tflnemesis
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Hi All,
Thought i would share my latest bit of diy...
My next door neighbour had a few days working for a portakabin refurbishment company and bought home a van full of 3"x 2" carcass timber. Full of nails and screws and a few holes, but his lad had nowt to do so spent a day de-nailing and removing the screws. His idea was to build a wendy house for his granddaughter and he had a load of it left over with nowhere to store it so he asked me if i wanted it...
So i now have an 8' workbench built completely out of reclaimed timber. All it cost me was the screws to put it together.
Building the frame.
My work area. I work along the lines of 'I'll tidy up when I am done'
Almost done just got to square up the edge, the skinny bloke in the pic is my youngest you can just see the fat bar steward that is me on the left. It has been 'treated' with a gallon of old engine oil I was saving for just such an occasion and no I don't have a wooden arm that isn't my sleeve....
Today I had a few hours to kill so me and my eldest chopped up some angle and made some brackets to bolt it down to the floor. Here it is bolted down with my usual workspace clutter...
Now I just gotta find someplace to put the big compressor and get the vice cleaned up and mounted, its a record no25 i got for free cos my uncle had been tripping over it in his shed for years. Both bench grinders and the drill are all bolted down, very happy bunny atm. The gazebo covering it all is a 15'x 8' that my next door neighbour dragged out of a skip a couple of years ago and we have across both our gardens, so everything should stay pretty dry. With a 2" thick top its pretty solid for when I have to thump stuff with the big hammer .
Thought i would share my latest bit of diy...
My next door neighbour had a few days working for a portakabin refurbishment company and bought home a van full of 3"x 2" carcass timber. Full of nails and screws and a few holes, but his lad had nowt to do so spent a day de-nailing and removing the screws. His idea was to build a wendy house for his granddaughter and he had a load of it left over with nowhere to store it so he asked me if i wanted it...
So i now have an 8' workbench built completely out of reclaimed timber. All it cost me was the screws to put it together.
Building the frame.
My work area. I work along the lines of 'I'll tidy up when I am done'
Almost done just got to square up the edge, the skinny bloke in the pic is my youngest you can just see the fat bar steward that is me on the left. It has been 'treated' with a gallon of old engine oil I was saving for just such an occasion and no I don't have a wooden arm that isn't my sleeve....
Today I had a few hours to kill so me and my eldest chopped up some angle and made some brackets to bolt it down to the floor. Here it is bolted down with my usual workspace clutter...
Now I just gotta find someplace to put the big compressor and get the vice cleaned up and mounted, its a record no25 i got for free cos my uncle had been tripping over it in his shed for years. Both bench grinders and the drill are all bolted down, very happy bunny atm. The gazebo covering it all is a 15'x 8' that my next door neighbour dragged out of a skip a couple of years ago and we have across both our gardens, so everything should stay pretty dry. With a 2" thick top its pretty solid for when I have to thump stuff with the big hammer .