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Well, it only takes about 9 or 10 months to do something which used to get done in a day or two. Finally got around to and made some time to assemble this cutoff saw. It's not 100% done as I need to make a grommet for the carb intake to match up with the hole for the air cleaner and I'll install a new carb while I'm at it. Still need to order a new blade too and do some clean up on it. Used to be able to go through these quickly but didn't look for the specialty tools I made for easier access to the tough to reach bolts an such. Luckily the recoil went fast and got that the first try.

The single wheel with a wide tyre / tire for me. Different to the usual Rowcrop twins. Depends whats going on the rear though. Wouldn't be identical but maybe one of each. Edit. Add the pedal tractor and have triplets.

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 just bought a floor standing grit blaster for the workshop. The advert said that some assemble was required but we were not expecting it to be fully flat packed. We had lots of fun building it and I made a quick video. We just need to work out where it put it now

The worst parts was getting the model ans serial numbers off.

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

Thanks David this is the engine I used to repair the toby cart . A lot of good parts just would like to ad numbers to the parts before I put them in a box . Most of my inventory is in the computer The gear boxes are not in the most of the parts breakdowns . Thanks for the help before I got this post done you already replied . That's awesome Your the best

Shed No 3 I actually had already in the garden, but it was showing it's age with a rotten back panel, and load of rot else where.. Still, a lot of usasble panels on it As it tradition, no photo's of it complete, but here's most of it leaning against the bungalow. Under the shed was this mess, the concrete post did come in handy for resting pallets on though Pallets???? Yep the base of the new workshop will be pallets with a layer of OSB Board. Lyla in pallet watch The weather has been against us with this build, lot's of rain most of the time it felt! Eventually the cabin frame came down, here it is along with the posh door that needs some rot sorting out. Best get it all home then.. And before you ask... No I didn't transport this lot on the roof of a car Loads more to follow, but not tonight.. I need to relax with a cider

A bit more progress on the 1962 Bolens 600. Today we started to look at the engine. Video update of progress

As its been raining most of the day I had some time in the shed and found some parts. The red one checks out as 1968 and I’ve had it since 2014 and the blue one is 1969 think i bought that in 2007/8