Created Large Right Angle Framing Tool
We needed a tool to set out the rooms inside the house, as all the walls are right angled we needed something to get long right angled measurements. So we…
Replaced Caterpillar Tracks on mini Digger
We discovered a couple of days ago, at the weekend, that one of the caterpillar tracks had split and ripped half way across. We can see rusty steel wires sticking…
Scorching Machine is Complete
It took another three weeks to finish off tweaking the design of the scorching machine, with many iterative changes as we test and adapt the machine (As usual things take…
Foam Board Slicer Created and Started Putting Insulation into Walls around Entertainment Room
This week, we created a machine to slice up our pile of random insulation sheets (which can be up to 150 mm thick) and started putting them into the walls…
Proceeding with L to N Roof Sections
For our week’s work, we got on with the next three sections, the L, M and N which forms a U shaped inset. We first got all the tile battens…
Slate Cutting tool, Nail Containers and Slate Spacing Guides
Today, following on from Saturday’s work, we designed and built a slate cutting guillotine with supporting stand which has rubbish collection built in. The guillotine sits on top of the…
Rubber Strips for Hips and Ridges Done and Metal Mesh Dispenser Coming Together
We continued with the task of slicing up the wider rolls (four of them) into a little bit narrower width (380mm because we are using narrower slates than we envisaged…
Dispenser and Cutter for Rolls of Rubber membrane
Today, we made a dispenser to hold a roll of rubber membrane (20m long strips 500mm wide wrapped on a cardboard tube) so we could easily unroll each roll of…
Toilet in Garage Serviced, and Also Garden Shredder Fitted With New Replacement Cutting Shoe
Today, for this hot Sunday. We tackled a long overdue job of servicing the toilet in the back of the Garage. There was an overflow problem and it seems to…
Four New Adjustable Feet Created for Scaffolding Tower’s Wheels
This morning, the various steel parts were welded together to form four new adjustable feet, much stronger than before. We can now have confident that our mobile scaffolding will support…