I started this thread with a secondary account by accident. For reference, here is the first bench I made, it was too heavy to move around the garden, and, I added a second platform at the back of bench mk. II, so that people could move further away from the heat of the fire I built.
The fire in the pic below, it's a pallet fire, and in the pic is in an unfinished state.
The sides are leaking fire, I have that sorted now.
Cheers Ashley, its just about barely...... not legal at all. I'm friendly with my neighbours, sooo, they arent going to call the fire brigade around.
I'll post some more pics of of the thingy, I have to weld the sides on tomo (3mm sheet) as I'm having friends around at the weekend.
I made this, and the bench, with steel I got from work, its a large industrial plant and they often dump steel. So its free, but the downside is (I shouldnt complain) that you have to do a lot of cutting and cleaning and grinding that you would not have to do with fresh steel. But hey, its free!
lol yes, I try to communicate the emergency to the local police. Has been a while indeed. Hoping to be more productive now that work have stepped down their demands. Spent the whole winter upskilling. My energy levels for physical work were in the floor, but I'm starting to pick back up again now.
Hi Arther, I bought a range rover p38, turned out to be a disaster, so then I bought a nice P38, and I'm actually driving that, as opposed to a garden ornament like the others. I'm liking it. They have issues, preventive maintenance is necessary, but, they are nice in traffic. Very comfortable.
None. No rust. One owner car, serviced by Land Rover until I bought it, 120,000 miles.
I'm going to make ma hammerhead bumper for it. The stock bumper is steel, with a layer of plastic covering it.
I'm thinking I'll keep it looking like the stock bumper but make it solid steel, more or less. Have not figured out how to do that yet. I can buy bumpers, I have three right now. I might buy a few more and just weld them on top of each other in layers? Then brace that, should be good for hopping off things.
Hi there Shedendman, yes, they left me with a good opinion of the company so I bought a second one, a little arc welder that I use all the time now. Lovely little thing, easy to lug around.
so i did a ton of braceng but tried to keep it low profile cos I dont want to interrupt the lines. Now its a solid object, heavy people can jump around on it. I think... thats the idea anyway.