Not Quite Farm Engineering or a Quick Bodge.

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
I haven't had my workshop moved but nothing is where it should be/I think it is anyway. I am using some mongrel liquorice spanners as I can't find the proper ones as for hammers? club only as they are too big to walk. I do have an excuse though (scapegoat) my son is using it and any tools found are miraculously his, even ones I bought before he was born.
The insurers have almost finished rebuilding our workshop after last year's barn fire. It took me 4 days to clear it out into the container they've hired. I expect it'll take most of December to get it all back right. :facepalm:
 

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
Last time my wife broke security & accosted me in the workshop, she surveyed the two Meddings pillar drills, plus a Nutool and an ancient Wolf pillar drill, the Kerry lathe, the Harrison M300 lathe & the Drummond lathe, the Oxford welder, the SIP welder, the Machine Mart mig welder, the two bench grinders, the six angle grinders, the Record vice, the American tools vice & pointed at the Marlow mill. "What's wrong with you?" she sniffed "You only have one of those!" before turning away in disgust.:whistle:
That's what you get for restraint, I suppose;);)
Sounds like granting permission to me. (y)
 

pycoed

Member
So she basically said ‘go and buy another mill’.....or am I not reading it right???......
That's the way I took it too(y) I've just started an extension to the workshop so I can get it in. Trouble is my friend has a VERY nice Colchester Triumph surplus to requirements that I may need to accommodate as well, so I'm wondering whether an extension on the extension may be in order:scratchhead: Oh for some flat land to build on...
 

Shovelhands

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Location
Sunny Essex
That's the way I took it too(y) I've just started an extension to the workshop so I can get it in. Trouble is my friend has a VERY nice Colchester Triumph surplus to requirements that I may need to accommodate as well, so I'm wondering whether an extension on the extension may be in order:scratchhead: Oh for some flat land to build on...

If the Triumph is more than you’ve got room for, then give me a shout;)(y)
 

Sharpy

Member
Livestock Farmer
That's the way I took it too(y) I've just started an extension to the workshop so I can get it in. Trouble is my friend has a VERY nice Colchester Triumph surplus to requirements that I may need to accommodate as well, so I'm wondering whether an extension on the extension may be in order:scratchhead: Oh for some flat land to build on...
You really can go off people.........
 

Pan mixer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
Just go and mend that hinge in the fattening shed I thought.

Collect all the tools I need.

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Get through the heap of poo and spot the problem...

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Bottom hinge (all female as it last longer) rusted out - again, I did it in 2004.

Three more trips back to the workshop (180 paces each way) to get bits that I had forgotten or not known I would need.

Some time sorting out the problems caused by the Goblin who mixes all the electric leads up in that wheelbarrow the second I go out of sight.

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Cut out the old bit, the post had rotted through too of course, I am kneeling in poo, pigs are hastling me...

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'Bodged' (I know I used new metal and new welding rods but no paint that would be licked off in moments) a new bit on and refitted the gate.

I had to do this in the half hour between some of the pigs going on the lorry and the next ones moving in - no pressure there then, I only had 3 people looking over the gate at different times asking how long was I going to be.

Not very pretty but should outlast the rest of the shed - only 9 more to do now.
 
That's the way I took it too(y) I've just started an extension to the workshop so I can get it in. Trouble is my friend has a VERY nice Colchester Triumph surplus to requirements that I may need to accommodate as well, so I'm wondering whether an extension on the extension may be in order:scratchhead: Oh for some flat land to build on...
I've got a very nice Hitachi Sieki VM40 four axis CNC machine that I bought and have never used .Would come in handy for you.
 

Pan mixer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
This is a bit shaky to put in this thread, however the thought police would be on me like a tonne of (secondhand) bricks in the thread which would really suit it.

The problem....

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Last winter a storm caused the partial collapse of this roof, some of the timber relaxed and some woodworm stopped holding hands and the wooden principles broke.
Significant use of accrow props and new timber propped it all back up again but the old 'fibre cement' couldn't stick the plan.

A gap, as you see began letting in significant rainfall when it fell making the pigs below quite miserable.

Not about to re-roof the shed due to lack of funds and being unable to find anything other than clear sheets which are the correct profile a 'bodge' took place.

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This is at a partially complete phase, more screws were screwed later and some glue used too.
 

milkloss

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
This is a bit shaky to put in this thread, however the thought police would be on me like a tonne of (secondhand) bricks in the thread which would really suit it.

The problem....

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Last winter a storm caused the partial collapse of this roof, some of the timber relaxed and some woodworm stopped holding hands and the wooden principles broke.
Significant use of accrow props and new timber propped it all back up again but the old 'fibre cement' couldn't stick the plan.

A gap, as you see began letting in significant rainfall when it fell making the pigs below quite miserable.

Not about to re-roof the shed due to lack of funds and being unable to find anything other than clear sheets which are the correct profile a 'bodge' took place.

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This is at a partially complete phase, more screws were screwed later and some glue used too.

Ummmm.. :scratchhead: ....in the last picture are the next row of sheets lapped the wrong way?
 
This is a bit shaky to put in this thread, however the thought police would be on me like a tonne of (secondhand) bricks in the thread which would really suit it.

The problem....

View attachment 736400
Last winter a storm caused the partial collapse of this roof, some of the timber relaxed and some woodworm stopped holding hands and the wooden principles broke.
Significant use of accrow props and new timber propped it all back up again but the old 'fibre cement' couldn't stick the plan.

A gap, as you see began letting in significant rainfall when it fell making the pigs below quite miserable.

Not about to re-roof the shed due to lack of funds and being unable to find anything other than clear sheets which are the correct profile a 'bodge' took place.

View attachment 736404

This is at a partially complete phase, more screws were screwed later and some glue used too.
That is so brilliant on many fronts and a man with my priorities.

Works
Tighter than a ducks arse.
Don't give a damn over looks
Proud of it.
Take a bow.
 

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