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Fluorescent tubes?
As we're about to have the enormous leylandii down, we're also about to have a huge number of logs to store. So, I spent half an hour this afternoon getting one of the spare stables clear and making a small start on another (ie, I've moved the decade-old horse bedding, which I already moved out of Jonny's stable, into the muck skip...).
In the course of moving stuff, I found a couple of fluorescent light tubes. We do have a couple of lights in the store room that take old-style tubes: is there any way, other than plugging them into the light fittings, of seeing if they work? I strongly suspect not, as they've probably spent a decade in a damp stable and were probably rubbish before they went in there, but I have no idea what the non-working (or, indeed, working, but I think long for that) life of them is!
(I did also find a could of roof beams, which I though would be useful for bracing the front of the pony stable if we take the wall off it so we'd have a covered shelter for the farrier and grooming and such. But then it might be full of wood, so. I'm fairly sure that there's a very small bench / large stool in there somewhere, too, which I intend to reclaim as a side-saddle stand: the side saddle has been in the tack room, but I've not been using it much and when I pulled it out to clean i last week it had an alarming white bloom on it. This is really a sign than I need to use it more, but I'm still a bit dubious about keeping it out there in the winter, now.)
In the course of moving stuff, I found a couple of fluorescent light tubes. We do have a couple of lights in the store room that take old-style tubes: is there any way, other than plugging them into the light fittings, of seeing if they work? I strongly suspect not, as they've probably spent a decade in a damp stable and were probably rubbish before they went in there, but I have no idea what the non-working (or, indeed, working, but I think long for that) life of them is!
(I did also find a could of roof beams, which I though would be useful for bracing the front of the pony stable if we take the wall off it so we'd have a covered shelter for the farrier and grooming and such. But then it might be full of wood, so. I'm fairly sure that there's a very small bench / large stool in there somewhere, too, which I intend to reclaim as a side-saddle stand: the side saddle has been in the tack room, but I've not been using it much and when I pulled it out to clean i last week it had an alarming white bloom on it. This is really a sign than I need to use it more, but I'm still a bit dubious about keeping it out there in the winter, now.)