Stuff you have made today

[Kram]

Rain has stopped play. Just about ready for welding but it would have been much quicker to order tube from brundle and make it from scratch

I couldnt find ant narrow shelving, but the effort I could have saved, if it also had the bits punched out for 760mm...

 

[Munkul]

Finished my site tote tray/box/holding vessel

 

[Country Joe]

Finished my site tote tray/box/holding vessel
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Very nice!
CJ

 

[Barking Mat]

@8ob I was just saying I've not had an omelette in ages, earlier...

 

[Fraserb]

Made a seed bed for next years crop of osr, rain was about and couldn't risk it getting wet between plough and drill.

 

[Tom O]

That's a false hood Popeye spread around town.

See there is a reason he eats spinach!

 

[nickk]

Made a seed bed for next years crop of osr, rain was about and couldn't risk it getting wet between plough and drill.

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Good size plough there,must be quick round the acres.

 

[Fraserb]

Good size plough there,must be quick round the acres.

Yeah can fairly cover the ground, 3.85m a pass if i can run full width. Cover ground even faster when I've the 5 furrow there as well.

 

[Olderisbetter]

Ended up making a kitchen sink cabinet from bits due to someone not reporting a leak that we t on for weeks, it killed the chip board and sent the wall black.

 

[badabec]

Made a seed bed for next years crop of osr, rain was about and couldn't risk it getting wet between plough and drill.

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Hardly any OSR in Essex these days, can't use the insecticides any more. Has been replaced with 'field beans' and sugar beet.
My house backs onto a 110 acre field. When I first moved in, 40 years ago, it took three days to combine. He now does it in about 6 or 7 hours. I can also remember when planting potatoes, one poor sod had to sit on the back, manually dropping in a potato if the machine had a hiccup. The farmer, Jim Padfield uses Fendt tractors. His son's company, Padco Engineering Ltd, make potato lifting machines and de-stoners. http://padcouk.com/

Sorry, off topic

 

[Dr.Al]

Today I (almost) finished making a bird box. I made it more for practising techniques (mostly power tool ones this time) than because we particularly needed a bird box, hence the over-done joinery and the possibly unnecessary roof covering.

Made from oak (joined from narrow bits into wider bits) with the roof coated in some lead flashing that came off my roof a few years ago and which I battered flat and then hit repeatedly with a ball peen hammer to give it a dappled appearance. The roof (in three pieces) is currently only held on with gravity as I haven't decided how I'll attach it yet. For scale, the hole is sparrow sized (32 mm) and the fingers of the joints are 9 mm.

The lead still needs trimming at the back and fixing in some way yet to be determined.

The roof has a couple of blocks of wood spaced to match the internal dimensions of the bird box and is held on with a single stainless screw from behind so it can be taken off for cleaning if/when required:

 

[Johnnybravo]

Twenty 75mm holes , 35mm deep through En3b blanks in less than 20 minutes. Still more to be had. Reckon I can get it down to around 30 seconds per hole on the other cnc lathe

 

[Kram]

What tool are you using for the holes?

 

[Johnnybravo]

What tool are you using for the holes?

Home made core drill, wcmx inserts

 

[Kram]

Nothing. All day, soaked 3 times. Just a mess and lots of pigeon ****

 

[AndersK]

When cutting gets slow and sparks fly you know it's time for a new blade

 

[selectedgrub]

I fix this plate to stand.

 

[mrsbruce]

Bit of an update on my attempt at stopping my garden from drowning under everyone’s else’s patio water run off.

(Touch wood) so far, it works. I still have a few other areas of water diverting to work on, but getting this bit done has really cheered me up no end. (Same picture, so you know what I’m wittering about).

Only other update is that a neighbourhood cat is pooing on the gravel. Obviously overexcited at the giant cat litter tray I have kindly built them.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Bit of an update on my attempt at stopping my garden from drowning under everyone’s else’s patio water run off.

(Touch wood) so far, it works. I still have a few other areas of water diverting to work on, but getting this bit done has really cheered me up no end. (Same picture, so you know what I’m wittering about).

Only other update is that a neighbourhood cat is pooing on the gravel. Obviously overexcited at the giant cat litter tray I have kindly built them.

Moth balls @mrsbruce

Yes Balls to you.

Get some moth balls crush 2 up. Place one crushed up in the new litter box.

The other in their travel route to and from.

Failing that, claymores. Not the short sword.

 

[Shox Dr]

Moth balls @mrsbruce

Yes Balls to you.

Get some moth balls crush 2 up. Place one crushed up in the new litter box.

The other in their travel route to and from.

Failing that, claymores. Not the short sword.

Do they work, now Naphthalene is banned