Stuff you have made today

bigegg · Aug 15, 2022

northwest said:
Absolutely lovely man, very fragile grip on reality.

I always took it to mean: if you want to be considered "the best", you have to do the jobs other people don't even consider.

There are worse maxims to live your life by.

northwest · Aug 15, 2022

bigegg said:
I always took it to mean: if you want to be considered "the best", you have to do the jobs other people don't even consider.

There are worse maxims to live your life by.

That is a good interpretation.

The_Yellow_Ardvark · Aug 15, 2022

northwest said:
Absolutely lovely man, very fragile grip on reality.

Plus he made terrible coffee.
The palnts in the green house will eat flesh and the pot belly pig farts.

Nice man.

Red'n'Black · Aug 15, 2022

sako243 said:
Could be worse a friend in North Wales sent me this
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We had the fire brigade out to the field behind us a couple of months ago, telehandler caught fire. Good job it wasn't more recently or the whole field (and possibly our house) would have gone up

RichardM · Aug 15, 2022

Not so much made as altered:

Turned 10mm of threads off two bolts:

and put a 1/4 bsf thread on each.

Just so they would stick out of the Tom Senior column top and I can mount a plate to take a gas strut.
More to follow depending on going camping for a few days

James1979 · Aug 15, 2022

Maker said:
Not a combine but this went up about a mile from me last week.

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Notice a tire is missing, it's sat about 50 feet away in a twisted heap, not sure if it jumped that far or was dragged but lots of people in the village heard it go bang.

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Done well to get the tractor off that.

Maker · Aug 15, 2022

James1979 said:
Done well to get the tractor off that.

Someone on Facebook said the pins were a bit warm. :clapping:

I gather the guy driving it wasn't a farmer and didn't really know what he was doing, the people who usually work on the farm got the tractor away and pulled a bowser over to make a start while the fire brigade were on the way. News sites say an acre of stubble went up, it could have been a lot worse, the field has got to be about 50 acres, and right next to another the same size.

Richiew · Aug 16, 2022

Log store finished bar some creosote. The wife helped me with the roof felt corners. I can't do those.

There'll be a board on the bottom to keep the logs off the floor.

Screwdriver · Aug 16, 2022

Richiew said:
Log store finished bar some creosote. The wife helped me with the roof felt corners. I can't do those.

There'll be a board on the bottom to keep the logs off the floor.

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Haha, looks about as shonky as mine!

Incredibly despite looking like a carbon copy of the above, it has lasted decades!

Richiew · Aug 16, 2022

It's mainly pallet wood and some other bent bits left behind by builders. Shonkiness is part of the charm. I would have gone mad if I tried to keep anything true or square. I lobbed the joiner's square away. It's nice and strong though. I have built two others before and they are still going, not decades old yet though.

magnet · Aug 16, 2022

Richiew said:
It's mainly pallet wood and some other bent bits left behind by builders. Shonkiness is part of the charm. I would have gone mad if I tried to keep anything true or square. I lobbed the joiner's square away. It's nice and strong though. I have built two others before and they are still going, not decades old yet though.

iIve made some log stores out of what was lying around too. Im a firm believer in use what youve got

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These are Pigwire and pallet wood

roblane65 · Aug 16, 2022

Today I've made some connections .

no more fly leads on the welders now , on it's own 16 amp breaker , I've still some tidying and wiring to do but the garage is getting there now .

the double socket at the garage door is wired on a single 2.5 leg with the alarm fused of that, so I'll add another double by the commando socket and a return leg .The lighting is on some 1.0 so I'll use that for the alarm on a 6amp breaker and run a new 1.5 for the lights .