Anyone want a solar fountain?

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I have a four-bowl solar fountain that’s going spare if anyone wants it.

I wanted one for years, bought this even before I moved to a place that had a garden (it was about a year before I got it out of the box! and that was at my garden in DITO, which is where the pic was taken – only one I have of it in action).

But it’s no use here; I only get about an hour’s direct sunlight every day (well, not every day!) and the solar panel refuses to work in anything but direct sunlight. Besides, I don’t have the space for it now I’ve got plant tables and a lot more ground plant pots.

For the past year it’s been stacked under a table. I don’t know what made me think of it now, I’ve certainly not thought much about it in the last year. It’s doing me no good there, so it might as well do someone else some good somewhere else.

It got iced up last year when it snowed; it took me a while to remember that I had it, and to get the ice out. I’ve not had it erected since, so I can’t promise that the icing didn’t have any effect – the manual said that the bowls were frost proof but it also said to avoid frosts – I queried this and was told that water freezing in the pipe might not do it much good. But even if the pipe does need replacing, that won’t cost as much as buying a whole fountain.

If anyone’s willing to find out, it yours for the asking. I’ve got the manual in PDF format: I could print it or email it.

It’d need to be picked up from East London – doubt I could afford the postage costs even if I could box it safely and lift it!

I did think of posting this as a question, but it’s not exactly a gardening question, and anything else would be deleted, it says.

Could we have a “swopshop” section? There must be other people with stuff to give away, and others who could find exactly what they’ve been looking for for years.

Of course, I could put the fountain on Freecycle, which is exactly such a swopshop, but I thought, garden ornament, go to the gardeners first!

• 20 Dec, 2011
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