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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1725 on: June 15, 2014, 06:38:05 PM »
Made a cage for the box trailer. We are moving in a few weeks and wanted it for the stuff we don't trust with the removalist. Been meaning to do it for years.

The wife started filling it straight away with greens.





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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1726 on: June 16, 2014, 10:26:42 AM »
Made a spot to hang 2 out of the 3 kayaks.

The green thing is my work bench. Yes, I can walk around underneath them, I'm a shade over 6'
Got all the other Kayak gear above as well.




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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1727 on: June 16, 2014, 11:26:40 AM »
My shed starting to get a tad more organised.

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1728 on: June 16, 2014, 05:37:05 PM »
A thread stand/feeder to keep the boss happy with her canvas.  >:D



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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1729 on: June 16, 2014, 09:22:12 PM »
Himself and I were down in his cave yesterday with the Nissan trying to configure a roof bar/rack affair to compliment the new foxwing, and incorporate the new rv5 tent and roof top bag to contain the rest of the camping gear.  This is for those trips that you do that are really not ct friendly.  Cheers rellbell

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1730 on: June 16, 2014, 10:07:00 PM »
Cleaned up one of the corners, threw some rubbish out. moved things around to make more space, then looked behind me and I hadnt put it all back.

I need to bold down the tyre changer to make it easier to change tyres.

love to get a more modern version and a wheel balancer, but but but this one does the job I need to get tyres on and off rims. Even my big 4wd tyres..




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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1731 on: June 17, 2014, 06:44:55 PM »
Pulled lemon tree out to make room for new camper.

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1732 on: June 17, 2014, 07:03:02 PM »
Greased up and prepared some spare trailer wheel bearings and even stole the perfect container from the kitchen to store them in.



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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1733 on: June 17, 2014, 08:24:11 PM »
Oooooo, You wait till she finds out!
Ooo boy are you gunna geddit!
Hot tongue and cold shoulder in the near future!!
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1734 on: June 17, 2014, 09:11:00 PM »
Greased up and prepared some spare trailer wheel bearings and even stole the perfect container from the kitchen to store them in.


Damn - that is a good idea.
Might have to start measuring up the hub & bearings I keep in the boat to find a container.

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1735 on: June 17, 2014, 10:25:28 PM »
Not so much in the cave, our house reno IS the cave.
Resurrected some old awnings that I took down before the house reno to get some privacy for the little deck.
Normally you'd pay about $2,500 for an adjustable awning this big but a good clean, about $100 bucks worth of spray epoxy (the kind that takes about a whole day to dry) some modified brackets and she was up there.
It's actually the blades from two awnings spliced together, I used an old beam with some strategically placed angle as a jig, made a template to keep the rivets all even and there you are.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1736 on: June 18, 2014, 08:55:46 AM »
Mate asked me to check and repack the bearings on his car trailer yesterday after he noticed a 'noise' on the w/end.
As soon as I jacked up the left side, the rear wheel fell off on it's own, still bolted to the hub   :o  lol  Nice deep gouge in the bottom of the spindle - much like a shaft keyway. Hub has deeper grooves than a vinyl record, and split on the outer edge. Other 3 wheel's bearing are also buggered, with one of them having the rollers fall onto the ground when I removed it's hub!
With the roughly 3/4 turn takeup available with the crown nuts, my guess is whoever played with 'em last time, hadn't bothered doing them up properly, or rechecked after they'd been ran for a few k's   ;)

Winter time, make sure your wheel bearings are regreased and in good condition, ready for spring  :)
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1737 on: June 18, 2014, 11:17:17 AM »
Reminds me of a brickie who was running late to do a job at my place.
2 x wheels came off down the street from where I used to live.
Needing him to get his A into gear and get my wall done, I sorted his trailer out for him whilst he knocked up the wall and had a nice reduction in fees owing also, as I managed to drag the trailer out of harms way before the large fines were applied where they should have been....
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1738 on: June 19, 2014, 08:06:25 AM »
Not really in the shed , but.... cant wait to get it going this weekend!
Its a gabion fire pit, 1.5m across, 600mm high with smashed brick instead of rock.If they crack..great! They stay cool on the outside for the little ones,plenty of airflow. I've put Gal pipe posts in that double as receivers for a BBQ swing plate and camp oven arm with chains.Has a couple of horizontal pipes as well that will take 12mm rio bar so I can rest things over the heat.
I dont mind going to work, its the 8 hours  i have to wait to go home again that annoys me.

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1739 on: June 19, 2014, 08:54:08 AM »
What a great idea.  Love it :cup:
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1740 on: June 19, 2014, 07:59:47 PM »
Made up a 'chesty' and some tethers (using Venetian blind cord) for the GoPro.

The young bloke is going to Glen Harrow Park in Belgrave this weekend where you climb up trees and do flying foxes etc for this 10th birthday. Hopefully this will help record some of his adventures.





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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1741 on: June 20, 2014, 10:43:30 AM »
bit rainy here today, so made up some simple watt meters for some mates...


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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1742 on: June 20, 2014, 11:21:23 AM »
Something I've been putting off for a while ..






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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1743 on: June 20, 2014, 11:36:54 AM »
Something I've been putting off for a while ..






One of those big sand grabber mats and you're done  :cup:
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1744 on: June 20, 2014, 11:40:41 AM »
Cool. Fred flintstone car. 

I installed new UHF last night.

Mounted it up behind the glovebox. Can just see it when u open the box.




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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1745 on: June 20, 2014, 11:48:31 AM »
One of those big sand grabber mats and you're done  :cup:

LoL , that's whats been hiding it since I did the passengers side , 18 months or so ago .
I'm now fatter and even less flexible to be stuffing around between the bloody pedals .

Oh what a feeling .......Bugger


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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1746 on: June 21, 2014, 11:24:32 AM »
Spent 3 hours this a.m. on this sweet little thing & am pretty chuffed that I've got it back in good working order!
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1747 on: June 21, 2014, 11:30:41 AM »
Painted my gantry yesty, looks much better now, although I have a  few dibbly spots and a few bits that I have missed, it still looks much better. Thats what happens when you only want to use one lt of paint and rush to do a paint job.


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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1748 on: June 21, 2014, 12:20:13 PM »
Modified my old post mount twin fishing rod holder from the Rocky to fit the Four runner [ welded in 220mm extension ] .. made and welded up a spare tyre winch winder drive bar and fitted the spare up, originals and jack wer'nt with the truck  when bought.
Changed / checked oils and greased the shafts and uni's... And now its onto making a set of soft roof racks for the fishing rod and  fitting the fridge before work .
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1749 on: June 21, 2014, 01:22:10 PM »
30 crown seals of Dark Ale bottled, and a brew of Irish Cream Ale (Kilkenny) put down.

 :cheers: will have a couple watching the V8's this arvo.

Edit: looks like I'm gonna be out on my ear!
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