You guys can come help me. I still have 20 8' sections of fence to finish... that zig-zags between a line of trees. Although it's rained for 4 weeks now and the mosquitoes here can bite through clothing. Tree culling is getting bad here too. The Californian that moved in next door had two 3' wide pines removed last week. It's a small consolation that I know he paid three times too much to have it done.
Is one of you guys the chap who started fencing as a job? I've still got a 6' trellis to put up in our garden. The procrastination is real.
I'm reposting the image of the gate posts I bought a few weeks back (before we moved house) as they have since been installed at the entrance to the driveway and the gate is finished and fully functional. The posts perhaps look small but they are 6x6 monsters and 1.8m tall. I secured them using three 150mm M10 concrete bolts on each side. Thankfully one side of the opening is a pillar made of concrete blocks so it was very straight and plum, however the house side was more challenging and I needed to do a lot of packing to get the post to sit right. After that, it was relatively straightforward to build the gate and hang it on heavy duty hinges. I'd guess that each gate weighs maybe 50kg. It's a lot of timber! (I should also mention that my dad gave me a hand when it was time to mount the gate frames and fix all the slats. He also helped with the Cuprinol too!) I used some leftovers to build temporary steps on one of the garden banks. Top of the steps is where the shed will go when it gets delivered, and eventually I'd like to have stone steps... once we decide how to cope with the sloping soil.
Mate, how much did those 6x6 6' posts weigh each? I've got 3x3s and they're heavy enough to be annoying. In my own world, I discovered that brass wire is magic for rust removal: I'm now excitedly looking through the sheds and tool chests for rusty things to clean up. I just wish I'd known about this at the start of my, to date, 14 years of motorcycling and DIYing in the British climate. Needless to say I am also protecting all of these with GT85, WD40 or ACF-50, as appropriate. Exhausts are a lost cause, though, they just burn the protective oils right off. But for steel tools like hammers, chisels, drills, etc. this is an absolute game changer.
On your tools, you want some of this, I use it on all my cast iron bits. https://www.axminstertools.com/axminster-machine-wax-ax1010212
I don't know but they were heavy as hell. The uncut post (3.6m) had to be taken to my car by forklift
Thought I'd give a update to this I've made some progress. I now have power & lighting and am in the process of sorting out tool storage. Still haven't got around to building my "proper" workbench yet though I do have one but is covered in junk. Shed by Gavin Cruickshank, on Flickr Shed ii by Gavin Cruickshank, on Flickr Shed iii by Gavin Cruickshank, on Flickr
I need to start wallmounting my stuff. Storing all the tools and accessories in boxes and chests is just filling up the house, it's unsustainable. I want to be like the Gran Torino guy one day (owner of a massive wall of neatly organised tools, I mean, not, like...hugely racist against Asians.) Meanwhile, though, I made a planter box out of more of the old shed floor: And I need to sand and treat it with this stuff: ****'s expensive, this can was like £40. Hopefully it doesn't leech into the vegetables I grow in here and poison us.
Not DIY but very cool. It's even remotely operated PXL_20210703_101622867 by Spraduke posted 3 Jul 2021 at 12:55
Spider-crane, Spider-crane, does whatever a Spider-crane does, lifts big loads, remote control, here comes the Spider-crane. Here comes the Spider-craaaaaaane!
4 of these to go in the room where my motorbike is stored, most likly will get another few for the cellar
Got a first prize in my local village show for A functional object made from all recycled materials. My wife asked me to make her a bug hotel and then decided I ought to enter it in the show. Bug Hotel by CrapBag posted 28 Aug 2021 at 16:45
Anyone know where to get a small pot of wax, I need to wax three photo frames I have made/making. I dont want to spend £12 on a tin thats going to sit in a cupboard forever more like my last tin did until it rusted away. I'd prefer if it darkened the wood a little but not essential. Can I just use beeswax? Frame by CrapBag posted 12 Sep 2021 at 23:23
You can make a beeswax polish by mixing solid beeswax and mineral oil (or olive oil, no really) about 35% wax 65% oil, it won't alter the colour of the wood much though.
