Recent content by Gus

We had this. Get an independent tree specialist who is NOT a tree surgeon to assess them; he will tell you which if any need to come down and give you a piece of paper for the council to put in their file. Then just get him back every two years to check them. It's just the council passing...

I'm even later to the party here but a good (Chicago Pneumatic) 3/4" air wrench will outperform any cordless tool. A small compressor will run it as long as you use big bore hose, just not continuously (a road compressor is best for continuous work). The cordless tools just aren't heavy enough...

I'd be very interested to know if you can get a valid CE mark that would actually stand up in court for a few hundred pounds. I looked into it a few years ago for a straightforward bit of fabrication that was nevertheless safety critical and was quoted nearer to £10K.

This. About £40/yr, and it takes minutes including having to relearn how to use it every three months.

Same here. These are blunt now but have done a lot of work. It's a horrible tool to use, but nothing else does the same job. As above PPE is essential; the tiny steel splinters get everywhere and stick in your skin. The drum type abrasive wheels are good too for polishing up a bore for a pin...

Thoroughly recommend Thomas Scott Seating. One of the most helpful and knowledgeable firms I deal with. But I hate working on seats. Heavy and awkward, and no space around them in the cab.

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse!

I carefully moved the tea mugs and biscuit wrappers! Been rather busy recently, well for the last ten years or so, and it's not quite as tidy as I would like. I've got a door at each end; I know it's time for a tidy when it is easier to go out of one door, up the yard and in the other rather...

I'm afraid I had no idea about your accident but I'm really sorry to hear about it and thankful that you are alive and walking. I just assumed that you'd moved on from TAW but I missed the pictures. Best of luck with the new career. If it is a groundwork company will you need to go on a course...

I've always found Trailertek to be good too. My first choice for trailer parts

I've got a Lincoln 140 amp inverter which is brilliant, best welder I've ever used for vertical up, but a bit pricy. I've also got a 160 amp Jasic that was on offer at half the price of the Lincoln and probably about 90% as good. Been using the Jasic all day today, 3.2mm rods at the end of 25m...

Busy yard, lots of trucks. Top picture is fibre, bottom pic is steel. All laid in the same year or thereabouts. I know there are lots of variables but this was done by big construction firms so should have been a high quality job.

That was the plan really, i tried to make it so that if it was used as a battering ram the dozer would come off worse. Also in fairness I should explain that the driver snagged the top of a cut off (but not quite flush) rsj in concrete so it wasn't really his fault.

Meant to say that the headstock does look odd; it started out on pin and cone, then JCB, back to pin and cone and now on Cat brackets. The arms were the right depth and separation for pin and cone but nothing else.