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5 Star Hotels in Manali
5 Star hotels in Manali classified by Ministry of Tourism & ranked by travellers
Average Rating - 5.00/7, based on 309 Ratings & 156 Reviews | Price Range : Rs. 1200 - 12000
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Rank 37
Kullu Manali Highway, P O Katrain, Manali
"I had a good stay in Span Resort in Manali last year. It is located in the best place in Manali..." More ›Vikrant, 3 weeks ago
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Rank 52
The Mall, Manali, Kullu Dist.
"Went to College Tour, and stayed in this hote. This was awesome experience in my life. It has..." More ›Lokender, Jaipur, 2 months ago
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Rank 69
Near Club House Road, Manali
"I have stayed in this property as a business traveller and I have suggested this property to lot..." More ›Himanshu, New Delhi, 2 weeks ago
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Rank 151
Enroute HadimbaTemple, Manali
"Hotel is situated at very good location. Facility provided by hotels are excellent. Nice view..." More ›Pankaj, Gorakhpur, 1 month ago
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Rank 16
PO 63, Manali
"I had checked in here for 4 days. The ambience is great. The staff is very helping and the tariff..." More ›Suraj, Mumbai, 2 weeks ago
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Rank 306
Solang Nala, VPO Palchan, Manali HP
"River rafting was organised by Happy Kamper so we decided to stay there. The camp rooms were..." More ›Rajiv, Ganjam, 3 months ago
5 Star Hotels in Manali with Tariff Rates
- There are 4 Five star Hotels in Manali and most popular 5 star hotels are The Span Resort, Sagar Resort, Him View Manali Hotel, Rohtang Manalsu.
In Five-star hotels, below are some necessary conditions that should be applied:-
- All rooms (100%) should have Air-Conditioners
- Suites - Minimum 2% of room block with a minimum of 1
- Minimum size of bathrooms should be 45 square feet
- Some rooms should have bathtubs
- Hair Dryers should be available in rooms
- Safe keeping should be available in rooms
- Minibar / Fridge is mandatory in rooms
- Heating and cooling to be provided in public areas and temperature should be between 20 to 28 degree celsius
- Grade A cities:
- One multi-cuisine restaurant-cum-24 hr coffee shop / all day diner, one specialty restaurant and 24 hr room service.
- Grade B cities: One multi-cuisine restaurant-cum-coffee shop open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., one speciality restaurant and 24 hr room service.
- Note: The Ministry of Tourism may review and revise the cities falling under the Grade 'A' & Grade 'B' from time to time.
- Grade A: Delhi*, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad/ Secunderabad. *Delhi would include the hotels falling in Gurgaon, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, NOIDA and Greater NOIDA.
- Grade B: Cities in the rest of the country excluding Grade 'A' cities.
- There should be a bar present at the hotel premises.
- In the kitchen, wet garbage area to be air-conditioned.
- Percentage of supervisory staff should be minimum 80% and hotels of Five-star category should have formally qualified Heads of Departments.
- Percentage of skilled staff should be minimum 60%. The supervisory or the skilled staff may have training or skill certification as follows:
i. Degree / diploma from Central or state IHM's / FCI's or from NCHMCT affiliated IHM's or from other reputed Hospitality schools.
ii. Skill training certificate issued under the guidelines and scheme of the Ministry of Tourism.
- Staff restrooms (Separate for male and female employees with bunk beds, well-lighted and ventilated), Staff locker rooms and dining area are mandatory.
- Inhouse Dry- cleaning / Laundry services are mandatory.
- Iron and Iron Board should be available in the room.
- Paid Transportation on call - Guest should be able to travel from hotel.
- Shoe cleaning service facility to be provided for in house guests.
- Newspapers should be available in the rooms.
- Shop / kiosk - Five-star hotels to have one utility and one souvenir shop. 4 Star to have
- minimum one utility shop.
- There should be bookshop available.
- For Five-star category, it would be 'Necessary' to have an X-Ray Machine at the guest entrance for screening of baggage. Manual checks may be conducted for staff and suppliers at designated entry points
- There should be Under belly scanners to screen vehicles.
- Each bedroom door fitted with lock and key, viewport / peephole & internal securing device. A safety chain / wishbone latch is acceptable in place of viewport / peephole.
- A telephone for incoming & outgoing calls in the room is Mandatory. Five-star hotels should have direct dialing and STD/ ISD facilities.
- In room internet connection / dataport is mandatory in Five-star hotels and there should be Wi- Fi wherever possible.
- There should be a business center for business meetings. This should be a dedicated area. (This provision may be relaxed for resort destinations, tourist and pilgrimage centres).
- Swimming pool is mandatory for Five-star hotels. This can be relaxed for hill destinations. Mandatory that trained Lifeguard to be available. Board containing do's & dont's, no diving sign, pool depth etc. should be displayed at a strategic location in the pool area. Conference Facilities are mandatory for Five-star hotels


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Here I was thinking it wasn't a real airship yet because it sounds like they have only filled the balloon, but not attached anything to the balloon yet.
At this point its just a balloon. It still needs its skin, engines, a compartment for pilot and or crew.
They have the air part down, now they just need the ship part.
If you read the article, they kinda explain that it's the largest MODERN airship. IE, actually built and operational. It fully acknowledges that airships "back in the day" were much larger.
Also, propulsion and power storage are not likely included in that 2,000 lb capacity. Aircraft specs typically state a "useful load" figure, which is what it can typically carry with it's own required weight taken off of the max gross weight.
from TFA
But even the modern record-holder for size dwindles in comparison to airships back in their heyday, such as the 804-foot (245 m) Hindenberg.
There must be some strange use of the word "largest" that I don't understand
"Our airships are radically different designs that move beyond the performance limitations of traditional blimps or zeppelins by combining advanced technology with simple construction and the ability to fuel with algae, protecting our environment"
Fueling with algae protects the environment as much as buying a Prius. Alternative fuels do not protect the environment, they only reduce the damage slightly.
It's also clearly not a satellite, as it won't actually be in orbit.
No. Unless you have a smart ass that wants to get technical on you.
It's additionally about the same length as a 747. While saying "the length of a 23 story skyscraper" sounds impressive, it's quite a common thing to have in the sky.
The earth only has so much matter left!
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Prospect of the Week: 2-16-15Submitted by chad on February 16, 2015 - 22:29
We continue our Bolt Prospect of the Week award, an honor (virtually) given to one Tampa Bay Lightning prospect for his recent contributions on and off the ice.
The Bolt Prospect of the Week for February 16, 2015 is … Adam Wilcox, G, Minnesota Golden Gophers (NCAA – USA).
It wasn't supposed to be this difficult.
Coming into the season, Lightning 2011 sixth rounder Adam Wilcox had a lot of expectations on his shoulders. He was a Hobey Baker nominee and Mike Richter Trophy finalist as the nation's best goaltender, and would be the unquestioned No. 1 once again for the mighty Gophers. Wilcox's future was so bright, talk started that he may choose not to sign with the Lightning and instead become a free agent in the summer of 2015 and shop his services elsewhere.
The BoltProspects Podcast, Volume 17Submitted by chad on February 13, 2015 - 15:38
This week's edition of the BoltProspects Podcast (now on Lightning Radio's iHeart station) includes the following topics:
· Discontent with conference contender
· Drouin vs. Seth Jones
· Answers to trade deadline questions
· Interview with Syracuse's Jake Dotchin
To listen on Lightning Radio, go to TBLPowerPlay.com.
Dotchin picks up where he left off after injurySubmitted by jghoughtaling on February 11, 2015 - 17:55
Jake Dotchin picked up where he left off.
The rookie defenseman, who netted his first professional goal two periods before blocking a shot that injured his ankle on Dec. 5, needed little time to knock off any rust when he returned to the Syracuse Crunch lineup late last month.
Dotchin realizes the ups and downs come with the territory.
"I remember blocking that shot. It wasn't a goal, but it felt like one to the guys and to me," Dotchin said. "The guys were patting me on the back and what-not. It was unfortunate that I was out for that long, but it's something I'd go down and do that for the team again, for sure."
Prospect of the Week: 2-11-15Submitted by chad on February 11, 2015 - 10:28
We continue our Bolt Prospect of the Week award, an honor (virtually) given to one Tampa Bay Lightning prospect for his recent contributions on and off the ice.
The Bolt Prospect of the Week for February 11, 2015 is … Anthony DeAngelo, D, Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL – Canada).
In Anthony DeAngelo's first game with Sault Ste. Marie after being traded by Sarnia, the Lightning 2014 first rounder did not register a point. That was January 9.
In 11 games since that time, DeAngelo has hit the scoresheet every game, racking up 22 points over that timespan. The 5'10" New Jersey native had seven points (and a fight) in three games last week, earning him our Prospect of the Week award.
Bolt Prospect Stats: 2-9-15Submitted by chad on February 9, 2015 - 12:09
A full (traditional) statistic report for Lightning 2014-2015 prospects, graduated prospects, and overage prospects.
I'm hoping to be able to update this every week, but we'll see how that goes.
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To make an inexpensive chromatographic column and perform chromatography with it, column walls and a column end with a port are molded integrally from plastic. A closure is integrally molded with a port as well. One type of closure includes part of a snap-on fastener integrally molded to it to cooperate with corresponding parts molded integrally with the column walls and another type of closure is welded to the tubular walls. In the preferred embodiment the welding is spin welding. The end and closure have channels molded into them radiating from a port and opening toward packing material such as silica beads or porous polymeric plugs. Filters and secondary seals may be located at the ends to prevent leakage of packing material.
1. A method of manufacturing a chromatographic column comprising the steps of:
molding a column body from plastics, said step of molding a column body including the substeps of molding a side wall portion, a first end portion integrally molded with the side wall portion and an open second end forming an interior of the column body and a closure for the open second end; said first end portion being integrally molded with a first port, said closure being integrally molded with a second port and at least one of said first end portion and closure having integrally molded channels radially extending from the port and opening toward said interior of the column body;
filling the column with packing material up to the second end; and
fastening the closure with a molded port to the column body together at the second end with only rotary or both linear and rotary motion.
2. The method of
placing a first filter in the first end having said integrally molded port of the column body and;
filling the column with packing material up to the second end;
placing a second filter on top of the packing in the second end.
3. The method of
4. The method of
This application is a continuation in part application of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/389,626 filed Mar. 14, 2003 entitled DISPOSABLE CHROMATOGRAPHIC COLUMNS, which is a divisional application of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/920,124 filed Aug. 1, 2001 entitled DISPOSABLE CHROMATOGRAPHIC COLUMNS, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,565,745.
This invention relates to chromatography and more specifically to chromatographic columns, methods of making chromatographic columns and methods of using chromatographic columns.
The use of chromatographic columns for the analysis and separation of substances from mixtures has long been known. One type of such column is a disposable column intended for limited use and accordingly manufactured with economy in mind.
One prior art disposable column has been available in commerce for a substantial period of time. It is manufactured of inexpensive plastics and designed to be easily assembled by filling the body of the column with the desired packing and then welding the open end or ends closed. The prior art chromatographic column has the disadvantage of being more costly then desirable to assemble and being more subject to leaks under pressure then desirable.
Accordingly, it is an object of the invention to provide a novel chromatographic column.
It is a further object of the invention to provide a novel method of manufacturing and using a chromatographic column.
It is a still further object of the invention to provide a novel chromatographic column that can be filled through an open end and then the open end closed with simple linear motion or combined linear engagement followed by rotary motion and then linear disengagement motion.
It is a still further object of the invention to provide a novel chromatographic column with a snap-on end.
It is a still further object of the invention to provide a novel chromatographic column with a spin welded end.
It is a still further object of the invention to provide a novel inexpensive disposable chromatographic column.
It is a still further object of the invention to provide a novel inexpensive chromatographic column with fluid distributing means formed integrally with one or both end members of the column.
In accordance with the above and further objects of the invention, a chromatographic column is formed of a relatively inexpensive material, filled with the desired packing material and then closed at one end, forming a seal that can withstand substantial pressure. In one embodiment, the end is applied with relatively simple substantially linear motion or linear motion to engage the end member and disengage the end member with rotary motion between the engagement and disengagement so as to be capable of being implemented in an automated fashion. A simple linear motion is used with a cap that snaps in place to provide an adequate seal against internal pressures and a linear motion for a machine member to engage the end member for rotating until a spin welded connection is made by friction followed by linear disengaging motion.
For this purpose, the column is formed of an inexpensive plastic with the tubular body portion and one end with one port being molded as a single piece. A snap-on end piece or an end piece with ridges for grasping with linear motion is also molded as a single piece with a port as an integrally molded part of it and snapped onto or spin welded onto the tubular body portion. The snap on embodiment provides an interference fit adequate to resist leaks at a value above the rated value of the column. Preferably one of the end piece and the open end of the body of the column has snap members that engage detents on the other of the open end of the body and the end piece to hold the two together with adequate force about a tapered connection to form an adequate seal to resist the pressure built up on the column during use. The number of snaps and dimensions are selected to permit the appropriate inexpensive plastic to withstand the stress in use. In the preferred embodiment, the column is made substantially of polypropylene because it is inexpensive and sufficiently inert to withstand usage with normal solvents for a limited number of uses.
In molding the snap-on end and in molding the body a plurality of cantilever members are molded onto one of the body and the snap-on end and a plurality of detents are molded onto the other of the body and snap-on end. The number of detents and cantilever members are selected to maintain the combined bending stress of the cantilever members being bent outwardly over the catch and the tensile stress below the failure of the material comprising the cantilever members. The thickness of the material, the area connected the cantilever members to the rest of the end piece and the type of material are selected in conjunction with the height of the detent necessary to hold the cantilevers with the necessary force for an interference fit without excessively bending the cantilever members while being moved over the detents.
One or both end members have fluid distributing means molded into them for more even flow of fluid through the packing material. In the preferred embodiment, the fluid distributing means are channels in the inlet and outlet end members that open toward the packing material and communicates with the inlet and outlet ports to more evenly distribute fluids.
From the above description, it can be understood that the method and apparatus of this invention has several advantages, such as: (1) it is economical in terms of its fabricating materials; (2) it is inexpensive to assemble; (3) it can be assembled readily in an automated process; and (4) it can be easily formed of relatively inexpensive materials.
The above noted and further features of the invention will be better understood from the following detailed description when considered with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
The inlet channels 18A-18H are formed in the base plate or end portion 19 and open toward the packing material 58 (not shown in
The outlet end 16 includes a plurality of circumferentially-spaced detents 38A-38L (detents 38A-38G being shown in
To bend the cantilever members 42A-42L and hold them in place, the radially extending detents 38A-38L extend outwardly from the outer wall of the column body 12 with which they are integrally formed and are circumferentially spaced from each other at equal intervals and positioned to be received by openings in the cantilever members 42A-42L when the cantilever members have been moved inwardly on the wall of the column body 12 a sufficient distance to a tapered rim of the walls (not shown in
One of more guide posts 39A-39F (39A and 39B being shown in
In this embodiment, the outlet end 16 is a snap-in place end and the inlet end 14 is molded integrally with the tubular column body 12. The column body 12, while cylindrical in the embodiment of
The column body 12 is tapered slightly for ease in ejection of a mold during formation but has a straight portion 36 with the detents 38A-38L positioned to engage corresponding ones of a plurality of cantilever members 42A-42L at the outlet end 16 of the column 10. The radially-extending circumferentially-spaced detents 38A-38L are ramp shaped and mounted at the outer surface of the straight portion 36 of the column body 12 with the end nearest to the snap-on cantilever assembly 20 being lowest and sloping upwardly until they reach the top to aid in receiving the snap-fit cantilever assembly 20 and then falling sharply to provide a catching and holding surface to hold the cantilever assembly 20 at a location permitting an interference fit as will be described in greater detail below. The slope of the detents 38A-38L is selected to permit bending of the cantilever members 42A-42L without buckling.
In the preferred embodiment, the slope is 20 degrees but may be between 5 and 45 degrees depending on the distance of travel desired before the cantilever members 42A-42L snap in place. The guideposts 39A, 39B and 39C have a steeply rising surface aligned with the low end of the ramp-shaped detents 38A-38L in the same circular cross section and are at least as high as the high end of the detents 38A-38L so they prevent movement of the cantilever assembly 20 onto the column body 12 unless the guide posts 39A-39F are positioned between cantilever members 42A-42L. With the guide posts 39A-39L positioned between cantilever members 42A-42L and inter-dispersed with the detents 38A-38L, the guide posts serve as guides to position the cantilever members 42A-42L with respect to the detents 38A-38L so the detents lift the cantilevers radially outwardly as the cantilever assembly 20 is moved on to the column body 12 until the cantilever members 42A-42L engage the end of the detents 38A-38L to hold the cantilever assembly 20 in place with an interference fit sealing the column body 12 of the column 10 to the cantilever assembly 20.
The outlet port 56 is formed integrally with the cantilever assembly 20. To provide an end seal, the end plate 26 of the cantilever assembly 20 includes a flat cylindrical torus ending in an integrally formed outlet port 56 and perpendicular to the londitudinal axis of the column body 12. At it circumferential end it rises in a direction substantially parallel to the walls of the column body 12 as a ring, curves and connects to the integrally formed cantilever members 42A-42L extending in the opposite direction. The rising walls have a sloped portion (not shown in
To collect fluid from the cross-section of the packing material 58 while preserving the integrity of the bands of migrating species, the snap cantilever assembly 20 includes a plurality of outlet channels 24A-24H which receive fluid from locations in the column body 12 of the column 10 and channel it to the outlet port 56. These channels are integrally formed with the end plate 26 and open inwardly toward the packing material 58 in the interior of the column body 12.
Circumferentially surrounding the end plate or closure 26 and integrally formed with it is a sealing surface 37 (not shown in
With this arrangement, the filters 28 and 30 contain between them the packing material 58 (
In the preferred embodiment, 12 cantilever member 42A-42L are used. However, the number of cantilever levers is chosen to be sufficient to avoid stress that will result in premature failure before the end of the useful life of the column. Stress on the cantilever at the point of holding and at the base is inversely proportionate to the number of cantilever members since the pressure will be evenly distributed around the periphery during a chromatographic run. The shear strain on the cantilever members 42A-42L at the ends of the detents 38A-38L and the tensile strain on the cantilever side portions multiplied by the length of the side portions must be low enough not to reduce the pressure at the interference fit between the tapered rim of the walls of the body 12 and the sloped portion of the end plate 26 to permit leakage when the column is under pressure.
The moment of inertia and flexural modules of the cantilever members must be low enough so that the cantilever assembly can be moved up the detent without excessive force and high enough to snap over the detent's peak and remain in place. The number of cantilever members (42A-42L in the preferred embodiment) and the size of the openings (44A-44L in the preferred embodiment) are selected to keep the stress below a value that causes premature failure or excessive elongation. In the preferred embodiment the material of the column body and the snap-fittings is polypropylene although many other materials can be used such as for example polyethylene or even metals since the choice of the material is based on cost. While in the preferred embodiment, the column is made of one material, different materials may be utilized, particularly to increase the rated pressure of a disposable column by incorporating parts of stronger plastic or metal reinforcing such as a reinforcing sleeve about the column body 12.
The column body 12 is molded of polypropylene manufactured by AMOCO and available from Polymerland Inc., Suite 150, 12200 Hebert Wayne Ct., Huntersville, N.C. 28078, as PP8439. However many other inexpensive materials may be used. In the preferred embodiment, one plastic is used for the entire column and the columns are intended for use at operating pressures of between gravity and 200 psi but a composite body such as with a strong sheath on the outside of the plastic body may extend operating pressures to 500 psi in a composite embodiment.
A tapered rim 49 is shown on the inner wall at the edge of the column body 12. This rim matches a surface on the cantilever assembly 20 and is tapered downwardly to the edge of the walls of the column body 12 so that as the cantilever assembly 20 is pressed onto the column body 12, the fit becomes increasingly tight until an interference fit is formed between the walls of the column body 12 and the cantilever assembly 20. The distance that the cantilever assembly must move onto the walls of the column body 12 is determined experimentally for each design of column and governs the amount and the length of the taper in conjunction with the location of the detents 38A-38L and the openings 44A-44L in the cantilever members 42A-42L to make a leak proof interference fit. In the preferred embodiment, the taper is 80 degrees from the plane of a perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the body and there is mating 80 degree slope on the mating wall of the cantilever assembly 20. The total angle of the slope affecting the tightness of fit should be a value of between 5 degrees and 35 degrees in accordance the operating pressure.
Two of the inlet channels 18A and 18E of the channels 18A-18H are shown in this sectional view. As shown in this view, an outlet end 16 is open and available for inserting the packing material 58 prior to being closed by the snap-on cantilever assembly 20 to hold the packing material 58 and the filters 28 and 30 in place. The filter 28 (
At the outlet end 16, the walls of the column body 12 are tapered. There is shown the tapered rim 49 of the walls of the column body 12 pressed against the tapered walls 37 (
The inlet and outlet ports 22 and 56 respectively conform to ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 594/1 and 594/2 for 6 percent taper conical fittings but the particular type of fitting is not part of the invention and any suitable inlet and outlet ports may be used. The simple lock fittings were chosen for convenience in attaching and removing the disposable columns by hand.
When the filter is in place, the tube is filled with chromatographic packing material as shown in step 86 while the tube is inverted with its inlet port down. The packing material is packed uniformly. In the preferred embodiment, this is accomplished by agitating the filled, inverted column and adding packing material if the settled packing material originally inserted falls below the required volume. After being filled with uniform packing material, a second disk-shaped flat filter is place to hold the packing material in place so it does not move into the outlet port as shown in step 88.
As an alternative to beads or other solid material, monomers may be polymerized in place. For example, a polymerization mixture may be polymerized in place with a porogen or solvent to form a polymer plug that has separation effective openings. In this specification, �separation-effective openings� means pores or channels or other openings that play a role in separation processes such as for example chromatography as described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/180,350 filed Jun. 26, 2002 and Ser. No. 10/607,080 filed Jun. 25, 2003, and assigned to the same assignee as this application, the disclosures of which are incorporated by reference. In packing the column with these polymers shrinkage during polymerization is compensated for and In another embodiment of this invention, swelling after polymerization, which might otherwise later result in shrinkage is avoided. Shrinkage results in enlarged voids on the polymer surface and may result in a lack of homogeneity of pore size distribution inside the polymer. In a first embodiment, the compensation for shrinkage is accomplished by applying sufficient pressure during polymerization to create uniformity in the distribution of separation-effective openings and to avoid wall effect voids. This pressure has been found to also control particle size and the nature and shape of the openings in the plug to some extent. Maintaining the column at atmospheric pressure during polymerization to accommodate shrinkage does reliably prevent the formation of voids. The voids are removed when the plug stops shrinking when put under even modest amounts of pressure. In a second embodiment, shrinkage that otherwise would occur after polymerization is avoided. For example, some plugs tend to expand when exposed to some solutions such as organic solvent and then shrink later such as during a separating run in aqueous mobile phase, causing voids. In these embodiments, shrinkage is prevented by holding the column from shrinkage when exposed to the solutions. The application of pressure is one method of preventing shrinkage during exposure to the aqueous solutions.
The polymerization mixture in some embodiments includes: (1) selected monomers; (2) for some types of columns, an additive; (3) an initiator or catalyst; and (4) a porogen or porogens to form separation-effective openings. In some embodiments function groups can be added before or after polymerization. The porogen, initiator, functional group to be added, additives, and reaction conditions and the monomer and/or polymer are selected for a specific type of column such as reverse phase, weak cation, strong cation, weak anion, strong anion columns, affinity support, normal phase, solid phase extraction and catalytic bed. The selection of components of the polymerization mixture is made to provide the desired quality of column.
A chromatographic column in accordance with this invention preferably includes a casing having internal walls to receive a permeable monolithic polymeric plug in which the separation-effective openings or surface features are of a controlled size formed in the polymer by a porogen in the polymerization mixture and are controlled in size by pressure during polymerization. This plug serves as a support for a sample in chromatographic columns. The permeable monolithic polymeric plug has smooth walls with no visible discontinuity in the plug wall and substantially no discontinuity or opening within the plug. Discontinuity in this specification means a raised portion or opening or depression or other change from the normal smoothness or pattern sufficient in size to be visible with the unaided eye. In this specification, the term �size-compensated polymers� or �size-compensated polymeric� means monolithic polymeric permeable material having separation-effective openings in which discontinuities lack of homogeneity in the separation-effective openings have been prevented by the methods referred to in this specification such as for example applying pressure during polymerization or after polymerization during exposure to polar solutions in the case of some types of columns or by using a column that is prevented from further shrinkage in the presence of an aqueous solution by the application of pressure in the presence of the aqueous solution either during washing with an aqueous solution or during use in a separation operation using an aqueous solution.
In making size-compensated polymers for use in separation systems, the characteristics for a given type of separation can be tailored with a given polymer to the application, by altering the amount of pressure applied during polymerization or and in the case of some polymers such as used in forming reverse phase separation media applying pressure when used or when otherwise brought into contact with a polar solvent such as an aqueous solvent or washing fluid. After the nature of the polymer itself has been selected for a class of applications, columns can be made and tested. Based on the tests, the characteristics can be altered in some columns by applying pressure. It is believed that the application of pressure in some columns increases the uniformity of particle size and either because of the change in particle size of for other reasons, the size distribution and uniformity of separation effective openings throughout the polymer is increased. The increase in homogeniety of the particle size and pore size improves resolution. An increase in pressure generally improves capacity and resolution and the pressure-time gradient. It is believed that in some columns micropores are greatly reduced or eliminated thus reducing zone spreading by the application of pressure during polymerization and/or during use or washing of the polymer with polar solutions.
Finally, as shown at step 90, the snap-on or welded end 74 outlet end is snapped into place so as to provide an interference fit with the walls of the tube and be held with that interference fit by cantilever members and detents. The detents are molded onto the body of the column and the snap-on or welded end 74 outlet end has an outlet port with a ring sized to provide an interference fit with the walls. The detents are ramped shaped and the cantilever as they move against them are bent outwardly over the detents and snap over the opposite end at a location in which the ring and the body of the tube for a tight interference fit that will not leak even under the predetermined pressure for the column during operation.
The solvent is pumped through the column at the selected flow rate for the chromatographic run as shown at step 96 and carries eluent to the bottom of the column where channels opening against the filter channel the fluid evenly to the outlet port so that fluid with a direct flow route through the packing material is flowed rapidly through the channels to the outlet port rather than through the slower radial path of the packing material as shown in step 98. The eluent is then collected and analyzed in a conventional manner as shown at 100. After a number of runs of between one and 10, but preferable 1 run, the column is removed and disposed of as shown at step 102. They are constructed economically so as to render this possible. A new disposable column may then be connected for further chromatographic runs. Typically, runs with the disposable columns are competed in 30 minutes or less and flow rates are 100 milliliters per minute or less. Each run should be completed in 60 minutes or less and average flow rates should be between 25 ml. and 200 ml. per minute.
From the above description, it can be understood that the method and apparatus of this invention has several advantages, such as: (1) it is economical in terms of its fabricating materials; (2) it is inexpensive to assemble; (3) it can be assembled readily in an automated process; and (4) it can be easily formed of relatively inexpensive materials.
While a preferred embodiment of the invention has been described with some particularity, many modifications and variations in the invention are possible within the light of the above teaching. Therefore, it is to be understood, that within the scope of the pending claims, the invention may be practiced other than as specifically described.
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Garden tractors for GARDENING
I have been scouring the web looking for sites on using the garden tractor as a "garden tractor". Very , very few.
Is this a dying practice? I want to use my tractor as much as possible to save time and manpower in my garden. but practices such as making rows and beds and such are not shown much, or at least I am not finding them.
I am wondering how many of us use our garden tractors for such purposes and also would like links to sites where it is shown in video if possible. (or pics would be ok too.)Also, show what you have done.
I think gardening as a whole is decreasing. Most peoples lives are so busy anymore that the convenience of going to the grocery store to pick up a head of lettuce wins over plowing a garden, planting, weeding, fertilizing, fighting off bugs and animals, watering, etc.
i use mine for true gardening work. i have a 12" moldboard plow, disc, and tine cultivator, and multiple tow behind attachments. going to go pick up a new(old) MTD with a tiller attached this weekend.
google tractor forum and you will find some other sites besides just this one. sorry i cannot be more specific, the owners here bar you mentioning other sites.
Brinly-hardy and other manufacturers of attachments have some demo videos, try their sites as well.
to form my rows i plow up the ground, then disc it up. then i spinthe blades onthe disc and make several passes throwing the dirt inwards. after 5-10 passes at most, i have a row that is about 2ft wide by 12in or so high by 100' long. move over several feet and repeat. by keeping at least 4 ft between the rows, i can use the tine cultivator to get the small weeds between the rows.
I have a hiller/furrower that was used to attach to a troy-bilt tiller. I was hoping to use that for making my beds/rows but I haven't come up with a way to attach it to my tractor. I have a sleeve hitch as well as the standard hitch.
Here is a link that might be useful:
Mailman, davidandkasie pretty well described the procedures. But I'm not really sure what information you're looking for - other than web addresses, which I can't provide.
My first question is "Do you have a garden (not lawn) tractor?" Other questions: What attachments do you have? How large a garden are you planning?
As to the TroyBilt hiller/furrower, my guess is that you're going to have to fabricate some sort of bracket to attached it to. I think that's going to take some experimentation - hope you have a welding machine.
I have a compact utility tractor with moldboard, discs, and cultivators. My planting area varies from year to year, but sometimes runs around 3,500 square feet. Despite all that tractor equipment I have, I do virtually all the gardening with a TroyBilt Horse tiller, and a small Honda tiller. This causes more actual physical work than the tractor would require, but simply works better for me ... and I'm not a youngster (age 65 is back there in my rearview mirror).
Now, if you're talking about gardening a acre or more, a good, stout tractor is the way to go.
Small Garden Tractors are so termed because they can handle some ground working tools, such as: tillers. turning plows, discs, tine culivators, etc. They can be put to good use in the spring and fall to plow and prep the garden plot. But then, after planting, if you want to continue to use the "Garden Tractor" for use in the planted garden you are forced to keep the rows about 6 ft apart (to allow for the overspreading of the plants when they start growing). That's not an efficent use of garden space. You can cut that row spacing down to about 30" by using a walk behind tiller, which is probably why twelvegauge is using his Troy Built.
you should probably get the real attachments. that furrower is small for one thing, and the other it is designed for SLOW use behind fresh tilled ground. pull it behind a tractor and it will probably snap. plus it won't move enough dirt to fill in your tire tracks.
once my plants get wide i switch from using the GT to a Craftsman 14" rear tine tiller. although this year i may plant the rows further apart to accomodate the tractor mounted one. i have 4 acres, with 2 set aside for nothing but garden, so i have to luxury of spacing how i want. many people HAVE to keep the rows close due to space constraints and this rules out a GT once the plants start growing good.
also, if you space your rows far apart you should look into drip irrigation or use soaker hoses for watering. no sense in water 10,000 sq ft when you just have 500 sq ft of plants! i bought a 500 ft roll of soaker hose off ebay last year and it was the best investment i have made so far inthe garden. prior to it i had about 6 sprinklers out there and weeds between the rows were almost unmanageble if i did not stay ahead of them. using the soakers and newspaper mulch i could sometimes go a month during summer without the need to clean out the rows.
If you have a Troybilt tiller you have about the best Garden tool there is.As for the Troybilt tiller hiller attachment on a Garden tractor?I could see where it might work to make seed rows?But as a hiller bed maker it would be throwing the dirt up right where the tractor tires run.Causing compaction problems and that is the main draw back of a Garden tractor anyway tire compaction.Stick with the Troybilt tiller unless you want a super large garden?
Gardens are fading off.Many want convinence not only do they not raise there own lettuce they want it cut and placed in a bag and will pay double for the convinence.I do not think its because there busy more these days?There just lazier then they use to be.
The main thing that stops me from planting a garden is the proliferation of hungry varmint in the neighborhood.
We plant tomatoes and peppers in large pots near the house but I have no desire to fence a plot in the back yard (8' fence). There are huge numbers of deer these days. The rabbit population is way down because we have coyotes and large birds of prey that keep them in check.
The thought of tilling and planting a vegatable garden helps me get through the winter. I have four immediate neighbors that have gardens. Most of them can their vegtables also.
I remember a time my next door neighbor George (who past away about six years ago) and I filled up my VW Vanagon with cow manure from a local farmer. We were both in the barn filling up large plastic garbage cans with the manure. Cow manure sure does smell when your driving home with it no matter how much it gets sealed up. At that time Georges wife was very sick and bed ridden. Since he spent most of his time outside he rigged up an electral bell she could ring if she needed anything he could hear while he was outside. Florence started ring that bell when she smelled that manure. We both had a good laugh over that and it's a moment I enjoy remembering. He was like a grandfather to my kids. That cow manure is good stuff, I think it was the best garden I ever had.
The last few years we have had piles of composted horse manure delivered. It's starting to become a sign of spring.
I am thinking of selling my LT150 and buying a GT225 that a guy has for sale locally. The GT225 is a 2001 with under 300 hours and mine is a 2003 with about 350hrs. I'd like to not need to buy another mower and I think the GT225 will last longer. Although I must say the LT still is running good.
The problem I see with "Garden Tractors" is the fact by the time you outfit it to do everything you really want a significant chunk of change (tiller, hitch, may be a loader, etc., been there done that) is invested unless you can find a used unit with attachments. This is why I feel the Deere and Kubota as well as others have made so much head way with the sub compacts.
Our neighbor behind us, a retired sheet metal contractor, used to have about a 1/8 acre garden every year where he planted chiles and tomatos. He used to sell them at a local Farmer's Market where anyone could set up a stand and make some money off their hobby. He loved it, had the farming bug in his veins. But he said the larger area farmers started to set up their big stands of produce and variety next to his, and nobody payed much attention to his small layout. So he quit doing it. It was sad to see, but that's capitalism I guess. Check out CC Plow day pics below.
Here is a link that might be useful: CubCadet Plow Day
Last year, between the drought and deer, my garden was a disaster. My small garden plot is too far away from the house to water it except for hauling water to it. This I deid for a few tomato plants and I did get some tomatoes from the first ones that ripened. When I went back a few days later to gather some more every green tomato was gone; the deer ate them.
LT150, The GT225 is a great little garden tractor. If you can get a good deal on it I'd buy it. I've had mine about 4 years now and I've not been sorry one minute I bought it.
Wheely boy;
If you decide you do want to go back outside I have considerable experience keeping deer out of gardens. A properly constructed, and very easy to erect, electric fence will do wonders to keep deer out.
And very cheap for a small garden.
Watch out for the ticks, Lyme Disease can be far worse than most people know.
"When I went back a few days later to gather some more every green tomato was gone; the deer ate them."
That's what happened to my tomatos last May. They even ate
the tops off of the plants. I called my neighbor, a skilled
carpenter and asked him to build me a tomato cage.
IT'S 8 feet long, 5 feet wide and 4 feet high. The top and back are hinged in the middle so by flipping them over you
can walk in one half or the other and standup to work. He used 1" x 2" firring with 2 x 4 supports for the center. we painted the frame with green Rustoleum and covered it with galvanized wire utility fncing.
I replanted everything inside the cage and had my best tomato crop ever. The cage will probably last for years.
This may sound a little crazy, but I bought a 1950 Farmall Cub to work my garden with. I had it converted to 3 pt hitch, independant hydraulics, and bought the equipment to go with it. I couldn't possibly be happier with this Cub! It sips gas, grades my driveway, mows the corn stalks down, plows (really plowing), discs, and culitvates too. Between it and a Johnny Bucket Jr. for my Simplicity Landlord, I save all kinds of time, and I can grow all the vegetables I can stand to grow. I grow my tomatoes in tomato baskets and plant my burpless cucumbers right beside the tomatoes. The cucumbers climb the baskets, and this gives them better areas for pollination. They also ripen on all sides better. So, I save by growing up instead of growing out. The Cub does the work for growing a combination of Ambrosia and Silver Queen corn. As far as people getting away from gardening: They may want to rethink that way of life, especially with the high price of gas and groceries these days.
Given the few references to using GT in gardening books and almost total lack of information describing effective use of sleeve hitch implements its hard to believe GT gardening was ever popular.
I've been using a GT to plow, disc, fertilize and cultivate the vegetable garden with good results. But this year is the first I've been able to use the GT for planting. It finally dawned on me that the Earthway push planter could easily be converted to a sleeve hitch setup. An hour cutting and welding is all it took to get a servicable GT planter.
Best thing for making raised rows in a garden like mine (30'x30') is a TroyBuilt (mine is a 1987 Pony) with a hiller/furrower attachment. Today I used it for the first time. Raised rows used to take me about 1-2 hours each, depending on how much time I had to take a break in the shade :). I made 5 rows today in less than 75 minutes. Puts the excitement back into gardening!
Jeff do you have a picture of that?
I use my GT a Sabre by Jd for everything. Plow disk cultivate, if needed will hook up the 30" tiller to it. Other than spacing, tial and error work great! I started square foot gardening a few years back now putting 3-4 feet between rows.
Don't know if I can say this here, try lookng at that videa site "u" tube? I have seen soem plowing there. Among other crazy things!
On the one hand it appears gardening is on the decline, but on the other hand small plows get snatched up on Ebay so someone is doing it.
Regarding tillage. I do think mostly it is learned through trial and error. Same is true on a bigger scale, it isn't covered in the books and mags. I guess it raises the bar for entry.
When my brother and I were growing organic veggies commercially tilling was not covered in most of the books we bought. It may be covered in "10 acres and independence" which is a classic.
"Regarding tillage. I do think mostly it is learned through trial and error. Same is true on a bigger scale, it isn't covered in the books and mags."
So true. I ask my (lifetime) farming inlaws about basic plowing / planting techniques and they look at me like I've been hidden in a closet all my life. Stuff like that is like driving a car to them.
"On the one hand it appears gardening is on the decline, but on the other hand small plows get snatched up on Ebay so someone is doing it." I've noticed the same thing both ways with the local Farmall Cubs. Some of the farmers are giving up, and the darn things get snatched up so quick you barely have time to check into them. The big tractors stay around, but the Cubs are making a true come back. My sweet corn is already 3" tall, and looking mighty fine.
I'm not a big Victory gardener (I grow the Yukon Golds. DW does everything else), but some fresh vegs can't be beat.
Try picking some asparagus, on a cool early spring morning. Tastes like candy. You can't buy stuff like that in the local store.
I'm in the Troy Built camp also - have Horse model about 25 years old. Small garden - 32' X 80'. Electric fence setup is a must around here.
I have one of those furrowing tools that mailman was talking about. Works fine on tilled soil.
This is something I'm really trying to get my Dad into, since he has a 3 or so acre field on this high point of his mostly wooded property which he hasn't figured out what to do with. Right now he's more concerned about building his house, but next year he'll be more entusiastic about the great things he can do with this plot and his JD 265. There are a lot of uncommon attachments still available fairly reasonable on eBay. My purchases which have arrived at Dad's doorstep over the past two months include a NOS Deere sleeve hitch for $75, a Brinly used-once disc harrow for $100, and a NOS Brinly furrower for $35, and a Brinly back blade for $100 (for landscaping around the house). I lost two auctions for bottom plows, one I bid $155 and the other $170. I think they cost around $300 new. Both went for about $5 more than I bid. I think it's getting a little late in the year for planting anyway, so I guess I'll put off the bargain hunt until the fall when I should get some better deals.
As far as I can tell from the minimal sources I've found on the Internet, I'd imagine the process should go something like this:
1) cut the brush down.
A bush hog is best but I would think a belly-mower fully raised would cut if it's not thick, woody growth.
2) till up the soil
I'd expect a bottom plow would use less gas, and probably be quicker than a tractor-mounted tiller, although the tiller would fluff the soil more and decrease the need for discing.
3) disc the soil
My inexperienced guess would be to use two disc harrows in tandem, one facing in and one facing out, weighted down with cinder blocks
4) furrow the soil
Either use a set of furrowers (I think the Brinly furrowers use the same frame as the cultivator tines).
5) sow the seeds
I guess for some crops like alfalfa you'd just use a broadcast spreader, but corn, peppers, or most others would require the use of a planter, which I've seen selling for $250+ and don't seem to be available from Brinly or Agri-fab anymore.
6) use the furrower or disc harrow to cover the seed
If using tandem discs, I'd have both turned inward.
7) sip some lemonade and watch the crop grow
8) after a few months, cultivate between the rows to eliminate weeds and aerate the soil
I guess you can use the disc cultivator or tine cultivator, driving directly over the plants. Once the plants are more than 6" I guess you'd use your Troy-bilt walk-behind tiller unless you left a space between rows wide enough for your tractor.
9) cultivate again a few months later
10) harvest the crop
I don't know of any garden tractor attachments (other than a Haban sickle bar--no longer in production) which would facilitate harvesting.
I haven't found ANYTHING that really goes step-by-step regarding what you need to do to use your tractor to increase garden productivity. So for davidandkasie and windcatcher, if you could offer any details, timelines, or corrections to my conception above, it would be greatly appreciated.
Earthway makes a great walk behind seeder with multiple seeding plates. Lightweight aluminum, but still strong. I've heard some Cub owners modifying theirs to be pulled behind their tractors with good success.
Here is a link that might be useful: Earthway Seeder


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Are you old enough to have been working with Concorde XAL? Then this question should tickle your imagination. In the old Concorde XAL you also had the kernel with its exe-file and its DLLs and then you had the application files. Whenever a new kernel was released (the latest was 2.80 as far as I remember) you could start it up with switches making it backwards compatible with for instance the Oracle-version or whatever. The application was still the same application.
Today an AX 40 SP2 kernel is backwards compatible to whatever AX 4.0 application version that you might be having. How about squeezing this thought into "insane"-mode. Will it be possible to just change the kernel version for the AOS and the clients to AX 4.0 SP2 and not do anything about the application layers? Essentially running Axapta 3.0 on a AX 4.0 kernel.
I know the AX 4.0 kernel creates RecIds that are unique per table and not accross all tables like Axapta 3.0 but I am trusting that I do not have any code in my Axapta 3.0 that tries to find a record without saying in which table.
The AX 4.0 kernel is able to read AOD-files from Axapta 3.0. That is how I interpretate this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mfp/archive/2008/04/22/new-layers-in-dynamics-ax-2009.aspx. Find the text saying: " ...This enables AOD files with sizes up to about 6.5 GB (2^27 * 48), while enabling binary backwards compatibility with 3.0 AOD files (with sizes less than 128MB (2^27))".
Can you think of any call to the kernel in the X++ code from Axapta 3.0 that is not supported by an AX 4.0 kernel?


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The Obama administration has adopted their "triggering" definitions of a modern rifle so that they can "remove the weapons of war." In Colonial days, weapons of war were your own personal musket, knife, hatchet and axe. In The War Between The States, Confederate troops were lucky to have a standard uniform much less a rifle. New recruits were told to scavenge other dead soldiers' armament. Going back a thousand years, weapons of war were family heirlooms passed down from one generation to another (suggesting the origin of the age-old axiom: "Come back with your shield...or on it.").
America's graduation from trap-door or bolt action rifles to Winchester lever-action repeating rifles was more of a revolution to modern warfare than Colt's introduction of the modern rifle (M-16, AR) design. We already had high-capacity fully automatic rifles so what this boils down to is cosmetics.
The most commonly owned handgun design celebrates it's 102nd Anniversary this year. In the U.S. it was the exclusive sidearm of the U.S. military (all branches) for 60 years. How do you remove this weapon of war? Standard issue 1911s (.45 automatics) come with Cuomo's mandatory 7-round magazine. Yet it has been one of the most effective close-quarters military defensive weapons in modern warfare. By its very definition and design, it is also one of the best self-defense weapons ever invented. And yet it is a weapon of war, unaddressed. Hold onto your wheel guns.
As a humorous sidebar, it's interesting to note that during World War II German officers were issued Browning Hi-Power 9mm automatics, invented by the same John Browning who invented the Colt 45 as an independent contractor to Sam Colt until they had a falling out. The inventor went to Fabrique Nationale in Belgium. The irony: one man inventing exclusive weapons of war for both sides at the same time in the same theater of war. Stunning irony.
Possibly the only good thing about Obama's recent legislation is a heavier funding for mental health. But it's only lip service. The amount allocated, when spread out over the country, will be minuscule for each state, county, city, school system, you get the idea. Then there will be the historical and natural governmental tendency to centralize expenditures in major population centers. That would seem logical, except U.S. mass murders involving weapons of war don't seem to be occurring in metropolitan areas, so this will be wasted money and effort as well.
There is the fear of HIPPA violations with this new legislation; the coercing of doctors into asking each patient what kinds of guns they have at home and then "reporting in." The chance or opportunity for misusing shared privileged information between all agencies of government is a given. This is too much exposure for identity theft, defamation and unwarranted disclosure without permission.
Obama had to make these executive orders. He couldn't get gun legislation passed in his first term while most of the House and Senate members were card carrying concealed permit holders. When this failed, he directed his State Department lap-dog to go behind congress' back and pony-up for gun reform utilizing the United Nations. Remember, this is the same woman who four years earlier during the primary campaign, said Obama's "uplifting rhetoric is empty. "Slick Hillary? This had no chance of working either because there was no likelihood 50 states would ratify the measure. Now, Obama's last chance came, serendipitously, a month after Sandy Hook. He will go door-to-door to cram it down our throats, but only because they have, maturely, seen the writin' on the wall and passage will not be easy.
The biggest problem with all of this is history. In viewing populations on a macro-scale, tiny inputs of change will not produce measurable changes in "historical inertia." But shock and panic can stem public opinion much quicker than solemn thought and logic. Obama knows this, and selective-opportunist that he is, is pushing through his own agenda on the coat-tails of a tragedy. Shameful behavior for a grown-up.
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It is good to have a gun expert such as Mr. Fihn educating many of us about some of the impacts of the President's 23 executive orders issued yesterday with little children as his on-stage guests and witnesses. My immediate initial reaction was that the content of each of the orders must be only a couple of sentences but at least they served to verify that he put in a hard days work.
While Barak fiddled and Congress fumed, we responsible gun-fearing public checked Betsy to be sure both barrels were cleaned and ready for action if Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Algeria, North Korea, Egypt, Libya or any other of our host of friends around the globe came calling. Our local police can take care of the bad boys of the night from the neighborhood and environs.
I expect more from the President of the United States than a staged Hollywood-type production using children as props and framing the Republican party as the enemy. I hope the Democratic party will rise up to the occasion and take a stand to make it clear that we the people are as one, transparent and unafraid of his bluster.
The problem that needs to be addressed is not as threatening and disastrous as he wants us to believe. Coming down off his pedestal long enough to roll up his sleeves and work with appropriate members of Congress could have generated one piece of legislation that could have passed and all of them could move on to other critical matters that have been on the burner too long. Those matters are smokin' hot and the country is going to suffer if those responsible do not stop bickering and do what we are paying them to do. It is time to grow up and start governing.
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Goulburn South Caravan Park - Goulburn NSW
Situated just a stone's throw from the giant merino ram statue, a famous Goulburn icon, the
Goulburn South Caravan Park
reflects the shearing theme with a wonderful outside BBQ shed which is really worth seeing. The owners of the park are very welcoming and helpful. The park has a good variety of cabin accommodation which is ideal for familes and backpackers. Drive-through caravan sites are available and a large area has been set aside for tents and campers. The park has a staggering 112 powered sites so you should have no trouble getting a place. The resident owners are Lianne and Robert. This park has elected not to have their contact details shown on this listing.
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Southern Tablelands
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Goulburn South Caravan Park
Hume Hwy - S
Goulburn NSW 2580
02 4821 3233
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Sat August 23, 2014 at 5:27 PM
Sadly park is in need of lots of work, stayed there recently and they have a new portable type shower /toilet building which is not finished off.the concept of this building is brilliant( unisex) but toilets and showers dont mix when every thing is covered in mud and the water wells around and dont drain properly.I'll give it a miss next time.
Tue January 21, 2014 at 4:30 PM
I only stayed in the front, more long-term area of the park so i cannot really comment on the drive through sites, but they aren't much. The amenities are basic and fairly clean, sites are a firm ground. The caravan park grounds are fairly clean and green, night lighting is good and location is great. While I stayed there were two large dogs roaming around the park without leads, a HUGE danger to other pets or small children, hence the one star. Unfortunately this is the only "dog friendly" caravan park in Goulburn.
Wed February 13, 2013 at 5:14 PM
Ive been staying at this park for around 4 months with work, And I now feel capable of writing A comprehensive and accurate review. First of all I would like to say the the park has undergone A change of ownership and is now managed by Southern Cross Family Parks. The park before this change was In an absolutely disgusting state. Therefore any reviews before late 2012 should be ignored. The park has cleaned up a lot, And more improvements are on the way.
Location – I think the location of the park is the biggest drawcard. Its only A 5 minute walk or less, Along a path to the Big Merino Service station, Multiple food shops (Curry In a hurry, Kebabs,Mcdonalds, And The Trappers Goulburn bakery) Its also about a 10 minute walk to the Black Sheep Irish pub, serving irish beers and meals. Also, Its very easy to get to from the goulburn turn off.
Sites – There are two different areas of sites, One for people who are staying for more than A week or so, And then an area for short-stayers. The long-term area is right next to the old-hume Highway witch is quite busy during a day and early night, But after that it isnt too bad. Although If you arent used to Highway noise you may have some trouble. These sites are NOT SLABS, the sites are on fairly compact dirt and rock. They're fairly even And We havent had any problems with rains. These sites are also close to the toilet block witch I will talk about a bit later on. Both areas are fairly well lit, And have power and town water. The Short-term area composes of about 20 sites, all slabs, Well lit, And close to amenities.
Amenities – There are two seperate bathroom blocks, And a seperate Laundry. First the Toilet block in the long-term area. It consist of 3 showers two toilets, And the female Bathroom also has a bathtub. They are cleaned every morning, but at different times everyday, So you never know when they will be cleaned. Ive found that they get dirty fairly easily, And only shortly after cleaning can they become in a filthy state. Escpecially if its raining or wet, The floor will become covered in mud. Quite often the male toilets smell pretty bad, And obviosly people dont know how to use a toilet brush. Sadly the toilets are not key-locked, meaning anyone can come in and use them. I feel that if they were locked by key, they would be In a lot better state. The other toilet block is round about the same, But dirtier. Ive been there and struggled to find A clean toilet out of about 12, And its not just sometimes its every-day. I find it neccasery to repeat that if the toilets were key-locked this wouldnt be the case. As for the laundry its pretty standard, and multiple clothes-lines are provided.
In conclusion I think About A 3/5 star rating is fair. The managers are reasonably friendly, the park is safe, amenities are fair, and its the only dog friendly park in goulburn.
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... bush babies. We also had some great signings of rhino, who didn't want to move off the road, hyena and more hippo! It was really amazing to go out at night and see all the eyes flashing at you through the spotlight. Lastly, we had to get back to our lodge. Julian, our guide, was there to pick us up. He had been really excited about doing a game drive of his own on the way back to camp. We were out to see if we could find one of their leopard. ...
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... South Africa! We drive through the gate and head toward camp, driving slowly as it is game area. We pass a car pulled up on the side of the road, a typical sign that they have spotted something and ask them what they see. Two Cheetah that have Just moved behind the bushes. They had been sitting at the side of the road for the last 20 minutes, but just got up and moved out of sight. The car drives on, but we are not ready to give up yet. We reverse ...
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... so the men cooked a braai for dinner. After we had eaten we were sitting on the verandah when a hyena walked past the braai and across our camp within ten feet of us! We heard a rustling in the undergrowth and thought it was probably warthog. But it was two bush pigs who then ran past us, none of us had seen bush pig before, Bed early as the electricity is switched off in the camp at ten o'clock The sound of hyena was heard all ...
Full Day Safari
An early morning chilly start with a hours drive to Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve. The gates opened at 6 and we were on our way to look for the park wildlife. In the distance a black rhino, a rare sighting in this park. Then giraffes, wort hogs, all sorts of antelope, white rhinos, wildebeests, buffalo, birds and an elephant. The scenery was varied, some areas recently burnt ready for the raining season for the new grass to ...
... yogurt-like stuff, cereal, coffee, juice, tea, croissants and other pastries, sausage, bacon, tomatoes, beans, and potatoes as well as an egg station. Dad and I got ham tomato and cheese omelettes. We returned to the tent after breakfast only to find a larger heard of zebra including two very young zebras outside our tent! We approached slowly and realized that they are not very afraid. It was so cool. The heat of the day was approaching so they were hanging out under a ...