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Back wall and small end wall up.. Rob is enjoying a much deserved mug of coffee.. If your reading this Rob, thanks for all your help mate As you will of noticed on the inside the workshop looks a mish-mash of panels.. But on the outside it looks a lot more presentable The next "bit of fun"! is to sort the wall closest to the house out.. 4 different angled walls, 1 window, 1 single door and 1 double door will make the next stage rather interesting! Wish us luck

Hi Norm, I don't actually like woodwork, so no I'm not enjoying this build too much.. The weather hasn't helped, Rob and I can only get bit's done when it's not pissisting it down! Yeah it was a bit of a wide load for your trailer When the weather was nasty I've been spending time at the workshop getting things dismantled and packed into boxes. It's nice to have some space to do this now all the wood has been moved A few mostly empty shelves and things like the bench grinder and storage unit unbolted from the bench/wall. The lathe bench is very empty, taking the lathe off makes it a tad lighter to move. The lathe is on the big bench along with a few packed boxes. And all the Volvo running gear neatly plonked in one spot.. This all changed Saturday, when most of it was put on a pallet ready for a trip to Yorkshire tomorrow. Sooo.. Back to the garden and the workshop and panels are slowly going up. This is one end wall made from 1 shed side panel, the frame from the back wall of the demo-cabin and a lot of tongue and groove. Leaning against the wall are one end panel for the small end of the workshop/shed and one of the back wall panels which is made from cabin floor frame and a shed rear panel. And ready to go up is the other rear wall panel. This was made using the cabin side wall frame and a side panel from a shed.. You can see where it's been extended in height by 3 boards and lengthened a bit as well. What is a bit hard to see in the above piccy is the boarded up window opening. This will get a window put in it at some point, some extra light in the workshop is always a handy thing

Hi all, as most of you will know I'm moving on to pastures er.. smaller, which means a new workshop in my garden. This is really a tale of 2 sheds and a demo-cabin as you will see.. As this is a budget build I needed to find/use as much recycled wood as possible, which is where shed No 1 comes in. A big thank you to my Wife's daughter Lisa for letting me have a shed that wasn't going to be used.. No photo's of it before it was taken down, but here's one showing how it arrived at my place This is where the demo-cabin comes into things. There used to be a company trading at the end of the nursery (when my current workshop is) that sold posh wooden cabins.. To show their wares they had a demo cabin built that had different cladding on each side ond inside! Companys come and go, and this one went leaving the demo cabin behind for at least 5 years, maybe longer.... HHmm... Look at all that usable wood thinks me... One chat later and I had bought it for the amazing price of £50 Of course no photo's of the cabin before Rob and I started taking it apart, but here's a couple of the naked frame. The only problem using used materials is they tend to have lot's of nails/screws/big staples holding them together which means a lot of the timber came off looking like this! All the wood and tools were transported about the site on this trolley thingy. Having taken the timber off it needed to be stored somewhere.. yep the workshop! This will give you a clue as to the vast amount of wood came off the cabin and this is only the ouside, inside and roof cladding! The cabin also coame with this funky double glazed window that opens both ways!

We have started work on a new project, a 1962 Bolens 600. This tractor has been modified in the past and has lots of challenges. The tractor was bought in 2005 and has been in storage ever since. Like our other projects, I find it easier to record video rather than write up what we are doing, here is the first part

Went out on saturday without my carer and ended up buying a reversible plough painted blue but Kubota and a 1.25m flail topper. Couple of winter projects. the tractor dose pull the plough nicely even though it looks a bit big. I am going to need a bigger barn soon.

Reversible Plough. Nice!

We did a little more on the 1962 Bolens 600. The head was removed and repairs done to the valves. Video update

Not a chance my trailer wasn’t big enough we got mr Hobbs with his 7.5 tonner

Good to hear from you Ian. Enjoy your construction work. No doubt Nigel will have transport the timber for you. Free of charge of course.