Stuff you have made today

[slim_boy_fat]

Yes you get to spend 2 weeks with Norbert in his caravan.

Think I'll pass on that one.....

 

[Migmac]

Started this today. Needs a good go with emery cloth and paper to get the file marks removed

 

[Memmeddu]

Started this today. Needs a good go with emery cloth and paper to get the file marks removed

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Knife making cause dependence

 

[Migmac]

Knife making cause dependence

You saying I’m a knife junkie? You could well be right!

 

[Memmeddu]

You saying I’m a knife junkie? You could well be right!

I've made one only and I would make someothers for sure
Just need to find the right materials

 

[Migmac]

I've made one only and I would make someothers for sure
Just need to find the right materials

I’ve wanted to make one for ages. With the lockdown I had no excuse not to, a lot of spare time on my hands. Made a fixed blade first, then I decided to try make a locking knife. Got most of it done, get rid of the file marks, heat treat, put together, shape and fix scales on. Job done!

 

[Memmeddu]

I’ve wanted to make one for ages. With the lockdown I had no excuse not to, a lot of spare time on my hands. Made a fixed blade first, then I decided to try make a locking knife. Got most of it done, get rid of the file marks, heat treat, put together, shape and fix scales on. Job done!

I've made mine from scrap steel , it's not pretty but it works
Now I would like to make an hunting knife
10cm blade single edge, wooden handle , brass finger guard

 

[nickk]

Making 2 dispensary chutes for GP surgeries,stop people going in chatting and coughing,this is the first trial,each has different size windows to fit into,don’t have to be 100% weather proof,as there will be a hood over the windows.

 

[nickk]

Busy lately roof rack for a delicia with 120litre tank! Going for powder coated.

 

[jimbo84]

View attachment 239070 View attachment 239073 View attachment 239074 Busy lately roof rack for a delicia with 120litre tank! Going for powder coated.

That's a fair bit of weight up there.

 

[bigegg]

Almost a great big fire.

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Poles are three one meter long thickwalled tubes welded together by myself 25years ago.
The gauze I had back then was only 1.5 meter high, so I decided since I didn't feel like cutting them by handsaw to put them 1.5 meter into the ground.
Now the conifer hedge died so we decided to put a sort of woven plastic foil (?), to the existing fence, but then 1.8meter high.
First I thougth to pull them out of the ground 30 cm, and made a boom on the back of my tractor. Didn't work because the poles are too stuck.
Plan B was to simply weld a piece of the same tubing I still had in stock(!), on top.
Bit of an experiment to weld with a fifty meter extensioncable, so made one to test the procedure.
The welding went smooth and I am happy, but I set a bit of dry grass on fire, what spread really quick in the direction of the trees 2.5 meter away.
Luckily my son was filling up the pool within shouting distance and came with a bucket of water to save me.
Half a minute later the pine would have been on fire and after that the forest next to it, pheww.
Plain stupid off course, lesson learned.

conifers "died"?

How many times did you feed them with diesel, ammonium sulphamate and glyphosphate before that happened?

 

[bigegg]

A plan. If you look closely, you can spot a 60in x 40in steel welding bench disguised as a "pub table"

 

[Guzrik]

conifers "died"?

How many times did you feed them with diesel, ammonium sulphamate and glyphosphate before that happened?

Nope, I hoped they would last longer then me, but the drougth of last summer did it.
Never again I will plant conifers, what a mess inside when cutting them.
Luckily I have a motor pole chainsaw

so I didn't have to be under them while cutting.
All that is left to do is to pull out the roots with tractor, when my sons exams are done.

 

[Woody.v8]

New clutch and box back in , a bit less to do now.

 

[Wedg1e]

Today I made a start on modifying an old towing eye for a neighbour.

He has a friend who is getting quite bad with Parkinson's disease and this is to be a pin so that he can easily fit /remove one of these to the drawbar of an old ride-on mower which has been sitting abandoned in a shed for a couple of years when he bought a new replacement.

Tell him not to fill it with anything more than fresh air and dreams then. We bought two at work for a pipeline job a few years ago, to save the lads having to hand-carry all the tools down a quarter-mile jetty.
I've rewelded bits of both of them so many times there's more weld than there is parent metal.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Tell him not to fill it with anything more than fresh air and dreams then

He's had it for a year or two, just for hauling garden rubbish/ prunings etc around - nothing very heavy.

 

[Brad93]

One of them where you don’t know if it came with one or if you’ve lost it, but I’ve got two springs and only one top hat. quickly knocked out a replacement from EN24.

 

[bigegg]

Today, I've been sewing...

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Needed to calm down after a friend caused an "incident."

So I found this lump of wood in the bag of fire wood. Too good to burn.



Manufactured from sawn timber and glued.



I let the grain tell me where to draw the lines.



The knot looks like an eye, the shape reminds me of "Glove" from the Yellow Submarine movie.



The Horse head is drinking teak oil like it is going out of fashion.

No. I don't know what I will do with them, yet.
But it was fun making them.

 

[My Old Landy]

I had a play with my new to me wood lathe _ Thanks to @Bladevane it's a brilliant bit of kit

First bit of wood turning in near 30 years!