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Hi Pete, yes they would work (they cannot be seen) but unfortunately the ones I found were 1000mm wide and I can only have 800mm (for access) or 900mm (once in position).

Thanks for the suggestions - I am still looking at options for taps/connectors but I have just located these butts : Harcostar 227L Water Butt Barrel They apparently have two drilled threaded holes in each. Sounds like the basis of a solution. I will likely order one to examine next payday...

I collect walking sticks. I make them, and cannot bear to part with them. Each represents another part of my life....... About ten now. Who needs ten walking sticks?

Lots of useful stuff there - thanks for all the replies. I would prefer the t-connector route to drilling an extra hole per butt, but am not sure where to get the t-connectors from. The butts will be stood on concrete with the accessible one as a dip tank and the pipe connected to a tap-like...

I am not sure that I was born a carver - I have just been trying for a long time. If you want to do it just make a start.

One large tank would be easiest - but maximum width of access is 800mm. Some butts are built with reinforced positions for an extra connection. I can see me getting at least four to start. And expanding to six or even eight. I have two low-quality butts at present - by not connected together...

I have a narrow, fairly innaccessible space into which I could put several water butts to store rainwater. As I would only be able easily to access the end one, I would like these to fill and empty as a group. That means a low-level connection between all water butts. Has anyone done this? I...

Does leylandii have nice grain? Maybe I will keep my eyes open for some..... I have met some candidate donor trees in my life ;).

T That peice really did require skill and vision. Lovely. Not the sort of thing that I would attempt - I use hand tools almost entirely these days and that would call for a lathe. And accuracy.

Thanks all for your kind words. I am slowly improving my skills - not least as a consequence of help from this forum. This stick was the first time that I used a hewing axe, and the first time I used scrapers. Phill

I know what I want to carve. The wood often has other ideas. We argue. I have hammers and axes, the wood has grain, knots, splits, and rot. Like this carving - I wanted a raven. I didn't get one. I got a bird at least, and thank god its not a pigeon.

Spoiler alert - answer below it is indeed yew. The lower part of the stick shows more traditional colour. The upper part - especially the wings - are heavily darkened by mould.

Thanks kinverkid appreciate the kind words, but no, not hawthorn. Should I let folks guess a while? The timber is its natural colour - it has not been stained. Scraped, sanded and lightly waxed (colourless wax). I carved a stick in hawthorn some time ago and it is a lot whiter with far less...

Thanks - I try. In this case I was delighted by the spalting that the rot brought with it.

Did you follow this to the bottom?

I almost didnt use it - but it is almost my last piece from a source I can no longer access. I thought 'might as well - dont want to waste it'. I dug out the rot, filled the cracks with milliput, and spent a bit of time tidying it up. The shaft is a little bent - but not too much so. I kept...

That could seem to be a deception - people who believe that the problem is being addressed are less likely to modify their behaviour or call for change. How much of the deception is cynically planned for that purpose? I have no idea....

I think that there is now a specific exemption for musical instruments. Don't take my word for it though.