How many Pros here ?

[slim_boy_fat]

but I don't cut steel before 9 am as id upset my neighbors I think

That's proper consideration there!!

 

[Mick Annick]

Oi!

No milkman , paperboy,petrol station or shops in Normandy and its over five miles to the nearest KFC. What more do you want

Bob

Surrey, I can’t think of anywhere less ‘out in the sticks’ apart from Kensington!

Pull the other one Bob

 

[8ob]

Surrey, I can’t think of anywhere less ‘out in the sticks’ apart from Kensington!

Pull the other one Bob

Titter ye much Mick, the road to my mates place around the corner and a job, both in Surrey

This one is a mile long

And a job I was doing not far from here.

 

[Mick Annick]

Titter ye much Mick, the road to my mates place around the corner and a job, both in Surrey

This one is a mile long

And a job I was doing not far from here.

Oh Bob, what are we to do with you?

First one is a few hundred yards from the A3XXX, if you stood on a box you could see that from the cafe, that ain’t out in the sticks, nice try though!

Can’t place the second one, but typical Surrey woodland, done a few trials in places like that; keep trying.

 

[addjunkie]

Oh Bob, what are we to do with you?

First one is a few hundred yards from the A3XXX, if you stood on a box you could see that from the cafe, that ain’t out in the sticks, nice try though!

Can’t place the second one, but typical Surrey woodland, done a few trials in places like that; keep trying.

Out in the sticks is relative though. Many folk consider a village of say 1000 in the sticks, being relative to city living with 450000 folk.
Give me the mile long bumpy pot holed drive any day

 

[8ob]

Oh Bob, what are we to do with you?

Dont know what you want from me Mick, below is the local bus

 

[Mick Annick]

Dont know what you want from me Mick, below is the local bus

Alright, you’re in the sticks...

 

[Mid Wales welder]

I was a professional welder/fabricator and now a welding inspector/NDT technician.

Just have an rtech ac/dc digital tig at home with plenty of power/hand tools. Then at work we have have a Miller dynasty 280 DX and a migmatic 380 dx for training/certifying welders.
Although I get to use pretty much every machine going on my travels around to different companies which is fun

 

[Lordspectre]

Professional welder for years but no welder at home...anything I need doing I just bring to my factory

 

[Ged93]

My ppe

 

[highseas]

My workshop is part hobby, part obsession, part part-time paying work

- 8ft 1/4" guillotine
- 2m 35T press brake
- 4ft powered pyramid rolls
- 250mm capacity mitre bandsaw
- MT3 gear head drill
- Jancy 4hp 3" belt grinder
- Miller XMT304 multiprocess
- Lorch HandyTig 200 watercooled
- 2.5 x 1.25m welding jig table
- IFL 40amp plasma

We have another pillar drill, several welders and tables etc in the workshop belonging to my brother. Between us, it's a pretty well equipped shop. My next big purchase is a lathe, it's the major weakness in our capabilities atm.

NOTE to self...next time i need something bending or rolling ask you very nicely .
i think i may have asked you before but your surname wouldent be messenger would it? i know a couple of very capable brothers your way...

 

[Munkul]

NOTE to self...next time i need something bending or rolling ask you very nicely .
i think i may have asked you before but your surname wouldent be messenger would it? i know a couple of very capable brothers your way...

Haha, no worries, come on down
Nah, I know the Messengers though. Lewis seems to have a knack for growing a business, he started out as a one man band with a tractor. Johnny, not sure what he's up to these days, he was always working in his garage though.

 

[highseas]

Haha, no worries, come on down
Nah, I know the Messengers though. Lewis seems to have a knack for growing a business, he started out as a one man band with a tractor. Johnny, not sure what he's up to these days, he was always working in his garage though.

yeh lewis is a good lad, ive a lot of time for him and done a bit of work with him,a bit rough like but gets a job done haha
i got a little white van of jonno that used more oil the diesle

 

[ronan]

Fitter/turner by trade, was dire at welding when serving my time, so decided rather than throw in the towel, i'd do a few evening courses at tech and get a bit of help at work. Typical of me i didn't know when to stop and kept going til i got to asme ix etc. But really i love machining.

Lathe
Mill
Surface grinder (wip)
AC/DC tig plant.

 

[Arc Tourist]

My ppe

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This was mine back in the mid 1980's, but I like your wheelie better.

 

[Brad93]

My profession is doing the horrible jobs no one else wants to do.

If it’s wet, high, cold, windy or is standing in crap I’ve probably welded it.

Have;

CNC Plasma Table
65A Hypertherm
Lorch Welders:
330A Twin Pulse Mig
160A Stick Welder
200A AC/DC TIG
Harrison 140 Lathe
Elliott Mill (Currently being overhauled)
Archdale Mill
2ft Edwards Box Pan Folder
6ft Edwards Folder
8ft Morgan Guillotine
60T Kingsland Punch
Startrite EFI Gearhead Drill
2ft Edwards Slip Rolls
Big Powered Ring Rolls (not as big as Clives!)
Imet 280mm Bandsaw
Straight Track Burner


Looking to get a bigger capacity lathe, ideally with Metric & Imperial threading capability.

Always trying to fine a good pressbrake. Like a Promecam or Amada. CNC backstop would be good. We used to have a Keetona Hydroform which was useful but it wasn’t repeatable, okay for eyeballing but I couldn’t hit the same dimensions again and again.

A surface grinder & perhaps a cylindrical grinder for those once in a blue moon jobs would be a nice addition to the workshop.

The machines are more for repairing our own tools and equipment rather than going after machining work, but there is always something that needs turning etc.

oh and I keep bidding on horizontal borers

 

[Ged93]

This was mine back in the mid 1980's, but I like your wheelie better.

No , that's not me unfortunately in that photo , I got that bike and the clothes but that is a pro rider from Beta factory team.........

I like your picture from 1980's , my father was a dirt rider too ( and still he is ) , he always says that 70-80-90 's were the golden era for offroad ( and in general the gold era for everything , expecially mechanics and carpentry ! Limitless work everywhere ! ) , he got a legendary Maico 250 2 stroke , my uncle got the beast Maico 440 2 stroke

 

[Ged93]

oh and I keep bidding on horizontal borers

Borers ? Yesterday I was visiting a new customer , he has installed a brand new SORALUCE horizontal boring/milling machine , 16 meters with rotary table and some special heads $$$$$$$$$$$

One of my dream machines ... we need a small one too to increase our work , we never say never .....

 

[Mick Annick]

No , that's not me unfortunately in that photo , I got that bike and the clothes but that is a pro rider from Beta factory team.........

I like your picture from 1980's , my father was a dirt rider too ( and still he is ) , he always says that 70-80-90 's were the golden era for offroad ( and in general the gold era for everything , expecially mechanics and carpentry ! Limitless work everywhere ! ) , he got a legendary Maico 250 2 stroke , my uncle got the beast Maico 440 2 stroke

He he, I get to post this again...

 

[Arc Tourist]

The 1970's > the 90's were good times for me also. I was young and daring enough to live life on the edge. My bike in the photo was a Honda XR200R, not as fast flat out as the two-strokes, but a fantastic tractor in hill climbs; six speeds and the weight to power ratio were perfect for me.