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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1975 on: November 09, 2014, 05:58:12 PM »
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1976 on: November 10, 2014, 04:40:15 PM »
Next door neighbour had a reasonable size gum tree in his back yard that got hit by lightning and died. He had it dropped about a year ago, and we have been conducting a long term study on the relationship between firewood V's alcohol consumption (turns out there is a direct correlation between the two, but it's not conclusive yet, were still studying).

Anyway, we've reached a point where the logs are getting a bit difficult to lift into the fire pit, so we were scratching our whatsies wondering what to do with the rest of the trunk. I remembered reading on here somewhere about a spate of mysterious camp chair disappearances, and not wanting to have our fold up camp chairs go missing, we decided to use the remaining tree trunk to manufacture some more permanent fireside seating.

A day on the chainsaws later, and we have 2 new fireside seats  :cheers: and there is enough wood left to build another 6.







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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1977 on: November 10, 2014, 05:00:17 PM »
Next door neighbour had a reasonable size gum tree in his back yard that got hit by lightning and died. He had it dropped about a year ago, and we have been conducting a long term study on the relationship between firewood V's alcohol consumption (turns out there is a direct correlation between the two, but it's not conclusive yet, were still studying).

Anyway, we've reached a point where the logs are getting a bit difficult to lift into the fire pit, so we were scratching our whatsies wondering what to do with the rest of the trunk. I remembered reading on here somewhere about a spate of mysterious camp chair disappearances, and not wanting to have our fold up camp chairs go missing, we decided to use the remaining tree trunk to manufacture some more permanent fireside seating.

A day on the chainsaws later, and we have 2 new fireside seats  :cheers: and there is enough wood left to build another 6.





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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1978 on: November 11, 2014, 06:15:26 AM »
How good is that?

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1979 on: November 11, 2014, 06:39:48 AM »
fires,beers,friendships,chairs.
Doesn't get much better.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1980 on: November 11, 2014, 02:34:43 PM »
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1981 on: November 11, 2014, 02:57:45 PM »
I fitted a plywood floor and fridge slide to the rear of the D-Max

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1982 on: November 11, 2014, 08:07:49 PM »
Finally got round to fitting hammer-locks on the towbar, now I can fit a decent size shackle through them. Also making another trailer out of a ute tray but the spate axle I had was way too wide. I chopped it and put the stubs underneath to give me a bit more clearance for the tyres.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1983 on: November 13, 2014, 11:54:11 AM »
ended up replacing front left wheel bearings in trol.
was hoping just loose but nope found metal shavings in the grease of the inner bearing.
car still has wobble at 80km.
also feels like drivers side might be bit loose.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1984 on: November 13, 2014, 11:58:37 AM »

car still has wobble at 80km.


Are the shims under the king pin bearing caps correct...or to be precise is the preload correct?
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1985 on: November 13, 2014, 12:52:51 PM »
only had one in each and removed them bout sux months ago due to wobble. wobble was gone till revently as I found loose wheel bearing.
once misses home from work today gonna re check each wheel by jacking it up and wiggling wheel.
push a little harder in corners on purpise last night to help seat bearings.

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1986 on: November 13, 2014, 07:19:55 PM »
Fitted a temp regulating valve to the heat exchanger under the bonnet.
Now I just need to try it out.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1987 on: November 14, 2014, 06:38:46 AM »
Fitted a temp regulating valve to the heat exchanger under the bonnet.
Now I just need to try it out.
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Hi Crispy, I need one of those for mine, where did you get it?
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1988 on: November 14, 2014, 08:22:10 AM »
my shoes melted to the floor yesterday and I just managed to get out of there today
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1989 on: November 14, 2014, 11:12:51 AM »
Hi Crispy, I need one of those for mine, where did you get it?
Thanks.
I ended up getting one sent from the states which took 6 weeks and cost me about $130
Some one used a different valve which was for a solar hot water service that worked and cost about $80 in Australia.
You might have to yahoo it.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1990 on: November 14, 2014, 01:10:13 PM »
I ended up getting one sent from the states which took 6 weeks and cost me about $130
Some one used a different valve which was for a solar hot water service that worked and cost about $80 in Australia.
You might have to yahoo it.
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Thanks for that, I will have a look.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1991 on: November 15, 2014, 09:31:06 PM »
Today I started on rebuilding stage risers for my daughters theatre group. They are 14 years old and we're just slapped together. So I have made them the same height and modified the wheel mounts so they do not collapse. All I need to do now is get some 12mm packing sheets to recover them. Lucky I know someone in the kitchen building business and I can get them for free.
I do still need to find the time to get them on a weekday.
Once I have finished these 2 I have a couple more to do after that. Then I get to start on the new show.
The new show is Pirates of Penzance. I think I need to build a ship and some other things. Always good fun.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1992 on: November 16, 2014, 08:40:59 PM »
Not in the cave but spent the day leveling out two trailer loads of crusher dust :D and Wacker packering it into submission >:D for the concrete driveway from the front of the house, I feel like I have been leveled out, ???  getting old, looking forward to a solid base for the Cub to live on. :cup:
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1993 on: November 19, 2014, 07:42:13 PM »
Made it a bit more comfortable for the summer and insulated it

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1994 on: November 20, 2014, 07:20:04 PM »
Had a couple  :cheers:
And dun stuff.
You know, just stuff  ;D
Bloke stuff  ;D
The kinda stuff ya can't tell the minister for war & finance about because, oh well, we just can't tell her, wouldn't understand.
But next time we go camping, I'll mention it, And I'll get the, "Haven't we always had that"


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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1995 on: November 20, 2014, 07:26:26 PM »
Found myself waking up in the Shed after an expedition to the bottom of the freshly restocked Engel , & l am perpaired to do it again ,, in the name of research                                       :cheers:
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1996 on: November 20, 2014, 07:32:50 PM »
Pulled a diff out of a Gemini and then put a diff in a Gemini.....swear the only time I don't work on a Gemini is when we are away camping.....the gemini's pay the bills and we are planning a cape trip next year so many a spanner will be twirled to fund the trip

Need a bigger shed too....
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1997 on: November 20, 2014, 07:47:35 PM »
l am perpaired to do it again ,, in the name of research                                       :cheers:

Your dedication to this is noted and appreciated.
Someone has to make the sacrifice for the good of the heard.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1998 on: November 20, 2014, 09:06:50 PM »
Found myself waking up in the Shed after an expedition to the bottom of the freshly restocked Engel , & l am perpaired to do it again ,, in the name of research                                       :cheers:
Had a couple  :cheers:
And dun stuff.
You know, just stuff  ;D
Bloke stuff  ;D
The kinda stuff ya can't tell the minister for war & finance about because, oh well, we just can't tell her, wouldn't understand.
But next time we go camping, I'll mention it, And I'll get the, "Haven't we always had that"



 I was having a sh&t of a day and then I read this thread.!!!
Thanks guys  :cup: :cup:

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1999 on: November 23, 2014, 02:56:55 PM »
Got out of bed before the dawn , went to the shed & turned on all the lights .
Started sorting the scattered tools replacing them to their correct nail
Removed all the broken to be fixed stuff to take to the tip
Tidied the  storage racking so l can at least see whats there
Swept the new floor space created by the tidy up
Used the big Vac to clean all the sawdust & dust from where it was




And gave up telling stories that are complete BS                         not really      >:D    :cheers:     l did find the engal
& all that in 10002 posts  :cheers:
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