CarlW
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Gotta love a drill with a smile.
Well’ what you been doing BRO’
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1st week of big brother house(well, garden), fenced one side of garden. This is 4x4" posts, rails and vertical boards 4ft high. Boards overlapped. Every alternative post is a 8ft one dug in to depth of 4ft, the other posts are 6ft ones. This one runs along a public path so had to be a bit fancy(think I might get some customers wanting similar)
Next fence is wont really be seen so its going to be stock netting. Started to dig hole for the first strainer and came to bedrock after about 15". I cant move the location of the hole so today is day 3 at the same hole. Its a case of drilling, chisel and shovel. I am pleased I didn,t quote a price nor have to pay my hourly rate. Hope the next strainer hole is a good dig
Next fence is wont really be seen so its going to be stock netting. Started to dig hole for the first strainer and came to bedrock after about 15". I cant move the location of the hole so today is day 3 at the same hole. Its a case of drilling, chisel and shovel. I am pleased I didn,t quote a price nor have to pay my hourly rate. Hope the next strainer hole is a good dig
WH308
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Gotta love a drill with a smile.
I had given some consideration to filling the smile, but the rest of the table is still perfectly flat, so I’m not sure I would be in a better situation if I had no holes but a less flat table. Plus, I would cry if the bed cracked while welding it. For the most part I’ll use a nippy with it.
CarlW
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I hear you, brother! Personally, if it were me, I would be too scared to weld it.
Am sure it would be fine with some pre-heat and someone more competent than me at welding, but...hard to replace if you warp or crack it...
A bit of braze is another option, but again, too scary for me...
Hornet 6
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Is that the liquid version, or the crayons ?
Because I've seen the crayons left laying around the welding bay for years and still in use.
Neil.
Bavarianbrit
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Renovating my Mats Larsson Swedish army coat ca. 1945, the sheepskin lining had rotted in places so I took it all out and now have sewed an old wool scarf onto the collar to tidy up the image, the rests inner edges will need sewing down, it will still make a good rough canvas coat for high seat sitting. Heavy canvas to get through with hand needles but strangely satisfying to recycle.
Here is one of how they should look.
They run at £300 now but mine was not so good and was a £0.50 fleabay bargain 15 years ago.
BTW it"s the same model that Ed Harris wore as the german sniper in the film "enemy at the gate".
Here is one of how they should look.
They run at £300 now but mine was not so good and was a £0.50 fleabay bargain 15 years ago.
BTW it"s the same model that Ed Harris wore as the german sniper in the film "enemy at the gate".
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CarlW
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Lovely shape!
Freeforester
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Must admit to having had a leisurely forenoon at the 'alchemy' room, with a decent though hardly exceptional hill doe I took last week. For some time I've been curious to quantify the yield v waste. The total of waste is shown:
Most of this I'm sure would be welcomed by my lab, but he's still a bit young, so it'll go out. head, skin, forelegs, all edible offal and scraps find a use/value; I dare say I could watch over the small green and lungs left ( I did have a lady who took these dried for her dogs until recently) and hope for a chance at Reynard, but this passed.
Most of the rest, save some bones unseen here, and 3 1/2lb mince scraps waiting to go through the mincer, which i'll do at the same time with another one I've got to do later this week:
Part of the 'recycling team', lovely rich yolks, folks!
Still, excluding the remainder of the gralloch, the waste here was 270g from a 15kg roe doe, so a little under 2%; waste not, want not!
Most of this I'm sure would be welcomed by my lab, but he's still a bit young, so it'll go out. head, skin, forelegs, all edible offal and scraps find a use/value; I dare say I could watch over the small green and lungs left ( I did have a lady who took these dried for her dogs until recently) and hope for a chance at Reynard, but this passed.
Most of the rest, save some bones unseen here, and 3 1/2lb mince scraps waiting to go through the mincer, which i'll do at the same time with another one I've got to do later this week:
Part of the 'recycling team', lovely rich yolks, folks!
Still, excluding the remainder of the gralloch, the waste here was 270g from a 15kg roe doe, so a little under 2%; waste not, want not!
Pretty quiet here today, after the exertion of yesterday. All the usual farm chores of course, and took a bit of silage out for the deer. Thought they might appreciate it, as the cold North East wind has put a halt on grass growth. They didn't!
Rest of the day spent writing a magazine article, and now sat in front of the fire sewing a patch on my trousers.
Rest of the day spent writing a magazine article, and now sat in front of the fire sewing a patch on my trousers.
Muck heap sifted with the rake and spread on veg patch. Bon fire rounded up and another area cleared up ready for some wild flowers. Some woodland types like primrose, foxglove etc would look nice. Truck load of steel arrived so I can now continue with the paid work. Which seems a shame as I was enjoying doing some of my own things. 
Had to rake a lot of nettle roots out.ended up with a whole 6 tonne dumper full.
Had to rake a lot of nettle roots out.ended up with a whole 6 tonne dumper full.The hedge at the back of our property collapsed in 2014 as the bank in which it sat subsided. The replacement fence used untreated railway sleepers sourced from Poland. There were quite a few left over, and in the intervening years they had been stored rather inconveniently on the lawn. Well, today I nailed two birds with one stone: I re-arranged the sleepers into a wood-store structure that simultaneously cleared the lawn and helped consolidate two discrete log piles in one place:
Was dark when I finished the other night. So here's the patch ready to plant up. Might give it one more rake I'll see?
been back to the day job. Grit blasting and now angle grinding ready to weld tomorrow. Looks like the shut down is over for me.
been back to the day job. Grit blasting and now angle grinding ready to weld tomorrow. Looks like the shut down is over for me.
In theory I've been sowing seeds in the greenhouse and continuing with the digging. And I did get everything sown that needs to be under glass, but following a zero check this morning I seem to have spent quite a lot of time sitting on a swivel chair in the garage shooting wood pigeons out an ash tree in the garden.
The whole place is inundated with pigeons, rooks and jackdaws. I'm doing my bit. Pigeon breast oven roasted on the bone for tea tonight.
The whole place is inundated with pigeons, rooks and jackdaws. I'm doing my bit. Pigeon breast oven roasted on the bone for tea tonight.
Freeforester
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