New Timber Storage Created and Tidied Up Old Pile of Timber
Today, we finished off creating the new Covered Storage Area while it was raining gentle showers all day. A chest high line of “arms”, six of them, are now mounted…
Odd Jobs and New Timber Protected Storage Area
Today, in the morning, we did some odd jobs that were left over from the weekend, tidied up the workshop, repaired a puncture in one of our tyres for our…
Oak Timber Work Continues
This afternoon, the task of passing our Oak Timber through our Planer Machine to produce one straight flat edge continues. The remaining pieces (about 20 lengths) were completed. Then the…
A Spring Clean inside Building
This afternoon, we decided that it was finally time to do a good sweep of the concrete surface inside our building. There is quite a lot of saw dust, wood…
Sun Shield Over Corridor Created and Mounted
Yesterday and today, we did the job of covering our long skylight running down the whole width and length of our Corridor in our temporary living quarters. Each year, we…
Planer Machine Serviced and Repaired
Yesterday and today, the planer machine was serviced, and some repairs were performed. We had been having trouble with the power supply while using the machine and occasionally, we would…
Final Five Inside Corners Trimmed!
The last task of the day was to adapt our template that we have been using to trim the top of our cement boards on our walls so we can…
Planer Machine Has Been Extended
Today we finished off the task of building two extension tables for our Planer Machine. On Saturday, we had our double thickness OSB boards all set from the gluing and…
Planer Machine Grows Longer!
Today, we settled down to analyse the planer machine to learn what is happening when we try to plane larger pieces of Oak timber and why it is coming out…
Oak Timber Continues Being regularised
The task continues today of processing each Oak timber piece to regularised them into flat and straight consistent planks of wood. The smaller widths are now done. But the wider…