Stuff you have made today

[Justme]

Tried splitting a log with the chainsaw today, but it's too puny to really go a good job (Stihl MS170). Had to use wedges for the final split, then I evened it out with the axe, and finally the electric planer.

You need a ripping chain.

 

[daedalusminos]

Time to bottle the elderberry wine...

 

[qwakers]

made wall taller.

just the steelwork to go in and the floor to pour...

 

[Dr.Al]

A fox foxer, to outfox the local foxes.

Made out of whatever I could find around the place, hence the unorthodox latch. It's bolted to the wall now as well as they managed to drag the previous incarnation (the bottom part of this with a luggage strap holding the food waste bin in) into the garden and thrash it around until the luggage strap came undone.

Your move, Mr Fox

 

[Radar 3]

Time to bottle the elderberry wine...
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What a waste putting it in a bottle. Straight down my throat would be better!!!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Your move, Mr Fox

 

[Blue Chips]

A fox foxer, to outfox the local foxes.
Made out of whatever I could find around the place, hence the unorthodox latch. It's bolted to the wall now as well as they managed to drag the previous incarnation (the bottom part of this with a luggage strap holding the food waste bin in) into the garden and thrash it around until the luggage strap came undone.

Good show. That should keep the foxes out...at least until they've completed a correspondence course in how to open latches...taught by raccoons, of course.

 

[Radar 3]

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Looks like my misses on a good day.

 

[Mick Annick]

Not exactly made today, but installation largely completed, bar paint and tidying up the mastic - new doors for my workshop. With what I’ve learned making these the second pair should be a lot quicker.

 

[northwest]

Finished off the tool holder thing for tightening up the collets. Something I hadn't realised is I can just sit it on the table with the bar in the T slot and use it right on the Mill.

 

[Dr.Al]

Good show. That should keep the foxes out...at least until they've completed a correspondence course in how to open latches...taught by raccoons, of course.

After they figured out how to lift the locking handle of the food waste bin to open it, I started with a simple wooden open-top box to stop the handle from lifting and hence the lid opening. That fixed it for a few days but they soon worked out they could lift the food waste bin out of the wooden box, so I added a hinged bit of 2 by 1 wood over the top with a simple cabinet latch (as I had one - one of these).

It took them about a week to work out how to undo that latch, flip the hinged bit of wood over and pull the food waste bin out of the box. I then added the buckled lashing strap around the whole lot to stop them getting the food waste bin out even if they undid the latch. That lasted a few months, but last night they finally figured out that if they lifted the entire wooden box with food waste bin into the garden and thrash it around until the steel buckle on the lashing strap loosened and then they could undo everything else.

Hopefully with the shacked latch and the wooden box being bolted to the wall, they won't overcome this one!

 

[northwest]

Hopefully with the shacked latch and the wooden box being bolted to the wall, they won't overcome this one!

LMAO!

 

[Kram]

Lumpy red poo.
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Had a close look today, it was rougher than the surface of the moon but with pinholes in every lump. I wet sanded with 240 and 400 back to primer.

I am quite happy with the result. 1mm tip in the gf3 with 9% thinners.

 

[Prajna]

After they figured out how to lift the locking handle of the food waste bin to open it, I started with a simple wooden open-top box to stop the handle from lifting and hence the lid opening. That fixed it for a few days but they soon worked out they could lift the food waste bin out of the wooden box, so I added a hinged bit of 2 by 1 wood over the top with a simple cabinet latch (as I had one - one of these).

It took them about a week to work out how to undo that latch, flip the hinged bit of wood over and pull the food waste bin out of the box. I then added the buckled lashing strap around the whole lot to stop them getting the food waste bin out even if they undid the latch. That lasted a few months, but last night they finally figured out that if they lifted the entire wooden box with food waste bin into the garden and thrash it around until the steel buckle on the lashing strap loosened and then they could undo everything else.

Hopefully with the shacked latch and the wooden box being bolted to the wall, they won't overcome this one!

Are you sure they're really foxes and not bears or something?

 

[Hitch]

Got the shepherds hut kitchen unit painted, and the rustic oak worktop fitted today. Need to get some hardware next. Plus a coat rack from yesterday that's waiting to be put up

 

[W.olly]

Yesterdays job was finish the gantry, added side plates since i widened it and a few lengths of 50x5 for the trolley to run on. And all good ready for the lifting out the engines and then the boat off the trailer. happy days.
I lost motivation for everything inc life i think for last month or so but now feel it coming back to me to crack on a get this boat sorted

 

[Barking Mat]

I lost motivation for everything inc life i think for last month or so but now feel it coming back to me to crack on.

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Yep, totally agree, better as of a week ago, maybe it's the sun coming out?

Looking good.

 

[Dr.Al]

Are you sure they're really foxes and not bears or something?

I'm fairly sure they're not bears (I don't think there are many of them in Gloucestershire!), but I don't know that they are foxes. There are definitely foxes and badgers in the area behind our house, so it's almost certainly one of those; foxes just seemed more likely to me. I've finally bitten the bullet and ordered a camera trap for the garden, so when that arrives I might get a better idea!

 

[MysterG]

Further to this post today MrsG and I manoeuvred the concrete planter into position. It's heavier than it looks, took 3 of us to lift it out of the back of my truck when I brought it home.

Didn't start taking pictures early enough. Basically it was already on a rough trolley, so we wheeled it down the garden.
Shoved it up a couple of scaffold planks, resting over a saw horse, which pivoted over onto another saw horse to leave it in a position the same height and next to the top of the column/plinth.
Then a length of timber through 2 ratchet straps allowed us to shoulder it into position.
All in all it went very well for a weakling with a dodgy back and his wife.

 

[Barking Mat]

Further to this post today MrsG and I manoeuvred the concrete planter into position. It's heavier than it looks, took 3 of us to lift it out of the back of my truck when I brought it home.

Didn't start taking pictures early enough. Basically it was already on a rough trolley, so we wheeled it down the garden.
Shoved it up a couple of scaffold planks, resting over a saw horse, which pivoted over onto another saw horse to leave it in a position the same height and next to the top of the column/plinth.
Then a length of timber through 2 ratchet straps allowed us to shoulder it into position.
All in all it went very well for a weakling with a dodgy back and his wife.

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Sure it's not some Aztec sacrificial thing?