground didnt grow up through and brake the plastic causing the water to drain into the soil. Then the plastic was layed over top of the wet news paper and the little rocks were put around the outside of the pond to hold down the plastic and also for decoration. We put stepping stones in the pond too.

BONSAI

in class we have been working on making bonsais for our japanese styled gaden in the L Block.

We planted cloned with growin roots into potplant containers, miniture ones and put them in the green house to grow.
Now were waiting for them to grow -.-
Our bonsais are gonna be on different levels and displayed all around our japanese garden.