We have been sorting out the office room, tidying and generally trying to get into the state that we’d like it to be in. It had become a bit of a dumping ground. I decided to take all of the keys out the keyboard and clean it. Then Abigail and Hannah put it back together for me. Here is how the office now looks, no before shots of anything, as firstly I didn’t take any and secondly it was a mess.
We went visited Hell Lane near Bridport for a walk on Saturday. I seem to have only taken pictures of things that were not the carvings in the sand stone.
I took the green house frame and the wrought iron bars to the public weigh bridge place, W+S Waste Management in Dorchester on Friday. I decided that I was never going to use those bits, shame, but that’s life, I just can’t keep everything. So I made myself 6 quid on the wrought iron, but on the green house frame I got back 19 quid against the £41 I paid for the green house, so that’s reduced the cost of getting the remaining panes of glass. I was pretty pleased with that outcome.
We’re finally coming out of the ’50’s and going into the ’20’s, that’s from one millennium to the next, rather than backwards. We’ve finally gotten rid of our fuses boards and replaced them with a modern consumer unit that has up front surge protection and then each circuit has it’s own miniature circuit breaker for over load protection and also built in residual current device to save those who chose to hold onto live wires. Our house is now as electrically safe as it can reasonably be in this day and age. This was the old fuse board layout: The electrician managed to get a double row board which fitted within less 5 mm free around the sides: Now I just need to make some changes to how to door fits over this. It used to hinge, but it’ll interfere with the covers that flap up.
I decided that before winter I’d upgrade the agaves so that next season the biggest one can go into the ground and the smaller ones can progress up through the pots again. The biggest pot is a plastic one, which I have decided will be better, as when it comes to removing the plant, I can squish the pot to release the soil, plus it weighs less.
This may, or may not, be the start of a fair size project. I have dragged the V8 engine and gear box that was pulled from my white V8 110 Country station wagon some 15 or so years ago. Since then it has been languishing in a hedge getting grown in with brambles, Having dragged it out using Dave’s winch, we split the engine, gearbox and transfer case, removed the exhaust manifold and bits. Then the next day Alan and I stripped the remainder of the engine down. Loaded it all into the car and brought it home. Next is the job of cleaning it all down, and seeing what’s okay and what’s not. I shall then make a decision on whether or not to carry on and rebuild this engine, or whether to not bother and do something different. Got some thinking and cleaning to do.
Fitted the rev counter to the land rover again. Forgot it had so many wires, turns out it’s a TIM branded 4, 6 and 8 cylinder capable job. I found this wiring diagram online.
Well, I thought I was going to make make a swing set from that 1″ round bar I found but when I was able to bend the bar by hand I realised something. So when I dragged the two lengths of this stuff out, I found that they were 6m lengths, and so would make better legs, so since I was holding the V shaped bit, I thought I’d just see if I could open up the acute angle to be a right angle, without using heat. To my surprise I was able just bend it, but as it bent I could feel the metal cracking and breaking, so I kept bending until it broke. I then inspected the break and found that it wasn’t steel at all, or at least wasn’t a grade of steel that I wanted to work with. I actually just asked some friends what they […]
When we bought this house there was a fire extinguisher on the wall. I had never really looked at it, I just put our fire blanket above it and left it. I took a look at it today for some reason. It’s probably not fit for purpose, and since I’d hate to actually use one of these indoors, particularly in my own home, so I shall get rid of it. I’ll likely let it off then see if I can use the canister as a compressed air cylinder on the land rover. The locking diff doesn’t not require very many liters of air to operate so this would be way more efficient. Thought I’ll likely leave the other tank in there but perhaps valve it.
Tonight I stacked the reminder of the wood that was delivered last week. I had my trolley jack and jacked up the roof, then chocked the pallet I was jacking up and left it like that, I think the roof sheets will now shed the water rather then funneling it into the garage. It’s just a temporary permanent fix until we get around to wanting to put a new roof on it. This year isn’t looking promising and neither is next year.
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