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It's A Stock Item: September 2014
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It's A Stock Item. Monday, 8 September 2014. Can we make a pig ark from stock items? With two side struts added, the base was carried up to its first home in the lower field. The end pieces each came out of half a sheet of 18mm ply, with a bolt-secured door. The roof struts which, like the corrugated steel, were leftovers from our old postbarn, were friction fitted to the ends. So there we were. I had to buy the plywood and the bolts, but all the other bits came from stock. Posted by Ian Thorpe.
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It's A Stock Item: March 2016
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It's A Stock Item. Saturday, 26 March 2016. Installing a window, and fixing a loo. Again I took a Land Rover full of tools, in particular saws of all varieties, electric and hand - but the most used star of this show was my Bosch multitool with its small, oscillating blade. This offers such accurate and reliable cutting that most of the window work and the cutting out of a door opening from one stall to the next were achieved without even changing the blade. Posted by Ian Thorpe. Where did Summer go!
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It's A Stock Item: House-warming present
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It's A Stock Item. Friday, 28 August 2015. The last backbreaking tasks were pointing up all the joints and loading the waste onto the trailer to bring home to contribute to some land-levelling to be done here later this year. Two good days - and the weather helped by being dry but not too hot. Here's to the first BBQ! Posted by Ian Thorpe. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Procrastination is the thief of time. The Year of being Sixty two: to fight? New Year Sunrise - Hadleigh Castle. October is the Best.
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It's A Stock Item: February 2015
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It's A Stock Item. Sunday, 1 February 2015. Our most recent trip to elder daughter's in South Wales was partly to help with the transporting to the abattoir of the three pigs which had had a very happy life in the pig ark described in my last post. So the reward for the jobs which were done while I was there was half a pig, neatly butchered, to return to our freezer in North Wales. If you've spotted the rainwater pipe, that was for a different job! It's important with this kind of shelving system to get ...
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It's A Stock Item: June 2015
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It's A Stock Item. Wednesday, 3 June 2015. After another three days' work in elder daughter's kitchen, I have had to concede that some stock items should just be thrown away - a difficult admission for me to make. So, there's still some boxing in and re-tiling to do. And some rationalisation of my plumbing stock - I'll be throwing away anything that has a used rubber seal in it. Posted by Ian Thorpe. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Procrastination is the thief of time. The Year of being Sixty two: to fight?
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It's A Stock Item: A new home for the hens (well, some of them)
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It's A Stock Item. Sunday, 22 March 2015. A new home for the hens (well, some of them). A few months ago I made some carved house signs for a friend and took payment in the form of what was described as a dismantled garden shed. When I collected 'it' there seemed to be parts from two different sheds, but closer examination revealed that, in fact, three sheds were represented. However, parts of all were missing. One end had helpfully come with its door, which I fitted with some new(! Converting the shed t...
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It's A Stock Item: December 2013
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It's A Stock Item. Sunday, 29 December 2013. A bespoke bedside table, and Kindle stand 4. Father-in-law needed a bedside table with levels at just the right heights if he was to manage his touch lamp, his kindle stand and his reading glasses. It would be a bonus if he could also both see and operate his TV remote control while lying on his back in bed. This worked well for a while, until FIL found it increasingly difficult to operate the small page-turning buttons at the side of the Kindle. So now we...
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It's A Stock Item: March 2015
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It's A Stock Item. Sunday, 22 March 2015. A new home for the hens (well, some of them). A few months ago I made some carved house signs for a friend and took payment in the form of what was described as a dismantled garden shed. When I collected 'it' there seemed to be parts from two different sheds, but closer examination revealed that, in fact, three sheds were represented. However, parts of all were missing. One end had helpfully come with its door, which I fitted with some new(! Converting the shed t...
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It's A Stock Item: A little roofing adventure
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It's A Stock Item. Monday, 15 February 2016. A little roofing adventure. Here's the stable block. The main problems centred around the valley between the two roof elevantions, where a small scaffolding tower went up. Some other patches of missing felt were replaced from the ladder. The best part of four panels (each 8 feet by 4 feet - still manufactured imperial in all dimensions except thickness - 18mm! So, will it stand up to the rest of this winter? Posted by Ian Thorpe. 15 February 2016 at 17:10.
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It's A Stock Item: August 2015
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It's A Stock Item. Friday, 28 August 2015. The last backbreaking tasks were pointing up all the joints and loading the waste onto the trailer to bring home to contribute to some land-levelling to be done here later this year. Two good days - and the weather helped by being dry but not too hot. Here's to the first BBQ! Posted by Ian Thorpe. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Procrastination is the thief of time. The Year of being Sixty two: to fight? New Year Sunrise - Hadleigh Castle. Where did Summer go!
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