Starter Button Fixed!
The truck now starts! We have Noise and Action again! The wire had corroded and come off the connector to the starter button circuit. We conclude that there is enough…
Dumper Truck Won’t Start!
Oh Dear! Our dumper truck “starter” button doesn’t work anymore! It seems that something has disturbed the wiring inside when the last maintenance was done on the truck last week.…
Mini Platform Trolley Mended
We repaired the bent wheels! The front two wheels suffered under the strain of hoisting the concrete blocks! We were (and still are) loading 10 blocks on the trolley (this…
Battery and Solar Charger Inspected and Fixed
The battery was successfully charged up using the mains charger overnight. But when we tested the solar charger, we discovered that there was only 4volts coming out! Oops! But after…
Suspect Problem with Battery
We suspect that there is a problem with the dumper truck’s battery or the charging circuit from the solar panel. We got only 3 starts out of the battery today…
Made a mortar application tool.
We have made a tool to speed up applying mortar to top of the block for the next row. This is slightly complicated in that there are only narrow rims…
Removing foundations and paths
Shauns been beavering away between the rain!
Nail gun arrives
Our new nail gun was delivered today (quite quick!). This gun comes with two tips,one allows you to drive standard nails into timber for joints and panel fixing, the other…
Ordered new Nail gun
This morning we did some research looking for a nailing gun which will allow us to nail metal plates onto timber as well as the usual wood joining plus the…
Chop Saw & Bench
We are using our old chop saw setup which includes three 4foot benches to hold and guide the timber into and out of the chop saw. It is getting old…