Category: Equipment and Tools

We finished the 2nd platform today with a paint of exterior shed treatment which will help repel the rain water. The wooden safety hand rails were made using 50mm square…

Today, we resumed work on our house building project after the disruptions of Christmas and new year holidays, some illnesses and a jury call up!! We needed another platform for…

Yesterday, We constructed the 1st platform for our scaffolding tower units, using 18mm OSB boards, made into 3 sections to straddle across the top of the scaffold sides, using 89mm…

We collected the rented Magnetic drill this morning. The drill has an electromagnet in the base so once you position the drill you turn on the magnet and the drill…

 We finished off the day’s work by building a deflector to control  the sloshy concrete being poured onto the top of the Perimeter Wall. The walls has hollow columns and they are…

 This afternoon, Stephen performed some basic maintenance tasks on the mini-digger and loaded grease into all the joints and moving parts. The digger needs re-greasing fairly regularly, every 20 “clock”…

 Stephen replaced the old defunct Engine Stop knob on the dumper truck with a shiny new one! It was a relatively simple job and took about 30 minutes. It is…

 Our old dumper truck wouldn’t stop when the stop button was pulled – a real ironic case of a Stop button causing a Stoppage! The cable from the spring loaded…

This morning, Stephen put back together the electric powered vibrating plate compactor, bolting the off-centre motor back onto the base plate. He also had to extend the cable back up…

While digging the hole for the first energy module today, we noticed that there were splashes of oil on the digger’s tracks and the ground nearby. It looks like we…